the very idea that laws should be enacted for the good of the state is one of morality. the entire point of laws is making moral decisions for a group. it is valid to argue that this law does not reflect the morality of the majority but it is senseless to argue that you can't legislate morality.
The term fud gets thrown around a lot. It seems if anyone says something critical about something else, the supporters of the attacked thing, cry fud. So this piece should be saved so that it can be pointed to as a great example of just what fud is. Fear Uncertainty Doubt. I mean he wastes no time, talking about a linux 'cover up' and how such cover ups can lead to disaster, bringing in global warming and the war in Iraq. That's some serious Fear.
Then his first 'point', "Is Linux a Myth?". This pretty much nails uncertainty and he is just getting started. The best part is he will lay down why he thinks it is wrong to 'abstract' linux, while his entire article rests purely on doing that, because it would be too hard to be more specific.
The doubt is spread throughout - "Is Linux Secure?", "Is Linux is(sic) 'Open'?" And supports this by saying he gets email that isn't nice and that means one can't honestly discuss Linux. (This is shortly after he criticized the open source community for in-fighting - these kind of contradicitions are so common in this piece, the mind boggles.)
I love the bugaboo about how a lot of linux contributors don't use their real names and could actually be spies. He compares it to Soviet Russia which dovetails nicely with his 'commune' question. Oh noes! Linux is the red menace!! (He's smart enough not to be too direct with this but it is rather plain to see).
Reading the comments that follow the article is just as much fun. Someone says when they can plug in a usb stick and it is autodetected, or intall a program by double clicking on it, they will consider linux. Apparently it's been a few years since he actually has seen a gnome or kde desktop. I do those things regularly and I'm running a couple versions behind on my favorite desktop distro.
tfa is like 10 sentences - including this one The setup: LinuxBIOS + a Linux kernel + BusyBox + a tiny X11 server (Kdrive) + the Matchbox window manager + rxvt.(emphasis mine)
sim city, sim farm, sim ants -- i'd play any of the old sim games on ds and have fun with it.
sim ants would be really cool as you could have below ground and above ground on each screen. just get rid of that little hole that always runs to the enemy ants colony. it made the game too easy but i just couldn't resist using it.
I wonder how RMS is going to spin this victory to his States-side detractors?
not only the existing ones- but all the people who don't know anything about open source. i think this could be a good thing for linux globally, but for those of us in the u.s. this is going to be the source of a mountain of fud.
i'm not sure why they did it that way, and it's been so long, i had to double check that it was really farther. to me though, the real humor is that i thought it was really cool. of course i though parachute pants were pretty awesome at that time as well.
they ran it as a fold out poster and i had it up on my wall. that was kind of a cool time. i had a buddy (we were in jr. high) who sold a text adventure game he wrote on his commodore 64 to a local computer store. they sold copies of it on floppies.
i had a 16k expander cartridge. burned a lot of hours playing omega race on that machine too. called my first bbs on it. we didn't have a lot of money and i didn't appreciate enough at the time the money my dad put into that hobby of mine.
I had the "We See Farther" poster up in my room when I was a teenager. I wonder if there are still copies of that around. I would write programs on my Vic-20 and dream about being a cool developer. What a flood of memories this article brings back.
they may just see who they can get to return the stuff or charge - and get back what they can but drop it with anyone who objects. because you are right, they can't really do anything.
of course i don't feel bad for the people who will deal with the head-ache it generates because as you can see in the posted threads, word got out that it wasn't working properly and people went nuts loading up on free stuff.
the other day it was raining here - does that sometimes in florida- and my pots phone through bell south was down. so my wife had to im me at work - since our internet was still up. go figure.
but i don't want to comment on the book. i'm not trying to be sneaky about being in context. i'm pointing out simply that is cheaper at amazon and at the same time that they can use my link to throw a little something my way. i don't know how i could be more up front about it. i did mention that it got good reviews at amazon - but i'm not endorsing the book or implying that i have read it (i haven't and don't intend to).
as i mentioned i've had mixed reactions when i've done this so far. but people have used the link and it's gotten me some free stuff, so i'll probably stick with it. though - i just post a link when i happen to notice that a book review is up, so i miss more of them than i hit.
info week just ran an article on hp getting into data warehousing and bi that had this paragraph pretty early on: Until sitting down with InformationWeek recently, the company has been mum on the initiative--not so much as a peep from its normally talkative marketing team. Indeed, it's an unlikely move into a sector where IBM, Oracle, SAS Institute, and Teradata have years of experience, well regarded products, and loyal customers. Those four vendors--along with Microsoft, which has muscled in on the strength of its SQL Server database--hold about 85% of the $5.2 billion-a-year data warehousing software market, a sector IDC projects will grow 9.5% annually through 2010.
so you are right - there's a lot of opportunity there, even for a small player.
on a side note, i thought the opening paragraph described the current situation pretty well For more than a decade, big companies and sophisticated data aggregators have adopted data warehouses, yet few have mastered them, and many have outright failed in the effort or have been scared off by the complexity. The goal is to give workers access to real-time data across departments and geographic units, but more often than not, data warehouses end up as costly clunkers with outdated, inconsistent, and missing information.
I can't find anything to suggest it, but I suspect this group has some tricks to make updates less painful,
or - they are doing it an environment where data gets in via etl (or this streams stuff) and you aren't doing updates -- you are doing bi and reporting to make management's widgets do all kinds of nice things on their dashboards.
i think they are targeting the data warehouse market - not the transactional or general purpose market.
i've been curious as to why it bothers people. i appreciate that you've taken the time to respond to the question but i'll have to say i'm not too worried if the answer you've given are the main reasons. mostly because i'm not too sure that openly posting a link to another site is diminishing the content of a thread sure to include goatse, gnaa or something similar and secondly i don't know how doing so openly can be considered a con.
i'm not trying to diminish the importance of those arguments to you-- i'm just relieved i wasn't unintentionally doing something truly undesirable, by my standards.
i've done this a total of 3 times now. the first time it was pretty much ignored moderation wise. the second got modded up to +4 informative and this one is currently at -1 troll. but i don't really sweat it. i don't understand why it bothers people, and i've asked without getting a response - but it's not a big deal. all my referral fees are paid to me as amazon gift certificates and it's just a way to get a free book or cd once in a while. for all i know it's my wife modding this down -- she thinks i own too many books already.
smaller in number - but i'm willing to bet much more profitable and growing rapidly. we've been looking at data warehousing options and frankly most of them suck in one way or another. if someone can do it right - they can make a killing.
The article mentions that redhat and hp are listed among their partners. i'm not surprised by red hat or informatica (another partner though they aren't mentioned in the article) but i was a little surprised by hp - since they have been trying to get the word out about their own data warehousing and bi stuff. i wonder what that indicates about how they regard this new player.
also interesting is the wikipedia article on Michael Stonebraker if you aren't already familiar with him.
You can get it at amazon for $23.09 (eligible for free shipping if you go over $25). (That is an associates link - if that bothers you, don't click it. If history holds true there will be a non-associates link available right quick if not already)
It has received very high reviews there. (bookpool has it for about 59 cents less - though you do have to buy more to get free shipping - that one is not any kind of associates link or anything-- just giving some options.)
i don't think that is an associates link - i could be wrong. a lot of times, if i see a review in the 'mysterious future' i'll post an associates link. but it's just if i happen to catch it there -- which hasn't happened in a while. but i think various people do it when they get the opportunity. i don't know why people get so worked up about it.
i do know that it bothers some people (though i don't understand why) so i always mention that it is an associates link in the post and never post it anonymously.
but anyway - to get to your question specifically -- it's pretty easy to get first post if you are a subscriber and feel like taking time to wait for the story to go 'live'. i'd be interested in hearing why you think the practice is so offensive.
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the very idea that laws should be enacted for the good of the state is one of morality. the entire point of laws is making moral decisions for a group. it is valid to argue that this law does not reflect the morality of the majority but it is senseless to argue that you can't legislate morality.
could you name a law that doesn't legislate morality?
The term fud gets thrown around a lot. It seems if anyone says something critical about something else, the supporters of the attacked thing, cry fud. So this piece should be saved so that it can be pointed to as a great example of just what fud is. Fear Uncertainty Doubt. I mean he wastes no time, talking about a linux 'cover up' and how such cover ups can lead to disaster, bringing in global warming and the war in Iraq. That's some serious Fear.
Then his first 'point', "Is Linux a Myth?". This pretty much nails uncertainty and he is just getting started. The best part is he will lay down why he thinks it is wrong to 'abstract' linux, while his entire article rests purely on doing that, because it would be too hard to be more specific.
The doubt is spread throughout - "Is Linux Secure?", "Is Linux is(sic) 'Open'?" And supports this by saying he gets email that isn't nice and that means one can't honestly discuss Linux. (This is shortly after he criticized the open source community for in-fighting - these kind of contradicitions are so common in this piece, the mind boggles.)
I love the bugaboo about how a lot of linux contributors don't use their real names and could actually be spies. He compares it to Soviet Russia which dovetails nicely with his 'commune' question. Oh noes! Linux is the red menace!! (He's smart enough not to be too direct with this but it is rather plain to see).
Reading the comments that follow the article is just as much fun. Someone says when they can plug in a usb stick and it is autodetected, or intall a program by double clicking on it, they will consider linux. Apparently it's been a few years since he actually has seen a gnome or kde desktop. I do those things regularly and I'm running a couple versions behind on my favorite desktop distro.
This is fud, pure and simple.
tfa is like 10 sentences - including this one The setup: LinuxBIOS + a Linux kernel + BusyBox + a tiny X11 server (Kdrive) + the Matchbox window manager + rxvt.(emphasis mine)
sim city, sim farm, sim ants -- i'd play any of the old sim games on ds and have fun with it.
sim ants would be really cool as you could have below ground and above ground on each screen. just get rid of that little hole that always runs to the enemy ants colony. it made the game too easy but i just couldn't resist using it.
you can't resurrect what isn't dead. i never have trouble finding a bunch of kids on battle net willing to kick my ass.
You can get it for $4 more at B&N
I wonder how RMS is going to spin this victory to his States-side detractors?
not only the existing ones- but all the people who don't know anything about open source. i think this could be a good thing for linux globally, but for those of us in the u.s. this is going to be the source of a mountain of fud.
i'm not sure why they did it that way, and it's been so long, i had to double check that it was really farther. to me though, the real humor is that i thought it was really cool. of course i though parachute pants were pretty awesome at that time as well.
they ran it as a fold out poster and i had it up on my wall. that was kind of a cool time. i had a buddy (we were in jr. high) who sold a text adventure game he wrote on his commodore 64 to a local computer store. they sold copies of it on floppies.
i had a 16k expander cartridge. burned a lot of hours playing omega race on that machine too. called my first bbs on it. we didn't have a lot of money and i didn't appreciate enough at the time the money my dad put into that hobby of mine.
I had the "We See Farther" poster up in my room when I was a teenager. I wonder if there are still copies of that around. I would write programs on my Vic-20 and dream about being a cool developer. What a flood of memories this article brings back.
they may just see who they can get to return the stuff or charge - and get back what they can but drop it with anyone who objects. because you are right, they can't really do anything.
of course i don't feel bad for the people who will deal with the head-ache it generates because as you can see in the posted threads, word got out that it wasn't working properly and people went nuts loading up on free stuff.
the other day it was raining here - does that sometimes in florida- and my pots phone through bell south was down. so my wife had to im me at work - since our internet was still up. go figure.
it's a .net program written in c# -- i don't think you'll be seeing a linux version unless mono has come along farther than i had thought.
but i don't want to comment on the book. i'm not trying to be sneaky about being in context. i'm pointing out simply that is cheaper at amazon and at the same time that they can use my link to throw a little something my way. i don't know how i could be more up front about it. i did mention that it got good reviews at amazon - but i'm not endorsing the book or implying that i have read it (i haven't and don't intend to).
as i mentioned i've had mixed reactions when i've done this so far. but people have used the link and it's gotten me some free stuff, so i'll probably stick with it. though - i just post a link when i happen to notice that a book review is up, so i miss more of them than i hit.
info week just ran an article on hp getting into data warehousing and bi that had this paragraph pretty early on: Until sitting down with InformationWeek recently, the company has been mum on the initiative--not so much as a peep from its normally talkative marketing team. Indeed, it's an unlikely move into a sector where IBM, Oracle, SAS Institute, and Teradata have years of experience, well regarded products, and loyal customers. Those four vendors--along with Microsoft, which has muscled in on the strength of its SQL Server database--hold about 85% of the $5.2 billion-a-year data warehousing software market, a sector IDC projects will grow 9.5% annually through 2010.
so you are right - there's a lot of opportunity there, even for a small player.
on a side note, i thought the opening paragraph described the current situation pretty well
For more than a decade, big companies and sophisticated data aggregators have adopted data warehouses, yet few have mastered them, and many have outright failed in the effort or have been scared off by the complexity. The goal is to give workers access to real-time data across departments and geographic units, but more often than not, data warehouses end up as costly clunkers with outdated, inconsistent, and missing information.
based on stonebraker's history -- somebody acquiring it at some point seems a relatively safe bet.
I can't find anything to suggest it, but I suspect this group has some tricks to make updates less painful,
or - they are doing it an environment where data gets in via etl (or this streams stuff) and you aren't doing updates -- you are doing bi and reporting to make management's widgets do all kinds of nice things on their dashboards.
i think they are targeting the data warehouse market - not the transactional or general purpose market.
i've been curious as to why it bothers people. i appreciate that you've taken the time to respond to the question but i'll have to say i'm not too worried if the answer you've given are the main reasons. mostly because i'm not too sure that openly posting a link to another site is diminishing the content of a thread sure to include goatse, gnaa or something similar and secondly i don't know how doing so openly can be considered a con.
i'm not trying to diminish the importance of those arguments to you-- i'm just relieved i wasn't unintentionally doing something truly undesirable, by my standards.
thanks - that's pretty much how i look at it.
i've done this a total of 3 times now. the first time it was pretty much ignored moderation wise. the second got modded up to +4 informative and this one is currently at -1 troll. but i don't really sweat it. i don't understand why it bothers people, and i've asked without getting a response - but it's not a big deal. all my referral fees are paid to me as amazon gift certificates and it's just a way to get a free book or cd once in a while. for all i know it's my wife modding this down -- she thinks i own too many books already.
smaller in number - but i'm willing to bet much more profitable and growing rapidly. we've been looking at data warehousing options and frankly most of them suck in one way or another. if someone can do it right - they can make a killing.
The article mentions that redhat and hp are listed among their partners. i'm not surprised by red hat or informatica (another partner though they aren't mentioned in the article) but i was a little surprised by hp - since they have been trying to get the word out about their own data warehousing and bi stuff. i wonder what that indicates about how they regard this new player.
also interesting is the wikipedia article on Michael Stonebraker if you aren't already familiar with him.
You can get it at amazon for $23.09 (eligible for free shipping if you go over $25). (That is an associates link - if that bothers you, don't click it. If history holds true there will be a non-associates link available right quick if not already)
It has received very high reviews there. (bookpool has it for about 59 cents less - though you do have to buy more to get free shipping - that one is not any kind of associates link or anything-- just giving some options.)
i don't think that is an associates link - i could be wrong. a lot of times, if i see a review in the 'mysterious future' i'll post an associates link. but it's just if i happen to catch it there -- which hasn't happened in a while. but i think various people do it when they get the opportunity. i don't know why people get so worked up about it.
i do know that it bothers some people (though i don't understand why) so i always mention that it is an associates link in the post and never post it anonymously.
but anyway - to get to your question specifically -- it's pretty easy to get first post if you are a subscriber and feel like taking time to wait for the story to go 'live'. i'd be interested in hearing why you think the practice is so offensive.