That being said, it turned out a major bug was in the new release and the on-call support engineer had run a baseline test, but couldn't put the results in context with the new reality introduced by this new bug.
is probably just an idiot. I mean, that reeks of MBA.
That's exactly backward. Those constraints should be on by default and only disabled by the admin running it with --enable-toy-db. It's kind of amazing that a popular database in 2008 still defaults to dangerous behavior.
Again, no! What should MySQL do in order for you to stop thinking that?
Change their policy. That page you linked to had nothing but an exception for non-GPL Free Software projects to use MySQL. That's completely and utterly uninteresting for commercial or non-Free software.
Sure you can, just don't distribute the software. Every commercial case listed in the license above describes distributing MySQL in whole or part.
...including the client libraries. This makes MySQL the only major database restricting commercial developers. I've actually looked up the licensing for DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server, and each of them allows linking and distribution of their connectors. PostgreSQL, being BSD licensed, and SQLite, being public domain, of course allow that as well.
Nothing non-obvious? So then you thought of it first? Wow! Oh wait - you didn't?! Then sit down and shut up.
Yeah, I did. Well, not me personally but the guys I went to college with in the mid 90s. They had cable fed into TV tuners and streaming to drives, controlled automatically by TV listens off the Internet. This was an obvious convergence of 1) TV tuner cards, 2) fast-enough processing at affordable prices, and 3) cheap-enough storage. TiVo came along and boxed it all up, then patented what other people had already been doing.
TiVo did nothing non-obvious. Their main "innovation" was being the first to widely market an idea that had just recently become feasible, but didn't offer anything I hadn't already seen people doing with TV tuner cards. Screw them for trying to own an entire industry through coercion.
I will never voluntarily give them a penny. They got greedy and burned their bridges. In 5 years when TiVo is out of business, they're going to look around pitifully trying to figure out how this could have happened, unable to realize they brought it upon themselves.
Hate taxes all you want, but hate them fairly, not just those on your local small businesses. If e-commerce continues to grow, and is not taxed equitably with other businesses, this becomes a tax break for the big internet based merchants, and they need it the least.
They are being taxed equitably, considering that Amazon receives no services from NY. If the street in front of their office gets potholes, do they call the NY Streets Department? Does NYFD give them fire protection? Does 911 trigger the arrival of New York's Finest? Local business pay local taxes because they receive local benefits.
Ubuntu is not the way to go. It is made for people who don't want to mess around and do technical things.
...and for people who could install LFS without any problems but have better things to do with their time than screwing around with their installation.
Your argument basically boils down to "it's not Windows!" Yes, we know that. The only thing that Windows is objectively better it is, well, being Windows.
By the way, that whole dumb "application compatibility" thing works both directions. I cannot (currently) run most KDE apps on Windows, so it's pretty much useless to me. A desktop OS that doesn't directly support Amarok or Kmail without jumping through a bunch of hoops? What a joke!
What says his "desktop speaker pair" are worse than your 2.1 desktop speakers? May be similair stuff. And your $100 worth of desktop speakers probably don't sound very good at all,
Google for Aura Aspect 20/40. Trust me: mine are better.
And. what. should. he. have. done. about. it? It looks as though he turned around at the first possible chance, which turns out to have been their driveway.
To not realize that you were on someones driveway once the road turned from gravel to concrete would require that you're too stupid to walk or drive. Look at the freaking pictures!
I looked at the freaking pictures. The point some of you keep missing is that in many places those road surface transitions are completely meaningless. Gravel -> concrete only means that someone petitioned the local gov't to pave that part of the public road. It has no correlation whatsoever with the legal status of that road.
OK, maybe that's different wherever you're from. Great. That doesn't change the fact that many of us live in places where we wouldn't have thought twice about such things because they're all over the place.
So: switch on your office lights, play around with the positioning of screen and lights until you don't see specularities, and then switch to dark on light background. Your eyes will thank you for it!
I'm a fan of science over sophistry, so let's try it.
Question: Does working in bright lights give JSG headaches?
Yes, it seems to.
I hypothesize that staring at a monitor under bright lights gives JSG headaches.
The lights are off. JSG does not have a headache. I turn the lights on. JSG gets a headache. I turn the lights off. The headache goes away.
I observe a correlation between a lit office and JSG having a headache.
I conclude that working in a lit office gives JSG headaches.
I announce this to Slashdot.
I perform the same experiment many times over the years, but usually only publish when someone claims that lit office are actually less headache-inducing and offers convincing reasons why this may be. Other scientists also perform the same experiment, many with similar results.
To put it another way, while what you're saying makes perfect sense, it doesn't change the fact that it's not in the slightest bit true for me.
I have a desktop speaker pair and thats all I want and need.
Ouch. I'm not an audiophile by any means, but that would drive me to drink. I have a nice set of Aura Aspect 20/40 speakers (with under-the-desk subwoofer). They sound better than most home theaters I've been around, but only cost about $100 or so when I bought them. I like to code to music - for some reason, The Crystal Method's "Vegas" just makes the LOC flow - and they're the difference between hearing a symphony live versus over the phone.
They're also plugged into the speaker outs of whatever an iMac comes with. See? I'm really not that picky. I just can't stand the horrible sound of your average desktop speakers. Do yourself a favor and go buy some good-sounding gear. You don't have to pay an arm and a leg for decent stuff.
Do the gravel lanes in your city have a mailbox next to them as well?
Some, yes. OK, let me put this another way: because of the way streets are where I live, if I were driving the Google van, I very likely would have made the same mistake they did. There were no universally understandable indicators that this was a private drive and not a public road, particularly since the local government had said that it was a public road.
I'd personally be pretty peeved if this happened to me, but at the same time I can see how a reasonably intelligent person could do what Google did.
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All that's true, but anyone who says things like:
That being said, it turned out a major bug was in the new release and the on-call support engineer had run a baseline test, but couldn't put the results in context with the new reality introduced by this new bug.is probably just an idiot. I mean, that reeks of MBA.
That's exactly backward. Those constraints should be on by default and only disabled by the admin running it with --enable-toy-db. It's kind of amazing that a popular database in 2008 still defaults to dangerous behavior.
Change their policy. That page you linked to had nothing but an exception for non-GPL Free Software projects to use MySQL. That's completely and utterly uninteresting for commercial or non-Free software.
...including the client libraries. This makes MySQL the only major database restricting commercial developers. I've actually looked up the licensing for DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server, and each of them allows linking and distribution of their connectors. PostgreSQL, being BSD licensed, and SQLite, being public domain, of course allow that as well.
They are? So you can write non-GPL software with a MySQL backend now? Great!
$ cat /dev/video > /var/spool/movie.mpeg&; xanim /var/spool/movie.mpeg
Excuse me while I run out and file for a patent.
Yeah, I did. Well, not me personally but the guys I went to college with in the mid 90s. They had cable fed into TV tuners and streaming to drives, controlled automatically by TV listens off the Internet. This was an obvious convergence of 1) TV tuner cards, 2) fast-enough processing at affordable prices, and 3) cheap-enough storage. TiVo came along and boxed it all up, then patented what other people had already been doing.
TiVo did nothing non-obvious. Their main "innovation" was being the first to widely market an idea that had just recently become feasible, but didn't offer anything I hadn't already seen people doing with TV tuner cards. Screw them for trying to own an entire industry through coercion.
I will never voluntarily give them a penny. They got greedy and burned their bridges. In 5 years when TiVo is out of business, they're going to look around pitifully trying to figure out how this could have happened, unable to realize they brought it upon themselves.
They are being taxed equitably, considering that Amazon receives no services from NY. If the street in front of their office gets potholes, do they call the NY Streets Department? Does NYFD give them fire protection? Does 911 trigger the arrival of New York's Finest? Local business pay local taxes because they receive local benefits.
Is it wrong for me to hope that a meteorite falls on that courtroom and takes out both parties (but spares everyone else)?
Ah, OK. I see the point being made. Even before, I wasn't disagreeing that this whole this is preposterous.
...and for people who could install LFS without any problems but have better things to do with their time than screwing around with their installation.
Your argument basically boils down to "it's not Windows!" Yes, we know that. The only thing that Windows is objectively better it is, well, being Windows.
By the way, that whole dumb "application compatibility" thing works both directions. I cannot (currently) run most KDE apps on Windows, so it's pretty much useless to me. A desktop OS that doesn't directly support Amarok or Kmail without jumping through a bunch of hoops? What a joke!
Presumably, the benefit of having it a week before everyone else.
Everything else you said is dead on, of course.
Google for Aura Aspect 20/40. Trust me: mine are better.
That's exactly it for me. I have a nice incandescent floor lamp for when I need a bit of light, and it does drive me to distraction.
And. what. should. he. have. done. about. it? It looks as though he turned around at the first possible chance, which turns out to have been their driveway.
I looked at the freaking pictures. The point some of you keep missing is that in many places those road surface transitions are completely meaningless. Gravel -> concrete only means that someone petitioned the local gov't to pave that part of the public road. It has no correlation whatsoever with the legal status of that road.
OK, maybe that's different wherever you're from. Great. That doesn't change the fact that many of us live in places where we wouldn't have thought twice about such things because they're all over the place.
I'm a fan of science over sophistry, so let's try it.
To put it another way, while what you're saying makes perfect sense, it doesn't change the fact that it's not in the slightest bit true for me.
Yes, I also sometimes read Wired.
Fair enough. I'm just not anywhere quiet enough to get real silence, so I cover it with something I can zone out on.
Ouch. I'm not an audiophile by any means, but that would drive me to drink. I have a nice set of Aura Aspect 20/40 speakers (with under-the-desk subwoofer). They sound better than most home theaters I've been around, but only cost about $100 or so when I bought them. I like to code to music - for some reason, The Crystal Method's "Vegas" just makes the LOC flow - and they're the difference between hearing a symphony live versus over the phone.
They're also plugged into the speaker outs of whatever an iMac comes with. See? I'm really not that picky. I just can't stand the horrible sound of your average desktop speakers. Do yourself a favor and go buy some good-sounding gear. You don't have to pay an arm and a leg for decent stuff.
Some, yes. OK, let me put this another way: because of the way streets are where I live, if I were driving the Google van, I very likely would have made the same mistake they did. There were no universally understandable indicators that this was a private drive and not a public road, particularly since the local government had said that it was a public road.
I'd personally be pretty peeved if this happened to me, but at the same time I can see how a reasonably intelligent person could do what Google did.
But it should give legal protection to people who go by the official government documents until they have been corrected.
This morning. Many of the local roads are asphalt. Many others are concrete. Some are gravel, particularly alleys but including some "real" roads.