I don't know if I'm more fascinated by this (btw, germany is the same, you get metric sockets w/1/4" or 3/8" drive) or the general lack of reading comprehension exhibited by those that replied. I would have assumed they would have just picked the closest size in mm (6/9/12).
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...although you could get a good start on one now. Five years ago it was "Netscape's mistakes". These are all companies that started something good, but stagnated because they got away from a culture of innovation. The only thing left is to figure out whether Google has learned from this or if their article is 5 years down the road. I'm still not clear on that looking at what they've done post-IPO.
I bought one on Saturday. I went into the Apple store just to look at it & I ended up buying one after playing with it for about 5 minutes. Now that I've had it a couple of days, that cool new toy haze is wearing off. The postage stamp photos are kind of pointless. I'm wondering now if making it 1/4" or 1/2" wider to accomodate a bigger screen might not have been a bad idea. Maybe it was shaped that way precisely to fit in a coin pocket on your jeans. It's a natural place to put it, a nice soft/semi-padded place that's usually empty so it won't get scrtached by other things that happen to be floating around.
Ever since getting the 7.1 update, the thing has been pig slow. One of the things Tivo had was a good user experience, but you can forget that now. These new apps are likely to make the thing nearly unusable.
they should have put a firewire port on the bottom so you could plug in expansion devices (another HD, video capture) into a similarly designed enclosure.
The problem is that when things are developed for MySQL, you get get a product designed to work best with MySQL - nonstandard features/types like ENUM which aren't supported by PostgreSQL so you have to work around that, plus the SQL has to be specially crafted to take account the lack of features/nonstandard features in MySQL and you're stuck trying to work the way it has to be done in MySQL instead of a cleaner, faster native way. All in all, you need to have a totally different mindset to develop efficiently with each database and when you try to be agnostic, a lot of times you end up handcuffing one or the other or both.
if he ever said one thing that made the remotest of sense. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a manufactured crisis. They've done everything possible to invent it. The one that gets me is that they're projecting our economy will grow slowly (~1%, slower than historical) while telling us the only way we can save ourselves is investing in the stock market, in which we need to see ~3.5%-4% growth in order to get to the level we would be at if we did nothing. Both of those have to happen simultaneously & they're pretty much mutually exclusive. If Bush is right about their forecast, everybody gets screwed going the privitization route and it's better to stay status quo. If he's wrong about their forecast and the economy improves, it's better to stay status quo. And I haven't even got to mention all the countries that have tried it, only to see it go down in flames.
I have a Tivo. I like Tivo, but it's nothing more than a souped up VCR. It's an incremental step, not a quantum leap. Any idiot who sat down and thought about it could make it better. Start by adding in IMDB integration. Just put a little link in the listing info. Half the time I watch a movie, I'm looking something up on IMDB using my laptop anyway. You don't need to bloat the thing, but stuff like that seems like such a natural fit. If you're willing to pay for a Tivo, you probably have broadband of some sort, why not make good use of it?
If that's true, why are they trying to sell people their own DVD burning software? I would think they'd have some sort of DRM that the DVD burning software would say "you can only make 2 copies of this show" or would burn DVDs that have a menu asking for you media key before you could watch. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but being able to copy non-DRM'd video seems too good to be true.
I watched the documentary on the development & testing of SpaceShipOne, up through last week's flight. If you didn't see it, it was called "Black Sky" -- set your Tivo to look out for it. I'm sure they'll be showing it again.
Definately ozone is the answer. It would be a lot easier than trying to clean a room full of stuff by with chemicals. Furnace cleaning and disaster recovery companies use them to kill mold and smoke smell in houses, but it should work on any organic odors.
of course, boxing in england measures the fighters' weight in stones, which one can only describe as, well, quaint. i know how much a stone weighs (14 pounds), but it's just not worth the thought to convert it into something that i can relate to like pounds or kilos. i'm just glad that they don't throw in the hundredweight, which is 8 stones (112 pounds - now that makes sense).
absolutely. i was just back in my grade school this summer and they're still using apple IIe's. i thought it was kind of sad since they might have been the same ones that i used at some point in the early 80s, but it's better than nothing.
i saw the same thing in a dell ad this morning. here are the specs for one i think he's talking about. it's a PowerApp.web 100 1U machine: pIII-750, 256MB ECC SDRAM, dual 10/100 Intel nics, 2 9G ultra160 SCSI HD. the only difference is Win2000/IIS vs. Red Hat 6.2/Apache. they claim 500K-1M hits for the Win2000, 20K-100K for linux.
it's the dog food principle. if you can't eat your own dog food, you'll get beaten up in the press. and rightly so. if your OS is one of your core businesses, they you should use it. if your processors are your core business, you should be using them. if they don't replace them, they'll be tacitly supporting linux and x86, which probably isn't in their best interests. it shouldn't matter to the end user -- it's an appliance, for god's sake. it shouldn't be a money issue, because they make the OS & the processesors - if their production costs can't beat the wholesale costs from other suppliers, they shouldn't be in the business. it's not like they have to buy them from themselves -- oh wait, this is sun we're talking about - they do have to buy them from themselves. i haven't seen that much beaurocracy since talking to the IT people down at the our local county government offices...
and, by extension, we might find out how many people buy these things because they're linux-based instead of their form factor or aesthetic qualities. it wouldn't surprise me if they put solaris x/86 in the x86 models, although don't the low end machines still have mips chips in them? solaris doesn't run on mips, never has, i don't think. it used to run on powerpc, but that was long ago.
from what i read of it, i half got the impression that the judge was saying "yeah this is a f****d up law, but i'm stuck doing what the law says, and you're guilty. take your case to the supreme court." same thing's going to happen with napster, only they have even less ground to stand on with regards to legitimate use.
i dunno. i've got my copy, how about you?
everybody wants to know what they are. one has to be MS SQL server... why else would they even have mentioned NT server? every other database will run on linux. the other is probably oracle, just given ned lilly's discussion of them on the postgres mailing list, although i wouldn't be surprised if it was something else. here's a reference to a message from ned:
drew carey is a serious buzz-kill on that show. it's like he doesn't get the humor and role of clive anderson, yet tries to duplicate it. he's just not funny and every time he tries to explain the concept of scoring the game, i'm lucky that there's nothing sharp near me so i don't stab myself. i originally thought he just felt that he had to descend to the level of his audience, but the more i watch it, the more convinced i am that he just doesn't get it. the holdovers from the originaly english version (ryan and colin) make it worth watching otherwise.
if you fill out the form for a free t-shirt on their web site, it asks you what features you want & they hit pretty well what PostgreSQL is missing - good blob support the biggest (and easiest to fix from the developer's standpoint) it'd be nice to see them dig in with some of the other features like replication & clustering.
the big question i have (paranoia alert!) is that PostgreSQL is under a BSD license, so they don't need to release any changes they make if they don't want to. it didn't sound like that would be the case, but is this the first case of an OSS startup working with BSD-licensed code? it's a whole new ballgame compared to GPL.
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I don't know if I'm more fascinated by this (btw, germany is the same, you get metric sockets w/1/4" or 3/8" drive) or the general lack of reading comprehension exhibited by those that replied. I would have assumed they would have just picked the closest size in mm (6/9/12).
...although you could get a good start on one now. Five years ago it was "Netscape's mistakes". These are all companies that started something good, but stagnated because they got away from a culture of innovation. The only thing left is to figure out whether Google has learned from this or if their article is 5 years down the road. I'm still not clear on that looking at what they've done post-IPO.
I bought one on Saturday. I went into the Apple store just to look at it & I ended up buying one after playing with it for about 5 minutes. Now that I've had it a couple of days, that cool new toy haze is wearing off. The postage stamp photos are kind of pointless. I'm wondering now if making it 1/4" or 1/2" wider to accomodate a bigger screen might not have been a bad idea. Maybe it was shaped that way precisely to fit in a coin pocket on your jeans. It's a natural place to put it, a nice soft/semi-padded place that's usually empty so it won't get scrtached by other things that happen to be floating around.
Ever since getting the 7.1 update, the thing has been pig slow. One of the things Tivo had was a good user experience, but you can forget that now. These new apps are likely to make the thing nearly unusable.
they should have put a firewire port on the bottom so you could plug in expansion devices (another HD, video capture) into a similarly designed enclosure.
When they start using db abstraction layers
The problem is that when things are developed for MySQL, you get get a product designed to work best with MySQL - nonstandard features/types like ENUM which aren't supported by PostgreSQL so you have to work around that, plus the SQL has to be specially crafted to take account the lack of features/nonstandard features in MySQL and you're stuck trying to work the way it has to be done in MySQL instead of a cleaner, faster native way. All in all, you need to have a totally different mindset to develop efficiently with each database and when you try to be agnostic, a lot of times you end up handcuffing one or the other or both.
Actually, that is insurance. I pay car insurance every six months but I've never used it, I may never. I gotta have it to drive though.
if he ever said one thing that made the remotest of sense. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a manufactured crisis. They've done everything possible to invent it. The one that gets me is that they're projecting our economy will grow slowly (~1%, slower than historical) while telling us the only way we can save ourselves is investing in the stock market, in which we need to see ~3.5%-4% growth in order to get to the level we would be at if we did nothing. Both of those have to happen simultaneously & they're pretty much mutually exclusive. If Bush is right about their forecast, everybody gets screwed going the privitization route and it's better to stay status quo. If he's wrong about their forecast and the economy improves, it's better to stay status quo. And I haven't even got to mention all the countries that have tried it, only to see it go down in flames.
I have a Tivo. I like Tivo, but it's nothing more than a souped up VCR. It's an incremental step, not a quantum leap. Any idiot who sat down and thought about it could make it better. Start by adding in IMDB integration. Just put a little link in the listing info. Half the time I watch a movie, I'm looking something up on IMDB using my laptop anyway. You don't need to bloat the thing, but stuff like that seems like such a natural fit. If you're willing to pay for a Tivo, you probably have broadband of some sort, why not make good use of it?
If that's true, why are they trying to sell people their own DVD burning software? I would think they'd have some sort of DRM that the DVD burning software would say "you can only make 2 copies of this show" or would burn DVDs that have a menu asking for you media key before you could watch. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but being able to copy non-DRM'd video seems too good to be true.
I watched the documentary on the development & testing of SpaceShipOne, up through last week's flight. If you didn't see it, it was called "Black Sky" -- set your Tivo to look out for it. I'm sure they'll be showing it again.
Definately ozone is the answer. It would be a lot easier than trying to clean a room full of stuff by with chemicals. Furnace cleaning and disaster recovery companies use them to kill mold and smoke smell in houses, but it should work on any organic odors.
of course, boxing in england measures the fighters' weight in stones, which one can only describe as, well, quaint. i know how much a stone weighs (14 pounds), but it's just not worth the thought to convert it into something that i can relate to like pounds or kilos. i'm just glad that they don't throw in the hundredweight, which is 8 stones (112 pounds - now that makes sense).
the assumption that DC is going to be in business next halloween. are you willing to risk it?
absolutely. i was just back in my grade school this summer and they're still using apple IIe's. i thought it was kind of sad since they might have been the same ones that i used at some point in the early 80s, but it's better than nothing.
i saw the same thing in a dell ad this morning. here are the specs for one i think he's talking about. it's a PowerApp.web 100 1U machine: pIII-750, 256MB ECC SDRAM, dual 10/100 Intel nics, 2 9G ultra160 SCSI HD. the only difference is Win2000/IIS vs. Red Hat 6.2/Apache. they claim 500K-1M hits for the Win2000, 20K-100K for linux.
it's the dog food principle. if you can't eat your own dog food, you'll get beaten up in the press. and rightly so. if your OS is one of your core businesses, they you should use it. if your processors are your core business, you should be using them. if they don't replace them, they'll be tacitly supporting linux and x86, which probably isn't in their best interests. it shouldn't matter to the end user -- it's an appliance, for god's sake. it shouldn't be a money issue, because they make the OS & the processesors - if their production costs can't beat the wholesale costs from other suppliers, they shouldn't be in the business. it's not like they have to buy them from themselves -- oh wait, this is sun we're talking about - they do have to buy them from themselves. i haven't seen that much beaurocracy since talking to the IT people down at the our local county government offices...
and, by extension, we might find out how many people buy these things because they're linux-based instead of their form factor or aesthetic qualities. it wouldn't surprise me if they put solaris x/86 in the x86 models, although don't the low end machines still have mips chips in them? solaris doesn't run on mips, never has, i don't think. it used to run on powerpc, but that was long ago.
from what i read of it, i half got the impression that the judge was saying "yeah this is a f****d up law, but i'm stuck doing what the law says, and you're guilty. take your case to the supreme court." same thing's going to happen with napster, only they have even less ground to stand on with regards to legitimate use. i dunno. i've got my copy, how about you?
seriously, though -- does anybody know if the new dual processor macs will run linux? isn't that the real question on everybody's mind?
http://www.postgre sql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-general/2000-06/msg00390.htm l
drew carey is a serious buzz-kill on that show. it's like he doesn't get the humor and role of clive anderson, yet tries to duplicate it. he's just not funny and every time he tries to explain the concept of scoring the game, i'm lucky that there's nothing sharp near me so i don't stab myself. i originally thought he just felt that he had to descend to the level of his audience, but the more i watch it, the more convinced i am that he just doesn't get it. the holdovers from the originaly english version (ryan and colin) make it worth watching otherwise.
i felt like i was reading a foreign language there... was it just me or was that abbreviated/jargon stuff just plain annoying?
you forget the phase when it was Postgres95, right about the time this 95/97/98/2000 business was starting.
if you fill out the form for a free t-shirt on their web site, it asks you what features you want & they hit pretty well what PostgreSQL is missing - good blob support the biggest (and easiest to fix from the developer's standpoint) it'd be nice to see them dig in with some of the other features like replication & clustering.
the big question i have (paranoia alert!) is that PostgreSQL is under a BSD license, so they don't need to release any changes they make if they don't want to. it didn't sound like that would be the case, but is this the first case of an OSS startup working with BSD-licensed code? it's a whole new ballgame compared to GPL.