I run Debian on SPARC. Guess what happens when you go to Sun's websites and start trying to find the JVM for Debian/SPARC? You guessed it, you get buttraped by a mad goat.
Interesting. As a guy who's been a die-hard PostgreSQL for a number of years, and who recently accepted a job doing hardcore MySQL administration, I was dreading it, because everyone knows MySQL has bad transaction management, horrible administration nightmares, and is only good for developers.
And I'm sure MySQL DBAs all know PostgreSQL is slow, bloated, and is only good for huge database rollouts.
Except, well. You get the gist. I'm replying to this article because I now know first-hand that both camps are getting a lot of it wrong.
I've written up what began as a final in-depth studied proof that MySQL wasn't ready for the corporate environment (because I'm a PostgreSQL guy, see?) but ended up reluctantly having to conclude MySQL is slightly more ready for the corporate environment than PostgreSQL!
The writeup is on a wiki, so feel free to register and add your own experience. Please be ready to back up your opinions with facts.
There used to be a "search voyeur" CGI that would show you the searches that were recently performed on some search engine or another. It was fun to watch, but was sometimes frustrating. You'd see someone search for "Japanese women" and you would want to edit their search and do "Japanese women +naked" because you knew that's what they really wanted, but were too newb to do it right.
Then, there would be the guy who would search for "Windows sucks Linux roolz" and you'd wish you could start chatting with him.
But finally I made my own website, and now I can search the referrer logs (hint: grep for "?query=" b/c it seems a pretty common referrer string) for funny searches. My favourite was someone searching for pictures of naked women fishing. Is there some popular naked women fishing fetish out there or something? I'd never heard of it. But the searches kept bringing up my pages, and people kept clicking through.
It would seem that the corps are well on the way to pushing this society down a path of Doom Spiral. I don't think I exaggerate when I say every one of us is now guilty of some egregious crime against corporations, whether we wrote some patent-infringing code, looked under the hood of the copy-extortion schemes built into our gadgets, or wrote something bad about scientology.
So far as I can tell, we've essentially made being a free thinker illegal in the United States. I'm glad that the UK and Australia are following suit, so that we can have a nice global village under the control of Microsoft, Verisign, and maybe a little Union Carbide and Monsanto for your physical health.
How did things get this bad? Why aren't we meeting on a weekly basis to take action against this annoying destruction of the public domain?
Yeah, this is huge news. A U.S. congressman spent $18,000 to go to Taiwan and Thailand? I know for a fact that at the most expensive hotels and with the most expensive food, you can only spend about $8,000 on a trip to those countries. So the other $10,000 went to prostitutes, drugs, and... what? Into his pocket?
I can tell the RIAA is on the side of the little guy. They're going out there and suing the tar out of those evil P2P guys.
'Cuz no little guy would ever use P2P to promote their art.
Not me, not Anything Box, and certainly not any other artist truly making new and original art. See... without the RIAA, nothing would ever get created. This is the true artistic genius of the world: Hillary Rosen and her copyright-legislation-writing hands.
"There WAS nothing wrong with [the name Michael Bolton] until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammies."
Remember conservation of energy and thermodynamics... you're not going to get 'free' energy by strapping this to a buzzing, vibrating machine.
Imagine. Your systems are running fine, and suddenly half of your sensors stop working. Two days later you find out it's because the HVAC man came around and upgraded all the old compressors' parts to run with no vibration ('cuz it increases the life of those machines, you see), and now all your little micropowered machines have stopped working.
It would seem to me depending on a machine to be inefficient (and thus stealing some of its wasted energy) has this equivalent in the software world: depending on a bug or deficiency in the OS to make your application work. Someone's gonna finally think to fix that bug or deficiency.
Yes! A phone that charges itself when it rings or vibrates.
And next, we can build a machine that, when slowing down from drag, uses that potential energy to cause another part of itself to move faster. Then, it would never stop. We could task it to make electricity to power... everything!
From cars that have more electricity at the end of the trip than when they started, to bicycles that coast faster when going uphill, the possibilities are... perpetual!
...a (slashdotted) website actually hosted on one of these with content along the lines of "AOL CD in the Microwave" showing how you can carve an AOL CD into a cease-and-desist letter in five seconds flat.
Funniest Easter Humour I saw...
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NTK Now (or NT Know, depending on your chronology) sez:
To celebrate Jesus being buried in a chocolate egg and on the third day ascending to heaven as a little yellow chick, (and also because it's a public holiday in Britain) we're not doing an NTK this week.
In 1980, I had a TRS-80 CoCo where I could hold the "page-down" key and the text would fly by as fast as I could watch it.
Now I have a P4 2.4GHz machine, and when I hold down page-down, my whole machine grinds to a halt as my Rube Goldberg-like operating system tries to phone home to Microsoft about my text paging habits.
Surely Acidus and his colleagues informed the Universities about this before they went public with this information. That is of course the most effective way to get the system to change. ..
I'll bet you a dollar that's why they got the rabid DMCA assholes on their case in the first place. They did the responsible thing and told everyone they'd be doing this talk, so the lawyers wrote up a letter saying: "No, you won't."
Do not fight the symptoms (these bad laws). Cure the disease. Corporations are more and more taking control of the legislatures all over the world. In some places, they are taking over the judicial system as well.
You can also watch as corporation-like entities such as Church of Scientology take over all three branches of government (in the United States). They have police, judges, and legislators in their pockets.
Don't see any mirrors to MPEG4 versions of this. mplayer complains mightily of the audio codec they're using ("faad" -- sounds a bit Husseinish to me, no wonder mplayer won't play it).
I can watch the video portion with my pirated quicktime DLLs, though. Has good video. But without audio, it isn't so compelling.
For those, like me, who didn't know a whole lot about SARS, someone typed up a real nice Wikipedia entry on SARS, including a nice table of diagnosed cases per country.
Considering reading the article before commenting? Don't bother. They haven't done their homework. The reason they're fighting the number portability laws? Because it would increase their costs... I'll let the cognitive dissonance batter your brain a little bit on that one.
Lame, lame, lame mobile phone providers. Get a clue. Service your customers. Provide value for the money. How about more anytime minutes per month? Or how about if you don't use your anytime minutes this month, they roll over to next month?
Come on, people. Stop sitting comfortably on your piles of ill-gotten profits and serve the customers like you're supposed to be doing. I swear, the way our legislature is bending over and taking it from the corps in this country is astounding.
Printers have definitely gotten shoddier over the years. From iron tanks in the 80's to flimsy plastic toys today. But then on the other hand, for an affordable price, they print beautiful 600dpi photorealistic prints of you and your loved ones on the beach.
Seems to be the case for a lot of things: we've sacrificed quality and long life for cheap, convenient throw-away garbage.
It simply seems to be the cost/profit question is always answered by "reduce QA staff and product quality, increase glitz and marketing."
It doesn't seem all depressing, however. If you go out and spend $5,000 on a printer today, you'll find that the product you get is fairly rugged and dependable. You just need to shell out the extra $4,200 for that long life.
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Ha! Write once, run most places, they mean.
I run Debian on SPARC. Guess what happens when you go to Sun's websites and start trying to find the JVM for Debian/SPARC? You guessed it, you get buttraped by a mad goat.
Wow! Your paranoid brother has enough circumstantial evidence to put him away in "pound the terrorist in the ass" prison for twenty years.
Just that post alone would be enough to get any paranoid-delusional jury (that is, all of them) to put him away.
Interesting. As a guy who's been a die-hard PostgreSQL for a number of years, and who recently accepted a job doing hardcore MySQL administration, I was dreading it, because everyone knows MySQL has bad transaction management, horrible administration nightmares, and is only good for developers.
And I'm sure MySQL DBAs all know PostgreSQL is slow, bloated, and is only good for huge database rollouts.
Except, well. You get the gist. I'm replying to this article because I now know first-hand that both camps are getting a lot of it wrong.
I've written up what began as a final in-depth studied proof that MySQL wasn't ready for the corporate environment (because I'm a PostgreSQL guy, see?) but ended up reluctantly having to conclude MySQL is slightly more ready for the corporate environment than PostgreSQL!
The writeup is on a wiki, so feel free to register and add your own experience. Please be ready to back up your opinions with facts.
There used to be a "search voyeur" CGI that would show you the searches that were recently performed on some search engine or another. It was fun to watch, but was sometimes frustrating. You'd see someone search for "Japanese women" and you would want to edit their search and do "Japanese women +naked" because you knew that's what they really wanted, but were too newb to do it right.
Then, there would be the guy who would search for "Windows sucks Linux roolz" and you'd wish you could start chatting with him.
But finally I made my own website, and now I can search the referrer logs (hint: grep for "?query=" b/c it seems a pretty common referrer string) for funny searches. My favourite was someone searching for pictures of naked women fishing. Is there some popular naked women fishing fetish out there or something? I'd never heard of it. But the searches kept bringing up my pages, and people kept clicking through.
It would seem that the corps are well on the way to pushing this society down a path of Doom Spiral. I don't think I exaggerate when I say every one of us is now guilty of some egregious crime against corporations, whether we wrote some patent-infringing code, looked under the hood of the copy-extortion schemes built into our gadgets, or wrote something bad about scientology.
So far as I can tell, we've essentially made being a free thinker illegal in the United States. I'm glad that the UK and Australia are following suit, so that we can have a nice global village under the control of Microsoft, Verisign, and maybe a little Union Carbide and Monsanto for your physical health.
How did things get this bad? Why aren't we meeting on a weekly basis to take action against this annoying destruction of the public domain?
Oh, look! Matrix Reloaded is out! Gotta go.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to finish my Freedom Fries, and Freedom kiss my wife who's dressed up in a Freedom Maid outfit.
Fnord.
Every time a commoner gains a new method for controlling the world, Da Man comes and stomps it out.
Demand your right to use bluetooth, 8011b, and GSM devices while the plane is taking off and landing! To do anything else is bowing down to Da Man.
Oh, and if anyone knows how I can stop paying income tax, email me. It's a terrible drain on my broadband budget.
Yeah, this is huge news. A U.S. congressman spent $18,000 to go to Taiwan and Thailand? I know for a fact that at the most expensive hotels and with the most expensive food, you can only spend about $8,000 on a trip to those countries. So the other $10,000 went to prostitutes, drugs, and... what? Into his pocket?
I know Unix like I know the back of my hand. I love Unix like I love the palm of my hand.
I pronounce it like "suse" as if the first letter were an S, the second a U, the third an S, and the last an E.
Naturally, this cannot be correct.
It would be as though Linux had a long-I sound, or GNU had a silent G.
I can tell the RIAA is on the side of the little guy. They're going out there and suing the tar out of those evil P2P guys.
'Cuz no little guy would ever use P2P to promote their art.
Not me, not Anything Box, and certainly not any other artist truly making new and original art. See... without the RIAA, nothing would ever get created. This is the true artistic genius of the world: Hillary Rosen and her copyright-legislation-writing hands.
And, if you want to donate, but you want to get a huge-ass print of some nude art in return, try this nude art web page.
"There WAS nothing wrong with [the name Michael Bolton] until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammies."
-- Office Space
Hell, saying Siva Vaidhyanathan three times quickly is trivial.
It's saying it one time correctly that's the challenge.
Imagine. Your systems are running fine, and suddenly half of your sensors stop working. Two days later you find out it's because the HVAC man came around and upgraded all the old compressors' parts to run with no vibration ('cuz it increases the life of those machines, you see), and now all your little micropowered machines have stopped working.
It would seem to me depending on a machine to be inefficient (and thus stealing some of its wasted energy) has this equivalent in the software world: depending on a bug or deficiency in the OS to make your application work. Someone's gonna finally think to fix that bug or deficiency.
Yes! A phone that charges itself when it rings or vibrates.
And next, we can build a machine that, when slowing down from drag, uses that potential energy to cause another part of itself to move faster. Then, it would never stop. We could task it to make electricity to power... everything!
From cars that have more electricity at the end of the trip than when they started, to bicycles that coast faster when going uphill, the possibilities are... perpetual!
...a (slashdotted) website actually hosted on one of these with content along the lines of "AOL CD in the Microwave" showing how you can carve an AOL CD into a cease-and-desist letter in five seconds flat.
In 1980, I had a TRS-80 CoCo where I could hold the "page-down" key and the text would fly by as fast as I could watch it.
Now I have a P4 2.4GHz machine, and when I hold down page-down, my whole machine grinds to a halt as my Rube Goldberg-like operating system tries to phone home to Microsoft about my text paging habits.
I'll bet you a dollar that's why they got the rabid DMCA assholes on their case in the first place. They did the responsible thing and told everyone they'd be doing this talk, so the lawyers wrote up a letter saying: "No, you won't."
Do not fight the symptoms (these bad laws). Cure the disease. Corporations are more and more taking control of the legislatures all over the world. In some places, they are taking over the judicial system as well.
You can also watch as corporation-like entities such as Church of Scientology take over all three branches of government (in the United States). They have police, judges, and legislators in their pockets.
Don't see any mirrors to MPEG4 versions of this. mplayer complains mightily of the audio codec they're using ("faad" -- sounds a bit Husseinish to me, no wonder mplayer won't play it).
I can watch the video portion with my pirated quicktime DLLs, though. Has good video. But without audio, it isn't so compelling.
For those, like me, who didn't know a whole lot about SARS, someone typed up a real nice Wikipedia entry on SARS, including a nice table of diagnosed cases per country.
Considering reading the article before commenting? Don't bother. They haven't done their homework. The reason they're fighting the number portability laws? Because it would increase their costs... I'll let the cognitive dissonance batter your brain a little bit on that one.
Lame, lame, lame mobile phone providers. Get a clue. Service your customers. Provide value for the money. How about more anytime minutes per month? Or how about if you don't use your anytime minutes this month, they roll over to next month?
Come on, people. Stop sitting comfortably on your piles of ill-gotten profits and serve the customers like you're supposed to be doing. I swear, the way our legislature is bending over and taking it from the corps in this country is astounding.
Printers have definitely gotten shoddier over the years. From iron tanks in the 80's to flimsy plastic toys today. But then on the other hand, for an affordable price, they print beautiful 600dpi photorealistic prints of you and your loved ones on the beach.
Seems to be the case for a lot of things: we've sacrificed quality and long life for cheap, convenient throw-away garbage.
It simply seems to be the cost/profit question is always answered by "reduce QA staff and product quality, increase glitz and marketing."
It doesn't seem all depressing, however. If you go out and spend $5,000 on a printer today, you'll find that the product you get is fairly rugged and dependable. You just need to shell out the extra $4,200 for that long life.