I suppose it depends on the orientation of the institution imparting the MBA. I have a dozen of friends (yes, a non significant sample) that told me exactly the contrary of what you're saying. They always try to confront people's ideas (in turn, confronting the students and turning them in argumentation/manipulation machines via the infamous "business case method"); about HR, apparently nobody believe in listening the subordinates but just apply the standard "vertical planning" with several degrees of refinement. Their main goal: make money, get ascended.
Practically every friend I have that uses a PC for whatever purpose really hates Windows and the virus mess, the registry/DLL havoc, and its "natural" way of becoming slow as the months pass.
Yet all of them have just one single reason for not migrating: applications! From Autocad to Doom-III, that's the key factor. And forget about the Wine adaptations: they are always at least three years out of the latest versions.
Sadly, nobody seems to be helping (nor is interested in) the software makers to port their windows codebase (no, documenting the nice Linux api's is not enough.)
> including needing administrator privileges to install the plugin
The same happened with to me with an intranet needing flash with machines without internet access. Was a PITA to search for a version of the plugin that doesn't try to auto-update from the web and completely hanging Internet Explorer in its way.
It's a bit ironic, but this is similar to the "can't dump Windows 'cause geek hi-knowledge is needed to install Linux". In both cases the established technology has a silly yet strong advantage.
Yeah... the M$ specific license could just be the arrogance of M$ for not using any other established/competitor's license, and for their lawyers to pass a bigger check because a whole "new license text".
Now, I don't know almost anything about the product being open sourced, but it would only matter if that product could be really usable standalone outside Windows platforms (what is the utility of opening the source code of a single module of a big stack like.NET?): Sadly, most M$ products seem to be unnaturally coupled so their individual "openness" is largely irrelevant.
Ok, assume there are only the Google geniuses. Now, why will be in charge of searching and investigating the events? checking for veracity? analyzing the connections? following suspicious tracks? providing solid editorials? insightful reviews?... Google???
Yes, yes.... but your database constraints just can access to other data already in the database, not, for example, in the application memory, or a remote system, etc... Of course if all your application is done in stored procedures, your constraints can be more effective.
Now, beyond some arithmetical formulas, constraints are problematic because 1) domain logic code duplication 2) the performance hit.
Of course, constraints are beneficial as any additional check that you can add in your system. But my point is that beyond relational consistence, they can't do much for the correctness of the application data as some DBAs seem to believe.
> Why would I choose use anything else?... Because a lot of people thinks that foreign key constraints are the best and most important way (after primary keys) to secure the consistency of the application's data.
Of course, that people probably never wrote a dozen of lines of code, so they never realized that the programmer has one thousand of more powerful ways to corrupt all the application data (sadly, databases are not immune to code bugs despite any imaginative constraints.)
BTW, that same people never will understand that there exists some thing called innodb; but to be fair, it is a shame that MySQL yet defaults to the isam (i.e. not enforcing FK) engine.
Almost every week in/. there is an story about the supposed benefits of some weird aspect of gaming.
To me this implies that/. editors feel guilty of loving games because they really know they're damaging their body (tired eyes, overweight, talking incoherences, etc.) so need every possible excuse to continue with the addiction.
Yes. Even in the stores I never saw a "damn fast" vista laptop, compared to the XP ones. And no korean guy involved. The same for my brand new Vostro as just delivered from Dell (now reformated with Ubu... well, that's another story.)
The "downgrade to XP" motto doesn't come from./ but from frustrated and standard users that feel a sluggish interactivity.
> Let me know when a mobile phone can serve as a CAD workstation, video editing workstation, or other high performance need.
Or as a software packaging test/build repository (like those used for the people that make Linux distros), or as an environment where a kernel hacker fixes drivers on behalf of some Linux distro; or as an art/publishing workstation, like the ones used to design the advertisements of some Linux distros; or for running nice spreadsheets where some distro's CEO get the sales numbers, including a lot of nice 3D-Bars and pie charts.....
I support a software product in a telco, and had talks with its IT managers about the Oracle Linux issue. They have lots of Red Hats but see the Oracle offering interesting (and are implementing it) because:
1) Linux (RedHat or others) are really stable systems (compared with other Unixes they had or have), so the support provider switch is not seen as a dramatic issue 2) They can save some cents without (apparently) giving anything. The RedHat support is little money for that kind of company, but a saving always looks good for the directors 3) They avoid one provider's negotiation as a whole (which is a big win: less paper, less meetings, less vendor talk, less decision process, etc.) 4) They mostly ignore the distributed filesystem issues, and for virtualization just apply the leader (VmWare), so the Xen/KVM/Xen-Oracle discussion is not too relevant 5) BTW, for some diverse reasons, their software providers seem to dislike CentOS (maybe the RedHat's negative marketing made its effect, who knows)
For many (most?) Unix admins,/root is just a nicer way to specify "/ filesystem" or "root filesystem". The path/root for root user's home directory is popular in Linux, but I never saw it in the Unixes I've used (but I don't know if that custom is a Linux invention.)
From my observation, Java Applets and Flash run at similar speeds (indeed, there is no real reason for them to differ.) The single and big problem was the Java Applet startup time that was really BIIIIIG and consumed resources to the point of freezing the PC.
Since many people in the 90's used Applets just for trivial and short animations, that startup time turned to be the principal contributor to the total user experience.
Flash had a lot less ambitions (in the beginning), so their initialization time was as expected (i.e. non detectable.)
While I mostly agree with your points, I definitively don't understand why MySQL still creates tables without Foreign Key support, if you don't add the silly "engine=innodb" keyword. Please don't reply with "backward compatibility for broken applications/schemas"... ... Server version: 5.0.67-0ubuntu6 (Ubuntu)... mysql> create table testtable ( xx integer); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Well, I don't use any Windows OS as my desktop system for at least 4 years, but with this is the first time I've been asked by several friends (none of them Linux fanboys) to uninstall that "slow/sluggish Vista" from their brand new laptops, and "PLEASE!" put the good old XP.
Of course I totally reject those requirements because I hate the prospect of losing my entire day dealing with pirated Windows/Office installer CDs, and looking for XP drivers (possibly non existent.)
BTW, my current laptop came with Vista, and for some days I used it exclusively for DVD playback (Ubuntu in other partition for working), until one Dell update totally damaged the nice multimedia application that was in some sort of hidden partition (all that shit designed in order to do a fast "multimedia startup" from power-off and not waiting to the real Vista to wake up!!!) and maybe became confused with the presence of Ubuntu, why knows?. After that "experience" I opted for a total repartition/reformat and got rid of Vista.
> it costs way more to produce a season of shows than it does to create your latest nSync album.
Yes, you're right. But please remember that the "Hollywood costs" are by no way "real costs".
Ok, let me be a bit of idealist for a while. I see the "Hollywood way" the same as doing computing forty years ago: just a number of people have the mediums, and the required equipments are crazy expensive. Their people was a very selected elite winning very high salaries...
Now, like in the computing front, we have cheap digital cameras, cheap or free distribution mediums like youtube; Hollywood discards tons of artists every year just because there is an excess of people that wants to act, sing, direct or write (and not all want to sleep with those producers)... I don't see the need for that hiper-big entertainment industry and their ridiculous costs.
> The problem is how will you discover new content when it is locked up behind something you gotta pay for? Most of the shows I now record I've found by random browsing.
I don't understand the problem here... most people discover new content from recommendations, reading synopsis, marketing, or just "browsing" the corresponding trailers.
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> The mechanisms are in no way economically sustainable.
Yes, and that's why the industry must change (not the other way around): people is not willing to pay more because Angelina Jolie "needs" to win 10 millions per film; directors must look for lower price digital production; F/X people already works with Linux clusters, etc... Like musicians that can win a lot in concerts (with the exception of Pink Floyd, but that's another story), there is a lot to be made in theaters, merchandise, etc. and yes, some good download services at a truly competitive price like the ipods'...
Yeah! good point. That's why all the world (maybe except FOX viewers) see the US attempts to avoid other countries developing nukes as a bully and unmoral action (despite the Muslims-are-evil song)... no, nukes are not good by any measure, but before asking any country to stop nuclear programmees, the asker should destroy or at least lower the potential of their own weapons.
I use BOTH systems for the company web site. Joomla!, lets me create and customize things like menus, download zones, galleries of images, a forum, etc. A link points to our blog implemented in Wordpress. There are blog extensions for Joomla, but WP is IMO better than those.
Joomla is both a CMS and a framework to add powerful extensions, and using just for a blog is overkill. Wordpress is a blog (and of course able to present a simple static web site), but is limited beyond that.
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I suppose it depends on the orientation of the institution imparting the MBA. I have a dozen of friends (yes, a non significant sample) that told me exactly the contrary of what you're saying. They always try to confront people's ideas (in turn, confronting the students and turning them in argumentation/manipulation machines via the infamous "business case method"); about HR, apparently nobody believe in listening the subordinates but just apply the standard "vertical planning" with several degrees of refinement. Their main goal: make money, get ascended.
Exactly.
Practically every friend I have that uses a PC for whatever purpose really hates Windows and the virus mess, the registry/DLL havoc, and its "natural" way of becoming slow as the months pass.
Yet all of them have just one single reason for not migrating: applications! From Autocad to Doom-III, that's the key factor. And forget about the Wine adaptations: they are always at least three years out of the latest versions.
Sadly, nobody seems to be helping (nor is interested in) the software makers to port their windows codebase (no, documenting the nice Linux api's is not enough.)
> including needing administrator privileges to install the plugin
The same happened with to me with an intranet needing flash with machines without internet access. Was a PITA to search for a version of the plugin that doesn't try to auto-update from the web and completely hanging Internet Explorer in its way.
It's a bit ironic, but this is similar to the "can't dump Windows 'cause geek hi-knowledge is needed to install Linux". In both cases the established technology has a silly yet strong advantage.
> Every single time I've upgraded, I've welcomed the upgrade. It was better, snazzier, more stable, etc. all the way up to Fedora Core 9.
Did you forget the the mess with kernel/gcc/libc issues with 7.0???
Yeah... the M$ specific license could just be the arrogance of M$ for not using any other established/competitor's license, and for their lawyers to pass a bigger check because a whole "new license text".
Now, I don't know almost anything about the product being open sourced, but it would only matter if that product could be really usable standalone outside Windows platforms (what is the utility of opening the source code of a single module of a big stack like .NET?): Sadly, most M$ products seem to be unnaturally coupled so their individual "openness" is largely irrelevant.
Ok, assume there are only the Google geniuses. Now, why will be in charge of searching and investigating the events? checking for veracity? analyzing the connections? following suspicious tracks? providing solid editorials? insightful reviews? ... Google???
Yes, yes.... but your database constraints just can access to other data already in the database, not, for example, in the application memory, or a remote system, etc... Of course if all your application is done in stored procedures, your constraints can be more effective.
Now, beyond some arithmetical formulas, constraints are problematic because 1) domain logic code duplication 2) the performance hit.
Of course, constraints are beneficial as any additional check that you can add in your system. But my point is that beyond relational consistence, they can't do much for the correctness of the application data as some DBAs seem to believe.
> Why would I choose use anything else? ... Because a lot of people thinks that foreign key constraints are the best and most important way (after primary keys) to secure the consistency of the application's data.
Of course, that people probably never wrote a dozen of lines of code, so they never realized that the programmer has one thousand of more powerful ways to corrupt all the application data (sadly, databases are not immune to code bugs despite any imaginative constraints.)
BTW, that same people never will understand that there exists some thing called innodb; but to be fair, it is a shame that MySQL yet defaults to the isam (i.e. not enforcing FK) engine.
Almost every week in /. there is an story about the supposed benefits of some weird aspect of gaming.
To me this implies that /. editors feel guilty of loving games because they really know they're damaging their body (tired eyes, overweight, talking incoherences, etc.) so need every possible excuse to continue with the addiction.
Yes. Even in the stores I never saw a "damn fast" vista laptop, compared to the XP ones. And no korean guy involved. The same for my brand new Vostro as just delivered from Dell (now reformated with Ubu... well, that's another story.)
The "downgrade to XP" motto doesn't come from ./ but from frustrated and standard users that feel a sluggish interactivity.
> Let me know when a mobile phone can serve as a CAD workstation, video editing workstation, or other high performance need.
Or as a software packaging test/build repository (like those used for the people that make Linux distros), or as an environment where a kernel hacker fixes drivers on behalf of some Linux distro; or as an art/publishing workstation, like the ones used to design the advertisements of some Linux distros; or for running nice spreadsheets where some distro's CEO get the sales numbers, including a lot of nice 3D-Bars and pie charts.....
I support a software product in a telco, and had talks with its IT managers about the Oracle Linux issue. They have lots of Red Hats but see the Oracle offering interesting (and are implementing it) because:
1) Linux (RedHat or others) are really stable systems (compared with other Unixes they had or have), so the support provider switch is not seen as a dramatic issue
2) They can save some cents without (apparently) giving anything. The RedHat support is little money for that kind of company, but a saving always looks good for the directors
3) They avoid one provider's negotiation as a whole (which is a big win: less paper, less meetings, less vendor talk, less decision process, etc.)
4) They mostly ignore the distributed filesystem issues, and for virtualization just apply the leader (VmWare), so the Xen/KVM/Xen-Oracle discussion is not too relevant
5) BTW, for some diverse reasons, their software providers seem to dislike CentOS (maybe the RedHat's negative marketing made its effect, who knows)
For many (most?) Unix admins, /root is just a nicer way to specify "/ filesystem" or "root filesystem". The path /root for root user's home directory is popular in Linux, but I never saw it in the Unixes I've used (but I don't know if that custom is a Linux invention.)
From my observation, Java Applets and Flash run at similar speeds (indeed, there is no real reason for them to differ.) The single and big problem was the Java Applet startup time that was really BIIIIIG and consumed resources to the point of freezing the PC.
Since many people in the 90's used Applets just for trivial and short animations, that startup time turned to be the principal contributor to the total user experience.
Flash had a lot less ambitions (in the beginning), so their initialization time was as expected (i.e. non detectable.)
ssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... you're feeding the numerologists with brand new "data"!
While I mostly agree with your points, I definitively don't understand why MySQL still creates tables without Foreign Key support, if you don't add the silly "engine=innodb" keyword. Please don't reply with "backward compatibility for broken applications/schemas"...
... ...
Server version: 5.0.67-0ubuntu6 (Ubuntu)
mysql> create table testtable ( xx integer);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> show create table testtable; ...CREATE TABLE testtable( ...
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 |
Well, I don't use any Windows OS as my desktop system for at least 4 years, but with this is the first time I've been asked by several friends (none of them Linux fanboys) to uninstall that "slow/sluggish Vista" from their brand new laptops, and "PLEASE!" put the good old XP.
Of course I totally reject those requirements because I hate the prospect of losing my entire day dealing with pirated Windows/Office installer CDs, and looking for XP drivers (possibly non existent.)
BTW, my current laptop came with Vista, and for some days I used it exclusively for DVD playback (Ubuntu in other partition for working), until one Dell update totally damaged the nice multimedia application that was in some sort of hidden partition (all that shit designed in order to do a fast "multimedia startup" from power-off and not waiting to the real Vista to wake up!!!) and maybe became confused with the presence of Ubuntu, why knows?. After that "experience" I opted for a total repartition/reformat and got rid of Vista.
> It boots faster on my 5 year old laptop than XP ever did.
That's because it is no longer able to recognize the 50% of that laptop's hardware... no probes -> less startup time!
> it costs way more to produce a season of shows than it does to create your latest nSync album.
Yes, you're right. But please remember that the "Hollywood costs" are by no way "real costs".
Ok, let me be a bit of idealist for a while. I see the "Hollywood way" the same as doing computing forty years ago: just a number of people have the mediums, and the required equipments are crazy expensive. Their people was a very selected elite winning very high salaries...
Now, like in the computing front, we have cheap digital cameras, cheap or free distribution mediums like youtube; Hollywood discards tons of artists every year just because there is an excess of people that wants to act, sing, direct or write (and not all want to sleep with those producers)... I don't see the need for that hiper-big entertainment industry and their ridiculous costs.
> The problem is how will you discover new content when it is locked up behind something you gotta pay for? Most of the shows I now record I've found by random browsing.
I don't understand the problem here... most people discover new content from recommendations, reading synopsis, marketing, or just "browsing" the corresponding trailers.
> The mechanisms are in no way economically sustainable.
Yes, and that's why the industry must change (not the other way around): people is not willing to pay more because Angelina Jolie "needs" to win 10 millions per film; directors must look for lower price digital production; F/X people already works with Linux clusters, etc... Like musicians that can win a lot in concerts (with the exception of Pink Floyd, but that's another story), there is a lot to be made in theaters, merchandise, etc. and yes, some good download services at a truly competitive price like the ipods'...
> Alas, that is how lawyers make their millions and become parasites of the system in some ways, but do good things for many people in other ways.
Yes, they do some good things: they defend the people against your former parasites. In the end, both kinds of lawyers get millionaires.
Yeah! good point. That's why all the world (maybe except FOX viewers) see the US attempts to avoid other countries developing nukes as a bully and unmoral action (despite the Muslims-are-evil song)... no, nukes are not good by any measure, but before asking any country to stop nuclear programmees, the asker should destroy or at least lower the potential of their own weapons.
I use BOTH systems for the company web site. Joomla!, lets me create and customize things like menus, download zones, galleries of images, a forum, etc. A link points to our blog implemented in Wordpress. There are blog extensions for Joomla, but WP is IMO better than those.
Joomla is both a CMS and a framework to add powerful extensions, and using just for a blog is overkill. Wordpress is a blog (and of course able to present a simple static web site), but is limited beyond that.
Note also that there are many Joomla extensions in order to let other projects being integrated in the Joomla framework. See for example:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-&-news/blog/6659/details (integrate WP with Joomla)
It's pretty obvious that Joomla will have a larger learning curve so the comparison is really pointless.
... And because not everyone in the world loves to develop in Windows environments.
Thanks... The alt+f7 indeed works, but not far upside... I'll try to deactivate Compiz on other machine and try again later.