First, all applications have bugs that open them up to security flaws. Picking on MSSQL in that area is a non-starter.
What you're missing are all of the tools that come with a MSSQL license. SISS and MSAS are two big ones that are hard to replace with open source tools (Pentaho is interesting). If all you're looking to replace is a pure data store then yeah, postgre is what I would move to. When you start replacing all functionality offered by MSSQL it gets a little more complicated.
You can charge anything you want in the app store. Developers have complained though that since the store is so popular that any app being sold for more than 99c quickly sees copies that push the price toward 99c.
I was surfing in costa rica when I came across that option. Sorry I don't have all the details, but we were pretty much in the jungle (no paved roads, no public police, etc...) and I was talking to an ex-pat who lived there about stuff I take for granted like internet.
He said you could wait for a line to be run that could take *years* or just put a tower on your house. Most people did the tower thing. We bought wifi ($10 for the week lol) from someone who had the tower and had no trouble skyping back home (voice, didn't try video). Although we did see someone else watching live video from the pipeline classic over the same connection while we were there.
It's possible their options in the PtP tower are better simply because people pay for it regularly. If you have money there you can pretty much get any and everything you want when you want it.
Obama IS changing the tone in Washington, just not all at once.
What are you talking about? He's started off great. Broke his no lobbyists clause day 1 and continues appointing crooks and old school DC politicians to his cabinet.
He mentioned in his inauguration speech that he would go through the budget line by line and remove wasteful spending. I see how that's working out.
They shouldn't be doing this, but history has shown that the president doesn't have complete control over ANY party in congress
He doesn't have any problem stating that he won and it should be his way. Don't tell me he couldn't call Pelosi on the phone and tell her to shape up. They (the democrats) had pretty much free reign to do nearly anything and they completely overplayed their hand.
To point to Iran as a success this early is a joke. And, saying you screwed up when it was an easy decision to begin with? How about don't nominate people who break the law and should be in jail to start? He seems keen to stop peoples trials etc..., why doesn't he just let all the tax evaders sitting jail go?
I also disagreed with the TARP (read about AIG and how it's worse after getting TARP money). I do try to remain intellectually honest, but these damn politicians make it hard by obfuscating pretty much ever matter presented.
They are all crooks. The hypocrisy of the democrats who ripped on republicans and Bush and now ignore it when they do the EXACT same type of stuff just kills me.
Change we can believe in ROFL. I'll bet now not one real change will happen.
Oh, I'm sorry, you were referring to satellite or wireless, not actual broadband.
Actually no, it's using PTP wireless ground connections that act just like broadband. We had no trouble at all using skype over the connection.
I live close enough to rural areas to know people who have to have wells and septic tanks. The reason? The cost is too high for them to get the lines put down in order to change it. Should the government come in and put them on the grid too?
You have internet options, just not any that you like. Why should I pay for you to have the ones you want? Next thing you'll be complaining about the cost and that I should help you pay for that too.
Microsoft Research is one of only a couple industry research labs that publishes research of similar quality and quantity to a good research university (another is IBM; Google definitely doesn't).
I agree. I've read a lot of papers out of interests and as part of my MS program. Google papers often have something lacking. Almost like they don't want to know that last piece that really makes it work. MS and IBM usually publish some good papers, although some of the stuff out of IBMs labs in China isn't always too great. Could be a translation thing, but a lot of the ideas don't seem original.
I can mark exactly when MS started its downhill slide. The day they announced Windows Activation. It's funny, a non-techie business acquaintance told me that when a company starts trying to squeeze it's customers you know the end is near. It's been a few years, but history is proving him right.
If Obama is the saviour and is 100% certain that this pork spending bill is the answer, why does he keep begging and pleading with the American people and the republicans to support it? He has the votes already. He's just looking for a place to spread the blame when this whole thing doesn't work.
I would like to add to your point about rural broadband. People need to quit saying it isn't offered. It's offered, just not at a price they want to pay.
In Dec. I was in the middle of rural jungle in costa rica and found broadband. They used line of sight dishes opposed to cables to make it all work. It wasn't cheap to setup, but that's the price you pay to live out in the jungle.
Except if you bothered to do a fair comparison, Apple hardware isn't more expensive than a similarly-configured Dell.
This is only correct right after a refresh. The problem is that while Dell is continuously lowering their prices as parts get cheaper, Apple keeps selling the same thing at the intro price. Look at the mini. It's a complete rip off now hardware wise.
Now if Apple were to either lower its price over time or update their hardware more frequently they could fix the issue. They won't because they love their 30% margins. It's also these high margins that they are trying to protect by suing Pystar. If the door is open for clone makers expect Apples hardware offering to be outdone almost instantly, especially in the desktop arena.
Mac hardware used to be awesome. I was fanboy. Then I got a SR MBP and sold my G4 Powerbook. The keyboard on this thing still doesn't work right after numerous updates. On the Apple message boards they just delete threads about missing keystrokes now.
I do still like the OS and like the notebook form factor though. Problem is that the hardware has gone way down in quality and Apple has become way too slow at updating their hardware. Look at the mini for example. If they would update the hardware and drop the price a bit it could make a perfect HTPC with boxee, etc... Instead it languishes while they push the ATV...sigh.
Apple competes by creating products, Psystar is simply riding their coat tails.
What coattails is Pystar riding? Is Dell and all the other PC makers riding MS coattails? Pystar buys a licensed copy of OSX, makes their own computer and sells them together. I'm still failing to see the problem, other than Apple saying we don't want you to do that.
So you're saying you can't call MySQL procedures from PHP? Those would be parameterized and typed. You should still check any character input, but you should be pretty safe from SQL injection at that point.
Maybe ask the people who said they didn't want it?
I know many people (mostly older) who are plenty happy with dialup. It's cheap/free and it satisfies their need to check email and do the little bit of web surfing. Don't project your internet need and usage to everyone in the in the US.
Well said. You have to let bad loans go bad and house prices come down to a normal level. The government is really just extending the pain by getting the in way. If they had cleared out last year we probably would have a lot of this already out of the system and we could be starting on our way back up. Instead we have people holding on to unreasonable prices, loans, etc... waiting and hoping that Obama will come in and basically save them from their poor financial decision.
The problem is that every person who was financially responsible is going to get screwed. This is why the the public on a whole is against this stimulus. We saw what happened with the TARP (wasted and overpaid by 80B) and don't want another one those.
The funny thing is that like the boom cycle, the bust cycle too will end. Since it'll most likely end during Obamas time in office he'll also get to claim that he fixed it, when all it needed was time. Now, I wonder if he'll also take credit for the 20%+ inflation that many economist are concerned about in a few years?
McCain proposed a 500B plan with the provision that any money not spent after 2 positive GDP quarters would not be spent. That was quickly crushed by the dems as they want to pay back all their campaign donors for the next 10 years.
I'm all for small government and thought Bush was spending way too much like a democrat. Now that we have democrats in power it's clear that I was wrong.
To the Congressional Republicans, things like school construction won't result in jobs for construction workers: apparently magic pixies will simply drop the new schools out of the sky in exchange for our money.
The news this morning said that many of those schools were in a shrinking school district in MI that already had some schools sitting empty. Building those schools would have been akin to building a bridge to nowhere.
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First, all applications have bugs that open them up to security flaws. Picking on MSSQL in that area is a non-starter.
What you're missing are all of the tools that come with a MSSQL license. SISS and MSAS are two big ones that are hard to replace with open source tools (Pentaho is interesting). If all you're looking to replace is a pure data store then yeah, postgre is what I would move to. When you start replacing all functionality offered by MSSQL it gets a little more complicated.
You sound like the person who doesn't know enough about relational databases and just wants to put everything in one big table.
I agree. I was just pointing out that apps don't have to be 99c, just that many are and the reasoning behind it.
You can charge anything you want in the app store. Developers have complained though that since the store is so popular that any app being sold for more than 99c quickly sees copies that push the price toward 99c.
I was surfing in costa rica when I came across that option. Sorry I don't have all the details, but we were pretty much in the jungle (no paved roads, no public police, etc...) and I was talking to an ex-pat who lived there about stuff I take for granted like internet.
He said you could wait for a line to be run that could take *years* or just put a tower on your house. Most people did the tower thing. We bought wifi ($10 for the week lol) from someone who had the tower and had no trouble skyping back home (voice, didn't try video). Although we did see someone else watching live video from the pipeline classic over the same connection while we were there.
It's possible their options in the PtP tower are better simply because people pay for it regularly. If you have money there you can pretty much get any and everything you want when you want it.
What are you talking about? He's started off great. Broke his no lobbyists clause day 1 and continues appointing crooks and old school DC politicians to his cabinet.
He mentioned in his inauguration speech that he would go through the budget line by line and remove wasteful spending. I see how that's working out.
He doesn't have any problem stating that he won and it should be his way. Don't tell me he couldn't call Pelosi on the phone and tell her to shape up. They (the democrats) had pretty much free reign to do nearly anything and they completely overplayed their hand.
To point to Iran as a success this early is a joke. And, saying you screwed up when it was an easy decision to begin with? How about don't nominate people who break the law and should be in jail to start? He seems keen to stop peoples trials etc..., why doesn't he just let all the tax evaders sitting jail go?
I also disagreed with the TARP (read about AIG and how it's worse after getting TARP money). I do try to remain intellectually honest, but these damn politicians make it hard by obfuscating pretty much ever matter presented.
They are all crooks. The hypocrisy of the democrats who ripped on republicans and Bush and now ignore it when they do the EXACT same type of stuff just kills me.
Change we can believe in ROFL. I'll bet now not one real change will happen.
Actually no, it's using PTP wireless ground connections that act just like broadband. We had no trouble at all using skype over the connection.
I live close enough to rural areas to know people who have to have wells and septic tanks. The reason? The cost is too high for them to get the lines put down in order to change it. Should the government come in and put them on the grid too?
You have internet options, just not any that you like. Why should I pay for you to have the ones you want? Next thing you'll be complaining about the cost and that I should help you pay for that too.
I agree. I've read a lot of papers out of interests and as part of my MS program. Google papers often have something lacking. Almost like they don't want to know that last piece that really makes it work. MS and IBM usually publish some good papers, although some of the stuff out of IBMs labs in China isn't always too great. Could be a translation thing, but a lot of the ideas don't seem original.
I can mark exactly when MS started its downhill slide. The day they announced Windows Activation. It's funny, a non-techie business acquaintance told me that when a company starts trying to squeeze it's customers you know the end is near. It's been a few years, but history is proving him right.
If Obama is the saviour and is 100% certain that this pork spending bill is the answer, why does he keep begging and pleading with the American people and the republicans to support it? He has the votes already. He's just looking for a place to spread the blame when this whole thing doesn't work.
I would like to add to your point about rural broadband. People need to quit saying it isn't offered. It's offered, just not at a price they want to pay.
In Dec. I was in the middle of rural jungle in costa rica and found broadband. They used line of sight dishes opposed to cables to make it all work. It wasn't cheap to setup, but that's the price you pay to live out in the jungle.
This is only correct right after a refresh. The problem is that while Dell is continuously lowering their prices as parts get cheaper, Apple keeps selling the same thing at the intro price. Look at the mini. It's a complete rip off now hardware wise.
Now if Apple were to either lower its price over time or update their hardware more frequently they could fix the issue. They won't because they love their 30% margins. It's also these high margins that they are trying to protect by suing Pystar. If the door is open for clone makers expect Apples hardware offering to be outdone almost instantly, especially in the desktop arena.
Mac hardware used to be awesome. I was fanboy. Then I got a SR MBP and sold my G4 Powerbook. The keyboard on this thing still doesn't work right after numerous updates. On the Apple message boards they just delete threads about missing keystrokes now.
I do still like the OS and like the notebook form factor though. Problem is that the hardware has gone way down in quality and Apple has become way too slow at updating their hardware. Look at the mini for example. If they would update the hardware and drop the price a bit it could make a perfect HTPC with boxee, etc... Instead it languishes while they push the ATV...sigh.
What coattails is Pystar riding? Is Dell and all the other PC makers riding MS coattails? Pystar buys a licensed copy of OSX, makes their own computer and sells them together. I'm still failing to see the problem, other than Apple saying we don't want you to do that.
So you're saying you can't call MySQL procedures from PHP? Those would be parameterized and typed. You should still check any character input, but you should be pretty safe from SQL injection at that point.
I'm not sure if you're writing a joke post or not, but you just perfectly described every single MMORPG out there.
I agree. Running Win32 Eve under Parallels performs better than the 'native' OSX version.
I'm with you that $0 is really the best response, but since the politicians are determined to do something I'd rather they spend less than more.
Maybe ask the people who said they didn't want it?
I know many people (mostly older) who are plenty happy with dialup. It's cheap/free and it satisfies their need to check email and do the little bit of web surfing. Don't project your internet need and usage to everyone in the in the US.
Well said. You have to let bad loans go bad and house prices come down to a normal level. The government is really just extending the pain by getting the in way. If they had cleared out last year we probably would have a lot of this already out of the system and we could be starting on our way back up. Instead we have people holding on to unreasonable prices, loans, etc... waiting and hoping that Obama will come in and basically save them from their poor financial decision.
The problem is that every person who was financially responsible is going to get screwed. This is why the the public on a whole is against this stimulus. We saw what happened with the TARP (wasted and overpaid by 80B) and don't want another one those.
The funny thing is that like the boom cycle, the bust cycle too will end. Since it'll most likely end during Obamas time in office he'll also get to claim that he fixed it, when all it needed was time. Now, I wonder if he'll also take credit for the 20%+ inflation that many economist are concerned about in a few years?
McCain proposed a 500B plan with the provision that any money not spent after 2 positive GDP quarters would not be spent. That was quickly crushed by the dems as they want to pay back all their campaign donors for the next 10 years.
I'm all for small government and thought Bush was spending way too much like a democrat. Now that we have democrats in power it's clear that I was wrong.
The news this morning said that many of those schools were in a shrinking school district in MI that already had some schools sitting empty. Building those schools would have been akin to building a bridge to nowhere.