The future prosperity of industrial economies depends on Info Tech and Networking/Communications infrastructure.
So "unknown IOC official" Jackboot Johnny puts Alston in the position of telecommunications minister, presumably to get the Grey Vote from those poor stupid (pre?) baby boomers who are afraid that computers will take over the world (ala Arnie coming back to kill Sarah Connor).
Young Australians need to TAKE HOLD OF THEIR FUTURE NOW before the current crop of geriatric assholes run our economy into the ground.
Foreign keys can be implemented by the programmer with an index and a subquery. It's the subquery that that needs to be implemented in MySQL, not foreign keys.
Once subqueries are implemented, a competent programmer will be able to implement foreign keys hirself. Do you place yourself in that esteem (ie. competent programmer)?
Reason 1: Installation
My experience, and the experience of a friend while we were making the pilgramage from Doze to the Holy Land was this.....
It took me three frustrating days NOT to install PostgreSQL and two frustrating hours to install MySQL.
One of my pals spent every evening for a week and one whole Saturday to install PostgreSQL, then decided to download the Oracle developer's version for Linux, which he installed in one Saturday.
Reason 2: For PHP web development, it's easy, fast an 'feature adequate'
The only feature I miss in MySQL (which may have been added since), is subqueries ie. SELECT y FROM z WHERE x in (SELECT a FROM b WHERE y)
Apart from that, developing PHP/web based applications is pretty easy with MySQL, and since it was probably installed on my various web-hosts for Reason 1 above, it was more available.
The Ocean ALREADY absorbes 3/4 of the world's CO2. They have these funny creatures called PLANKTON, that if they could just get sunlight and a break from the dioxins we dump into the seas each year, they could eat all the CO2 we give them.
These days scientists are very knowledgable about one subject and complete ignoramuses about everything else.
Yeah...don't solve they problem, create a new one for our grand-children to sort out.
Here's my example: I work at a small-town Iowa computer firm. We create software in the health industry where competition is tight and our tiny company is certainly overshadowed by many 'big dogs'. We have many good, new ideas on how to make our software do the job for our clients cleaner and better. However, if we don't watch it, we could release a product and one of our larger competitors could easily and quickly copy our idea, exploit it, and make a fortune.
Right... but you are in a small vertical market, where the benefits of open-source are extremely small.
For a company that makes software, the real point of making their code open source is that it allows a greater number of programmers to extend and debug it, thus acclerating the speed of development and the robustness of the software.
The problem with this is that small vertical market applications don't attract many programmers generally, and very few that wouldn't work for your competition. A look on sourceforge shows a great number of excellent ideas languishing due to lack of interest.
And for your clients, the advantage to open-source is that
(a) it prevents being held hostage to your company for service and upgrades(the IBM model)
(b) being unable to extend the product the way they wish, and you wont do it because it will cause a maintainence nightmare to support and upgrade many different versions of the same software.
(c) being able to get another software company to pick up the pieces if your company goes out of business.
You may be able to educate your clients as to how this could be to their advantage, but I would certainly NOT recommend using a GPL licence.
No, my recommendation would be to create your own open source licence. The OSI website has many different OS licences that you can chop and change as you please. The great thing about a licence is that is basically a commercial contract, and so it can be anything you like, as long as the customer agrees to it.
Most of the resins used in Carbon Fibre Composites are not thermosetting, they are thermoplastic.
Some cfc's have been made that can resist temperatures up to 600deg.far, but they are much more expensive than the cfc's that are used in race-cars, yachts, bicycles etc.
A modern commercial jet travels an speeds in excess of 600mph (I cant remember the top speed of 747), which creates a high surface temperature on the skin of the aircraft due to the air resistance. The U2, which flew at 60,000ft where it's very cold and the air is very thin, still needed to use titanium instead of aluminium because of the heat generated by air resistance.
The structural quantities of cfc's are well known, but the thermal qualities, and the effect of temperature on structural qualities are largely un-tested.
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The future prosperity of industrial economies depends on Info Tech and Networking/Communications infrastructure.
So "unknown IOC official" Jackboot Johnny puts Alston in the position of telecommunications minister, presumably to get the Grey Vote from those poor stupid (pre?) baby boomers who are afraid that computers will take over the world (ala Arnie coming back to kill Sarah Connor).
Young Australians need to TAKE HOLD OF THEIR FUTURE NOW before the current crop of geriatric assholes run our economy into the ground.
Foreign keys can be implemented by the programmer with an index and a subquery. It's the subquery that that needs to be implemented in MySQL, not foreign keys.
Once subqueries are implemented, a competent programmer will be able to implement foreign keys hirself. Do you place yourself in that esteem (ie. competent programmer)?
Reason 1: Installation
My experience, and the experience of a friend while we were making the pilgramage from Doze to the Holy Land was this.....
It took me three frustrating days NOT to install PostgreSQL and two frustrating hours to install MySQL.
One of my pals spent every evening for a week and one whole Saturday to install PostgreSQL, then decided to download the Oracle developer's version for Linux, which he installed in one Saturday.
Reason 2: For PHP web development, it's easy, fast an 'feature adequate'
The only feature I miss in MySQL (which may have been added since), is subqueries ie. SELECT y FROM z WHERE x in (SELECT a FROM b WHERE y)
Apart from that, developing PHP/web based applications is pretty easy with MySQL, and since it was probably installed on my various web-hosts for Reason 1 above, it was more available.
The Ocean ALREADY absorbes 3/4 of the world's CO2. They have these funny creatures called PLANKTON, that if they could just get sunlight and a break from the dioxins we dump into the seas each year, they could eat all the CO2 we give them.
These days scientists are very knowledgable about one subject and complete ignoramuses about everything else.
Yeah...don't solve they problem, create a new one for our grand-children to sort out.
Here's my example: I work at a small-town Iowa computer firm. We create software in the health industry where competition is tight and our tiny company is certainly overshadowed by many 'big dogs'. We have many good, new ideas on how to make our software do the job for our clients cleaner and better. However, if we don't watch it, we could release a product and one of our larger competitors could easily and quickly copy our idea, exploit it, and make a fortune.
Right... but you are in a small vertical market, where the benefits of open-source are extremely small.
For a company that makes software, the real point of making their code open source is that it allows a greater number of programmers to extend and debug it, thus acclerating the speed of development and the robustness of the software.
The problem with this is that small vertical market applications don't attract many programmers generally, and very few that wouldn't work for your competition. A look on sourceforge shows a great number of excellent ideas languishing due to lack of interest.
And for your clients, the advantage to open-source is that
(a) it prevents being held hostage to your company for service and upgrades(the IBM model)
(b) being unable to extend the product the way they wish, and you wont do it because it will cause a maintainence nightmare to support and upgrade many different versions of the same software.
(c) being able to get another software company to pick up the pieces if your company goes out of business.
You may be able to educate your clients as to how this could be to their advantage, but I would certainly NOT recommend using a GPL licence.
No, my recommendation would be to create your own open source licence. The OSI website has many different OS licences that you can chop and change as you please. The great thing about a licence is that is basically a commercial contract, and so it can be anything you like, as long as the customer agrees to it.
Most of the resins used in Carbon Fibre Composites are not thermosetting, they are thermoplastic.
Some cfc's have been made that can resist temperatures up to 600deg.far, but they are much more expensive than the cfc's that are used in race-cars, yachts, bicycles etc.
A modern commercial jet travels an speeds in excess of 600mph (I cant remember the top speed of 747), which creates a high surface temperature on the skin of the aircraft due to the air resistance. The U2, which flew at 60,000ft where it's very cold and the air is very thin, still needed to use titanium instead of aluminium because of the heat generated by air resistance.
The structural quantities of cfc's are well known, but the thermal qualities, and the effect of temperature on structural qualities are largely un-tested.