The only reason to go with MySQL instead of FB is that you have to grok different kinds of transactions in Firebird whereas in MySQL you can just push your luck. MySQL will (almost) never show you something about conflicts or deadlocks. Yes, you will end up with mess in your data but at least your users won't see an exception/error thrown at them, nice, eh? All other things - like performance, capacity etc - Firebird beats MySQL or is at least on par.
PS: Oh, and Firebird used to have slightly less effective transport protocol to remote hosts (over TCP/IP) but it has been worked on and I have no fresh data on present state of it. MySQL just sends an SQL query to the server and gets the data back. In best case it's just 3 IP packets (query, confirmation/answer_data, confirmation), FB is a bit more complicated. Anyway - it's not a biggy.
PPS: And MySQL has some basic full-text search built-in. For FB you need to code it yourself or get a third-party solution. If you need it.
$199 would definitely be nice but MP3 players are more expensive than that. And this thing is so much more than an MP3 player. I doubt anything below $350-400. But yes, I agree - full-blown but inexpensive PDAs are way overdue (and these things are basically PDAs, of course).
It's nice but it's not _the_ measure I'd like to see grow. What I'd like to see is the sum of all standards-compatible browsers to grow. I'd include at least all Geckos, Operas, and KHTML/WebKit/WebCore browsers.
I want 4"+ screen on my PDA. I don't want to hold a device this big to my ear. As simple as that. Yes, bluetooth earset is an option but then we're back to two devices, ain't we?
PalmOS is definitely not POS. _I_ don't really need multithreading in my PDA. What is POS is Windows Mobile with apps basically hanging in background and constant problems because of it.
But this talking has only theoretical interest now. PalmOS is dead. Windows Mobile soon to follow. Symbian has won for the moment. Pity. I like my PDA with a relatively big hi-res screen and I can handle my phone and PDA as two separate devices thankyou. I don't want to talk with my PDA any more than I don't want to have CD player in my TV.
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Why not Sun?
Of course the real reason for it is that it will require more than 4 Gigs of RAM.
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After Vista? When is it due? Around 2020?
Holy shit. I measured my whole 2GHz AMD64 desktop computer (sans monitor) power consumption a while and got only 74 watts at outlet in idle.
Really - I can't believe those numbers. Is there an error? How could they _waste_ 200 watts _at idle_?
reddit (http://reddit.com) will kill your productivity far better than slashdot and digg combined.
AIM(tm)(R)(C) part.
Maybe in Capitalist China copyright on Mickey Mouse _did_ expire?
Damn, with kids like you growing up (and somebody modded you insightful), I'm seriously nervous about our future.
Yes, ODF is IMO flawed, but at the moment we don't have a better alternative, do we?
The only reason to go with MySQL instead of FB is that you have to grok different kinds of transactions in Firebird whereas in MySQL you can just push your luck. MySQL will (almost) never show you something about conflicts or deadlocks. Yes, you will end up with mess in your data but at least your users won't see an exception/error thrown at them, nice, eh? All other things - like performance, capacity etc - Firebird beats MySQL or is at least on par.
PS: Oh, and Firebird used to have slightly less effective transport protocol to remote hosts (over TCP/IP) but it has been worked on and I have no fresh data on present state of it. MySQL just sends an SQL query to the server and gets the data back. In best case it's just 3 IP packets (query, confirmation/answer_data, confirmation), FB is a bit more complicated. Anyway - it's not a biggy.
PPS: And MySQL has some basic full-text search built-in. For FB you need to code it yourself or get a third-party solution. If you need it.
BTW - Nokia has a whole range of hybrid GMS/WiFi-VoIP phones already.
Hmm, I wonder _how_ I misspelled Nirvana as _that_.... :-/
Cheap phone. Duck tape. Nirava.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.turb otax.com
May it be related to moving from Solaris to Linux last summer?
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$199 would definitely be nice but MP3 players are more expensive than that. And this thing is so much more than an MP3 player. I doubt anything below $350-400. But yes, I agree - full-blown but inexpensive PDAs are way overdue (and these things are basically PDAs, of course).
It's nice but it's not _the_ measure I'd like to see grow. What I'd like to see is the sum of all standards-compatible browsers to grow. I'd include at least all Geckos, Operas, and KHTML/WebKit/WebCore browsers.
But hey, as a Windows developer you _are_ used to rip-off prices for dev-tools, libraries, etc, aren't you? :-(
What kind of Vista-exclusive software are you gonna run? (Especially under virtualization)
How do you know terrorists did not break it?
60 year old Linux using grandmother who has _girlfriends_?! [shiver]
I want 4"+ screen on my PDA. I don't want to hold a device this big to my ear. As simple as that. Yes, bluetooth earset is an option but then we're back to two devices, ain't we?
Gives a new meaning to "when the shit hits the fan", ain't it?
PalmOS is definitely not POS. _I_ don't really need multithreading in my PDA. What is POS is Windows Mobile with apps basically hanging in background and constant problems because of it.
But this talking has only theoretical interest now. PalmOS is dead. Windows Mobile soon to follow. Symbian has won for the moment. Pity. I like my PDA with a relatively big hi-res screen and I can handle my phone and PDA as two separate devices thankyou. I don't want to talk with my PDA any more than I don't want to have CD player in my TV.
I guess we all knew that a year (or two?) ago.
But frankly, as it stands now, I can easier see Palm to go RIP rather than Linux.
And Linux - doesn't that mean that Linux based "PalmOS" should be GPL?
English only I suppose?