And alot of the patents the own they have put into the pool and are ready to hand over when everyone else jumps in with their patents. They are offering the majority of their software patents for free to people who offer to join the fight against patents... the other patents you mention are for hardware. And yes, they own a shitload of hardware patents. And they deserve it.
Correction. IBM is on your lists for supporting software patents. They do not believe in them. They believe the patent process needs overhauled and should support the open source model and a companies should make money off services, support and hardware (unless they can patent software tied to hardware or patent hardware innovations).
IBM has also started a patent fund with other companies to make sure nobody gets sued for broadly affected patents and work with others to find prior art and prior invention on modern software patents. IBM would like to see everything move towards a software services and support model mainly because they are in the forefront and most of the patents they are now putting through are hardware patents.
Exactly. Yeah I couldn't agree more. The query cache is really useful in those instances. I'd even say in those instances that you might even want to increase the cache size a little if you are caching news (though the most COMMONLY hit news will be the most likely contained in the cache).
I can't say I will be using this trimmed down version anytime soon. If I need something like this, I'll use sqlite.
Well query cache is limited in size. You set the limit in you my.cnf. The result set from your queries are cached in memory. Now if you are using it for large result sets, that cache is going to max out fast. And as a result, any other queries that are cached will overwrite it thus making that cache pointless. You can increase the size of your cache but it then starts eating into the memory of of things like your buffers.
This is why I always say just use it for small return sets that usually never change. It guarantees you won't max it out and queries won't get over written and you won't have to keep readjusting the query cache size in your my.cnf.
Well yes and no. I have always told people never to use query cache except when they absolutely need it as it can quickly become overused. But it is extremely useful for small amounts of data that don't change often but get called ALOT! And without it, you are correct, it is definitely something that will be sorely missed by people who know what they are doing.
Indeed. When working with overseas teams, I ask for at least 4-5 hrs of overlap a day so we can conference, get questions answered etc and try to ask both teams to be flexible with hours if they can so that no one team has to bear the entire burden; overseas teams are just as important as local teams. But I have always seen it work best if you have a physical presence at the location to help coordinate, manage and troubleshoot problems coordinating, communicating and following procedure.
Every other time I have seen outsourcing implemented without the company actually having a physical presence there, it fell apart in under 18 months for just those reasons and in some cases, the project was even stolen by the people who they outsourced it to (not at my company but other companies). This is not to suggest that all outsourcing companies are thieves, it's just that you are not there and not in control of what happens at that location so you get what you pay for.
I see people say this alot for the first couple of months. But as time drags on, you will find communication problems, scheduling issues, problems with getting them to follow standards set by the local team, etc. Everyone loves outsourcing for the first couple of months but ask them how much they like it 18 months later and many would be in the process of dumping it.
Well having to have had to manage a team in the Phillipines, miscommunications, missed deadlines, inability to follow instructions, redundant programming, lack of teamwork or cooperation, poor scheduling and more makes the low pay only part of the cost when the overall expense of the project eventually becomes 5-10 times what it needed to be had we hired local developers.
Outsourcing only pays off for VERY well managed and VERY well organized 3rd party organizations that you can trust 100% and as a rule, they don't exist because they don't exist ANYWHERE. You need to have an onsite presence much like IBM and Microsoft has in order for offshoring to really payoff. Otherwise you are not saving anything and may even be paying more... regardless of what some pitchman may tell you.
Well kind of. It's extreme but the problem has become extreme. True they are getting better but the mere fact that the average system takes 1.5 hrs to patch and the avergae unpatched system is taken over in 14 minutes of connectivity. 99.99% of botnets are Windows operating systems thanks to its weak security with Linux machines being found to be the controllers of the botnets. This isn't a troll either. Just a recorded fact from what studies of botnets have found.
So while switching to another OS IS extreme... if the solution isn't being fixed and you are sick of being hacked or your system going down and just want a stable machine, how extreme is it really?
Bash is a shell script and is a far cry from an application like Word, Excell, Internet Explorer. To even suggest that it is is to shout your own ignorance.
Only partially correct. Due to the interconnectivity of many Windows apps and their being tied to kernel levels DLLs and apis, hacking can happen at any user level through even the most innocuous application (ie excel or word docs) regardless of user level. These things do not happene regardless of user level in most Linux applications as they are not tied in like this and only in RARE cases does someone make such a bad coding mistake to allow this kind of elevated privileges to happen (like running the app as root).
Yep... sometimes he trolls just to troll. On one post he proclaimed...
Besides, I can make my computer immune to viruses. Just watch. Pop! Did you see that? I unplugged my network cable.
The luser wretches, "Oh but that makes your computer useless!" Yeah, well so does putting Linux on it. What's your point?
This was his answer on the question about how Windows was more prone to hacking and viruses whereas Linux was more secure. He does make some goods points but then he loses his audience by being a troll like this.
You can't have it both ways. If you want an audience to respect what you have to say, you can't turn around the next second and just be emotionally illogical and say 'because I say so'.
Many people prefer this as it is easier to read just from a glance. By keeping the else with the brackets, you are keeping the indented statements separate from their containing loop. Far more readable when you have to deal with alot of code.
Again, modern Linux distributions not only are more backwards compatible with older hardware that alot of scientific labs (and medical labs) still run, they also can run modern hardware as well. Now they may not always run the software supplied by the manufacturer (for instance imaging and cat scan software) but you can often find 5-10 equivalents that often have 80% of the functionality of the original manufacturers included software.
Windows distros are never backwards compatible with older systems so you usually end up having to run twice as many systems (one for each application) whereas Linux could usually run them all fairly well. I went into a Biotech lab that was very similar to this and had to have a different verssion of Windows for each app and they crash daily. We were able to reduce the numbers of machines running the automated lab by 70% as well as their day to day tests and increase stability and speed by about 5000%
Uh huh... you know I always love seeing people state things like this on forums but I have yet to see this mythical install in an actual environment or have anyone actually state the companies and offices where these perfect installations are in place. Funny how that works huh? How anyone can state these things without providing evidence?
Dunno what you are talking about. In the scientific community, I find quite often more open source tools available with few Windows equivalents than the reverse. And often those tools have greater flexibility and a greater set of features because more people have added to them (mostly grad students).
Yeah like I mentioned... it's a rarity in comparison to the number of people forced to used Windows. And most commonly, it's usually within the IT sector that they are 'forced'.
Nah... I've known people who are forced to run Windows for their jobs; you don't ever hear cases where people are forced to use Linux for their jobs... and if there are cases they are most certainly a rarity in comparison. My point however was just because you CAN run Windows does not a geek make; anyone can run Windows. But like you pointed out, let's see them use a shell for a day. That should be a national holiday... shell for a day.
A company in Washington already patented and makes these and is testing them for NASA. Their first market tests are being done this fall in the southwest and then they will be releasing products to other others next summer.Infinia corp is their name.
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And alot of the patents the own they have put into the pool and are ready to hand over when everyone else jumps in with their patents. They are offering the majority of their software patents for free to people who offer to join the fight against patents... the other patents you mention are for hardware. And yes, they own a shitload of hardware patents. And they deserve it.
You be the judge... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_CAs3q7G48
Correction. IBM is on your lists for supporting software patents. They do not believe in them. They believe the patent process needs overhauled and should support the open source model and a companies should make money off services, support and hardware (unless they can patent software tied to hardware or patent hardware innovations).
IBM has also started a patent fund with other companies to make sure nobody gets sued for broadly affected patents and work with others to find prior art and prior invention on modern software patents. IBM would like to see everything move towards a software services and support model mainly because they are in the forefront and most of the patents they are now putting through are hardware patents.
Exactly. Yeah I couldn't agree more. The query cache is really useful in those instances. I'd even say in those instances that you might even want to increase the cache size a little if you are caching news (though the most COMMONLY hit news will be the most likely contained in the cache).
I can't say I will be using this trimmed down version anytime soon. If I need something like this, I'll use sqlite.
Well query cache is limited in size. You set the limit in you my.cnf. The result set from your queries are cached in memory. Now if you are using it for large result sets, that cache is going to max out fast. And as a result, any other queries that are cached will overwrite it thus making that cache pointless. You can increase the size of your cache but it then starts eating into the memory of of things like your buffers.
This is why I always say just use it for small return sets that usually never change. It guarantees you won't max it out and queries won't get over written and you won't have to keep readjusting the query cache size in your my.cnf.
Well yes and no. I have always told people never to use query cache except when they absolutely need it as it can quickly become overused. But it is extremely useful for small amounts of data that don't change often but get called ALOT! And without it, you are correct, it is definitely something that will be sorely missed by people who know what they are doing.
Indeed. When working with overseas teams, I ask for at least 4-5 hrs of overlap a day so we can conference, get questions answered etc and try to ask both teams to be flexible with hours if they can so that no one team has to bear the entire burden; overseas teams are just as important as local teams. But I have always seen it work best if you have a physical presence at the location to help coordinate, manage and troubleshoot problems coordinating, communicating and following procedure.
Every other time I have seen outsourcing implemented without the company actually having a physical presence there, it fell apart in under 18 months for just those reasons and in some cases, the project was even stolen by the people who they outsourced it to (not at my company but other companies). This is not to suggest that all outsourcing companies are thieves, it's just that you are not there and not in control of what happens at that location so you get what you pay for.
I see people say this alot for the first couple of months. But as time drags on, you will find communication problems, scheduling issues, problems with getting them to follow standards set by the local team, etc. Everyone loves outsourcing for the first couple of months but ask them how much they like it 18 months later and many would be in the process of dumping it.
Well having to have had to manage a team in the Phillipines, miscommunications, missed deadlines, inability to follow instructions, redundant programming, lack of teamwork or cooperation, poor scheduling and more makes the low pay only part of the cost when the overall expense of the project eventually becomes 5-10 times what it needed to be had we hired local developers.
Outsourcing only pays off for VERY well managed and VERY well organized 3rd party organizations that you can trust 100% and as a rule, they don't exist because they don't exist ANYWHERE. You need to have an onsite presence much like IBM and Microsoft has in order for offshoring to really payoff. Otherwise you are not saving anything and may even be paying more... regardless of what some pitchman may tell you.
So get a MAC. It's BSD (UNIX variant like LINUX).
Well kind of. It's extreme but the problem has become extreme. True they are getting better but the mere fact that the average system takes 1.5 hrs to patch and the avergae unpatched system is taken over in 14 minutes of connectivity. 99.99% of botnets are Windows operating systems thanks to its weak security with Linux machines being found to be the controllers of the botnets. This isn't a troll either. Just a recorded fact from what studies of botnets have found.
So while switching to another OS IS extreme... if the solution isn't being fixed and you are sick of being hacked or your system going down and just want a stable machine, how extreme is it really?
Bash is a shell script and is a far cry from an application like Word, Excell, Internet Explorer. To even suggest that it is is to shout your own ignorance.
Yes and anyone whose family line wasn't a straight line wouldn't have needed to respond with another troll ike you. Go drag your knuckles elsewhere.
Only partially correct. Due to the interconnectivity of many Windows apps and their being tied to kernel levels DLLs and apis, hacking can happen at any user level through even the most innocuous application (ie excel or word docs) regardless of user level. These things do not happene regardless of user level in most Linux applications as they are not tied in like this and only in RARE cases does someone make such a bad coding mistake to allow this kind of elevated privileges to happen (like running the app as root).
This was his answer on the question about how Windows was more prone to hacking and viruses whereas Linux was more secure. He does make some goods points but then he loses his audience by being a troll like this.
You can't have it both ways. If you want an audience to respect what you have to say, you can't turn around the next second and just be emotionally illogical and say 'because I say so'.
Many people prefer this as it is easier to read just from a glance. By keeping the else with the brackets, you are keeping the indented statements separate from their containing loop. Far more readable when you have to deal with alot of code.
Again, modern Linux distributions not only are more backwards compatible with older hardware that alot of scientific labs (and medical labs) still run, they also can run modern hardware as well. Now they may not always run the software supplied by the manufacturer (for instance imaging and cat scan software) but you can often find 5-10 equivalents that often have 80% of the functionality of the original manufacturers included software.
Windows distros are never backwards compatible with older systems so you usually end up having to run twice as many systems (one for each application) whereas Linux could usually run them all fairly well. I went into a Biotech lab that was very similar to this and had to have a different verssion of Windows for each app and they crash daily. We were able to reduce the numbers of machines running the automated lab by 70% as well as their day to day tests and increase stability and speed by about 5000%
Uh huh... you know I always love seeing people state things like this on forums but I have yet to see this mythical install in an actual environment or have anyone actually state the companies and offices where these perfect installations are in place. Funny how that works huh? How anyone can state these things without providing evidence?
Dunno what you are talking about. In the scientific community, I find quite often more open source tools available with few Windows equivalents than the reverse. And often those tools have greater flexibility and a greater set of features because more people have added to them (mostly grad students).
Yeah like I mentioned... it's a rarity in comparison to the number of people forced to used Windows. And most commonly, it's usually within the IT sector that they are 'forced'.
Nah... I've known people who are forced to run Windows for their jobs; you don't ever hear cases where people are forced to use Linux for their jobs... and if there are cases they are most certainly a rarity in comparison. My point however was just because you CAN run Windows does not a geek make; anyone can run Windows. But like you pointed out, let's see them use a shell for a day. That should be a national holiday... shell for a day.
I'm sorry but anyone who can run Windows and has been ISSUED a geek card should turn it in immediately.
A company in Washington already patented and makes these and is testing them for NASA. Their first market tests are being done this fall in the southwest and then they will be releasing products to other others next summer.Infinia corp is their name.
It is? Right on! Fuck you Jesus!
You must be new to this whole internet thing, huh?