I think that early on PostgreSQL got a reputation as more difficult to install and administer. It also was considered slower in comparison to MySQL. If I remember correctly MySQL also had a native windows version well before PostgreSQL.
I think that when one looks at the projects that picked up and ran with MySQL - for them it was enough. Whatever it lacks - they didn't really need. So it started to gain momentum and hasn't really slowed down. And once a project gets past that point, it starts to be used for that reason alone. Look around and see how easy it is to find a host that supports MySQL compared to PostgreSQL. A couple years ago it was even worse.
Those are some of the factors I'm aware of that I think lead to the current situation. Those are pretty obvious but I think also pretty significant. A last one may be the difference in licensing. That's more complicated and less obvious but I think the commercial side of MySQL may have played into the whole thing as well.
everyone? really? I'd go for 'a lot of the people who work with MySQL' but I'd be skeptical if someone said 'the majority' and I really can't go with 'everyone'.
I think it covers pretty much everything for 5.1 which just became generally available and stuff for 6.0 which is still in alpha - so I think that it is going to be a valid resource for a while yet.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. If we have to play car analogy - lets say both cars engines will fail if you go over 80 kmh on a sunday while wearing blue. One vendor will tell you before you buy the car - the other waits until you've been on the phone with roadside assistance for a couple days. The severity of the issue is the same - it's just how the manufacturer handles it that is different.
To step away from the metaphor for a second - I have had severity 1 service tickets open with Oracle support for over a day that ended up being unpublished bugs that were fixed with a patch that was not available until you knew you had run into the bug. Sev 1 to be clear is production systems down.
I worked on a project with an Oracle consultant who had been on his own before he joined Oracle. I asked why he made the switch and he told me it was for one main reason - so that he would get full access to all the documentation, including all the bugs and open issues.
I love PostgreSQL - it's my personal favorite. But that doesn't stop me from realistically looking at features. I'd love to see them implement real partitioning but it's not there yet. Last I checked master/master replication was still not really there for PostgreSQL either. If these features came to MySQL first would you change your tune?
Then there is just the reality of the fact that MySQL did gain a huge amount of momentum and there are lost of people out there (myself included) who have to work with it. Whether I really prefer it or not is irrelevant.
that was tongue in cheek - the truth is with that list MySQL is still doing better than what one will get with a lot of commercial dbs. MySQL still lags in features (all the FOSS rdbms solution do) but it is catching up fast. When partitioning and master/master replication fully arrive it will be an incredible option. Those are expensive features anywhere else.
I remember being at the MS SQL Server 2005 launch and the presenter had to mention that one of their new replication options would be "included but not supported" because it didn't really fully work yet. Licensing and development models differ but at the end of the day software is still software.
maybe they are just trying hard to be more like the commercial enterprise databases. my experience with oracle was that they have a lot more bugs than this - it's just you can't actually find out about them until you call support. Then you find out they have known about it for some time, they just don't publish it. They hide all this stuff instead and only let certain things out.
I'm sure it is an easy problem to fix - if it is a problem. What I've seen on this so far seemed to hype the whole "All you need is a url" deal. I'm not a particularly devious person - but the problem with that approach jumped out at me immediately.
I've gone through and I haven't seen how one keeps anyone with the url from participating. If there is no mechanism to do this, how long before someone has a script out there that generates random urls and looks for matching documents? I can see how this could become somewhat entertaining or infuriating depending on ones point of view.
My understanding was that contrails contribute to global dimming and are helping to keep temperatures down. If I read the article correctly, this would not remove any pollution, just remove the clouds and allow temperatures to be even higher. Reading it made me think that the goal has become to have no impact on climate at all - positive or negative. That doesn't seem right, so I think maybe I'm missing something.
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I'm not sure - he mentions monogamy as the optimum more than once - but I don't think it would really stand out unless one was already aware of some of the controversy around some of Card's statements on issues.
There is a lot of time contemplating the morality of killing especially in regards to self-defense. I don't know that their is necessarily any position espoused beyond it being better not to kill others if possible. The book raises more questions than it gives answers. It didn't feel overly preachy to me - from any viewpoint - Christian or otherwise. Hopefully that helps to answer your "question".
I'm surprised I had to read this far down to see this. When people ask me about college I tell them, "My Uncle payed for my school."
All this talk of a federal buyout - the government payed 20 grand for my school and I finished my first degree with no debt and had a great time doing it. I also learned a lot in the time between high school and starting college.
Then when I was all done and in the work force I used a VA loan to buy my first house with no money down. I put up less cash for that first house than I put down on my first car. It got me started. The military is a very smart move for lots of people on a lot of levels.
Just to be clear - they did not turn it down because of the D&D connection but because of policies in place about how they filter the funds they take that may make them appear to endorse events they do not control. This is completely normal and sensible. I am sure they would love to have the money - but they aren't going to put themselves into a position that violates policies put into place for a good reason. And to save you the time of a click and page load: Christian Childrenâ(TM)s Fund made the decision to decline the gift from Gen Con, LLC as the request presented to us gave the appearance that CCF (the organization) was an endorser or supporter of a gaming convention, which CCF was not. As many non-profit organizations, CCF is selective in its endorsements or support in order to maintain the integrity of its name and logo. We cannot lend our name to an event for which we have no involvement. This decision should in no way be interpreted as CCF holding an opinion on Mr. Gygax, gaming enthusiasts or the game Dungeons and Dragons.
From what I see, compared to yesterday, looks like they are cutting back on comments, rating and logging in to keep streaming the videos. They must be seeing quite a bit of traffic.
I grew up in AZ - moved to a state that does daylight savings a couple years ago. I hate it. I never felt any lack for not having it or thought, "Gee, I wished we messed with the clocks twice a year."
We should replace it with nothing. Just eliminate it. It would simplify life at no cost.
There is a requirement to speak english - though there are exceptions. She might have fit into one of those. But based on my personal experience, it must be possible to pass the test and move on without gaining a command of the language that lasts.
I think it is likely that she can speak some amount of English - but chooses not to. Or she could to pass the test but has lost most of it from not using it. The day we met her for lunch we ate at a Brazilian restaurant and I was the only one in there that was a native english speaker. My friends used english at the table to be nice to me, but had to translate for the waitress so she could take my order. The whole shopping center was Brazilian businesses with their signs all in Portuguese.
Then you have people like my Peurto Rican neighbors who don't have to go through any kind of naturalization process. Many of them the children will speak english, but the parents do not. The kids are bilingual.
There is a public school here that does classes in english and spanish. Half the year of each and no mixing of the two. They always have to turn kids away so many want in on it. The kids with english as a first language help out the others for the english half and vice versa when they switch. But the teachers stick to the current language. When my kids get old enough I'll try to get them in on it if we are still here. Like I said - I'd rather embrace the change than fight it because I don't think the demographics make it a fight that can even be won.
I may just may be more disconnected from what is said about the people in those places, and of course more aware of what is said about my own country. I do wish though that people here were aware that this is a human problem not necessarily an American problem. And I do bring up those 2 examples because they are so obvious and come quickly to mind I think that prejudice against people who don't use the local language exists in just about every place to some degree.
The only place I've ever visited where I really didn't sense this was Hungary. That was by far the most multilingual place I've ever been. Though I have to say - it is the only place in Europe I have visited so far. Maybe it is not so remarkable in that way to those who have traveled more than I have.
The vast majority of Spanish speaking immigrants in the U.S. are not here legally. Passing a higher minimum wage or shorter work week would not help them. When I lived in the southwest, and knew many illegal immigrants from Mexico - most had two jobs. Once again I'm unsure how the kind of legislation you've mentioned could help them.
Where I live now, most of my Spanish speaking neighbors are American citizens via Puerto Rico. They are middle class people who drive nice cars, live in homes just like mine (or nicer) and choose not to learn English because they don't have to.
And I don't have a problem with it - maybe I wasn't clear enough about that. They are free to do whatever they want in my eyes. I'm learning Spanish because that is the way things are going and I don't see the trend reversing any time soon. And once again, I'm fine with that. My entire point of jumping into the discussion is that it seems to me that all over the world, many people seem to resent newcomers who don't assimilate - yet most don't seem to receive the negative press (as far as I can see) as Americans who press for immigrants here to learn English. That's all.
The difference for you, I am willing to bet is volume. If you had the number of immigrants come to your country that we have here, and they moved into neighborhoods where they instantly became the majority, owned the businesses, etc. They wouldn't need to learn the local language.
I have a co-worker who has an aunt that is an American citizen, she has lived here for well over 10 years and she has never learned English. She lives in an area primarily populated with Brazilians and does just fine with Portuguese. I've visited the neighborhood and I'm the one that struggles because I don't know Portuguese. That's less common here than Spanish being a majority language - but the same principle is at work.
I am one of those people that truly enjoys diversity and being around people who are different from me. I thrive on this stuff. I love to travel - to try and really experience different places and ways of life.
Now maybe people integrate well in Finland because the government has done a better job - but I'm skeptical that this is the case. I'll bet that it is more complicated than that and the numbers alone are more to do with the situation than anything else. Just my opinion.
I think it is purely a numbers game. I live in a part of the US (Florida) where speaking Spanish is becoming essential. Not using it gets me dirty looks and sub-par service in a number of places I go.
The only thing that bothers me is that sometimes where I live if English speaking Americans get vocal about wanting others to speak English they get pilloried. Yet this outlook, wanting visitors or immigrants to assimilate in language is much more widespread. And in some places the steps taken to enforce the local language are so strong as to be codified into law. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to it because I live here, but I am unaware of people who say push for Dutch in parts of Belgium, or those who enforce the use of French in parts of Canada, being vilified like the people who push hard for English in America.
Me - I figure that stuff is fluid and fighting it is foolish.
I think that moving outside one's native culture/setting is a good idea for anyone. It really helps to gain a wider perspective of the world.
All the travel I've done to this point in my life has been primarily in Asia and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I tried to get a tech job in Korea a number of years back, just after I'd gotten into the industry, but it didn't work out.
This year I had the chance to spend a couple weeks in Hungary. That was my first visit to Europe but I thought it was a great place and would be happy to live there. I kind of expected that though.
Latin America would be interesting, though I'd think that unless one is in a major metropolis that they had best be prepared for a difference in standard of living and available services. I see Costa Rica mentioned a lot - and I think an advantage there would also be that there are many people who are very fluent in English. A lot of Americans I know that want to learn Spanish quickly go there to do so.
I've been thinking a lot about spending a couple years or so in El Salvador. But I know of an opening there that I'd have a high chance of filling.
Developing countries offer a lot of neat opportunities. I think that if one goes into it with a good idea of the situation and proper preparation that it can be life changing for the better. I certainly don't think that globalization is slowing down. And for anyone planning to return to the U.S. eventually, I think learning Spanish would be wise.
I've only worked with Oracle a couple years. The people I've interacted with professionally all work in places where Oracle makes a ton of sense. Yes - it is a premium product but it does a lot of things that no one else can do - certainly not for less.
And I'd say any platform can be expensive to the ignorant. Even one that has no up front dollar costs - if the data is worth something. For example - we are an Oracle shop and so most people are used to using it in one way or another. One day a user comes to me - they were working with a new monitoring product that was being set up - it used MySQL as a repository. It was set up by a software vendor. They had accidentally just wiped out a couple weeks worth of work. They wanted me to fix it. I couldn't. If someone who knew what they were doing had set that database up right, it wouldn't have been a problem. But the attitude was, "It's MySQL. We don't need a DBA to take care of this." We take care of it now.
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I think that early on PostgreSQL got a reputation as more difficult to install and administer. It also was considered slower in comparison to MySQL. If I remember correctly MySQL also had a native windows version well before PostgreSQL.
I think that when one looks at the projects that picked up and ran with MySQL - for them it was enough. Whatever it lacks - they didn't really need. So it started to gain momentum and hasn't really slowed down. And once a project gets past that point, it starts to be used for that reason alone. Look around and see how easy it is to find a host that supports MySQL compared to PostgreSQL. A couple years ago it was even worse.
Those are some of the factors I'm aware of that I think lead to the current situation. Those are pretty obvious but I think also pretty significant. A last one may be the difference in licensing. That's more complicated and less obvious but I think the commercial side of MySQL may have played into the whole thing as well.
everyone? really? I'd go for 'a lot of the people who work with MySQL' but I'd be skeptical if someone said 'the majority' and I really can't go with 'everyone'.
I think it covers pretty much everything for 5.1 which just became generally available and stuff for 6.0 which is still in alpha - so I think that it is going to be a valid resource for a while yet.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. If we have to play car analogy - lets say both cars engines will fail if you go over 80 kmh on a sunday while wearing blue. One vendor will tell you before you buy the car - the other waits until you've been on the phone with roadside assistance for a couple days. The severity of the issue is the same - it's just how the manufacturer handles it that is different.
To step away from the metaphor for a second - I have had severity 1 service tickets open with Oracle support for over a day that ended up being unpublished bugs that were fixed with a patch that was not available until you knew you had run into the bug. Sev 1 to be clear is production systems down.
I worked on a project with an Oracle consultant who had been on his own before he joined Oracle. I asked why he made the switch and he told me it was for one main reason - so that he would get full access to all the documentation, including all the bugs and open issues.
I love PostgreSQL - it's my personal favorite. But that doesn't stop me from realistically looking at features. I'd love to see them implement real partitioning but it's not there yet. Last I checked master/master replication was still not really there for PostgreSQL either. If these features came to MySQL first would you change your tune?
Then there is just the reality of the fact that MySQL did gain a huge amount of momentum and there are lost of people out there (myself included) who have to work with it. Whether I really prefer it or not is irrelevant.
that was tongue in cheek - the truth is with that list MySQL is still doing better than what one will get with a lot of commercial dbs. MySQL still lags in features (all the FOSS rdbms solution do) but it is catching up fast. When partitioning and master/master replication fully arrive it will be an incredible option. Those are expensive features anywhere else.
I remember being at the MS SQL Server 2005 launch and the presenter had to mention that one of their new replication options would be "included but not supported" because it didn't really fully work yet. Licensing and development models differ but at the end of the day software is still software.
maybe they are just trying hard to be more like the commercial enterprise databases. my experience with oracle was that they have a lot more bugs than this - it's just you can't actually find out about them until you call support. Then you find out they have known about it for some time, they just don't publish it. They hide all this stuff instead and only let certain things out.
I'm sure it is an easy problem to fix - if it is a problem. What I've seen on this so far seemed to hype the whole "All you need is a url" deal. I'm not a particularly devious person - but the problem with that approach jumped out at me immediately.
We are too entertaining to fail!
I've gone through and I haven't seen how one keeps anyone with the url from participating. If there is no mechanism to do this, how long before someone has a script out there that generates random urls and looks for matching documents? I can see how this could become somewhat entertaining or infuriating depending on ones point of view.
My understanding was that contrails contribute to global dimming and are helping to keep temperatures down. If I read the article correctly, this would not remove any pollution, just remove the clouds and allow temperatures to be even higher. Reading it made me think that the goal has become to have no impact on climate at all - positive or negative. That doesn't seem right, so I think maybe I'm missing something.
I'm not sure - he mentions monogamy as the optimum more than once - but I don't think it would really stand out unless one was already aware of some of the controversy around some of Card's statements on issues.
There is a lot of time contemplating the morality of killing especially in regards to self-defense. I don't know that their is necessarily any position espoused beyond it being better not to kill others if possible. The book raises more questions than it gives answers. It didn't feel overly preachy to me - from any viewpoint - Christian or otherwise. Hopefully that helps to answer your "question".
I'm surprised I had to read this far down to see this. When people ask me about college I tell them, "My Uncle payed for my school."
All this talk of a federal buyout - the government payed 20 grand for my school and I finished my first degree with no debt and had a great time doing it. I also learned a lot in the time between high school and starting college.
Then when I was all done and in the work force I used a VA loan to buy my first house with no money down. I put up less cash for that first house than I put down on my first car. It got me started. The military is a very smart move for lots of people on a lot of levels.
Just to be clear - they did not turn it down because of the D&D connection but because of policies in place about how they filter the funds they take that may make them appear to endorse events they do not control. This is completely normal and sensible. I am sure they would love to have the money - but they aren't going to put themselves into a position that violates policies put into place for a good reason. And to save you the time of a click and page load:
Christian Childrenâ(TM)s Fund made the decision to decline the gift from Gen Con, LLC as the request presented to us gave the appearance that CCF (the organization) was an endorser or supporter of a gaming convention, which CCF was not. As many non-profit organizations, CCF is selective in its endorsements or support in order to maintain the integrity of its name and logo. We cannot lend our name to an event for which we have no involvement. This decision should in no way be interpreted as CCF holding an opinion on Mr. Gygax, gaming enthusiasts or the game Dungeons and Dragons.
With a regular pencil he still boots faster but gets a bit jittery rendering 3d graphics. With a Pentel P205 he's unbeatable.
My father-in-law with a slide rule, graph paper and a mechanical pencil can outperform vista.
this is why my entire retirement plan consists of the thousands of facebook and myspace accounts that I have created.
From what I see, compared to yesterday, looks like they are cutting back on comments, rating and logging in to keep streaming the videos. They must be seeing quite a bit of traffic.
I grew up in AZ - moved to a state that does daylight savings a couple years ago. I hate it. I never felt any lack for not having it or thought, "Gee, I wished we messed with the clocks twice a year."
We should replace it with nothing. Just eliminate it. It would simplify life at no cost.
There is a requirement to speak english - though there are exceptions. She might have fit into one of those. But based on my personal experience, it must be possible to pass the test and move on without gaining a command of the language that lasts.
I think it is likely that she can speak some amount of English - but chooses not to. Or she could to pass the test but has lost most of it from not using it. The day we met her for lunch we ate at a Brazilian restaurant and I was the only one in there that was a native english speaker. My friends used english at the table to be nice to me, but had to translate for the waitress so she could take my order. The whole shopping center was Brazilian businesses with their signs all in Portuguese.
Then you have people like my Peurto Rican neighbors who don't have to go through any kind of naturalization process. Many of them the children will speak english, but the parents do not. The kids are bilingual.
There is a public school here that does classes in english and spanish. Half the year of each and no mixing of the two. They always have to turn kids away so many want in on it. The kids with english as a first language help out the others for the english half and vice versa when they switch. But the teachers stick to the current language. When my kids get old enough I'll try to get them in on it if we are still here. Like I said - I'd rather embrace the change than fight it because I don't think the demographics make it a fight that can even be won.
I may just may be more disconnected from what is said about the people in those places, and of course more aware of what is said about my own country. I do wish though that people here were aware that this is a human problem not necessarily an American problem. And I do bring up those 2 examples because they are so obvious and come quickly to mind I think that prejudice against people who don't use the local language exists in just about every place to some degree.
The only place I've ever visited where I really didn't sense this was Hungary. That was by far the most multilingual place I've ever been. Though I have to say - it is the only place in Europe I have visited so far. Maybe it is not so remarkable in that way to those who have traveled more than I have.
The vast majority of Spanish speaking immigrants in the U.S. are not here legally. Passing a higher minimum wage or shorter work week would not help them. When I lived in the southwest, and knew many illegal immigrants from Mexico - most had two jobs. Once again I'm unsure how the kind of legislation you've mentioned could help them.
Where I live now, most of my Spanish speaking neighbors are American citizens via Puerto Rico. They are middle class people who drive nice cars, live in homes just like mine (or nicer) and choose not to learn English because they don't have to.
And I don't have a problem with it - maybe I wasn't clear enough about that. They are free to do whatever they want in my eyes. I'm learning Spanish because that is the way things are going and I don't see the trend reversing any time soon. And once again, I'm fine with that. My entire point of jumping into the discussion is that it seems to me that all over the world, many people seem to resent newcomers who don't assimilate - yet most don't seem to receive the negative press (as far as I can see) as Americans who press for immigrants here to learn English. That's all.
The difference for you, I am willing to bet is volume. If you had the number of immigrants come to your country that we have here, and they moved into neighborhoods where they instantly became the majority, owned the businesses, etc. They wouldn't need to learn the local language.
I have a co-worker who has an aunt that is an American citizen, she has lived here for well over 10 years and she has never learned English. She lives in an area primarily populated with Brazilians and does just fine with Portuguese. I've visited the neighborhood and I'm the one that struggles because I don't know Portuguese. That's less common here than Spanish being a majority language - but the same principle is at work.
I am one of those people that truly enjoys diversity and being around people who are different from me. I thrive on this stuff. I love to travel - to try and really experience different places and ways of life.
Now maybe people integrate well in Finland because the government has done a better job - but I'm skeptical that this is the case. I'll bet that it is more complicated than that and the numbers alone are more to do with the situation than anything else. Just my opinion.
I think it is purely a numbers game. I live in a part of the US (Florida) where speaking Spanish is becoming essential. Not using it gets me dirty looks and sub-par service in a number of places I go.
The only thing that bothers me is that sometimes where I live if English speaking Americans get vocal about wanting others to speak English they get pilloried. Yet this outlook, wanting visitors or immigrants to assimilate in language is much more widespread. And in some places the steps taken to enforce the local language are so strong as to be codified into law. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to it because I live here, but I am unaware of people who say push for Dutch in parts of Belgium, or those who enforce the use of French in parts of Canada, being vilified like the people who push hard for English in America.
Me - I figure that stuff is fluid and fighting it is foolish.
I think that moving outside one's native culture/setting is a good idea for anyone. It really helps to gain a wider perspective of the world.
All the travel I've done to this point in my life has been primarily in Asia and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I tried to get a tech job in Korea a number of years back, just after I'd gotten into the industry, but it didn't work out.
This year I had the chance to spend a couple weeks in Hungary. That was my first visit to Europe but I thought it was a great place and would be happy to live there. I kind of expected that though.
Latin America would be interesting, though I'd think that unless one is in a major metropolis that they had best be prepared for a difference in standard of living and available services. I see Costa Rica mentioned a lot - and I think an advantage there would also be that there are many people who are very fluent in English. A lot of Americans I know that want to learn Spanish quickly go there to do so.
I've been thinking a lot about spending a couple years or so in El Salvador. But I know of an opening there that I'd have a high chance of filling.
Developing countries offer a lot of neat opportunities. I think that if one goes into it with a good idea of the situation and proper preparation that it can be life changing for the better. I certainly don't think that globalization is slowing down. And for anyone planning to return to the U.S. eventually, I think learning Spanish would be wise.
I've only worked with Oracle a couple years. The people I've interacted with professionally all work in places where Oracle makes a ton of sense. Yes - it is a premium product but it does a lot of things that no one else can do - certainly not for less.
And I'd say any platform can be expensive to the ignorant. Even one that has no up front dollar costs - if the data is worth something. For example - we are an Oracle shop and so most people are used to using it in one way or another. One day a user comes to me - they were working with a new monitoring product that was being set up - it used MySQL as a repository. It was set up by a software vendor. They had accidentally just wiped out a couple weeks worth of work. They wanted me to fix it. I couldn't. If someone who knew what they were doing had set that database up right, it wouldn't have been a problem. But the attitude was, "It's MySQL. We don't need a DBA to take care of this." We take care of it now.