I've been on both sides of this coin, as a developer and IT manager. I can't speak to other fields, but in IT it's simply a numbers issue. There are SO MANY candidates for the job, and so many of them are terrible, that it's just not feasible to waste 15 minutes of my time on each one to determine that they suck. So we use BrainBench and the like as a pre-screening process.
Now, there are exceptions of course. Some people know their stuff but are bad at taking tests and I've moved forwards on otherwise impressive resumes where they bombed the test. And there are unscrupulous headhunters who give the answers to the candidates so they get 100% on the test but can't answer a question intelligently. But overall it's a good first step at weeding out much of the chaff.
And they don't want to destroy the innovative, anti-Microsoft, pro-Google Firefox or Safari browsers. No sensible parasite kills its host. They only want to take down IE, which drives traffic to MS search.
Wow, Google is a parasite on Firefox huh? Look, I'm as big a Firefox fan as anyone, but that's really stretching it quite a bit... your first and last sentence are spot-on though:)
Uh... Webkit doesn't have vulnerabiities it has bugs... the browser is what has vulnerabilities. Webkit has no network stack... it can't communicate. All it can do is accept input and render output.
Hahaha... your understanding of security is so 1995. I remember another great one, "you can't get malware via email unless you double-click an attachment." If WebKit has a single buffer overflow bug, then yes, it does have vulnerabilities.
Remember this gem from a couple years ago, "Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (912919)"? But it's just a graphics rendering engine, how could it allow remote code execution?
Google's Chrome brings the browser war to a white heat - suddenly FF is being given a run for its money as the undisputed browser feature champion!
I really don't think that Google wants to enter the browser wars. They will make no money from Chrome; it is just a means to an end. What they are trying to do is just make sure that the rapid pace of browser development over the past few years continues unabated, so Microsoft doesn't pull another IE6 on us.
I see Chrome as more of a "reference implementation" than a true competitor. Really, are they gonna put the effort into this thing to keep it current for the next decade? To foster the type of developer and add-on community that Firefox has? I just don't see it happening. I think they really just hope that Firefox, Safari, and Opera et. al. incorporate all the new ideas in Chrome into their own products.
So this is what Slashdot has come to. As long as the opinion is popular, it gets modded Insightful. Forget that he uses such exemplary language as "get your arrogant head out of your ass", "suck Bush' dick", and "fucking hypocrits". Forget that 3/4 of the post is Offtopic or that he's building up straw men instead of backing up his assertions with reason. He criticized Bush, so he must be Insightful!
Now, a year later, nVidia is looking ridiculous by clinging to closed-source binary drivers while the rest of the industry (including ATi, for pete's sake) go open. And the fact that freaking VIA is more open than nVidia really makes me feel...frustrated.
Don't feel frustrated... if your video card is a year old then it's time to get a new one anyway.:)
When I first read the summary, I thought it did say nVidia.. I'm sure I would have spit out my milk if I were drinking any. Ah well, not quite as exciting, but still very welcome indeed.
Those data I cited areper capita. They have nothing to do with having a more urban population, because they're Federal taxes, not state/municipal.
The title of the chart is "Federal Spending Received Per Dollar of Taxes Paid by State". Not "per dollar per person". Thus, the figures are not per capita.
Actually, the "lazies" you're talking about are the "Red States", which all get more money back from the Federal government than they send it in Federal taxes. The "Blue States" like New York pay to prop up those Welfare States by sending more taxes to DC than we get back.
Well, there's a textbook logical fallacy for ya. Just like those nationwide red/blue election maps that make it look like 90% of the country voted for Bush.
Big cities pay more taxes because they have more people, and big cities tend to vote Democrat. Those two data points aren't necessarily related, and without showing that they are, your entire argument falls apart. Come back when you have some "laziness per capita" figures.
Actually, I consider the idea of "mainstream media" pure BS. It might mean something if it was coming from some actual fringe journalists. But it mostly comes from left wing bloggers with a huge following, who build up this whole mythology of the right-wing journalists conspiring to screw over the U.S., with outlets like the Fox News Channel as their media lapdogs. They "prove" by jumping on every real or supposed lapse in accuracy they can find, while being damned careless about their own fact checking.
There, fixed it for ya. Hypocrisy swings both ways, ya know.
Meanwhile, a lone humanoid soldier from the year 2215 is being sent back through time to the day before yesterday, in a desperate attempt to kill the inventor of these quasi-quasicrystals, destroy all his work, and utterly wipe all knowledge of their existence from human memory (including this Slashdot article). But it may already be too late. "Goddamn quasi-quasicrystals and their unusual properties... If only we knew", he thinks as he enters the chronopod. "If only we knew!!"
Hehe.. this reminds me of when I was deployed to the Middle East in 2003. While we were stationed in Kuwait for a few weeks upon arrival, we noticed that numerous of our fellow servicemembers were getting name tags in Arabic above their regular name tags. They bought them from some of the local vendors that the Army let set up stands on post. Not only were these nametags completely against uniform regulations, but these guys had no idea what these tags said. For all they knew it could say "shoot me first".
What happens when AOL/Time Warner/Microsoft/CNN/MSNBC/Taco Bell and Carl's Jr. take over the world?
Have you been living under a rock for 10 years? Yeah, I'm really worried about AOL and CNN taking over. Your list of companies reads like a laundry list of has-been corporations that were big in the 90s.
Really? You're going to invoke Godwin's Law? Really?
No, your definition of Godwin's Law is incorrect. Godwin's Law refers only to direct comparisons of some entity to Hitler or Nazis. Using any comparison in any way tied with World War II or the general timeframe beforehand or afterward don't qualify.
Now, if you don't mind, can we please get back to our tangential side conversation? It hasn't yet devolved into an all-out flamewar between the Aerobic Nazis vs. the Weightlifting Trolls.
Never mind that, did they give you free tickets to Mamma Mia?
What does free tickets have to do with anything? He's simply explaining to them: there's another side to the RIAA's arguments, and I'd like to articulate it, if you'll take a chance on me.
I agree this guy was a complete selfish asshole, but you're treading on dangerous ground here. There aren't two different types of people: "criminals" and "non-criminals". Someone being a criminal doesn't make them morally corrupt and somehow more able to commit murder/suicide.
Have you read Confessions of a Former Spammer? These assholes do things like scrape emails from support websites for recovering gambling addicts and then send them invitations to online gambling sites. This is more than just fraud or theft. They prey on the weak and vulnerable for their own profit. And they do it in the most cowardly way possible, where they never even have to meet or see their victims.
You're correct in that these types of generalizations aren't really productive, but I think it's a rather safe assumption that anyone who has made millions off of spam aren't just a thief but truly a sociopath. They know that they're ruining the lives of others; they just don't care.
They'd rather let the world know you don't F with Hasbro.
Hahaha... this comment reminded me of seeing Transformers when it first came out... dark opening logo, ominous music playing in the background, then slowly, in fade the words: "In Association with HASBRO". Everyone in the theater busted out laughing.
Traditionally MySQL was just the toy database for non-critical stuff that you wanted speed out of (and little else). If Drizzle accomplishes that, then I don't see a real place for the mainline MySQL anymore. Drizzle if you want speed, PostgreSQL if you want features/stability, and Oracle if you gots money to spend.
The thing that people always seem to discount when comparing MySQL to PostgreSQL is community mindshare and comfort level. That's why it's called a LAMP stack. If products always won on technical merits, 90% of PCs would run OS/2 instead of Windows.
I'll admit, even though I "know" that PG is supposed to be a better database, anytime I'm starting a new web app I go for MySQL. It's what most of the frameworks and toolkits support first and/or best. It's what more tech support guys at the web hosting companies are familiar with. Plus MySQL has *much* better GUI tools than PG.
If both products were starting from scratch, then yeah maybe PG would have a good shot. But MySQL isn't bad enough, and PG isn't better enough, to make me or others like me feel like switching. I'm not comfortable with the PG toolset because I'm not familiar with it, and I have better things to do with my time than learn it, because for me the perceived potential benefit isn't worth it.
Of course, none of this is to say that Sun won't f*ck up MySQL enough to make me change my mind...
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I've been on both sides of this coin, as a developer and IT manager. I can't speak to other fields, but in IT it's simply a numbers issue. There are SO MANY candidates for the job, and so many of them are terrible, that it's just not feasible to waste 15 minutes of my time on each one to determine that they suck. So we use BrainBench and the like as a pre-screening process.
Now, there are exceptions of course. Some people know their stuff but are bad at taking tests and I've moved forwards on otherwise impressive resumes where they bombed the test. And there are unscrupulous headhunters who give the answers to the candidates so they get 100% on the test but can't answer a question intelligently. But overall it's a good first step at weeding out much of the chaff.
And they don't want to destroy the innovative, anti-Microsoft, pro-Google Firefox or Safari browsers. No sensible parasite kills its host. They only want to take down IE, which drives traffic to MS search.
Wow, Google is a parasite on Firefox huh? Look, I'm as big a Firefox fan as anyone, but that's really stretching it quite a bit... your first and last sentence are spot-on though :)
Uh... Webkit doesn't have vulnerabiities it has bugs... the browser is what has vulnerabilities. Webkit has no network stack... it can't communicate. All it can do is accept input and render output.
Hahaha... your understanding of security is so 1995. I remember another great one, "you can't get malware via email unless you double-click an attachment." If WebKit has a single buffer overflow bug, then yes, it does have vulnerabilities.
Remember this gem from a couple years ago, "Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (912919)"? But it's just a graphics rendering engine, how could it allow remote code execution?
If people are using chrome and not Firefox, they don't have to pay mozilla.org.
You mean they don't have to pay mozilla.com. They're separate now ya know :)
Google's Chrome brings the browser war to a white heat - suddenly FF is being given a run for its money as the undisputed browser feature champion!
I really don't think that Google wants to enter the browser wars. They will make no money from Chrome; it is just a means to an end. What they are trying to do is just make sure that the rapid pace of browser development over the past few years continues unabated, so Microsoft doesn't pull another IE6 on us.
I see Chrome as more of a "reference implementation" than a true competitor. Really, are they gonna put the effort into this thing to keep it current for the next decade? To foster the type of developer and add-on community that Firefox has? I just don't see it happening. I think they really just hope that Firefox, Safari, and Opera et. al. incorporate all the new ideas in Chrome into their own products.
The solution is simple. Just forbid imports from polluting Chinese factories.
Either that, or cut them a deal: no IPV6 until you stop polluting! We have plenty of IP addresses over here...
So this is what Slashdot has come to. As long as the opinion is popular, it gets modded Insightful. Forget that he uses such exemplary language as "get your arrogant head out of your ass", "suck Bush' dick", and "fucking hypocrits". Forget that 3/4 of the post is Offtopic or that he's building up straw men instead of backing up his assertions with reason. He criticized Bush, so he must be Insightful!
Now, a year later, nVidia is looking ridiculous by clinging to closed-source binary drivers while the rest of the industry (including ATi, for pete's sake) go open. And the fact that freaking VIA is more open than nVidia really makes me feel...frustrated.
Don't feel frustrated... if your video card is a year old then it's time to get a new one anyway. :)
When I first read the summary, I thought it did say nVidia.. I'm sure I would have spit out my milk if I were drinking any. Ah well, not quite as exciting, but still very welcome indeed.
Those data I cited are per capita. They have nothing to do with having a more urban population, because they're Federal taxes, not state/municipal.
The title of the chart is "Federal Spending Received Per Dollar of Taxes Paid by State". Not "per dollar per person". Thus, the figures are not per capita.
Actually, the "lazies" you're talking about are the "Red States", which all get more money back from the Federal government than they send it in Federal taxes. The "Blue States" like New York pay to prop up those Welfare States by sending more taxes to DC than we get back.
Well, there's a textbook logical fallacy for ya. Just like those nationwide red/blue election maps that make it look like 90% of the country voted for Bush.
Big cities pay more taxes because they have more people, and big cities tend to vote Democrat. Those two data points aren't necessarily related, and without showing that they are, your entire argument falls apart. Come back when you have some "laziness per capita" figures.
Pfsssh. Stephen Hawking was first.
Venti speed.
Actually, I consider the idea of "mainstream media" pure BS. It might mean something if it was coming from some actual fringe journalists. But it mostly comes from left wing bloggers with a huge following, who build up this whole mythology of the right-wing journalists conspiring to screw over the U.S., with outlets like the Fox News Channel as their media lapdogs. They "prove" by jumping on every real or supposed lapse in accuracy they can find, while being damned careless about their own fact checking.
There, fixed it for ya. Hypocrisy swings both ways, ya know.
And remember, there's always a bigger pedant out there somewhere. :-)
Great, now I'm gonna have nightmares about pedant bear.
Meanwhile, a lone humanoid soldier from the year 2215 is being sent back through time to the day before yesterday, in a desperate attempt to kill the inventor of these quasi-quasicrystals, destroy all his work, and utterly wipe all knowledge of their existence from human memory (including this Slashdot article). But it may already be too late. "Goddamn quasi-quasicrystals and their unusual properties... If only we knew", he thinks as he enters the chronopod. "If only we knew!!"
Hehe.. this reminds me of when I was deployed to the Middle East in 2003. While we were stationed in Kuwait for a few weeks upon arrival, we noticed that numerous of our fellow servicemembers were getting name tags in Arabic above their regular name tags. They bought them from some of the local vendors that the Army let set up stands on post. Not only were these nametags completely against uniform regulations, but these guys had no idea what these tags said. For all they knew it could say "shoot me first".
What happens when AOL/Time Warner/Microsoft/CNN/MSNBC/Taco Bell and Carl's Jr. take over the world?
Have you been living under a rock for 10 years? Yeah, I'm really worried about AOL and CNN taking over. Your list of companies reads like a laundry list of has-been corporations that were big in the 90s.
Now they're going to have to resort to an internet simulator to get their Brazilian fart fetish porn and interracial gangbang porn!
Really? You're going to invoke Godwin's Law? Really?
No, your definition of Godwin's Law is incorrect. Godwin's Law refers only to direct comparisons of some entity to Hitler or Nazis. Using any comparison in any way tied with World War II or the general timeframe beforehand or afterward don't qualify.
If you're going to do something stupid like get an OSS logo tattoo, at least get something more cool than a penguin.
Too bad Linus's favorite animal wasn't the unicorn.
To specifically address the question posed...
You must be new here.
Now, if you don't mind, can we please get back to our tangential side conversation? It hasn't yet devolved into an all-out flamewar between the Aerobic Nazis vs. the Weightlifting Trolls.
Never mind that, did they give you free tickets to Mamma Mia?
What does free tickets have to do with anything? He's simply explaining to them: there's another side to the RIAA's arguments, and I'd like to articulate it, if you'll take a chance on me.
I agree this guy was a complete selfish asshole, but you're treading on dangerous ground here. There aren't two different types of people: "criminals" and "non-criminals". Someone being a criminal doesn't make them morally corrupt and somehow more able to commit murder/suicide.
Have you read Confessions of a Former Spammer? These assholes do things like scrape emails from support websites for recovering gambling addicts and then send them invitations to online gambling sites. This is more than just fraud or theft. They prey on the weak and vulnerable for their own profit. And they do it in the most cowardly way possible, where they never even have to meet or see their victims.
You're correct in that these types of generalizations aren't really productive, but I think it's a rather safe assumption that anyone who has made millions off of spam aren't just a thief but truly a sociopath. They know that they're ruining the lives of others; they just don't care.
They'd rather let the world know you don't F with Hasbro.
Hahaha... this comment reminded me of seeing Transformers when it first came out... dark opening logo, ominous music playing in the background, then slowly, in fade the words: "In Association with HASBRO". Everyone in the theater busted out laughing.
Traditionally MySQL was just the toy database for non-critical stuff that you wanted speed out of (and little else). If Drizzle accomplishes that, then I don't see a real place for the mainline MySQL anymore. Drizzle if you want speed, PostgreSQL if you want features/stability, and Oracle if you gots money to spend.
The thing that people always seem to discount when comparing MySQL to PostgreSQL is community mindshare and comfort level. That's why it's called a LAMP stack. If products always won on technical merits, 90% of PCs would run OS/2 instead of Windows.
I'll admit, even though I "know" that PG is supposed to be a better database, anytime I'm starting a new web app I go for MySQL. It's what most of the frameworks and toolkits support first and/or best. It's what more tech support guys at the web hosting companies are familiar with. Plus MySQL has *much* better GUI tools than PG.
If both products were starting from scratch, then yeah maybe PG would have a good shot. But MySQL isn't bad enough, and PG isn't better enough, to make me or others like me feel like switching. I'm not comfortable with the PG toolset because I'm not familiar with it, and I have better things to do with my time than learn it, because for me the perceived potential benefit isn't worth it.
Of course, none of this is to say that Sun won't f*ck up MySQL enough to make me change my mind...