I've seen nothing in Drizzle that was so compelling that it's worth going through and recertifying a whole stack of apps. In fact, I've seen nothing compelling in Drizzle at all. "Hey, we ripped out a bunch of features and we're not Oracle!" Great. I'm trying to get real work done over here. The protest march is the next street over.
Generally I would support open source projects, but it's time to move on from MySQL. The project took wrong direction many years ago. If you go with Oracle, go with the old enterprise database solutions. If you don't exactly care about the license, go with Microsoft Access. They both are way better than MySQL and dealing with its problems.
What on earth are you talking about?
MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft Access all target completely different markets. Access and MySQL are not even the same kind of software.
Screw those asshats at oracle who have the nerve to package up rhel and call it their own. Even worse their idiot sales reps go around promoting it as the only thing that will run their db. All they contribute to open source is FUD.
They don't say that. You can run Oacle on RHEL or SUSE just fine and it's supported.
So screw those asshats who post FUD as AC on Slashdot...
So...just because Japan followed a certain route, that means China must as well? Wow, that is incredibly racist. Those yellow slants all look alike, eh?
No, because one developing nation that set out to develop its industrial base by exporting consumer goods to North America has already paved the trail and the next developing nation that is trying to develop its industrial base by exporting consumer goods to North America is probably going to follow a similar path. That was the poster's point, and only you saw anything racist in it.
How can you possibly walk, staggering under the weight of that giant chip on your shoulder?
Erdos offered many prizes for the solution of problems that he thought were difficult or out of reach of the mathematics of his time. These prizes were sometimes huge, worth tens or even hundreds of thousands of US dollars in today's money.
Erdos used to joke that he would get in trouble for violating minimum wage laws.
Too bad he didn't put that $500 in some kind of long-term savings instrument. $500 in 1935 at 5% compounded annually = $20,387.16 in 2011.
If you believe the stock market truly compounds at 10.5% annually over the long haul, then $500 in 1936 at 10.5% compounded annually = $987,422.76 in 2011.
Of course, he could have just waited a few years and bought 5,000 copies of Superman's first appearance in Action #1 and encased them in argon.
From a lot of recent articles I've been reading, Fantasy Books are now king while interest in science-based fiction is almost null.
I think that's always been true, largely because fantasy is much easier to write.
I know...throw stones...but it's true. Subtract the general difficulty of crafting a good, engrossing story - that's constant. What's left? Fantasy world building where you can make up any rules you want ("magic") vs. fantasy world building where the rules have to be plausible extensions of our modern world ("science fiction"). Guess which one is harder...
Which is the more dangerous phase for the Space Shuttle (where "more dangerous" means "likely to blow up"): taking off or returning?
So far it's 1 for takeoff (Columbia) and 1 for returning (Challenger).
I wonder also what the general answer is for all manned spaceflight (at current technology)...big rocket filled with explosives shooting into the air, or coming back through reentry...
You know, I'm really tired of people who obviously don't write code saying crap like this. Fixing a subtle deadlock could quite realistically take a month. First, you need to figure out really why it happens. Then you need to figure out the CORRECT way to fix it, then you need to implement the fix, then you need to TEST the thing to make sure you didn't introduce anything ELSE that could cause a problem. If the bug was in an easy area of code, chances are it would have been found and fixed a long time ago. BIND has been around a long, long time. Anything left in there now is, by definition, hard to find and hard to fix. Look folks, security bugs happen BECAUSE people whip out code without thinking and without testing. Now you ask for them to do exactly that? You need to get a grip on reality.
Just as you need to get a grip on your CAPS LOCK key.
There are several full arcades within 30 minutes' drive of me, and that time is only because they're spread out over a large metropolitan area (Portland, Oregon). One of them I could easily bike to. Those are free-standing arcades. If you are willing to count arcades inside other entertainment (e.g., that have climbing areas for kids, etc.) then the number doubles.
Each has a hundred-odd machines.
I know the same is true in many other cities.
I will say that most of the arcades today are the "win tickets, trade for cheap prizes" sort. Most of the ones I've visited are 60-70% ticket-generating and the rest standard video games.
Your statement confuses me. I work at a Fortune 500 company that has a lot of Oracle DB software. Oracle is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago from a relationship standpoint.
I understand lots of ex-Sun people are pissed. I don't personally know about that so I can't comment. But as far as the Oracle DB side of things, nothing has really changed.
Not even security patches. That means that Solaris is essentially dead for a non-commercial use. There isn't even OpenSolaris to keep those admins in the fold.
Yes, gosh, Solaris is just like HP-UX and AIX now.
There won't be any supporters to bring Solaris into new environments. I've been running Solaris machines at home for 15 years. I have been happy having a slightly non-mainstream server even if it was a little less convenient than a Linux box. Now I have no choice. I have to replace the Solaris machine with something I keep secure.
And honestly Oracle doesn't care. They don't make any money providing free patches so some guy can run old Sparc gear he bought on eBay at home.
Turns out Sun couldn't make any money providing free Solaris patches either. Which is why...
Oracle is just behaving like the other major commercial Unix vendors.
Everyone's been making a killing doing that, well before the Oracle purchase. I can't think anyone has bought Sun gear as their go-forward standard for many years.
Which doesn't change the fact that PHP is more widely used on the web than Java.
That may be true but you sure didn't prove it here.
Pretty much every web hosting project offers a basic LAMP or WAMP stack. Java? Not so much.
I agree, especially Google's App Engine which...oh wait.
Anyway, your point is that for cheap web hosting PHP is more common and that PHP rules the least common denominator of web sites. Tell us something we didn't know.
The same goes for available software. Compare the number of open-source web frameworks and content management systems available for the two languages. Java is barely a blip. PHP is everywhere, and python and ruby are follow-ups.
Great! But the relevance is, s you like to say, "not so much" to your argument.
If you measure by number of.php pages out there, yes, there's more PHP on the net than Java. If you measure by bajillions of web pages served, it's probably the inverse. If you measure by number of financial transactions (banks, etc.) where web users hit Java vs. PHP, it's a divide by zero error.
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I've seen nothing in Drizzle that was so compelling that it's worth going through and recertifying a whole stack of apps. In fact, I've seen nothing compelling in Drizzle at all. "Hey, we ripped out a bunch of features and we're not Oracle!" Great. I'm trying to get real work done over here. The protest march is the next street over.
Generally I would support open source projects, but it's time to move on from MySQL. The project took wrong direction many years ago. If you go with Oracle, go with the old enterprise database solutions. If you don't exactly care about the license, go with Microsoft Access. They both are way better than MySQL and dealing with its problems.
What on earth are you talking about?
MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft Access all target completely different markets. Access and MySQL are not even the same kind of software.
Screw those asshats at oracle who have the nerve to package up rhel and call it their own. Even worse their idiot sales reps go around promoting it as the only thing that will run their db. All they contribute to open source is FUD.
They don't say that. You can run Oacle on RHEL or SUSE just fine and it's supported.
So screw those asshats who post FUD as AC on Slashdot...
So...just because Japan followed a certain route, that means China must as well? Wow, that is incredibly racist. Those yellow slants all look alike, eh?
No, because one developing nation that set out to develop its industrial base by exporting consumer goods to North America has already paved the trail and the next developing nation that is trying to develop its industrial base by exporting consumer goods to North America is probably going to follow a similar path. That was the poster's point, and only you saw anything racist in it.
How can you possibly walk, staggering under the weight of that giant chip on your shoulder?
So far it's 1 for takeoff (Columbia) and 1 for returning (Challenger)
I believe you have those switched.
Yes. Sorry.
Erdos offered many prizes for the solution of problems that he thought were difficult or out of reach of the mathematics of his time. These prizes were sometimes huge, worth tens or even hundreds of thousands of US dollars in today's money.
Erdos used to joke that he would get in trouble for violating minimum wage laws.
Too bad he didn't put that $500 in some kind of long-term savings instrument. $500 in 1935 at 5% compounded annually = $20,387.16 in 2011.
If you believe the stock market truly compounds at 10.5% annually over the long haul, then $500 in 1936 at 10.5% compounded annually = $987,422.76 in 2011.
Of course, he could have just waited a few years and bought 5,000 copies of Superman's first appearance in Action #1 and encased them in argon.
From a lot of recent articles I've been reading, Fantasy Books are now king while interest in science-based fiction is almost null.
I think that's always been true, largely because fantasy is much easier to write.
I know...throw stones...but it's true. Subtract the general difficulty of crafting a good, engrossing story - that's constant. What's left? Fantasy world building where you can make up any rules you want ("magic") vs. fantasy world building where the rules have to be plausible extensions of our modern world ("science fiction"). Guess which one is harder...
Which is the more dangerous phase for the Space Shuttle (where "more dangerous" means "likely to blow up"): taking off or returning?
So far it's 1 for takeoff (Columbia) and 1 for returning (Challenger).
I wonder also what the general answer is for all manned spaceflight (at current technology)...big rocket filled with explosives shooting into the air, or coming back through reentry...
You know, I'm really tired of people who obviously don't write code saying crap like this. Fixing a subtle deadlock could quite realistically take a month. First, you need to figure out really why it happens. Then you need to figure out the CORRECT way to fix it, then you need to implement the fix, then you need to TEST the thing to make sure you didn't introduce anything ELSE that could cause a problem. If the bug was in an easy area of code, chances are it would have been found and fixed a long time ago. BIND has been around a long, long time. Anything left in there now is, by definition, hard to find and hard to fix. Look folks, security bugs happen BECAUSE people whip out code without thinking and without testing. Now you ask for them to do exactly that? You need to get a grip on reality.
Just as you need to get a grip on your CAPS LOCK key.
So, the screens and cabinet and such...were they HUGE? I couldn't tell from your post.
They used to be, perhaps.
There are several full arcades within 30 minutes' drive of me, and that time is only because they're spread out over a large metropolitan area (Portland, Oregon). One of them I could easily bike to. Those are free-standing arcades. If you are willing to count arcades inside other entertainment (e.g., that have climbing areas for kids, etc.) then the number doubles.
Each has a hundred-odd machines.
I know the same is true in many other cities.
I will say that most of the arcades today are the "win tickets, trade for cheap prizes" sort. Most of the ones I've visited are 60-70% ticket-generating and the rest standard video games.
Anyone else remember, a few years ago, how there were web sites that offered, for something like $50, a copy of OpenOffice?
Yeah, they were calling it "Star Office" or something like that.
Therefore, market cap is NOT nearly meaningless.
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but I SERIOUSLY doubt
Whoa...like..SERIOUSLY?
When you put it in all caps like that, the rest of us really sit up and take notice.
I mean, you're not just doubting it, you're SERIOUSLY doubting it.
Whoa.
They say there's no devil...
This is not a myth I had heard before.
+1. This article should be held up as a perfect example of building a strawman.
"It's a persistent myth that some natural phenomena travel faster than the speed of light, but at least one physicist says it's impossible..."
"It's a persistent myth that calling free() after malloc() is unnecessary, but some software engineers disagree..."
"It's a persistent myth that only the beating of tom-toms restores the sun after an eclipse. But is that really true?"
I used it. WinMo 5 and 6. They were garbage. Painful garbage.
See, I'm an end-user, not someone who "leverages existing code written against the Win32API". Like 99.9% of phone owners...
Apple does not make a sub 200$ phone.
They make several.
Its called a straw man.
Set up false claims then demolish them in a fit of peek.
It's easy to POKE holes in your argument...
Who the Fuck is Steven Vaughan-Nichols?
I have run Debian based systems for a very long time. Mepis, Mint, Kubuntu, and on and on. On my server, it's just pure straight stable Debian.
And just who are you? Why should we care what you run? Or about the fascinating history of your personal odyssey through Linux distributions?
Your statement confuses me. I work at a Fortune 500 company that has a lot of Oracle DB software. Oracle is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago from a relationship standpoint.
I understand lots of ex-Sun people are pissed. I don't personally know about that so I can't comment. But as far as the Oracle DB side of things, nothing has really changed.
Not even security patches. That means that Solaris is essentially dead for a non-commercial use. There isn't even OpenSolaris to keep those admins in the fold.
Yes, gosh, Solaris is just like HP-UX and AIX now.
There won't be any supporters to bring Solaris into new environments. I've been running Solaris machines at home for 15 years. I have been happy having a slightly non-mainstream server even if it was a little less convenient than a Linux box. Now I have no choice. I have to replace the Solaris machine with something I keep secure.
And honestly Oracle doesn't care. They don't make any money providing free patches so some guy can run old Sparc gear he bought on eBay at home.
Turns out Sun couldn't make any money providing free Solaris patches either. Which is why...
Oracle is just behaving like the other major commercial Unix vendors.
Everyone's been making a killing doing that, well before the Oracle purchase. I can't think anyone has bought Sun gear as their go-forward standard for many years.
MySQL, Dead.
Version 5.5 was released in December 2010. You're completely wrong.
Which doesn't change the fact that PHP is more widely used on the web than Java.
That may be true but you sure didn't prove it here.
Pretty much every web hosting project offers a basic LAMP or WAMP stack. Java? Not so much.
I agree, especially Google's App Engine which...oh wait.
Anyway, your point is that for cheap web hosting PHP is more common and that PHP rules the least common denominator of web sites. Tell us something we didn't know.
The same goes for available software. Compare the number of open-source web frameworks and content management systems available for the two languages. Java is barely a blip. PHP is everywhere, and python and ruby are follow-ups.
Great! But the relevance is, s you like to say, "not so much" to your argument.
If you measure by number of .php pages out there, yes, there's more PHP on the net than Java. If you measure by bajillions of web pages served, it's probably the inverse. If you measure by number of financial transactions (banks, etc.) where web users hit Java vs. PHP, it's a divide by zero error.