Your reply, like the suggestions on the postgres site, are based on the assumption that my users are comfortable with sql and that thousands of screens and reports and queries can be re-written just to do case-insensative sorts.
You make assumptions that the PostgreSQL folks or myself have an opinion on your usage. I don't, and I assume that they don't.
You never answered whether MS-SQL is following the SQL standard or not, and the fault really is as simple as that: if MS-SQL is correct, then PostgreSQL is wrong. If it is not, then you cannot blame PostgreSQL for not emulating MS's broken implementation. So, which which is it?
I recently discovered, much to my delight, that the Montessori school in my district is taxpayer supported - I can send my kids there for no additional cost. I know where they're going next year...
I'm constantly running into cashiers who cannot make change without their cash register,
My favorite:
Cashier: That'll be $7.17.
Me: Here you go. (hands over $12.27 - a ten, two ones, a quarter, and two pennies.
Cashier: Ummm, you gave me too much money.
Me: That's OK. (stands there expectantly)
Cashier: (giving up and typing $12.27 into the register and realizing that I refactored my change from $2.83 to a $5 bill and a dime) Oh....
People are shocked to find that some other people do arithmetic in their head, without a calculator or anything!
All it takes is for a handful of people to respond to a spam with a purchase in order to make it worth it to spam,
I keep hearing that, but I don't think it's true for the most part. I doubt that the spammers themselves are profiting from sales any more than your typical advertising agency gets a percentage of the profits from products they promote.
No, spammers sell spam. They convince dense business owners that UCE is a great way to advertise on the cheap. Once they have that money, I don't think they could care less if the businessman makes a single penny.
What I really want to know is this: why would a business owner believe for a second that they've found the one honest, legitimate spammer in the world who acts ethically and really delivers what they've promised?
As long as idiots keep hiring these losers, we'll continue to have spammers, regardless of whether anyone buys their stuff.
If Postgres is so clever, why can't i do sort orders and case-insensative searches without using functions of some sort or other workarounds? MS SQL server can store the data in case-insensative order, why can't postgresql?
First, is that part of the SQL standard, or something that Microsoft tacked on as per usual? I'm not asking facetiously: I really want to know. In other words, is PostgreSQL deficient, or is MS-SQL non-compliant?
Second, is this really so difficult:
kanga=# select * from test; rowid | rowvalue -------+---------- 1 | a 2 | B 3 | D 4 | c (4 rows)
kanga=# select * from test order by rowvalue; rowid | rowvalue -------+---------- 2 | B 3 | D 1 | a 4 | c (4 rows)
kanga=# select * from test order by lower(rowvalue); rowid | rowvalue -------+---------- 1 | a 2 | B 4 | c 3 | D (4 rows)
OK, now that we've demonstrated that it's trivially easy to do case-insensitive sorting, let's ask the inverse: how easy is it to do case-sensitive sorting on MS-SQL? I'm not an expert, but several Google results seem to indicate that it's not very easy.
In other words, do you think that it's easier to discard unwanted information or to write code to create needed information? I choose the former, and apparently the PostgreSQL folks did, too.
What I admire about the Postgres team is that they focus on standards first and speed second. Smart, because eventually speed catches up (through code optimization or just over time through hardware)
There's nothing as gratifying when working on a project as realizing that you've built such a solid, engineered solution that you can throw out five layers of error checking that test for conditions that you can rigorously prove cannot exist. Those are the sorts of speedups that PostgreSQL has been undergoing, and even if I didn't like PostgreSQL as a product, I would certainly commend their design team for such excellent work.
No. There's no "get over it". RH6 came out in, what, February '99? How can you gloss over that so easily? Would you also hate MSSQL because it doesn't install or run well on NT4?
Within reasonable limits, PostgreSQL is as easy to install and configure as MySQL. Yours were not reasonable limits.
Selective Draft Law Cases, 245 U.S. 366 (1918). The Court's
analysis, in full, of the Thirteenth Amendment issue raised by a
compulsory military draft was the following: ``As we are unable to
conceive upon what theory the exaction by government from the citizen of
the performance of his supreme and noble duty of contributing to the
defense of the rights and honor of the nation, as the result of a war
declared by the great representative body of the people, can be said to
be the imposition of involuntary servitude in violation of the
prohibitions of the Thirteenth Amendment, we are constrained to the
conclusion that the contention to that effect is refuted by its mere
statement.''
Think as you like; the Supreme Court explicitly disagrees with you.
Save the self righteousness for someone who will be impressed by it.
Pot... kettle... black...
I'm not in favor of a draft and have never implied as much. However, I do think its ludicrous, insulting, and demeaning to compare conscripted service to one's own country to forced slavery.
Slavery doesn't pay several times minimum wage, provide full benefits, offer social esteem, or provide a trained career path. You may not enjoy every moment of it, but military service is a far cry from slavery.
The best website design houses are staffed not with computer programmers, but with folks with degrees in art.
No. The best houses are staffed by artists and technical types that can render the artists' vision in standard-compliant glory. The worst houses are the ones filled with brilliant artists who can't be made to understand the realities of the web as a medium, and who crank out design after design that is absolutely beautiful on IE 6 at 1024x768 but looks like a top-right-corner blob on Mozilla at high resolutions.
An artist's eye is very important for developing an aesthetically pleasing site, but a technician's touch is absolutely critical if you want the whole world to be able to use it. This isn't a slam on artists; to the contrary, I'm a good technical designer, but my sites are specification-perfect yet boring. I just want to reinforce the idea that you need both types of skills to make good looking, functional sites. An artist or a technician alone will only get you halfway there.
I think it is funny how many people are obsessed with the volcanic activity in Yellowstone but completely ignore the Long Valley Caldera.
It's not that we ignore it, but that we've been promised that California would be destroyed before (remember all of the earthquake movies in the '70s). If the rest of us really thought that this time it was for real, we'd start ordering Pay-Per-View and buying tickets to the event, but who wants to be disappointed again by a non-starter?
Prove that we'll be rid of California once and for all and we'll start paying attention. Until then, Yellowstone is pretty spiffy.
I bought a Leatherman Wave a few years ago and still carry it with me daily. I don't know about their other models, but this one opens exactly as you describe, and has rounded edges so you can actually apply pressure without it digging into your hand. Basically, none of the complaints you mentioned are true for it.
OK, I don't actually have a CIO, but that's to illustrate my point. I'd say that the majority of people using wireless in the first place do have usage policies in place, and I imagine that the bulk of those require WEP to join the WLAN.
Barely. I'd pine for the closed NVidia driver if I were a gamer (I still wouldn't use it, but I'd at least be tempted). For 2d stuff, XFree's 'nv' driver is fast, rock solid, and works out of the box - and it's Free.
Closed source drivers are evil, and are in fact what triggered RMS to begin the Free Software movement. They encourage complacency while giving nothing.
No. A POTS line has 64000bps of bandwidth (minus 8000bps for signalling). That is the maximum number of bits you can push across the connection per second.
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I hereby propose "scrupulessly", connoting "with scruples" and denoting "without scruples". It would seem to apply well to the examples you mention.
You make assumptions that the PostgreSQL folks or myself have an opinion on your usage. I don't, and I assume that they don't.
You never answered whether MS-SQL is following the SQL standard or not, and the fault really is as simple as that: if MS-SQL is correct, then PostgreSQL is wrong. If it is not, then you cannot blame PostgreSQL for not emulating MS's broken implementation. So, which which is it?
Never underestimate the power of a creative social leper.
I recently discovered, much to my delight, that the Montessori school in my district is taxpayer supported - I can send my kids there for no additional cost. I know where they're going next year...
My favorite:
Cashier: That'll be $7.17.
Me: Here you go. (hands over $12.27 - a ten, two ones, a quarter, and two pennies.
Cashier: Ummm, you gave me too much money.
Me: That's OK. (stands there expectantly)
Cashier: (giving up and typing $12.27 into the register and realizing that I refactored my change from $2.83 to a $5 bill and a dime) Oh....
People are shocked to find that some other people do arithmetic in their head, without a calculator or anything!
I keep hearing that, but I don't think it's true for the most part. I doubt that the spammers themselves are profiting from sales any more than your typical advertising agency gets a percentage of the profits from products they promote.
No, spammers sell spam. They convince dense business owners that UCE is a great way to advertise on the cheap. Once they have that money, I don't think they could care less if the businessman makes a single penny.
What I really want to know is this: why would a business owner believe for a second that they've found the one honest, legitimate spammer in the world who acts ethically and really delivers what they've promised?
As long as idiots keep hiring these losers, we'll continue to have spammers, regardless of whether anyone buys their stuff.
First, is that part of the SQL standard, or something that Microsoft tacked on as per usual? I'm not asking facetiously: I really want to know. In other words, is PostgreSQL deficient, or is MS-SQL non-compliant?
Second, is this really so difficult:
OK, now that we've demonstrated that it's trivially easy to do case-insensitive sorting, let's ask the inverse: how easy is it to do case-sensitive sorting on MS-SQL? I'm not an expert, but several Google results seem to indicate that it's not very easy.
In other words, do you think that it's easier to discard unwanted information or to write code to create needed information? I choose the former, and apparently the PostgreSQL folks did, too.
There's nothing as gratifying when working on a project as realizing that you've built such a solid, engineered solution that you can throw out five layers of error checking that test for conditions that you can rigorously prove cannot exist. Those are the sorts of speedups that PostgreSQL has been undergoing, and even if I didn't like PostgreSQL as a product, I would certainly commend their design team for such excellent work.
No. There's no "get over it". RH6 came out in, what, February '99? How can you gloss over that so easily? Would you also hate MSSQL because it doesn't install or run well on NT4?
Within reasonable limits, PostgreSQL is as easy to install and configure as MySQL. Yours were not reasonable limits.
Think as you like; the Supreme Court explicitly disagrees with you.
Pot... kettle... black...
I'm not in favor of a draft and have never implied as much. However, I do think its ludicrous, insulting, and demeaning to compare conscripted service to one's own country to forced slavery.
Enough said. :)
Slavery doesn't pay several times minimum wage, provide full benefits, offer social esteem, or provide a trained career path. You may not enjoy every moment of it, but military service is a far cry from slavery.
No. The best houses are staffed by artists and technical types that can render the artists' vision in standard-compliant glory. The worst houses are the ones filled with brilliant artists who can't be made to understand the realities of the web as a medium, and who crank out design after design that is absolutely beautiful on IE 6 at 1024x768 but looks like a top-right-corner blob on Mozilla at high resolutions.
An artist's eye is very important for developing an aesthetically pleasing site, but a technician's touch is absolutely critical if you want the whole world to be able to use it. This isn't a slam on artists; to the contrary, I'm a good technical designer, but my sites are specification-perfect yet boring. I just want to reinforce the idea that you need both types of skills to make good looking, functional sites. An artist or a technician alone will only get you halfway there.
Thanks much - that worked perfectly!
Thanks. I was trying to be funny. If I were aiming for flamebait, I'd probably get "Insightful".
"Here's me with me new boyfriend."
"Here's us again, having sex."
"Boy, we're rabbits, aren't we?"
"Here's your picture, torn in two."
"Here's me burning the stuffed animal you gave me."
"Here's us having sex again."
...
It's not that we ignore it, but that we've been promised that California would be destroyed before (remember all of the earthquake movies in the '70s). If the rest of us really thought that this time it was for real, we'd start ordering Pay-Per-View and buying tickets to the event, but who wants to be disappointed again by a non-starter?
Prove that we'll be rid of California once and for all and we'll start paying attention. Until then, Yellowstone is pretty spiffy.
I bought a Leatherman Wave a few years ago and still carry it with me daily. I don't know about their other models, but this one opens exactly as you describe, and has rounded edges so you can actually apply pressure without it digging into your hand. Basically, none of the complaints you mentioned are true for it.
Ok, I opened a xterm and hit backspace. What am I supposed to be seeing?
Using WEP as the sole security on your WLAN is bad. Using it as an additional layer of security is perfectly reasonable and recommended.
OK, I don't actually have a CIO, but that's to illustrate my point. I'd say that the majority of people using wireless in the first place do have usage policies in place, and I imagine that the bulk of those require WEP to join the WLAN.
Closed source drivers are evil, and are in fact what triggered RMS to begin the Free Software movement. They encourage complacency while giving nothing.
No. A POTS line has 64000bps of bandwidth (minus 8000bps for signalling). That is the maximum number of bits you can push across the connection per second.
So can a Commodore 64, but I won't call that the pinnacle of OS design.