Nobody seems to mention Firebird which is supposedly on hell of a RDBMS. I wonder why it is so unpopular while it offers so much.
Ecosystem.
That's really the answer...so many FOSS apps are coded and developed primarily with MySQL in mind that it's the path of least resistance at this point for FOSS apps. It really has nothing to do with the quality of the code per se...as long as MySQL is "good enough" it will continue to be used.
Using ActiveRecord, I don't really care much what database I'm using.
Or what performance you get?
Database-independent applications are always a mistake. Always. Oracle functions differently than SQL Server which functions differently than MySQL. If your app is written not to care what database you're using, then your app is either trivial or broken.
If I absolutely needed 100% data integrity, I'd write my own server. And I certainly wouldn't use SQL.
....and your credibility just flew out the window. Data integrity is the mission of SQL relational databases and has been developed with that in mind for nearly 40 years.
No doubt, something you whip up in your basement will be much better...
Under the Union Constitution, each member state had freedom to decide if blacks were Citizens or Property.
So every state gets the freedom to decide for themselves whether black people are people? What other conditions do states have the right to place on a person’s “person-hood”? Do we really need a constitutional amendment to clarify that yes, people are actually people?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
Dude, wipe the foam off your chin and read some history. Yes, we did need an amendment. Yes, we have one. We did not have it at the time the Dred Scot decision was handed down.
Quoting the preamble means nothing. At the time it was written, blacks were not considered part of "We the People". Have you actually read any history, or don't they teach that at your high school any more?
We are geeks.. we think and care about technological issues around privacy and freedom and security. They are a big deal to most of us. This seems to blind us to the fact that most people don't really care.
This is hardly as universal as you imply. I am as geeky as the next Slashdotter and could not care less about privacy or security, and my definition of "freedom" is likely as idiosyncratic as yours. Geeks are fascinated by technology and I suspect that the vast majority of them would gladly part with privacy or security in exchange for something flashier, faster, and/or cooler, especially if it's programmable.
And a confession in the USA isn't worth anything in the rest of the world. We all seen the figures about how many people would rather plead guilty for a crime they didn't do in order to avoid the life-destroying sentences. So a confession just doesn't hold any true value.
Kid, you should just stop now, because you're making less and less sense. Now you're comparing an enormous multinational corporation who can afford top-flight legal talent in a civil case to an indigent defendant who takes a plea bargain in a criminal case.
And I bet a couple of those non-knowing jury members found it a nice opportunity to fuck something un-american.
It's not about the conviction. It's about the insane amount of damages for copyright infringement. Has nothing to do with USA-bashing. It's called criticism of a backwards justice system. Sorry if that's to much to handle for you.
SAP's annual revenue is more than $10 Billion a year. They are one of the top five publishers of software in the world. Do you think a $5,000 fine would really get their attention?
SAP (actually, one of their subsidiaries) clearly stole a ton of Oracle's products and sold them for profit. They admitted this. This is not a 99-cent iTunes track, but rather software that sells for $40,000+ per CPU. Additionally, they stole patches and knowledgebase articles so they could sell support on the software they stole. You do realize SAP is a direct competitor to Oracle, right?
Suing a 13-year-old for torrenting an mp3 and winning tens of thousands of dollars is, yes, insane. This is nothing like that. This is a modern corporation that has zero excuse for behaving in this manner. Their theft is so outrageous that anyone off the street would know it's illegal. Why do you think the CEO was hiding from subpoena servers? Do you think other CEOs behave that way?
Sorry to put another damper on your little USA bash, but it's hard to fault Oracle here, or view SAP as any kind of victim.
You are stone crazy. What kind of crazy-on-drugs T.A. is stuffing your head full of these buzzwords, boy? You're comparing a very cut-and-dried copyright violation case where the jury was decided damages to racist lynchings.
If you really can draw a parallel there, you're beyond help. Please get a vasectomy and stop voting.
"Lopez was head of purchasing for GM and defected abruptly to VW in 1993. GM accused Lopez of masterminding the theft of more than 20 boxes of documents on research, manufacturing and sales. The world's largest international corporate espionage case officially ended in 1997, when VW admitted no wrongdoing but settled the civil suit by agreeing to pay GM $100 million in cash and spend $1 billion on GM parts over seven years.
YOu have just explained why I'm not likely to ever see my data in the "cloud", hell, our own server across the room is too slow for a lot of CAD models, even a 5400RPM harddrive is sometimes. Load a 600MB part into an assembly of 10 of them, or even just the one 600MB on into a 200MB assembly, now multiply that by 5, and all of a sudden you just about cannot get enough bandwidth on your server. Same goes for those people in video or audio production.
Right, but do you do your own payroll?
Virtually all people who put stuff on the cloud have hybrid environments. You can be doing fluid dynamics down the haul and still have hosted Exchange or whatever.
You're an idiot. It's in the summary AND the article, and if you looked even briefly at the actual photo of the device, you'd have seen that it has a sata port on it.
This isn't aimed at desktops dumbass, this is aimed at servers where iop/m^3 is important
Is it impossible for you to interact with others without insulting them?
Making good CGI is comparatively easy: you hire talented professionals and let them do the work. With proper art direction and CGI staff, you can literally say "make me some cool CGI" and they will, because people have been doing it for...20ish (I think, or more) years.
To some extent, casting is comparatively easy, because most Hollywood actors are one-trick ponies.
On the other hand, writing a good movie is apparently very difficult. I say that because probably 4 out of 5 movies have lame plots, bad pacing, awful dialog, etc.
Consider the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The first one had a crisp screenplay and for a movie that is 2:23 hours, it really crackles all the way through. Good, memorable lines that we can all quote, lots of dramatic tension, fun comedy, etc. - a very well-written movie. The 2nd and 3rd? Pure junk - awful writing, lame storylines that made no sense, etc. The casting, CGI, etc. are all a constant - it's the writing.
Or the Iron Man movies. The first one was again pure gold: great writing (admittedly, they had help as it was based on the Marvel comic, but still, they had to write a screenplay), good dialogue, a very fun movie. The second one? Nearly a bomb - nonsensical plot, actors that looked bored, everyone walked out saying 'why did they bother?' The difference again is writing.
Good writing + weak CGI can still mean a great film. Weak writing + utterly fantastic CGI always means a terrible film (as the three most recent Star Wars movies attest).
"Copying the first paragraph of TFA, verbatim, does not make a helpful summary."
It does if the person writing the article knows how to write. Indeed, a summary of the article is exactly what the first paragraph in a properly written article is supposed to be. The rest of the article should elaborate on the ideas, concepts, and assertions made in the first paragraph. This is basic article writing 101.
Perhaps that's how they make you write your book reports in middle school, but plenty of newspapers, magazines, etc. use the pyramid lead, the feature-style lead, etc. The inverted pyramid lead (which you are somewhat describing) is not Holy Writ From The God of Journalism.
Yahoo actually has a pretty strong balance sheet. It's a well run company. They do a lot more than just portals, they have a nice strong tech arm. They sold off Zimbra for $500M to VMware. They have a strong base in Asia which is the fastest growing internet market. They are #2 in search and they have some other hot properties like Flickr.
And as far as new stuff, have you seen YQL? Very cool stuff.
However, they aren't trading at 30x earnings like Google and Apple because they aren't part of the "smartphone bubble" and they don't have a bunch of dumb money investing in them. The smart guys are going short on Apple after Christmas.
Anyway, Yahoo's going to be around for a long time. Yes, they should have taken Microsoft's $50B when they had the chance but they will probably get another chance before this bubble pops.
Hey, could you come redo our stadium? We're thinking of moving away from natural grass.
I think anyone who has the overwhelming dedication to create a 1500+ page tome about every nook and cranny of the Linux API can be spared the task of explaining how to write text files. But that's just me.
Man pages are written in [ng]roff format, so no, they're not just text files.
It's even worse than that. They're all just strings of zeroes and ones, even Linux programs.
They're actually bits, not strings. I will spare myself the task of explaining further.
Last I checked most scientists in the field no longer even accept the big bang as likely. They consider it the same "something from nothing" unanswer as religions offer, looking for a cyclic model instead.:D
...which, of course, is still something from nothing.
Thankfully, the OpenBSD developers know this, and smartly stick with a model that's been proven successful over the couse of 40 years.
What model is this? Because 40 years = 1970.
I'm sure you're not talking about Unix because Unix was never designed with security in mind and it's ridiculous to think that security was even a consideration in 1970. Arguably, security has been well retrofitted, but not until much, much later.
Are we to understand Sun only sold 6,000 of these storage appliances? 100PB = 100,000TB / 6,000 = 16.6TB per systems. Yeah, I guess they did. For small rackmount storage, that's not exactly burning up the marketplace.
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Nobody seems to mention Firebird which is supposedly on hell of a RDBMS. I wonder why it is so unpopular while it offers so much.
Ecosystem.
That's really the answer...so many FOSS apps are coded and developed primarily with MySQL in mind that it's the path of least resistance at this point for FOSS apps. It really has nothing to do with the quality of the code per se...as long as MySQL is "good enough" it will continue to be used.
Using ActiveRecord, I don't really care much what database I'm using.
Or what performance you get?
Database-independent applications are always a mistake. Always. Oracle functions differently than SQL Server which functions differently than MySQL. If your app is written not to care what database you're using, then your app is either trivial or broken.
If I absolutely needed 100% data integrity, I'd write my own server. And I certainly wouldn't use SQL.
....and your credibility just flew out the window. Data integrity is the mission of SQL relational databases and has been developed with that in mind for nearly 40 years.
No doubt, something you whip up in your basement will be much better...
Under the Union Constitution, each member state had freedom to decide if blacks were Citizens or Property.
So every state gets the freedom to decide for themselves whether black people are people? What other conditions do states have the right to place on a person’s “person-hood”? Do we really need a constitutional amendment to clarify that yes, people are actually people?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
Dude, wipe the foam off your chin and read some history. Yes, we did need an amendment. Yes, we have one. We did not have it at the time the Dred Scot decision was handed down.
Quoting the preamble means nothing. At the time it was written, blacks were not considered part of "We the People". Have you actually read any history, or don't they teach that at your high school any more?
Can we get a category for wikileaks news? Because I honestly do not care. And that's the point of Slashdot categories: seeing only what I want to see.
Over the last six months, every time something is posted on Wikileaks, there's a Slashdot article. Now they're coming multiple times a day.
and who care the least.
We are geeks.. we think and care about technological issues around privacy and freedom and security. They are a big deal to most of us. This seems to blind us to the fact that most people don't really care.
This is hardly as universal as you imply. I am as geeky as the next Slashdotter and could not care less about privacy or security, and my definition of "freedom" is likely as idiosyncratic as yours. Geeks are fascinated by technology and I suspect that the vast majority of them would gladly part with privacy or security in exchange for something flashier, faster, and/or cooler, especially if it's programmable.
Anyway Oracles security track record is absolutely breathtaking. I almost spat cheerios out my nose reading that last cert advisory.
No fair mentioning something funny and then keeping it to yourself. Link?
And a confession in the USA isn't worth anything in the rest of the world. We all seen the figures about how many people would rather plead guilty for a crime they didn't do in order to avoid the life-destroying sentences. So a confession just doesn't hold any true value.
Kid, you should just stop now, because you're making less and less sense. Now you're comparing an enormous multinational corporation who can afford top-flight legal talent in a civil case to an indigent defendant who takes a plea bargain in a criminal case.
And I bet a couple of those non-knowing jury members found it a nice opportunity to fuck something un-american.
Yes. That must be it.
It's not about the conviction. It's about the insane amount of damages for copyright infringement. Has nothing to do with USA-bashing. It's called criticism of a backwards justice system. Sorry if that's to much to handle for you.
SAP's annual revenue is more than $10 Billion a year. They are one of the top five publishers of software in the world. Do you think a $5,000 fine would really get their attention?
SAP (actually, one of their subsidiaries) clearly stole a ton of Oracle's products and sold them for profit. They admitted this. This is not a 99-cent iTunes track, but rather software that sells for $40,000+ per CPU. Additionally, they stole patches and knowledgebase articles so they could sell support on the software they stole. You do realize SAP is a direct competitor to Oracle, right?
Suing a 13-year-old for torrenting an mp3 and winning tens of thousands of dollars is, yes, insane. This is nothing like that. This is a modern corporation that has zero excuse for behaving in this manner. Their theft is so outrageous that anyone off the street would know it's illegal. Why do you think the CEO was hiding from subpoena servers? Do you think other CEOs behave that way?
Sorry to put another damper on your little USA bash, but it's hard to fault Oracle here, or view SAP as any kind of victim.
You are stone crazy. What kind of crazy-on-drugs T.A. is stuffing your head full of these buzzwords, boy? You're comparing a very cut-and-dried copyright violation case where the jury was decided damages to racist lynchings.
If you really can draw a parallel there, you're beyond help. Please get a vasectomy and stop voting.
Simply labeling something as "Anti American" won't get you any credit or support on the slashdot community.
I suspect not, given how anti-American the typical Slashdot college kid is.
Cracks me up that this is a "Troll" while GP's screed is "Insightful". Well, that's Slashdot for you.
Small potatoes
"Lopez was head of purchasing for GM and defected abruptly to VW in 1993. GM accused Lopez of masterminding the theft of more than 20 boxes of documents on research, manufacturing and sales. The world's largest international corporate espionage case officially ended in 1997, when VW admitted no wrongdoing but settled the civil suit by agreeing to pay GM $100 million in cash and spend $1 billion on GM parts over seven years.
GMail? Nothing wrong with that... as long as you don't mind all your internal memos being examined by data-mining software.
Not to mention state and federal laws (SOX, HIPAA) that require controlled access to certain information.
The word you're looking for is "SAS70".
YOu have just explained why I'm not likely to ever see my data in the "cloud", hell, our own server across the room is too slow for a lot of CAD models, even a 5400RPM harddrive is sometimes. Load a 600MB part into an assembly of 10 of them, or even just the one 600MB on into a 200MB assembly, now multiply that by 5, and all of a sudden you just about cannot get enough bandwidth on your server. Same goes for those people in video or audio production.
Right, but do you do your own payroll?
Virtually all people who put stuff on the cloud have hybrid environments. You can be doing fluid dynamics down the haul and still have hosted Exchange or whatever.
You're an idiot. It's in the summary AND the article, and if you looked even briefly at the actual photo of the device, you'd have seen that it has a sata port on it.
This isn't aimed at desktops dumbass, this is aimed at servers where iop/m^3 is important
Is it impossible for you to interact with others without insulting them?
Wow, the GP's wordplay joke just went right over your head, didn't it? You may wish to wipe the foam off your chin and reread.
Making good CGI is comparatively easy: you hire talented professionals and let them do the work. With proper art direction and CGI staff, you can literally say "make me some cool CGI" and they will, because people have been doing it for...20ish (I think, or more) years.
To some extent, casting is comparatively easy, because most Hollywood actors are one-trick ponies.
On the other hand, writing a good movie is apparently very difficult. I say that because probably 4 out of 5 movies have lame plots, bad pacing, awful dialog, etc.
Consider the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The first one had a crisp screenplay and for a movie that is 2:23 hours, it really crackles all the way through. Good, memorable lines that we can all quote, lots of dramatic tension, fun comedy, etc. - a very well-written movie. The 2nd and 3rd? Pure junk - awful writing, lame storylines that made no sense, etc. The casting, CGI, etc. are all a constant - it's the writing.
Or the Iron Man movies. The first one was again pure gold: great writing (admittedly, they had help as it was based on the Marvel comic, but still, they had to write a screenplay), good dialogue, a very fun movie. The second one? Nearly a bomb - nonsensical plot, actors that looked bored, everyone walked out saying 'why did they bother?' The difference again is writing.
Good writing + weak CGI can still mean a great film. Weak writing + utterly fantastic CGI always means a terrible film (as the three most recent Star Wars movies attest).
It's the writing, not the CGI.
It does if the person writing the article knows how to write. Indeed, a summary of the article is exactly what the first paragraph in a properly written article is supposed to be. The rest of the article should elaborate on the ideas, concepts, and assertions made in the first paragraph. This is basic article writing 101.
Perhaps that's how they make you write your book reports in middle school, but plenty of newspapers, magazines, etc. use the pyramid lead, the feature-style lead, etc. The inverted pyramid lead (which you are somewhat describing) is not Holy Writ From The God of Journalism.
Yahoo actually has a pretty strong balance sheet. It's a well run company. They do a lot more than just portals, they have a nice strong tech arm. They sold off Zimbra for $500M to VMware. They have a strong base in Asia which is the fastest growing internet market. They are #2 in search and they have some other hot properties like Flickr.
And as far as new stuff, have you seen YQL? Very cool stuff.
However, they aren't trading at 30x earnings like Google and Apple because they aren't part of the "smartphone bubble" and they don't have a bunch of dumb money investing in them. The smart guys are going short on Apple after Christmas.
Anyway, Yahoo's going to be around for a long time. Yes, they should have taken Microsoft's $50B when they had the chance but they will probably get another chance before this bubble pops.
Hey, could you come redo our stadium? We're thinking of moving away from natural grass.
It's even worse than that. They're all just strings of zeroes and ones, even Linux programs.
They're actually bits, not strings. I will spare myself the task of explaining further.
Last I checked most scientists in the field no longer even accept the big bang as likely. They consider it the same "something from nothing" unanswer as religions offer, looking for a cyclic model instead. :D
...which, of course, is still something from nothing.
You misread. It said "hotter" not "flabbier".
Thankfully, the OpenBSD developers know this, and smartly stick with a model that's been proven successful over the couse of 40 years.
What model is this? Because 40 years = 1970.
I'm sure you're not talking about Unix because Unix was never designed with security in mind and it's ridiculous to think that security was even a consideration in 1970. Arguably, security has been well retrofitted, but not until much, much later.
Are we to understand Sun only sold 6,000 of these storage appliances? 100PB = 100,000TB / 6,000 = 16.6TB per systems. Yeah, I guess they did. For small rackmount storage, that's not exactly burning up the marketplace.