I've used stored procedures in Mysql, and have to say that they are very limited for anything complex. There are a lot of limitations in both stored procedures and functions which make them almost unusable for real tasks. The limitations have mainly to do with what you can pass to the procedures and functions and what you can return.
I personally think that the main reason Microsoft branched off into Games and the Xbox was to eventually have a home computing platform with its OWN hardware and its OWN absolutely controlled software environment. I'm pretty sure Microsoft would love to tell all the OEMs to fuck themselves (just not in so many words) and take on Apple directly with their own hardware and controlled OS.
In other words, I'm pretty sure they want to make the XBox a home PC, with games, messanging, browsing. email, Voip, a home version of office, some other home productivity crap and stuff. That way they can take on Apple directly in the market segment where Apple has an advantage, and slowly build up their own empire here.
I couldn't give a fuck if you were chinese, mate. Your comments border on the absurd. Boeing fucked around for years with the sonic liner and other lunacy before finally coming up with the 787 as a stopgap, becuase they had no real vision for more than a fucking decade. Finally, they kicked out the bosses who were fucking around screwing the secretaries and the shareholders and got their act together. LO and behold, dumbass, the same thing has happened to Airbus, who have sacked the managers and are retrenching a whole bunch of people in order to get their act together. What is more, dumbfuck, Airbus restarted the whole A350 fiasco in order to be more competitive with the 787, very much like Boeing scrapped the whole sonic liner bullshit when no one was interested.
So, to recap, you fucking clown, it's not a case of my country versus your country nut company versus that company, each goimg through the normal cycle of business operation in that segment of industry.
But if I was I know that my air-penis envy would be enormous because the Euros would have such a big one, and I would be forced to make all sorts of ridiculous claims that my 787 air-penis's size was not important, and that I didn't feel emasculated because of it.
I would reply in detail to your post, but judging from the text, it seems like you're one of the die hards, still spouting the same crap that the morons were saying in 2003. I will say this though: If Bush had been so incredibly interested in saving the Iraqi people from Saddam from a purely humanitarian point of view, then WHY THE FUCK, you dumbass clown, did the US do next to fuckall during the massacres going on in Dafur, in Sudan?
Fuck, people like you are just as fucking ridiculous as the liberals who believe in the most absurd conspiracy theories.
The clown who replied to you further down, has just come up with the same stuff were churning out in 2003. I thin the true answer lies somewhere inbetween, i.e. I personally think that oil certainly did play a big part, and was certainly that which got Bush and Cheney their backing from industry and the coallition of the stupid, i.e. big reconstruction contracts in Iraq after the war was over. But the main reason that the neoconservatives got so horny about invading Iraq probably was based on the locationof Iraq, i.e. a geostrategic base for US interests in the middle of the middle east. I think that they thought they would have an ideal location from which they could threaten Iran and Syria, and have enough oil flowing to be able to threaten the Saudis as well in future if things turned sour there.
Please explain, if this dumbass is right, just why the fucking glaciers are melting all over the planet. I live in Switzeland. The Glaciers are receading at 100 meters a year, in places. So why is that? Did big oil make the ice more slippery, or what?
The article is part fact and part of the same kind of tit for tat idiocy that brought and perpetuated the Cold War for over 40 years. "The Americans did this", "The Russians so totally did too" kind of crap that is this article is just painful to those of us who lived through the red scare bullshit of the Cold war. Not only that but the article tries to paint Russia as still being the Soviet Union. They talk about anti ballistic missiles being based in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is and has been independent since 1991. It leases the old Soviet manned rocket launching site at Baikonur to Russia, but it, along with the Ukraine and Byelorus destroyed all of its Soviet era nukes in the 90's, and no longer hosts any strategic Russian military equipment.
Man, organise a trial of OSX server with Open Directory before you start speaking your prejudices out loud. OD can do exactly that, since you can replicate a thusly configured configuration to all your users. OD is, on top of that, compatible with AD and NDS, and openLDAP, for that matter.
My company is slowly switching to an all Mac environment. Three years ago, we were considering moving all our clients to Windows and using Linux servers. Fortunately, reason prevailed and we stuck with Macs, despite using a crusty old Irix server serving Appletalk. Last year, through company growth, we had moved to a mainly Mac shop and we are, after major consideration, moving our file and backup servers over to XServe and OSX. (Sadly we still have an utterly insane group of Gentoo servers doing the rest of the serving with included downtime because the person responsible thinks doing untested upgrades on production servers is a good idea)
The biggest problem, as the article says, is not Apple's hardware or software, but the entrenched and encrusted Microsoft/Linux anti-Mac prejudice and the lack of professional support options.
I too have been desperately hoping that Apple would release an Apple tablet/drawing pad/note taker, something that students would kill for, if it was simple to use, a la Apple, looked cool, and weighed little. Something to replace the Newtons and E-Mates out there.
The fucking load of murderous bullshit that Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and the assorted American far right lunatics known as conservatives spewed forth before reducing Iraq to the orgy of blood and violence that it is now means that no one will believe anything that anyone in power in the US says for a long long time, and so, even if Iran were to blow the fuck out of Moses and Chaim in Tel Aviv with a nuclear blast, no one would believe what the US government was saying.
Colonizing the moon would be an excellent first step. Mars is not the only planetary body out there, and neither is Titan (Titan is going to be absurdly difficult to land on and colonize due to that 700 km thick atmosphere). Almost all of the moons in the solar system are airless. Colonizing the moon would be an excellent first step to practicing techniques for living with and protecting against solar radiation, and if they can manage to make decent dust seals that don't break down in the lunar dust, then they probably won't break down in the martian dust either, because people are going to go for walks on both. The moon would be an excellent place to practice living in a colony for extended periods (although the ISS has done that too), and will pave the way for many technologies that eventually will be needed when people finally go to places like Triton, Enceladaeus, Cassiopea or live in the asteroids (Ceres is 1000km in diameter).
Granted, machines will do almost all of that better, but people will eventually move out to the solar system, and adapt. The sooner they practice that, the easier the adaption will be.
This is completely false. The license forbids users running home versions of Vista in Parallels or, in fact, in any VM software, such as, surprise, surprise, VMWare, which is a big competitor to Microsoft's Virtual PC and which Microsoft is trying desperately to kill. Those users who do need Windows on a Mac mostly need it to a)play games, in which case, they will definitely not do it in a VM, or b)do office work or run some proprietary Windows only software, in which case they'll more likely than not be running Vista Business.
If Home users on Macs want Vista Premium to Game they can,........ wait for it..... simply dual boot in the Bootcamp partition and run Vista Premium natively.
Or just plain old Steve Jobs RDF, but it's by far the most candid piece of "straight talk" I've ever heard from the CEO of a huge company like Apple. Well done, Steve-O, if that little piece doesn't sell an extra 10 million ipods, then I don't know what will.
Norway isn't in the European Union. I'm pretty sure Apple would lobby pretty strongly to get its way in the EU, but Norway, and the Norwegian market being pretty small, I don't think Apple thinks its worth it, and would rather lose that market.
In essence, as a Mac and iPod user, I don't like this, but in principle it should apply to everybody, including Microsoft's Zune, which isn't even compatible with Microsoft's own Plays For Sure brand, and that name is terribly ironic.
Still, I don't really care. If I can't listen to music because of DRM, then I'll make my own or go and watch a Bach recital or something (until Microsoft/Sony/RIAA or whatever make playing music in public illegal unless you pay them for it)
The Thai information minister is right in that the motivation in closed source software to write good code (read code that sells better) is generally higher than that of open source software (even though there are very many exceptions of course). And, in general, companies like closed source for the simple fact that they have known support and someone they can blame in the case of a disaster. But he is also awfully wrong as to why this is.
If companies providing support and training for Open Source were to better advertise themselves, they would capture far more of the market. As it is, neither Red Hat nor SuSE nor Mandriva advertise much in public. The joke is that Ubuntu gets far more mainstream media attentions than any of the others, and that without Microsoft type of FUDvertising (word coined by me).
As for Thai companies providing good code, they may do so in Thailand for the Thai market, since localization to Thai is probably not high on many companies' priorities (it's ironic that Open Source support Thai better than most closed source software packages do), but they certainly don't have much say in the market outside Thailand.
Chavez might be a populist loudmouth fucker, but he is pretty open about what he wants and what his intentions are, not like the current crop of corrupt, deceiptful pigs running the USA, who resort to vague accusations like this one in times of elections because they finally realised that they fucked up across the board and that people really hate them for it.
And anyone who uses Grok in a sentence in the English language is oblivious to the real world where people see Stallman as a fat, loud-mouth hippy with the personality of Abimael Guzman of Sendero Luminoso and the charm of Saddam Hussein. In the real world, where people use the word "understand" and not "grok" because they don't use a, for them, archaic command line interface, looks and behaviour count for something.
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I've used stored procedures in Mysql, and have to say that they are very limited for anything complex. There are a lot of limitations in both stored procedures and functions which make them almost unusable for real tasks. The limitations have mainly to do with what you can pass to the procedures and functions and what you can return.
The links you provide are to a very old version of Mysql (3.2xxx), which was current around 6 years ago.
The newer Mysql version, depending on which storage engine you use, support foreign keys: Version 5.1
I personally think that the main reason Microsoft branched off into Games and the Xbox was to eventually have a home computing platform with its OWN hardware and its OWN absolutely controlled software environment. I'm pretty sure Microsoft would love to tell all the OEMs to fuck themselves (just not in so many words) and take on Apple directly with their own hardware and controlled OS.
In other words, I'm pretty sure they want to make the XBox a home PC, with games, messanging, browsing. email, Voip, a home version of office, some other home productivity crap and stuff. That way they can take on Apple directly in the market segment where Apple has an advantage, and slowly build up their own empire here.
Do they need a blue screen?
I couldn't give a fuck if you were chinese, mate. Your comments border on the absurd. Boeing fucked around for years with the sonic liner and other lunacy before finally coming up with the 787 as a stopgap, becuase they had no real vision for more than a fucking decade. Finally, they kicked out the bosses who were fucking around screwing the secretaries and the shareholders and got their act together. LO and behold, dumbass, the same thing has happened to Airbus, who have sacked the managers and are retrenching a whole bunch of people in order to get their act together. What is more, dumbfuck, Airbus restarted the whole A350 fiasco in order to be more competitive with the 787, very much like Boeing scrapped the whole sonic liner bullshit when no one was interested.
So, to recap, you fucking clown, it's not a case of my country versus your country nut company versus that company, each goimg through the normal cycle of business operation in that segment of industry.
Jeesus, people like you make me weep.
But if I was I know that my air-penis envy would be enormous because the Euros would have such a big one, and I would be forced to make all sorts of ridiculous claims that my 787 air-penis's size was not important, and that I didn't feel emasculated because of it.
Giggle.
I would reply in detail to your post, but judging from the text, it seems like you're one of the die hards, still spouting the same crap that the morons were saying in 2003. I will say this though: If Bush had been so incredibly interested in saving the Iraqi people from Saddam from a purely humanitarian point of view, then WHY THE FUCK, you dumbass clown, did the US do next to fuckall during the massacres going on in Dafur, in Sudan?
Fuck, people like you are just as fucking ridiculous as the liberals who believe in the most absurd conspiracy theories.
The clown who replied to you further down, has just come up with the same stuff were churning out in 2003. I thin the true answer lies somewhere inbetween, i.e. I personally think that oil certainly did play a big part, and was certainly that which got Bush and Cheney their backing from industry and the coallition of the stupid, i.e. big reconstruction contracts in Iraq after the war was over. But the main reason that the neoconservatives got so horny about invading Iraq probably was based on the locationof Iraq, i.e. a geostrategic base for US interests in the middle of the middle east. I think that they thought they would have an ideal location from which they could threaten Iran and Syria, and have enough oil flowing to be able to threaten the Saudis as well in future if things turned sour there.
Please explain, if this dumbass is right, just why the fucking glaciers are melting all over the planet. I live in Switzeland. The Glaciers are receading at 100 meters a year, in places. So why is that? Did big oil make the ice more slippery, or what?
They want their Soviet Union back.
The article is part fact and part of the same kind of tit for tat idiocy that brought and perpetuated the Cold War for over 40 years. "The Americans did this", "The Russians so totally did too" kind of crap that is this article is just painful to those of us who lived through the red scare bullshit of the Cold war. Not only that but the article tries to paint Russia as still being the Soviet Union. They talk about anti ballistic missiles being based in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is and has been independent since 1991. It leases the old Soviet manned rocket launching site at Baikonur to Russia, but it, along with the Ukraine and Byelorus destroyed all of its Soviet era nukes in the 90's, and no longer hosts any strategic Russian military equipment.
The Soviet Union ended some 16 years ago.
Dumbass fuck
Man, organise a trial of OSX server with Open Directory before you start speaking your prejudices out loud. OD can do exactly that, since you can replicate a thusly configured configuration to all your users. OD is, on top of that, compatible with AD and NDS, and openLDAP, for that matter.
My company is slowly switching to an all Mac environment. Three years ago, we were considering moving all our clients to Windows and using Linux servers. Fortunately, reason prevailed and we stuck with Macs, despite using a crusty old Irix server serving Appletalk. Last year, through company growth, we had moved to a mainly Mac shop and we are, after major consideration, moving our file and backup servers over to XServe and OSX. (Sadly we still have an utterly insane group of Gentoo servers doing the rest of the serving with included downtime because the person responsible thinks doing untested upgrades on production servers is a good idea)
The biggest problem, as the article says, is not Apple's hardware or software, but the entrenched and encrusted Microsoft/Linux anti-Mac prejudice and the lack of professional support options.
I too have been desperately hoping that Apple would release an Apple tablet/drawing pad/note taker, something that students would kill for, if it was simple to use, a la Apple, looked cool, and weighed little. Something to replace the Newtons and E-Mates out there.
Learn to spell, dumbass
The fucking load of murderous bullshit that Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and the assorted American far right lunatics known as conservatives spewed forth before reducing Iraq to the orgy of blood and violence that it is now means that no one will believe anything that anyone in power in the US says for a long long time, and so, even if Iran were to blow the fuck out of Moses and Chaim in Tel Aviv with a nuclear blast, no one would believe what the US government was saying.
Next time, think before you act.
From the BBC Article "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said what Iran needed was not a reverse gear, but a stop button.
She also said she was prepared to meet Iranian officials if Iran stopped nuclear enrichment.
Earlier US Vice-President Dick Cheney renewed a warning that the use of force could be an option if Iran continues to defy the West."
"The US probably the most silent on Iran right now".....
Dumbass, too dumb to read the fucking papers or even listen to the news.
Colonizing the moon would be an excellent first step. Mars is not the only planetary body out there, and neither is Titan (Titan is going to be absurdly difficult to land on and colonize due to that 700 km thick atmosphere). Almost all of the moons in the solar system are airless. Colonizing the moon would be an excellent first step to practicing techniques for living with and protecting against solar radiation, and if they can manage to make decent dust seals that don't break down in the lunar dust, then they probably won't break down in the martian dust either, because people are going to go for walks on both. The moon would be an excellent place to practice living in a colony for extended periods (although the ISS has done that too), and will pave the way for many technologies that eventually will be needed when people finally go to places like Triton, Enceladaeus, Cassiopea or live in the asteroids (Ceres is 1000km in diameter).
Granted, machines will do almost all of that better, but people will eventually move out to the solar system, and adapt. The sooner they practice that, the easier the adaption will be.
Man, really. get a grip on yourself. It's just a fucking operating system. Fucking dweeb.
This is completely false. The license forbids users running home versions of Vista in Parallels or, in fact, in any VM software, such as, surprise, surprise, VMWare, which is a big competitor to Microsoft's Virtual PC and which Microsoft is trying desperately to kill. Those users who do need Windows on a Mac mostly need it to a)play games, in which case, they will definitely not do it in a VM, or b)do office work or run some proprietary Windows only software, in which case they'll more likely than not be running Vista Business.
..... simply dual boot in the Bootcamp partition and run Vista Premium natively.
If Home users on Macs want Vista Premium to Game they can,........ wait for it
Or just plain old Steve Jobs RDF, but it's by far the most candid piece of "straight talk" I've ever heard from the CEO of a huge company like Apple. Well done, Steve-O, if that little piece doesn't sell an extra 10 million ipods, then I don't know what will.
Norway isn't in the European Union. I'm pretty sure Apple would lobby pretty strongly to get its way in the EU, but Norway, and the Norwegian market being pretty small, I don't think Apple thinks its worth it, and would rather lose that market.
In essence, as a Mac and iPod user, I don't like this, but in principle it should apply to everybody, including Microsoft's Zune, which isn't even compatible with Microsoft's own Plays For Sure brand, and that name is terribly ironic.
Still, I don't really care. If I can't listen to music because of DRM, then I'll make my own or go and watch a Bach recital or something (until Microsoft/Sony/RIAA or whatever make playing music in public illegal unless you pay them for it)
The Thai information minister is right in that the motivation in closed source software to write good code (read code that sells better) is generally higher than that of open source software (even though there are very many exceptions of course). And, in general, companies like closed source for the simple fact that they have known support and someone they can blame in the case of a disaster. But he is also awfully wrong as to why this is.
If companies providing support and training for Open Source were to better advertise themselves, they would capture far more of the market. As it is, neither Red Hat nor SuSE nor Mandriva advertise much in public. The joke is that Ubuntu gets far more mainstream media attentions than any of the others, and that without Microsoft type of FUDvertising (word coined by me).
As for Thai companies providing good code, they may do so in Thailand for the Thai market, since localization to Thai is probably not high on many companies' priorities (it's ironic that Open Source support Thai better than most closed source software packages do), but they certainly don't have much say in the market outside Thailand.
Chavez might be a populist loudmouth fucker, but he is pretty open about what he wants and what his intentions are, not like the current crop of corrupt, deceiptful pigs running the USA, who resort to vague accusations like this one in times of elections because they finally realised that they fucked up across the board and that people really hate them for it.
And anyone who uses Grok in a sentence in the English language is oblivious to the real world where people see Stallman as a fat, loud-mouth hippy with the personality of Abimael Guzman of Sendero Luminoso and the charm of Saddam Hussein. In the real world, where people use the word "understand" and not "grok" because they don't use a, for them, archaic command line interface, looks and behaviour count for something.