While that may be correct, I think the article writer meant to use "colossal".. The appropriate adjective here is "huge".. Asking "How can such an unfathomable difference be explained?" is meaningless.. (The question itself states that it is unfathomable, so why look for an explanation?).
The right question would be "How can such a huge difference be explained?" and to ask that question the only word that kinda sounds like abyssal is "colossal".. so that's what I think happened. Momentary brain f*rt.
The point, though, is that if a business needs Oracle for a "few" of their tasks, as you point out, it may as well use Oracle for _all_ of its tasks.. Doesn't make sense to buy Oracle, and then use it for _only_ those tasks that OS databases can't handle.
So it comes down to this: Unless an OS database is just as good as Oracle (say), and can do all of the things they need, they are not going to use it.
The basic package - America's Top 60 (of course for the moment, sans the Viacom channels) plus local channels costs only 29.99 on Dish.. on DirecTV, it is atleast 39.99.. so i prefer Dish..
besides the guy who installed it gave me some baloney about how Dish uses "superior MPEG technology" that DirecTV doesn't have and blah.. he said that results in Dish being more resilient to weather conditions (stronger satellite signals and such) dont know if thats tru cos i havent done any comparisons.
I'm not sure if this is strange but I still get the CBS (national) channel.. other channels like MTV, VH1 etc. are out.. in this case atleast I really am NOT going to miss these crappy channels even if the dispute is never resolved.. Really the only channel I care about, among the ones blacked out, is Comedy Central. If CBS keeps showing, then I can live with it.. without some laughs tho..
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Wow.. i would think a quick word to the boss' boss would put a quick end to that.. I had that happen ONCE to a project teammember and the architect (fancy name for a tech manager) got "fire and brimstoned"
---- techie managers suck (not good enuf to do tech and not incompetent enuf to do management)
Some time back, I faced a similar situation, where my team of about 30 or so developers was told (very politely and in a sickeningly sweet way), that for the next 5 weeks we were to work 12 hours a day etc. Needless to say, we did..
result? extremely poor code, things like code reviews and so-called "processes" chucked out the window (primarily by managers who insisted that we could make an exception this one time)
in fact, the client got so pissed at the amount of difficulty we had to stabilize our release that we (the company) got booted off their list of "IT consultants" (amid muted hoorays from us developers)
what did i and most of us developers get from all of this? a $50 gift card for some clothing store and about 3 months after that.. the pink slip, as the company needed to cut down on personnel costs.. hmmm.. i wonder why they weren't doing so well..
anyways, i changed tracks and got into academia and swore of "consulting"
I got a Masters degree in CS and i think it helped me a lot in my career (though not necessarily to get a job), just fyi, my bachelors degree was not CS but mechanical engineering.. and i went to school to get my MSCS after spending 2 years working as a programmer (primarily in C)
although i dont regularly use all the things i learnt in courses like Analysis of Algorithms and Advanced Compiler Theory, i made me appreciate my work and also the beauty of programming and not to mention my respect for those that first wrote compilers (and languages)..
other courses i took, like advanced OS concepts, where assignments included stuff like the prof handing out floppy disks to all of us on which was some data.. our task was to read that data.. catch? it was in some custom file system that he had built, we had to figure it out (based on some clues he gave us), implement the file system, modify a linux box so it could read that file system and then read the data off the disk.. it was so cool.. although it took all of 2 weeks.. with no attention to other classes.. but i digress..
courses like these really helped me understand what computer science is all about..
oh, and we did take a whole bunch of "practical" courses like software engineering, Advanced Network programming, advanced network security, and all that good stuff that would help us in the "real world".. not to mention filler courses like "GUI Programming using Swing" (yuk)
The coolest work i did though was when i got to mess with neural networks, and as part of my Masters project constructed an Aircraft Autolander using neural networks.. woo..
CS is the coolest degree to expand your horizons..
I had this technique used in my graduate CS courses as well.. the projects were all too huge to be completed by a single person in a reasonable time.. we always grouped up.. typically 3-4 students.. it was very productive and since we graded each other for contribution, we kept ourselves honest.. not did we "downgrade" slackers, we also "downgraded" over-contributors who wanted to do it all themselves..
but on the other hand.. i think not allowing code re-use was a BIG minus.. in the real world i find that being able to reuse code and WRITE reusable code is what its all about.. u HAVE to teach CS grads how not to go about reinventing the wheel EVERY time they need a database connection class (for example) thats just a waste..
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While that may be correct, I think the article writer meant to use "colossal".. The appropriate adjective here is "huge".. Asking "How can such an unfathomable difference be explained?" is meaningless.. (The question itself states that it is unfathomable, so why look for an explanation?).
The right question would be "How can such a huge difference be explained?" and to ask that question the only word that kinda sounds like abyssal is "colossal".. so that's what I think happened. Momentary brain f*rt.
Wouldn't it be ironic for a Search Engine Optimization company to be on the 2nd, 3rd, or worse, even below, in Google's list? :-P
The point, though, is that if a business needs Oracle for a "few" of their tasks, as you point out, it may as well use Oracle for _all_ of its tasks.. Doesn't make sense to buy Oracle, and then use it for _only_ those tasks that OS databases can't handle.
So it comes down to this: Unless an OS database is just as good as Oracle (say), and can do all of the things they need, they are not going to use it.
Well, technically, you could swap a file to which you hold the copyright and then its not illegal anymore :)
The basic package - America's Top 60 (of course for the moment, sans the Viacom channels) plus local channels costs only 29.99 on Dish.. on DirecTV, it is atleast 39.99.. so i prefer Dish..
besides the guy who installed it gave me some baloney about how Dish uses "superior MPEG technology" that DirecTV doesn't have and blah.. he said that results in Dish being more resilient to weather conditions (stronger satellite signals and such) dont know if thats tru cos i havent done any comparisons.
I'm not sure if this is strange but I still get the CBS (national) channel.. other channels like MTV, VH1 etc. are out.. in this case atleast I really am NOT going to miss these crappy channels even if the dispute is never resolved.. Really the only channel I care about, among the ones blacked out, is Comedy Central. If CBS keeps showing, then I can live with it.. without some laughs tho..
Wow.. i would think a quick word to the boss' boss would put a quick end to that.. I had that happen ONCE to a project teammember and the architect (fancy name for a tech manager) got "fire and brimstoned"
----
techie managers suck (not good enuf to do tech and not incompetent enuf to do management)
Some time back, I faced a similar situation, where my team of about 30 or so developers was told (very politely and in a sickeningly sweet way), that for the next 5 weeks we were to work 12 hours a day etc. Needless to say, we did..
result? extremely poor code, things like code reviews and so-called "processes" chucked out the window (primarily by managers who insisted that we could make an exception this one time)
in fact, the client got so pissed at the amount of difficulty we had to stabilize our release that we (the company) got booted off their list of "IT consultants" (amid muted hoorays from us developers)
what did i and most of us developers get from all of this? a $50 gift card for some clothing store and about 3 months after that.. the pink slip, as the company needed to cut down on personnel costs.. hmmm.. i wonder why they weren't doing so well..
anyways, i changed tracks and got into academia and swore of "consulting"
Well... when they reduce costs by eliminating people-jobs.. to the maximum extent.. everything will be free and no one will have to work anyways..
I got a Masters degree in CS and i think it helped me a lot in my career (though not necessarily to get a job), just fyi, my bachelors degree was not CS but mechanical engineering.. and i went to school to get my MSCS after spending 2 years working as a programmer (primarily in C)
although i dont regularly use all the things i learnt in courses like Analysis of Algorithms and Advanced Compiler Theory, i made me appreciate my work and also the beauty of programming and not to mention my respect for those that first wrote compilers (and languages)..
other courses i took, like advanced OS concepts, where assignments included stuff like the prof handing out floppy disks to all of us on which was some data.. our task was to read that data.. catch? it was in some custom file system that he had built, we had to figure it out (based on some clues he gave us), implement the file system, modify a linux box so it could read that file system and then read the data off the disk.. it was so cool.. although it took all of 2 weeks.. with no attention to other classes.. but i digress..
courses like these really helped me understand what computer science is all about..
oh, and we did take a whole bunch of "practical" courses like software engineering, Advanced Network programming, advanced network security, and all that good stuff that would help us in the "real world".. not to mention filler courses like "GUI Programming using Swing" (yuk)
The coolest work i did though was when i got to mess with neural networks, and as part of my Masters project constructed an Aircraft Autolander using neural networks.. woo..
CS is the coolest degree to expand your horizons..
I had this technique used in my graduate CS courses as well.. the projects were all too huge to be completed by a single person in a reasonable time.. we always grouped up.. typically 3-4 students.. it was very productive and since we graded each other for contribution, we kept ourselves honest.. not did we "downgrade" slackers, we also "downgraded" over-contributors who wanted to do it all themselves..
but on the other hand.. i think not allowing code re-use was a BIG minus.. in the real world i find that being able to reuse code and WRITE reusable code is what its all about.. u HAVE to teach CS grads how not to go about reinventing the wheel EVERY time they need a database connection class (for example) thats just a waste..