Why do we as a society tolerate this useless sideshow? Oh, because of all the money involved, right.
What's money, anyway?
Can you eat it? It will nurse you when sick? Protect you from a bullet?
What will happens to these guys when the money they think they have became worhless, as no one will have more to trade?
Money it's worthless. It must exchange hands in order to have some value. Any kind of action that encumbers this dynamics should be dealt as a crime against the People.
So your follow up is that Oracle is the "2nd biggest software house on planet, the clear leader in several verticals and makes and/or sells literrally hundred of products".
Ok. So do Microsoft and IBM (Microsoft is the first, and IBM is bigger than all to them). And this does not makes the three look the same, does?
Oh, wait! Microsoft funded SCO in order to jeopardize the Open Source products, didn't? Well,. these ones looks the same to me.
Not just that, but good use of relations and normalization makes whole classes of bug impossible.
That's precisely the motive the current cast of "developers" avoid it like the Devil.
They NEED bugs in order to justify the overdue payments and overpaid weekend death marches.
Software Development *must* be a arcane practice, not a scientific knowledge - or they will be measured under rational arguments, and ending up loosing their jobs.
This kids think they are artists, and behavior as they are.
The sad thing is that.... I'm an original Nexus user for years now.
I'm very satisfied. Yet. =)
(the thing has annoying glitches, but it does the job right!)
My main concern now is how in the hell I'll get another, if my one gets broke or stolen. I didn't liked *any* of the current alternatives. All of them are too much expensive, and doesn't give back anything that I already don't have (granted - my needs are not so sophisticated, I don't watch 1080i videos on demand on my phone!).
MySQL is good enough for 80% of the currently web sites. Damn it, even PHP is good enough for a small site.
As someone below states, if you need to be serious about ACID, you can switch to InnoDB.
Are you pissed of with Oracle? Go for MariaDB.
I like PostGRES, and acknowledge its technical superiority on every single aspect of MySQL.
But I'm using MariaDB on my site: I (still) don't need the PostGRES superiority, and MariaDB is easier to maintain (not to mention its smaller memory footprint!).
But yet, are these same developers that are being *highly* paid on these Web 2.0 times.
Serious. I was of of them - but got kicked out because I made the huge mistake of pointing the obvious: you must be a skilled programmer to do programs right. Ruby On Rails will not make a good coder from a dumb ass.
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Welcome to the XXI Century version of "Brave New World". =P
I think you missed the irony. :-)
No joke is so absurd that can't reflect someone's life! :-P
+1 Insightful. =]
Apple's financial reports illustrate this point. They generate little (as a percentage) in non-hardware sales.
Until its market share growing starts to stagnate, when they'll use the lock down to milk down the customer for content.
It's an improvement, really.
In the past, Microsoft used to take the bashing alone!
They will sell the Nexus One again? Sweet! :-)
(common, what word of "original Nexus" didn't you understand?)
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=original+nexus+google
Why do we as a society tolerate this useless sideshow? Oh, because of all the money involved, right.
What's money, anyway?
Can you eat it? It will nurse you when sick? Protect you from a bullet?
What will happens to these guys when the money they think they have became worhless, as no one will have more to trade?
Money it's worthless. It must exchange hands in order to have some value. Any kind of action that encumbers this dynamics should be dealt as a crime against the People.
And once it's proven that the claim is false, who will pay for the harm done?
It was intentional.
I'm not dumb, I don't want Oracle suing me!!!! X-)
I used [code], not [tt].
I'll use [ecode] nowadays. Thanks!
I remember that.
Conectiva Server 1.0 was my second bite on Linux, and it was a tasteful one.
I enjoyed that printed manuals for weeks. Still have them.
How about Man/Drake? =]
Damnit. I will bite the bait.
So your follow up is that Oracle is the "2nd biggest software house on planet, the clear leader in several verticals and makes and/or sells literrally hundred of products".
Ok. So do Microsoft and IBM (Microsoft is the first, and IBM is bigger than all to them). And this does not makes the three look the same, does?
Oh, wait! Microsoft funded SCO in order to jeopardize the Open Source products, didn't? Well,. these ones looks the same to me.
Well., so he probably shouldn't had fired that clever trainee. :-)
Which of these things in even a remote way, describes SCO?
The FUD.
boolean function rangeCheck(
const int value,
const int min,
const int max)
{
return ( (min <= value) && (value <= max) );
}
And an additional 3 minutes to figure out that the code I was writing in another window was typed here by mistake.
So, yes - I give you that. 5 to 10 minutes. You're right. :-)
Copyeur Und Pasteur : the most practiced software development process. :-P
boolean function rangeCheck(
const int value,
const int min,
const int max)
{
return ( (min <= value) && (value >= value) )
}
Ok. More 7 minutes tryiung to figure out why the comparasion operators fucked up a block of what should be a plain text block. X-(
(thanks, slashdot!)
5-10 minutes, including the bureaucratic work of doing it on a CMMI level process.
boolean function rangeCheck(
const int value,
const int min,
const int max)
{
return ( (min
MARK. I took me less than a minute! ;-)
IMHO, Oracle's lawyers were plain stupid in this issue.
HOW IN HELL they didn't run a background check on the judge? Books are public information!
Common! Know your enemy! the more basic rule in any conflict management!
I would mark carefully the names involved in this process. This is lawyer that I would *never* hire.
To tell you the true, this gives us a clear hint about Oracle's future.
SCO did exactly the same thing in the past - but, honestly, I think SCO's lawyers did a better job.
Not just that, but good use of relations and normalization makes whole classes of bug impossible.
That's precisely the motive the current cast of "developers" avoid it like the Devil.
They NEED bugs in order to justify the overdue payments and overpaid weekend death marches.
Software Development *must* be a arcane practice, not a scientific knowledge - or they will be measured under rational arguments, and ending up loosing their jobs.
This kids think they are artists, and behavior as they are.
The sad thing is that.... I'm an original Nexus user for years now.
I'm very satisfied. Yet. =)
(the thing has annoying glitches, but it does the job right!)
My main concern now is how in the hell I'll get another, if my one gets broke or stolen. I didn't liked *any* of the current alternatives. All of them are too much expensive, and doesn't give back anything that I already don't have (granted - my needs are not so sophisticated, I don't watch 1080i videos on demand on my phone!).
Not really.
MySQL is good enough for 80% of the currently web sites. Damn it, even PHP is good enough for a small site.
As someone below states, if you need to be serious about ACID, you can switch to InnoDB.
Are you pissed of with Oracle? Go for MariaDB.
I like PostGRES, and acknowledge its technical superiority on every single aspect of MySQL.
But I'm using MariaDB on my site: I (still) don't need the PostGRES superiority, and MariaDB is easier to maintain (not to mention its smaller memory footprint!).
COBOL can be a bad language, but the best paid jobs around here are for COBOL programmers.
It's hard to find a position (someone must die in order to open up a position), but once you get it, it's for life. =]
But yet, are these same developers that are being *highly* paid on these Web 2.0 times.
Serious. I was of of them - but got kicked out because I made the huge mistake of pointing the obvious: you must be a skilled programmer to do programs right. Ruby On Rails will not make a good coder from a dumb ass.
The dumb asses joined up em kick me out. =D