Well they want to be compatible with existing MySQL versions as Monty has stated and not be a fork but they also want to fix broken functionality on the backend that SUN has been unwilling to do thus far. MariaDB from my understanding is just a community version but they would like to see their commits go up to Oracles version as well.
If they make improvements and Oracle refuses to be part of the community, then guess who is going to have the better version in the long run? I'm putting my money on that community of developers rather than the company with the overblown ego. We all know how companies with overblown ego react to the open source community after all.
I've already started planning my open source project to support Maria. I'll probably still support MySQL but I expect the community version will have fewer options and functionality over time and will fall out of use so it's probably just easiest to start making the switch to MariaDB right now.
From my understanding, it already supports PHP and is far faster than 5.1.
I don't remember me and everyone else actually USING that land for running our garden hose through it? Taxes are collected arbitrarily and not for any one particular burden. Please look up the word arbitrarily and try again.
Well the problem isn't just that one developer and tester let it through. They let it through TWICE! After the first time, you would have thought that they would have built a class/function/api to handle all URL's and do the cleaning automatically. That way any app sending URL's through the system could have them cleaned the same way so as to avoid an exploit.
This constant lack of consistency is a Microsoft trademark where one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing and as a result issues that they say were fixed keep coming up over and over and over. And I think that's the real bitch people have. If there's any kind of conspiracy, it's a conspiracy of dunces.
How about the opposite... how anout as municipalities, we band together and start charging them rent on our ditches and land that they are running the cable through. They want to screw us on the received end then we will screw then on the intake valve. If we stand firm enough, the fear of being charged billions to use their own lines will put the fear of some sort of ancient evil from beyond the stars into them.
This isn't just useful for stopping piracy, this is useful by the Feds and the NSA who deal with botnets and foreign agents hacking government agencies. They can send triggers to those machines to disable them. Of course this creates a customer support nightmare but as far as the NSA and Microsoft are concerned, they will just tell everyone they need to buy antivirus from Microsoft or purhcase a new computer from Dell.
It's a win-win for Microsoft and the feds. And that's all that anyone who will prosecute them cares about.
From my understanding, Eclipse (and by derivative OpenOffice and all other projects based on that codebase) has a C++ backend. Only the rendering is done in JAVA. This is a fallacy spread by Windows people scared of an Open Source World.
Yet another web dev WYSIWYG done in javascript. Creeps, crashs and crawls whereas a desktop app like Eclipse is far more reliable and stable. Why are people still trying to do this in javascript?
No one says "Hello Avatar" either. They talk to the person.
Bullshit. If my name is Bob Smith and I play an Avatar Named Grognak The Killer, they call me Grognak because they do not see the person driving Grognak and don't give a shit. Grognak is my persona. A telephone in your example does not have a persona; it is an object. The avatar is a representation, a social construct. The object is not; it is merely a tool.
Voice changes. They can tell it's a different voice. And since the phone is not a persona that you act through and is treated by other personas as an extension of a living person (ie that they do not address the phone as if it were a living being), then it does not apply. You are comparing driving a vehicle to driving a persona. No one comes up to the car and says' Hello BMW. Wanna go on a raid with me and Ford and Chrystler?'. No they address the person within because it is seen as an object and not a persona.
Objects are extension only in function and not in social interaction.
Precisely, it is for the reasons you listed that the party trying to enforce any contract would find it impossible. I think in terms of a 'contract' for online avatars, the 'quest' is the closest thing to a contract. The QUEST is already an agreement between an NPC and a PC for exchange of goods and services rendered.
Should one be able to do this in game then we are talking not about contracts in game but about playing created content; the PC gets to create QUESTS for other PC's. They then enter into a contract between their two avatars and upon completion of contract, goods or services are exchanged. The contract can be broken easily enough without penalty. But yes, in this sense we are talking about player created content.
This is such a dumb question and here is the scenario: say I play a businesswoman online. Now say my little brother gets ahold of my account while I'm in the bathroom and decides that I'm going to prostitute myself and gets into a binding contract. Did my avatar make the contract or my little brother THROUGH the avatar? When I get back to the keyboard is my avatar to be punished because they were 'possessed' by the spirit of my little brother?
Impossible to enforce. If there were an in game judicial system, it would be treated as temporary insanity. To which you would also NEED a judicial system for arbitration. This introduces lawyers. And now the game becomes a PVP free for all.
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Well they want to be compatible with existing MySQL versions as Monty has stated and not be a fork but they also want to fix broken functionality on the backend that SUN has been unwilling to do thus far. MariaDB from my understanding is just a community version but they would like to see their commits go up to Oracles version as well.
If they make improvements and Oracle refuses to be part of the community, then guess who is going to have the better version in the long run? I'm putting my money on that community of developers rather than the company with the overblown ego. We all know how companies with overblown ego react to the open source community after all.
You seem to fail to understand the function of taxes, the term 'arbitrarily' and the use of logic. Please try again.
I've already started planning my open source project to support Maria. I'll probably still support MySQL but I expect the community version will have fewer options and functionality over time and will fall out of use so it's probably just easiest to start making the switch to MariaDB right now.
From my understanding, it already supports PHP and is far faster than 5.1.
I don't remember me and everyone else actually USING that land for running our garden hose through it? Taxes are collected arbitrarily and not for any one particular burden. Please look up the word arbitrarily and try again.
Uh oh... looks like there are some Osmond fans on Slashdot :)
He doesn't want anyone to see his magical underoos or else he won't be able to baptize the dead anymore.
Well the problem isn't just that one developer and tester let it through. They let it through TWICE! After the first time, you would have thought that they would have built a class/function/api to handle all URL's and do the cleaning automatically. That way any app sending URL's through the system could have them cleaned the same way so as to avoid an exploit.
This constant lack of consistency is a Microsoft trademark where one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing and as a result issues that they say were fixed keep coming up over and over and over. And I think that's the real bitch people have. If there's any kind of conspiracy, it's a conspiracy of dunces.
Taxes apply to every not just fibre optic layers. Please try again.
How about the opposite... how anout as municipalities, we band together and start charging them rent on our ditches and land that they are running the cable through. They want to screw us on the received end then we will screw then on the intake valve. If we stand firm enough, the fear of being charged billions to use their own lines will put the fear of some sort of ancient evil from beyond the stars into them.
Illiteracy is no laughing matter my friend. Learn to read.
This isn't just useful for stopping piracy, this is useful by the Feds and the NSA who deal with botnets and foreign agents hacking government agencies. They can send triggers to those machines to disable them. Of course this creates a customer support nightmare but as far as the NSA and Microsoft are concerned, they will just tell everyone they need to buy antivirus from Microsoft or purhcase a new computer from Dell.
It's a win-win for Microsoft and the feds. And that's all that anyone who will prosecute them cares about.
Uh...duh. Hence why I ducked the chair from the 'dancing monkey boy'. Learn your memes and how to read.
From my understanding, Eclipse (and by derivative OpenOffice and all other projects based on that codebase) has a C++ backend. Only the rendering is done in JAVA. This is a fallacy spread by Windows people scared of an Open Source World.
So this protects Steve Ballmer and his family but what about the rest of us? *ducks chair* INCOMING!
Your nervous laughter denotes a sense of ignorance and fear. You either have no clue what you are talking about or no clue what you are doing.
Yet another web dev WYSIWYG done in javascript. Creeps, crashs and crawls whereas a desktop app like Eclipse is far more reliable and stable. Why are people still trying to do this in javascript?
Wow. What an amazing feature. Looks like the development team at Microsoft has been hard at work on the new OS as per usual.
Uh huh. If you say so. Good luck with your sales of Last.fm.
Bullshit. If my name is Bob Smith and I play an Avatar Named Grognak The Killer, they call me Grognak because they do not see the person driving Grognak and don't give a shit. Grognak is my persona. A telephone in your example does not have a persona; it is an object. The avatar is a representation, a social construct. The object is not; it is merely a tool.
Voice changes. They can tell it's a different voice. And since the phone is not a persona that you act through and is treated by other personas as an extension of a living person (ie that they do not address the phone as if it were a living being), then it does not apply. You are comparing driving a vehicle to driving a persona. No one comes up to the car and says' Hello BMW. Wanna go on a raid with me and Ford and Chrystler?'. No they address the person within because it is seen as an object and not a persona.
Objects are extension only in function and not in social interaction.
Precisely, it is for the reasons you listed that the party trying to enforce any contract would find it impossible. I think in terms of a 'contract' for online avatars, the 'quest' is the closest thing to a contract. The QUEST is already an agreement between an NPC and a PC for exchange of goods and services rendered.
Should one be able to do this in game then we are talking not about contracts in game but about playing created content; the PC gets to create QUESTS for other PC's. They then enter into a contract between their two avatars and upon completion of contract, goods or services are exchanged. The contract can be broken easily enough without penalty. But yes, in this sense we are talking about player created content.
Yes and those of us who USED 'X window system' called it 'X windows' for short. Just like your mom called you 'loser' for short.
This is such a dumb question and here is the scenario: say I play a businesswoman online. Now say my little brother gets ahold of my account while I'm in the bathroom and decides that I'm going to prostitute myself and gets into a binding contract. Did my avatar make the contract or my little brother THROUGH the avatar? When I get back to the keyboard is my avatar to be punished because they were 'possessed' by the spirit of my little brother?
Impossible to enforce. If there were an in game judicial system, it would be treated as temporary insanity. To which you would also NEED a judicial system for arbitration. This introduces lawyers. And now the game becomes a PVP free for all.
Omigod! I just got it! You are a pitchman or work for Last.fm. Give it up already. You'll be laid off within the month.
No he's just developmentally disabled. Something in the tech world we call 'a windows user'.