The country the author is in - which would be easy for you to figure out if it weren't for that gigantic chip on your shoulder inhibiting your brain from proper function.
I just picked up a used ds lite with 3 games for $100. That should hold me for a while. I like that I can play GBA games on it - wouldn't want to give that up to be honest. The camera and music don't matter - I have other devices for that. The wireless store is cool - but not enough for me to shell out a bunch of money again. I'll probably end up getting a used DSi somewhere down the road I guess.
I'm more interested in seeing what happens with Apple. I keep seeing articles saying the ipod touch is a threat to the ds. I personally don't see it - but I'm not good at predicting that kind of thing. I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
If you were running Oracle - here is what they recommend:
RAM -> Swap Space
1 GB - 2 GB -> 1.5 times the size of RAM
2 GB - 8 GB -> Equal to the size of RAM
more than 8GB -> 0.75 times the size of RAM
I don't know if this would carry across to general computing - it seems to me if it's enough for an Oracle RDBMS server, it ought to do it for most things.
My guess is what you have here is a good indication that some company had enough money to fund a lobbyist to push for this to help them in the future since they use FOSS in their product. Not new insight or greater education on the part of law makers.
One could now conceivably have a datacenter with Oracle machines, running Oracle OS for Oracle database, Oracle apps and Oracle middleware. This was pretty much the last piece.
Will everyone buy in? I doubt it - but they can now provide everything a business needs from top to bottom, if that business is so inclined.
It doesn't have to obviously be your own per se. If it matches your company, etc. this is more established in many people's minds as opposed to an account they immediately recognize as one that anyone can get in a couple of minutes.
If someone told me they worked for Oracle and had a gmail account on their business card - I'd wonder.
If I tell somebody I work for CCCI and then give them a card with my email address at ccci.org - that builds an impression of legitimacy.
As I said - it doesn't prove legitimacy. It's just an impression but sometimes in business first impressions can be incredibly important.
Currently I run on a similar deal for 9.95 a month - but that is month to month, no long term money up front. I've been thinking about moving over to somewhere cheaper- the only problem is I get concerned about coughing up 2 years worth of payments and then regretting it 2 or 3 months in.
I assume this has worked out well for you but do you have any other thoughts on them as a company? Have you needed support for any issues, how is the uptime, etc?
He may not be thinking about prospective employers. I can imagine that if he is trying to work with prospective customers - he may be looking for anything that will build an impression of legitimacy. Not that this is all it would take, but it would be one part of an over-all presentation.
It's my understanding they've had 2 shuttles out at the same time - 17 times prior to this, but that this is the last, and the only time it was for the purpose of an emergency plan. Of course this is all stuff I've read on news sites - so any of it could be wrong. I don't work for NASA or have any inside info. on just what is going on.
One other thing that is cool about it - in a purely subjective way - is that this is the last time 2 shuttles will be out on launch pads at the same time.
To get the full impact of this, one really needs to drive out there and take a look. Any time any of them are out there is just incredibly impressive. I know I've become pretty used to looking at pictures of the shuttle but every time I'm out at the space center or the wildlife refuge - I'm just blown away by the size of it all. This is all rather subjective, but it's still a big deal to me.
I think all the missions since the Columbia accident have been to the ISS. (I could be wrong - just going by memory) And when they go there they have multiple options for getting back, other than the shuttle they took to get up there.
When Atlantis goes to Hubble - if they have a Colombia repeat - with damage to a wing or something- they will have no way to come down safely. This gives them one option.
This is in case there is a problem on launch that allows Atlantis to make it to orbit, but it is too damaged to safely return. They would launch Endeavour to join Atlantis in orbit, they would use the robotic arms to pull the two vehicles together and then transfer crew from one to the other.
This msnbc article on it has some more details. I'd have linked that article for the submission - but I didn't see it until later, and the NASA site didn't have a permalink for their page on it at the time.
Read this 2003 NY Times article about Republican efforts to increase regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There is plenty of blame to go around. Here's a little snippet from the article: Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.
''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.
I'm not a proponent of either party - and so I think it makes it easier to see that they are both grossly incompetent for the most part.
Anyone can go to Oracle's web site and download the enterprise version of the database and install it. There is no activation or key necessary. Oracle can't do anything to your database.
As you say - you are in violation of the license if you use it that. Also - when you pay it isn't just to license the software. It is for support. And without a current support contract, you can't call oracle support or log in to metalink for support, downloading patches, etc.
More companies should handle these things the way that Oracle does.
Nice. And Larry can afford to give somebody a break once in a while. I think one thing though that becomes an issue sometimes is that Oracle has made agreements with the Feds that the price they got is the low price and they wont go around selling it for less than that to others.
It can make it interesting. I work for a non-profit so we get some nice deals from them too.
That's good negotiating on your part - though Oracle Enterprise out of the box does not have the same feature set as SQL Server Enterprise. Partitioned tables are one example. There is also all the extra you have to pay if you want the full functionality of enterprise manager. There are more but those are the ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
Oracle has done a lot to be competitive with SQL Server - but they did a lot to bring down cost by splitting functionality off and charging for it separately.
You are right - if they are using Oracle as the back-end for their own apps. But just like MySQL gets all the FOSS love - any company running stuff like PeopleSoft, Siebel (both owned by Oracle now) SAP, etc. wont be looking at MySQL as an option. They will be building on something commercial.
Where I work, the biggest MySQL database we have is being moved to Oracle to make it easier to integrate with or Oracle stuff running some of the above mentioned apps.
And don't get me wrong - if I was building my own app under most circumstances my first choice would be PostgreSQL. And to be honest, if I had to pay for an RDBMS and I was already running windows at all - I'd go with SQL Server over Oracle. It's way cheaper and does a good job to a point. And that point is pretty far out there.
And once things got really big and lots of dollars were involved, I'd throw Oracle into the mix.
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And you know why we become DBAs - because we don't just hate you -- we hate everybody. Us Oracle DBAs even hate ourselves.
The country the author is in - which would be easy for you to figure out if it weren't for that gigantic chip on your shoulder inhibiting your brain from proper function.
try sticking a 4 gig sdhc card in there - wont work.
I just picked up a used ds lite with 3 games for $100. That should hold me for a while. I like that I can play GBA games on it - wouldn't want to give that up to be honest. The camera and music don't matter - I have other devices for that. The wireless store is cool - but not enough for me to shell out a bunch of money again. I'll probably end up getting a used DSi somewhere down the road I guess.
I'm more interested in seeing what happens with Apple. I keep seeing articles saying the ipod touch is a threat to the ds. I personally don't see it - but I'm not good at predicting that kind of thing. I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
Actually, I heard that is 100% accidental. Something to do with tea, sponge-cake and a crazy party in the lab late one night.
If you were running Oracle - here is what they recommend:
RAM -> Swap Space
1 GB - 2 GB -> 1.5 times the size of RAM
2 GB - 8 GB -> Equal to the size of RAM
more than 8GB -> 0.75 times the size of RAM
I don't know if this would carry across to general computing - it seems to me if it's enough for an Oracle RDBMS server, it ought to do it for most things.
My guess is what you have here is a good indication that some company had enough money to fund a lobbyist to push for this to help them in the future since they use FOSS in their product. Not new insight or greater education on the part of law makers.
One could now conceivably have a datacenter with Oracle machines, running Oracle OS for Oracle database, Oracle apps and Oracle middleware. This was pretty much the last piece.
Will everyone buy in? I doubt it - but they can now provide everything a business needs from top to bottom, if that business is so inclined.
apparently they are not worried
It doesn't have to obviously be your own per se. If it matches your company, etc. this is more established in many people's minds as opposed to an account they immediately recognize as one that anyone can get in a couple of minutes.
If someone told me they worked for Oracle and had a gmail account on their business card - I'd wonder.
If I tell somebody I work for CCCI and then give them a card with my email address at ccci.org - that builds an impression of legitimacy.
As I said - it doesn't prove legitimacy. It's just an impression but sometimes in business first impressions can be incredibly important.
Currently I run on a similar deal for 9.95 a month - but that is month to month, no long term money up front. I've been thinking about moving over to somewhere cheaper- the only problem is I get concerned about coughing up 2 years worth of payments and then regretting it 2 or 3 months in.
I assume this has worked out well for you but do you have any other thoughts on them as a company? Have you needed support for any issues, how is the uptime, etc?
Thanks if you have the time to give more info.
He may not be thinking about prospective employers. I can imagine that if he is trying to work with prospective customers - he may be looking for anything that will build an impression of legitimacy. Not that this is all it would take, but it would be one part of an over-all presentation.
It's my understanding they've had 2 shuttles out at the same time - 17 times prior to this, but that this is the last, and the only time it was for the purpose of an emergency plan. Of course this is all stuff I've read on news sites - so any of it could be wrong. I don't work for NASA or have any inside info. on just what is going on.
One other thing that is cool about it - in a purely subjective way - is that this is the last time 2 shuttles will be out on launch pads at the same time.
To get the full impact of this, one really needs to drive out there and take a look. Any time any of them are out there is just incredibly impressive. I know I've become pretty used to looking at pictures of the shuttle but every time I'm out at the space center or the wildlife refuge - I'm just blown away by the size of it all. This is all rather subjective, but it's still a big deal to me.
I think all the missions since the Columbia accident have been to the ISS. (I could be wrong - just going by memory) And when they go there they have multiple options for getting back, other than the shuttle they took to get up there.
When Atlantis goes to Hubble - if they have a Colombia repeat - with damage to a wing or something- they will have no way to come down safely. This gives them one option.
Which is exactly what you do if a tow truck breaks down.
This is in case there is a problem on launch that allows Atlantis to make it to orbit, but it is too damaged to safely return. They would launch Endeavour to join Atlantis in orbit, they would use the robotic arms to pull the two vehicles together and then transfer crew from one to the other.
This msnbc article on it has some more details. I'd have linked that article for the submission - but I didn't see it until later, and the NASA site didn't have a permalink for their page on it at the time.
so I'm not the only one thinking along those lines - good to know.
Could be - just like the Democrats acted like they were all hot to do all kinds of things a couple years ago - got control and have done nothing.
The more you pay attention the more you'll see that the differences between the two parties are insubstantial.
Read this 2003 NY Times article about Republican efforts to increase regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There is plenty of blame to go around. Here's a little snippet from the article:
Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.
''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.
I'm not a proponent of either party - and so I think it makes it easier to see that they are both grossly incompetent for the most part.
Anyone can go to Oracle's web site and download the enterprise version of the database and install it. There is no activation or key necessary. Oracle can't do anything to your database.
As you say - you are in violation of the license if you use it that. Also - when you pay it isn't just to license the software. It is for support. And without a current support contract, you can't call oracle support or log in to metalink for support, downloading patches, etc.
More companies should handle these things the way that Oracle does.
Nice. And Larry can afford to give somebody a break once in a while. I think one thing though that becomes an issue sometimes is that Oracle has made agreements with the Feds that the price they got is the low price and they wont go around selling it for less than that to others.
It can make it interesting. I work for a non-profit so we get some nice deals from them too.
Thank you - missed that.
That's good negotiating on your part - though Oracle Enterprise out of the box does not have the same feature set as SQL Server Enterprise. Partitioned tables are one example. There is also all the extra you have to pay if you want the full functionality of enterprise manager. There are more but those are the ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
Oracle has done a lot to be competitive with SQL Server - but they did a lot to bring down cost by splitting functionality off and charging for it separately.
You are right - if they are using Oracle as the back-end for their own apps. But just like MySQL gets all the FOSS love - any company running stuff like PeopleSoft, Siebel (both owned by Oracle now) SAP, etc. wont be looking at MySQL as an option. They will be building on something commercial.
Where I work, the biggest MySQL database we have is being moved to Oracle to make it easier to integrate with or Oracle stuff running some of the above mentioned apps.
And don't get me wrong - if I was building my own app under most circumstances my first choice would be PostgreSQL. And to be honest, if I had to pay for an RDBMS and I was already running windows at all - I'd go with SQL Server over Oracle. It's way cheaper and does a good job to a point. And that point is pretty far out there.
And once things got really big and lots of dollars were involved, I'd throw Oracle into the mix.