I wonder though, if you wrote a software package that could use a multitude of DBs, like postgres or Microsoft SQL, if you then could offer the client the option of installing MySQL on their own machine. Your software package wouldn't actually "require" MySQL but could use it if available. Would you need a commercial license then?
What if you were hired as an employee of sed company for a month long contract and sed company wanted you to install MySQL for some of their open source apps already running, say a company intranet website running some kind of open messageboard. Then, after sed contract runs out, you sell them your software package for use with their existing MySQL server. Do you need a license then?
There's also the fact that Oracle has a real, proven track record of reliability and scaliblity. There are bunches of companies that run huge Oracle databases on mainframe-supercomptuer hardware that can't ever be down, not even for a minute, and have done so for years.
Can something like MySQL do the same? Well, I honestly don't know. However if you are in a position where there will be extreme losses from an outage, you don't want to be the one to test and maybe find out that no, indeed it can't.
Oracle products have a place. They are expensive because of what they can do and how they can do it and they are very much worth the expense to those in the position that need them. MySQL should not be compared to the Oracle line but that doesn't make MySQL bad. It's just different.
That's a horrible analogy. The same GPS satellites used by the military are used by civilians for the exact same purpose.
Really? Exactly how many guided bombs have you dropped lately?
If you don't know what your kids are buying with the money you give them you have no right to be a parent. And if your kids are old enough to make their own money I say they've earned the right to "corrupt" themselves.
Riiiight....you're an idiot. Kids get money. So...a 14 year old kid should be able to buy porn? "If you're old enough to cut grass...."
You're an idiot. Why shouldn't there be a law against selling kids adult material? (besides the fact that it's not completely enforceable) You let a 14 year old into a strip club...you go to jail...what's the problem.
Does it matter that they didn't steal any money. I think they got a light sentence. Hacking into corporate systems with the intent of collecting credit card information, I assume for the purpose of identity theft, is a serious crime. They should have given them more time in jail as to send a message. "Don't steal credit card information or face 15 years of anal rape"
You, like so many others, misunderstand the reason for this technology. It may never work, but the more important point is that we can use it as a bargaining chip.
More precisely, the threat of the US having nukes while being protected against other countries nukes is terrifying to the other countries. It may not work now, but unless they give us what we want from them, we threaten to continue development until it does work.
Yes. I believe Ron Reagan called that "...defeating mutually assured destruction".
I think that the point is, even if the thing doesn't work right out of the gate, the fact that the technology is being created to complete the task is the science. Who knows what technology might come out of it for the private sector. Remember, GPS was a military project too and that's working out pretty good for the private sector no?
what exactly is your business? How much are you planning to charge. In the long run it may cost you more to keep the pay system running than you actually make in revenue from the system. For example, I'm sure if starbucks could force you to buy something in order to use the wireless internet access they would, but they would probably lose more money in wasting employee time and printing receipts and creating a ticket system etc. than they would actually gain from the few people who just mooch off the system. Yeah, there are going to be those people, but if your business offers a good enough product, most people who want to use the internet will probably end up patrons as well.
Actually, Starbucks doesn't charge because they want you to sit in their shops and drink and eat till your heart is content. More internet means more coffee. That's good for Starbucks. Plus the WiFi is a write off for them. That's also good for Starbucks.
Plus, these numbers are extrapolated out from interviews with 1000 households. That couldn't be more inaccurate.
Think of it. An interviewer comes into your neighborhood...
"How many people do you know who died?"
"10"
~~next house~~~
"How many people do you know who died?"
"10"
~~next house~~~
"How many people do you know who died?"
"10"
~~next house~~~
"How many people do you know who died?"
"10"
Is that 40 people dead in your neighborhood or the same 10?
Don't forget that the body count of civilians is not entirely due to American force. It's just a body count. Lot's have died due to their countrymen's efforts.
Be made BeBoxes. I never thought of them as el cheapo small boxxen like this AMD box. They used dual PPC chips in the later versions and dual CPUs from AT&T in the first models. Here's a/. article about Be.
Right, then they had a "Focus Change" and decided to throw all their efforts into an "Internet Device" called BeIA, cementing their corporate failure.
He probably also doesn't mind lying either as Windows had no such functioning DRM system for music. Maybe it is in WM9 but it still didn't prevent the posession and use of "stolen" MP3 music. And of course, the DRM system for Windows itself is effectively broken. If the music industry believes otherwise, I think they are in for a surprise.
True enough but I think the point is... MS probably wants to switch everyone over to using WMF instead of MP3 which, as you know, is a pretty hard nut to crack.
That's exactly how you win customers -- by alienating them.
His target "customers" are people like the music industry which he is not alienating. He knows that users are stupid for the most part and will buy what's cheaper and more popular so he doesn't mid alienating them.
The "as far as corporate America..." means that if the world was using a Microsoft based device, then they could force everything to be played in a format in which they could use their DRM system to insure that everything played was paid for and legal.
Which means that corporate America (ex. the music industry) should start helping MS gain more market share in that market.
I'd like to add that every single one of us here survived just fine without the benefits of cellphone baby monitors and live video feeds. I was raised by two working parents and spent much of my time with baby sitters and housekeepers. We had great babysitters, okay babysitters, and horrible babysitters. I could type a bunch of horror stories but none of the babysitters were bad enough to injure us though. It takes an incredibly stupid person to intentionally injure a child and you should be able to spot that kind of person in the interview process.
Remove head from ass please.
There are lots of us that ARE NOT HERE that might have been if there were baby monitors "back then."
When you're a parent and you're sleeping, you would like to know if your child is violently choking on his/her vomit or even pillow. Baby monitors are great. Obsessively monitoring isn't the answer but for sure you need to take advantage of SOME technology. Lot's of kids survived without vaccines too but that's no reason to...aw forget it.
I have a top-of-the-line (as of 3 months ago) PC, an XBox, a PS2, and a GameCube. I can get enough Freecell. I think it has to do with the fact that it takes some problem solving skills and you can start or stop a game on the drop of a hat (even come back to a game halfway into it).
I assume you meant that you can['t] get enough freecell.
1999 Free Software Advocate: It's not fair! I don't have a choice of browsers!
2004 Free Software Advocate: Don't give them a choice and they won't be able to use IE!
Ah...at last. The student becomes the master. That's really great.
That's the problem with the undercurrent of this whole MS vs. productX problem. "It sucks" "Mine's Better" "Blah Blah"
IE takes so many hits and attacks because it's #1. If Moz ever gets to be #1, the script kiddies won't be writing attacks on IE flaw because it'll be no big fucking deal. The reason IE "sucks" is because it's got a huge target on its back. I like moz as much as the next guy but cmon people....
most of the books don't cover the topics of cli-based php which is unfourtunate.
Things like php-ncurses and php-gtk or even how to properly debug cli apps and it is strange saying there is a large following of PHP commandline (cli) people out there.
And don't forget ActivePHP which is a neat little deal for scripting nice little windows based php apps.
The only part that isn't compatible is the 56k modem, and i doubt many of us here would use it anyway.
I use the modem on my windows laptop all the time. In fact, I would bet I use the modem more than the NIC since I really only use the machine when I am mobile and not around a broadband connection.
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I wonder though, if you wrote a software package that could use a multitude of DBs, like postgres or Microsoft SQL, if you then could offer the client the option of installing MySQL on their own machine. Your software package wouldn't actually "require" MySQL but could use it if available. Would you need a commercial license then?
What if you were hired as an employee of sed company for a month long contract and sed company wanted you to install MySQL for some of their open source apps already running, say a company intranet website running some kind of open messageboard. Then, after sed contract runs out, you sell them your software package for use with their existing MySQL server. Do you need a license then?
There's also the fact that Oracle has a real, proven track record of reliability and scaliblity. There are bunches of companies that run huge Oracle databases on mainframe-supercomptuer hardware that can't ever be down, not even for a minute, and have done so for years.
Can something like MySQL do the same? Well, I honestly don't know. However if you are in a position where there will be extreme losses from an outage, you don't want to be the one to test and maybe find out that no, indeed it can't.
Oracle products have a place. They are expensive because of what they can do and how they can do it and they are very much worth the expense to those in the position that need them. MySQL should not be compared to the Oracle line but that doesn't make MySQL bad. It's just different.
Hacking into corporate systems with the intent of collecting credit card information, I assume for the purpose of identity theft, is a serious crime.
I object your honor, calls for conclusion.
Overruled. Why else would one steal credit card information? Education?
That's a horrible analogy. The same GPS satellites used by the military are used by civilians for the exact same purpose.
Really? Exactly how many guided bombs have you dropped lately?
If you don't know what your kids are buying with the money you give them you have no right to be a parent. And if your kids are old enough to make their own money I say they've earned the right to "corrupt" themselves.
Riiiight....you're an idiot. Kids get money. So...a 14 year old kid should be able to buy porn? "If you're old enough to cut grass...."
You're an idiot. Why shouldn't there be a law against selling kids adult material? (besides the fact that it's not completely enforceable) You let a 14 year old into a strip club...you go to jail...what's the problem.
Does it matter that they didn't steal any money. I think they got a light sentence. Hacking into corporate systems with the intent of collecting credit card information, I assume for the purpose of identity theft, is a serious crime. They should have given them more time in jail as to send a message. "Don't steal credit card information or face 15 years of anal rape"
You, like so many others, misunderstand the reason for this technology. It may never work, but the more important point is that we can use it as a bargaining chip. More precisely, the threat of the US having nukes while being protected against other countries nukes is terrifying to the other countries. It may not work now, but unless they give us what we want from them, we threaten to continue development until it does work.
Yes. I believe Ron Reagan called that "...defeating mutually assured destruction".
I think that the point is, even if the thing doesn't work right out of the gate, the fact that the technology is being created to complete the task is the science. Who knows what technology might come out of it for the private sector. Remember, GPS was a military project too and that's working out pretty good for the private sector no?
what exactly is your business? How much are you planning to charge. In the long run it may cost you more to keep the pay system running than you actually make in revenue from the system. For example, I'm sure if starbucks could force you to buy something in order to use the wireless internet access they would, but they would probably lose more money in wasting employee time and printing receipts and creating a ticket system etc. than they would actually gain from the few people who just mooch off the system. Yeah, there are going to be those people, but if your business offers a good enough product, most people who want to use the internet will probably end up patrons as well.
Actually, Starbucks doesn't charge because they want you to sit in their shops and drink and eat till your heart is content. More internet means more coffee. That's good for Starbucks. Plus the WiFi is a write off for them. That's also good for Starbucks.
Plus, these numbers are extrapolated out from interviews with 1000 households. That couldn't be more inaccurate. Think of it. An interviewer comes into your neighborhood...
"How many people do you know who died?"
"10"
~~next house~~~
"How many people do you know who died?"
"10"
~~next house~~~
"How many people do you know who died?"
"10"
~~next house~~~
"How many people do you know who died?"
"10"
Is that 40 people dead in your neighborhood or the same 10?
Don't forget that the body count of civilians is not entirely due to American force. It's just a body count. Lot's have died due to their countrymen's efforts.
Be made BeBoxes. I never thought of them as el cheapo small boxxen like this AMD box. They used dual PPC chips in the later versions and dual CPUs from AT&T in the first models. Here's a /. article about Be.
Right, then they had a "Focus Change" and decided to throw all their efforts into an "Internet Device" called BeIA, cementing their corporate failure.
Didn't the consumer market decide that it didn't want this type of thing before? What was that thing that Be INC made again? (besides failure)
A lot of people are missing the point.
Emergency calls OUTSIDE, people.
RTFA man, it says
"Devedjian specified however that emergency calls and calls made outside theaters and other performance spaces must not be affected."
It says nothing about emergency calls OUTSIDE.
He probably also doesn't mind lying either as Windows had no such functioning DRM system for music. Maybe it is in WM9 but it still didn't prevent the posession and use of "stolen" MP3 music. And of course, the DRM system for Windows itself is effectively broken. If the music industry believes otherwise, I think they are in for a surprise.
True enough but I think the point is... MS probably wants to switch everyone over to using WMF instead of MP3 which, as you know, is a pretty hard nut to crack.
and who would pay money for a device that only play drm media?
Do you own a DVD player?
Try playing your new DVD copy of "Spaceballs" on your player and then go Greece and see how you make out.
Gamma rays yes...but radioactive debris no. Ergo the interest.
That's exactly how you win customers -- by alienating them.
His target "customers" are people like the music industry which he is not alienating. He knows that users are stupid for the most part and will buy what's cheaper and more popular so he doesn't mid alienating them.
The "as far as corporate America..." means that if the world was using a Microsoft based device, then they could force everything to be played in a format in which they could use their DRM system to insure that everything played was paid for and legal.
Which means that corporate America (ex. the music industry) should start helping MS gain more market share in that market.
I'd like to add that every single one of us here survived just fine without the benefits of cellphone baby monitors and live video feeds. I was raised by two working parents and spent much of my time with baby sitters and housekeepers. We had great babysitters, okay babysitters, and horrible babysitters. I could type a bunch of horror stories but none of the babysitters were bad enough to injure us though. It takes an incredibly stupid person to intentionally injure a child and you should be able to spot that kind of person in the interview process.
Remove head from ass please.
There are lots of us that ARE NOT HERE that might have been if there were baby monitors "back then."
When you're a parent and you're sleeping, you would like to know if your child is violently choking on his/her vomit or even pillow. Baby monitors are great. Obsessively monitoring isn't the answer but for sure you need to take advantage of SOME technology. Lot's of kids survived without vaccines too but that's no reason to...aw forget it.
File and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP SP2
Wow...what a shock. Who knew?
Cue the Windows bashers please...
I have a top-of-the-line (as of 3 months ago) PC, an XBox, a PS2, and a GameCube. I can get enough Freecell. I think it has to do with the fact that it takes some problem solving skills and you can start or stop a game on the drop of a hat (even come back to a game halfway into it).
I assume you meant that you can['t] get enough freecell.
(pointing out mistakes of others is fun)
1999 Free Software Advocate: It's not fair! I don't have a choice of browsers!
2004 Free Software Advocate: Don't give them a choice and they won't be able to use IE!
Ah...at last. The student becomes the master.
That's really great.
That's the problem with the undercurrent of this whole MS vs. productX problem. "It sucks" "Mine's Better" "Blah Blah"
IE takes so many hits and attacks because it's #1. If Moz ever gets to be #1, the script kiddies won't be writing attacks on IE flaw because it'll be no big fucking deal. The reason IE "sucks" is because it's got a huge target on its back. I like moz as much as the next guy but cmon people....
most of the books don't cover the topics of cli-based php which is unfourtunate. Things like php-ncurses and php-gtk or even how to properly debug cli apps and it is strange saying there is a large following of PHP commandline (cli) people out there.
And don't forget ActivePHP which is a neat little deal for scripting nice little windows based php apps.
The only part that isn't compatible is the 56k modem, and i doubt many of us here would use it anyway.
I use the modem on my windows laptop all the time. In fact, I would bet I use the modem more than the NIC since I really only use the machine when I am mobile and not around a broadband connection.