I would suggest that until then, you remain sceptical. Calling it bogus from the start says you believe the scientists are utterly incompetent; and saying that about people you know nothing of speaks volumes about yourself.
You have no idea what you're talking about, apparently. Get informed before you start whining.
The community editions of MySQL and Cluster (NDB) are still as freely downloadable as ever. If you want support, you'll have to cough up. I know, it's terribly bad form of them to not support you for free. Oh, except for the mailing lists, on which quite a few of the lead developers and some pretty good DBAs are active.
As for the Oracle licenses, you seem to be stuck in 1990 or something. Oracle pricing is way to complicated to explain here - even if I did understand all of it - but list price is one hell of a lot more expensive than what you say.
> Now they're charging for MySQL? Is this like Oracle Linux, where you are paying for the "support" or are they properly charging you?
The community version is still freely downloadable, as it has always been. Supported versions are freely downloadable too, but of course you have to cough up for maintenance contracts. That, too, is how it has always been.
I don't much look at the actual code, so I can't comment on the quality of that; but more bugs seem to get closed and more features seem to get developed than before. I'm not complaining.
I was around when it was first being developed (albeit not actively involved), and I find that to be wholly unsurprising. Back then, it had to do both with the topographical complexity of the environment it runs in, and the quality of the majority of people involved. Things might have changed in the mean time (I left years ago), but your remark makes me doubtful.
The only conclusion I can draw from that, is that Windows 7 must be so bad it makes XP look good; and by extension, that MS OSes get worse over time instead of better.
I started up a multimonitor virtualbox, just for you. Don't you feel special, now ?
At first, it seemed to mirror the screens, but that turned out to not entirely be true: it did do a multimonitor desktop, but superimposed the screens - possibly because both monitors were called VBX, silly virtualbox.
The Unity bar appears on the lefthandside of the leftmost monitor. It was a bit big for the screen size, maybe it got confused because the right screen was larger, but it handles this by scrolling (a bit slowly) when the pointer is near the top or bottom edge.
The top bar (slight glitch in the drop shadow) appears on both screens, with both the right-hand notification area and the mouse-over menus on both screens, but the Ubuntu menu only on the left screen, above the Unity bar.
This seems to work just fine out of the box, as I'd expect any vaguely recent window manager to do. Have a screenshot.
> Yet... to get philosophical, achieving true longevity in a design isn't simple, is it? Is it luck? Brilliance? Trial and error?
As De Saint-Exupery once wrote, true perfection is not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Longevity comes from fitness for purpose and maintainability, both of which root in simplicity.
> NO PROOF of any CC problems that can be linked to the PSN breach Pretty hard to prove in the best of cases. You could just as easily go the other way and have Sony prove someone else leaked the card. You'd need to track down the source of the fraudulent charges and keep tracking right to the source in both cases.
> no way the banks would allow [...] without being regularly audited Are you really suggesting that banks audit their corporate customers' software, on a regular basis?
> Sony reported [...] a little over a day after they found out Umm... they've taken PSN down a week ago. I only just today received notification. They reported 'external intrusion' on their blogs almost a week ago. That tells me the 'possibility' was known from way back then.
Not exactly. Your card is stored, so the PS3's master account holder doesn't need to get off his arse to top up the PS3 points wallet. Once that walled is topped, all of the system's users can buy content.
Topping up the wallet isn't automatical. You need the master account password to do it.
Given the depth of their legal coffers, I'd say it's more likely to be a floating fortress, yes. Those are just the coordinates to the thermal exhausts.
Heh. Just got the Dutch notification, too. It says data was 'compressed' and more crap like that. Seems they can't even be bothered to get proper translators.
He has a point, though: leave the door ajar. It'll save you the cost of replacing a window *and* it saves on shark food for the tank under the trapdoor in the hallway.
What do you mean, you don't have a trapdoored shark tank as part of your alarm system ?
Where does it say that the module *detects* trolling? It is an alternative for banning; that is, *you* flag an account as 'troll' and it then gets fucked over by the module.
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Like alcolhol, nicotine and caffeine, you mean?
Just like Clarke writes science fiction? The whole idea of sf is to postulate about what might be possible.
Faster *and* lower-powered, from *Intel* ?
Truly, the end is nigh.
> Linux fanboys still have 6 digit Slashdot accounts.
Jealous, are we ?
I would suggest that until then, you remain sceptical. Calling it bogus from the start says you believe the scientists are utterly incompetent; and saying that about people you know nothing of speaks volumes about yourself.
There *are* several shades of grey between 'not helping at all' and 'sacrificing everything to help'.
You see, that's what they call "random". Fancy concept, really.
You have no idea what you're talking about, apparently. Get informed before you start whining.
The community editions of MySQL and Cluster (NDB) are still as freely downloadable as ever. If you want support, you'll have to cough up. I know, it's terribly bad form of them to not support you for free. Oh, except for the mailing lists, on which quite a few of the lead developers and some pretty good DBAs are active.
As for the Oracle licenses, you seem to be stuck in 1990 or something. Oracle pricing is way to complicated to explain here - even if I did understand all of it - but list price is one hell of a lot more expensive than what you say.
> Now they're charging for MySQL? Is this like Oracle Linux, where you are paying for the "support" or are they properly charging you?
The community version is still freely downloadable, as it has always been. Supported versions are freely downloadable too, but of course you have to cough up for maintenance contracts. That, too, is how it has always been.
I don't much look at the actual code, so I can't comment on the quality of that; but more bugs seem to get closed and more features seem to get developed than before. I'm not complaining.
One would presume it would be a lot easier in Pakistan. Unless you're searching for a very specific one, of course.
I was around when it was first being developed (albeit not actively involved), and I find that to be wholly unsurprising. Back then, it had to do both with the topographical complexity of the environment it runs in, and the quality of the majority of people involved. Things might have changed in the mean time (I left years ago), but your remark makes me doubtful.
Stop reading my mind, you heathen.
The only conclusion I can draw from that, is that Windows 7 must be so bad it makes XP look good; and by extension, that MS OSes get worse over time instead of better.
I started up a multimonitor virtualbox, just for you. Don't you feel special, now ?
At first, it seemed to mirror the screens, but that turned out to not entirely be true: it did do a multimonitor desktop, but superimposed the screens - possibly because both monitors were called VBX, silly virtualbox.
The Unity bar appears on the lefthandside of the leftmost monitor. It was a bit big for the screen size, maybe it got confused because the right screen was larger, but it handles this by scrolling (a bit slowly) when the pointer is near the top or bottom edge.
The top bar (slight glitch in the drop shadow) appears on both screens, with both the right-hand notification area and the mouse-over menus on both screens, but the Ubuntu menu only on the left screen, above the Unity bar.
This seems to work just fine out of the box, as I'd expect any vaguely recent window manager to do. Have a screenshot.
I conclude that the cloud is really cake, and now want some.
I tend to use the control key. My brain claims that the shift key doesn't always seem to work, but offers no particular examples.
Postfactum Explanation Possum also says "it's at the corner of the keyboard, so less adjacent keys to accidentally press".
> Plus, if you set the speed limit to 85, how fast do you think people would be driving then?
Following this brilliant bit of deduction, let's set the speed limit to c. We'll finally have FTL travel.
> Yet ... to get philosophical, achieving true longevity in a design isn't simple, is it? Is it luck? Brilliance? Trial and error?
As De Saint-Exupery once wrote, true perfection is not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Longevity comes from fitness for purpose and maintainability, both of which root in simplicity.
See also: KISS principle.
> PSN is free
Playstation Plus isn't.
> NO PROOF of any CC problems that can be linked to the PSN breach
Pretty hard to prove in the best of cases. You could just as easily go the other way and have Sony prove someone else leaked the card. You'd need to track down the source of the fraudulent charges and keep tracking right to the source in both cases.
> no way the banks would allow [...] without being regularly audited
Are you really suggesting that banks audit their corporate customers' software, on a regular basis?
> Sony reported [...] a little over a day after they found out
Umm... they've taken PSN down a week ago. I only just today received notification. They reported 'external intrusion' on their blogs almost a week ago. That tells me the 'possibility' was known from way back then.
Not exactly. Your card is stored, so the PS3's master account holder doesn't need to get off his arse to top up the PS3 points wallet. Once that walled is topped, all of the system's users can buy content.
Topping up the wallet isn't automatical. You need the master account password to do it.
Given the depth of their legal coffers, I'd say it's more likely to be a floating fortress, yes. Those are just the coordinates to the thermal exhausts.
Heh. Just got the Dutch notification, too. It says data was 'compressed' and more crap like that. Seems they can't even be bothered to get proper translators.
> underground black markets sell botnet time just like Amazon sells computer cycles
One might even go so far as to think Amazon got the idea there.
He has a point, though: leave the door ajar. It'll save you the cost of replacing a window *and* it saves on shark food for the tank under the trapdoor in the hallway.
What do you mean, you don't have a trapdoored shark tank as part of your alarm system ?
Where does it say that the module *detects* trolling? It is an alternative for banning; that is, *you* flag an account as 'troll' and it then gets fucked over by the module.