Because by my experience (3+ years) PostgreSQL is a quirky pain in the butt compared to MySQL. I have done $4 million+ in transactions using mysql, with no problems. It works, it makes sense, and it is user friendly (which PostgreSQL is anything but). Thats why.
Hmmm, you could set it and stand there if you planned on staying on the ship, and knew it wasn't going to be a typical explosion that could harm you...
See, then we are making a difference already (and if any of your too many lawyers are bored, sueing them isn't a bad idea). On with the boycott (except for Hertz, they're one of us...).
If you want to hurt MonsterHut, have tens of thousands of slashdotters email all of their clients (Hertz, Beaverhome, GrandPrixOnline, etc) and let them know you are boycotting their services because they are doing business with a known spammer, and you don't approve. Also send MonsterHut an email letting them know you are doing it. For that matter, send about 1,000,000 of them a day to MonsterHut (fire with fire...).
Um, you're wrong. DirecTV HAS lost in court in Canada, 31 times. DirecTV has NO rights to broadcast in Canada, and therefore gives away any service it sends up there (since it is tough to tell satellite to stop on specific geographic boundries). I wished I lived in Canada, because I would do it to. But in the US it is illegal and unethical, so I don't.
First, the military budget is WAY too big. I agree we have to protect ourselves, but we've got that base more than covered! Congress had a plane built which cost $80 billion for the prototype, which sucked and the air force didn't want, so congress pushed it through anyway and jammed a bunch of them down their throats at $23 billion a piece, just because some congressman's friend owned the company I'm sure. This waste goes on all day. When I see crap like this I feel like it is my moral obligation to find as many write-offs as I possibly can!
Yes, critical thinking is vital, but all kids today can do is follow: the latest advertising, the latest fashion trends, etc.
Many farmers should be subsidized, but not tobacco farmers. Potato's don't kill people, neither do carrots or peas. Tobacco does, and all smokers are idiots (I have always believed that and always will) for supporting the likes of Phillip Morris. The same goes for drinkers.
What can we do? We can take off our blinders, fix our own priorities, then rally to make sure those priorities are reflected in our government. It won't happen, but I can hope.
It is a sad commentary on our society that we place such a high value on athletes, actors, and others, who collectively contribute very little to the moral fabric of our society (and many who significantly detract from it), and yet place such a low value on our teachers. Without good teachers our society would be full of uneducated menaces (ahem, like it is today...), and would be coming apart at the seams (like it is today...), and we would lose our culture and identity (ahem, surprise, surpise, which we are...). For the most part, teachers are under-paid, under-trained, and have their hands tied with outdated technology and miniscule budgets, while the military has a huge budget, we subsidize tabacco farmers (at the same time we are sueing the tobacco industry), and waste money as if it were free. Yeah, we can blame it on the government, but we just watch it happen and get on with our lives, too busy coding to care. Shame on us. Shame on all of us.
Man, Bruce Perens can take a very tough argument, and boil it down to the very principles it is built upon and prove that the GPL (or BSD license, etc, as appropriate) is correct and the right solution.
This is the classic David and Goliath, and in this instance, my morals and principles dictate that I side with David. Goliath has only their interests at heart, and not the consumers, as they so deviantly state...
This should absolutely be opt-IN, NOT opt-out for both the web sites featured and the person browsing those sites. This is an absolute abuse of power and should not be listed as an "innovation".
Mundane? Mundane? Hello? Anyone in there? Show me one web site that does anything and has a lot of visitors that isn't absolutely database dependant (an in fact database intensive!). eBay, Amazon, SlashDot, FreshMeat, and every other web site of their kind (news, dynamic, auction, ecommerce) rely on databases. While databases are technical, the effect they have on the Net and computers in general is anything but mundane.
You wanted them to spend their R&D money on something useful to society, like porting Tomb Raider to Linux?
Oh, don't think for a minute that Red Hat only has $600,000 to work with. That is just their profit. So many people jumped on the bandwagon when they IPO'ed that they could have 100 products and marketing campaigns fail and still buy all slashdotters dinner...
RHAT has a market cap of $734.6 MILLION right now. They aren't putting all of their eggs in one basket (and no basket is that big, anyway...).
I think so, its in their best interest to do so. When bringing something to market, the FOCUS should be on getting wide acceptance as fast as possible, becoming the defacto standard. Look at ICQ (and a million similar products) that focused on getting a big user base and now have great market share (it sucks they were bought by AOL).
If they can get tons of people using it (think MySQL), and have robust features (think PostgreSQL and InterBase), and have enterprise level support (think Oracle and Informix) then they could have one heck of a product. AND it would extend Red Hat Linux as well, rather than just being a Red Hat-centric product that only reaches existing customers...
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Unions look good on paper, but the reality is that it is all about control and power, and not about whats best for the workers.
s/union/mafia/g
I have worked on union jobs before, where we were the only non-union workers on the site. We got paid by the foot, they got paid by the hour. We worked their arses off. They couldn't have kept up if there was a case of beer on the line. We worked better, faster, longer, and smarter. In the end we were there for 3 weeks, and they were there for 4 months, and the amount of work was comparable (on the 30 story Reno Hilton).
Despite how it looks on paper, unions are bad in reality, and are ruled in mafia fashion.
Yeah, I seem to remember that one of the more recent and VERY costly explosions like this was because somewhere in the software a number was negative when it should have been positive. The error had the same affect on a bank account somewhere...
All (or at least most) tax-payer funded space research and missions should be privatized. A company can do things better, cheaper, and faster than a government can. NASA has been proving that for years...
Bids should be VERY open, so that there isn't any pork-belly pay-offs like are so common now, and there should be massive accountability with the funds (hey, thats MY money you just blew up...).
With all of the money NASA has spent, there is NO reason we should have a station on the moon, entirely self-contained, solar powered (without an atmosphere the moon is a VERY efficient place for solar power and harvesting).
The moon is 20 percent metal, 20 percent silicon, and 60 percent oxygen (not in an atmospere). It is the perfect place for solar harvesting. The panels could even be made in factories on the moon. It would be zero polution, as electricity is free on the moon, all you can eat.
It should be done, and it should be done immediately. Such an effort on the moon would change life as we know it here on earth, and could eliminate fossil fuel needs by 2010...
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Because by my experience (3+ years) PostgreSQL is a quirky pain in the butt compared to MySQL. I have done $4 million+ in transactions using mysql, with no problems. It works, it makes sense, and it is user friendly (which PostgreSQL is anything but). Thats why.
Hmmm, you could set it and stand there if you planned on staying on the ship, and knew it wasn't going to be a typical explosion that could harm you...
Whoa?!? Speaking of space travel, what planet have you been on??? ;)
Clearly, by your use of the English language and superb punctuation, chess would overwhelm you.
Unless English is your second language, then I apologize...
Actually, the average dog costs its owner $13,500 over the life of the animal... way too much for me to pay.
Use the file command instead, it is much more readable...
See, then we are making a difference already (and if any of your too many lawyers are bored, sueing them isn't a bad idea). On with the boycott (except for Hertz, they're one of us...).
If you want to hurt MonsterHut, have tens of thousands of slashdotters email all of their clients (Hertz, Beaverhome, GrandPrixOnline, etc) and let them know you are boycotting their services because they are doing business with a known spammer, and you don't approve. Also send MonsterHut an email letting them know you are doing it. For that matter, send about 1,000,000 of them a day to MonsterHut (fire with fire...).
Um, you're wrong. DirecTV HAS lost in court in Canada, 31 times. DirecTV has NO rights to broadcast in Canada, and therefore gives away any service it sends up there (since it is tough to tell satellite to stop on specific geographic boundries). I wished I lived in Canada, because I would do it to. But in the US it is illegal and unethical, so I don't.
First, the military budget is WAY too big. I agree we have to protect ourselves, but we've got that base more than covered! Congress had a plane built which cost $80 billion for the prototype, which sucked and the air force didn't want, so congress pushed it through anyway and jammed a bunch of them down their throats at $23 billion a piece, just because some congressman's friend owned the company I'm sure. This waste goes on all day. When I see crap like this I feel like it is my moral obligation to find as many write-offs as I possibly can!
Yes, critical thinking is vital, but all kids today can do is follow: the latest advertising, the latest fashion trends, etc.
Many farmers should be subsidized, but not tobacco farmers. Potato's don't kill people, neither do carrots or peas. Tobacco does, and all smokers are idiots (I have always believed that and always will) for supporting the likes of Phillip Morris. The same goes for drinkers.
What can we do? We can take off our blinders, fix our own priorities, then rally to make sure those priorities are reflected in our government. It won't happen, but I can hope.
It is a sad commentary on our society that we place such a high value on athletes, actors, and others, who collectively contribute very little to the moral fabric of our society (and many who significantly detract from it), and yet place such a low value on our teachers. Without good teachers our society would be full of uneducated menaces (ahem, like it is today...), and would be coming apart at the seams (like it is today...), and we would lose our culture and identity (ahem, surprise, surpise, which we are...). For the most part, teachers are under-paid, under-trained, and have their hands tied with outdated technology and miniscule budgets, while the military has a huge budget, we subsidize tabacco farmers (at the same time we are sueing the tobacco industry), and waste money as if it were free. Yeah, we can blame it on the government, but we just watch it happen and get on with our lives, too busy coding to care. Shame on us. Shame on all of us.
Man, Bruce Perens can take a very tough argument, and boil it down to the very principles it is built upon and prove that the GPL (or BSD license, etc, as appropriate) is correct and the right solution.
This is the classic David and Goliath, and in this instance, my morals and principles dictate that I side with David. Goliath has only their interests at heart, and not the consumers, as they so deviantly state...
This should absolutely be opt-IN, NOT opt-out for both the web sites featured and the person browsing those sites. This is an absolute abuse of power and should not be listed as an "innovation".
SELECT * FROM table WHERE id > '1234' ORDER BY RAND()
...for those that are interested.
Mundane? Mundane? Hello? Anyone in there? Show me one web site that does anything and has a lot of visitors that isn't absolutely database dependant (an in fact database intensive!). eBay, Amazon, SlashDot, FreshMeat, and every other web site of their kind (news, dynamic, auction, ecommerce) rely on databases. While databases are technical, the effect they have on the Net and computers in general is anything but mundane.
You wanted them to spend their R&D money on something useful to society, like porting Tomb Raider to Linux?
Oh, don't think for a minute that Red Hat only has $600,000 to work with. That is just their profit. So many people jumped on the bandwagon when they IPO'ed that they could have 100 products and marketing campaigns fail and still buy all slashdotters dinner...
RHAT has a market cap of $734.6 MILLION right now. They aren't putting all of their eggs in one basket (and no basket is that big, anyway...).
I think so, its in their best interest to do so. When bringing something to market, the FOCUS should be on getting wide acceptance as fast as possible, becoming the defacto standard. Look at ICQ (and a million similar products) that focused on getting a big user base and now have great market share (it sucks they were bought by AOL).
If they can get tons of people using it (think MySQL), and have robust features (think PostgreSQL and InterBase), and have enterprise level support (think Oracle and Informix) then they could have one heck of a product. AND it would extend Red Hat Linux as well, rather than just being a Red Hat-centric product that only reaches existing customers...
Unions look good on paper, but the reality is that it is all about control and power, and not about whats best for the workers.
s/union/mafia/g
I have worked on union jobs before, where we were the only non-union workers on the site. We got paid by the foot, they got paid by the hour. We worked their arses off. They couldn't have kept up if there was a case of beer on the line. We worked better, faster, longer, and smarter. In the end we were there for 3 weeks, and they were there for 4 months, and the amount of work was comparable (on the 30 story Reno Hilton).
Despite how it looks on paper, unions are bad in reality, and are ruled in mafia fashion.
Yeah, I seem to remember that one of the more recent and VERY costly explosions like this was because somewhere in the software a number was negative when it should have been positive. The error had the same affect on a bank account somewhere...
All (or at least most) tax-payer funded space research and missions should be privatized. A company can do things better, cheaper, and faster than a government can. NASA has been proving that for years...
Bids should be VERY open, so that there isn't any pork-belly pay-offs like are so common now, and there should be massive accountability with the funds (hey, thats MY money you just blew up...).
With all of the money NASA has spent, there is NO reason we should have a station on the moon, entirely self-contained, solar powered (without an atmosphere the moon is a VERY efficient place for solar power and harvesting).
The moon is 20 percent metal, 20 percent silicon, and 60 percent oxygen (not in an atmospere). It is the perfect place for solar harvesting. The panels could even be made in factories on the moon. It would be zero polution, as electricity is free on the moon, all you can eat.
It should be done, and it should be done immediately. Such an effort on the moon would change life as we know it here on earth, and could eliminate fossil fuel needs by 2010...