I thought Linux cached used libraries in RAM already, resulting in the appearance that Linux was always using up all my memory but wasn't really. If true, then this basically does what? Guesses what you want to use and loads them for me? Decides what I use a lot and makes certain they never fall out of memory? In both cases, someone is not using my resources in an optimum manner.
If I use the price of my first desktop computer and use that to purchase a new computer at Dell I am moving up 40 times in speed, 2x in architecture buss, 4x in cores, blah blah blah. Compared to the last computer (2006) I purchased I can still get something easily double in performance from that.
So, Not sure what you need in performance, but between the stupid amount of computing power and Linux already doing a lot of in-memory caching there might be a pretty small margin for improvement. But I guess what I really struggle with is the idea of someone/something trying to proactively determine what I'm going to use and then force my computer into a certain behavioural pattern that is making assumptions about my use. Sure, it screams marketing demographics, but even without a PR department for Linux I still don't think there is sufficient need for something like this.
Can someone elaborate on practical reasons where this is something I would really need
Please keep in mind that Detroit is amazingly corrupt and generally ignorant
Yahoo has made a pretty clear declaration that they feel they are worth more than what Microsoft has offered. That's fare. And I don't think they are too out of line given the industry at the moment.
Detroit is a town made up of bungling fools, thugs, gangsters, and generally fellonious criminals who believe in entitlements and hand-outs and have no concept of self responsibility or accountability. Don't believe me, take a look at the recent activities of the Mayor, Police Chief, and countless others. Last year they lost 9 million dollars because they fired the police who where investigating the murder of a stripper at a Mayors Mansion party that for some reason, no one recalls ever happening. So, they have murder, drugs at the Mayors house, police who fire honest police to cover the mayor. And most recently, they covered up affairs in the Mayors office that would have come up in the trial and rather figured they could lie their way out of it.
Detroit is top of the list of loser villages in this country. Recognize it as that.
Maybe Yahoo should pay them off directly and allow them to cut and run.
One obvious solution is for everyone to get a dedicated IP address given to them based on first-in to the internet. If you don't have an IP address, you can't use the internet.
The next would be to sell them off to individual persons, one IP per person. Again, if you don't have an IP address, you can't use the internet.
The Final Solution would be to sell the IP addresses to individuals (no companies please) and anyone left without an IP address would have to die. This would solve the IPv4 problem, over crowding, poverty, and likely you wouldn't have any third world developing nations left over either.
But seriously, I think the question needs to be asked, how many IP addresses does one person/company really need? One seems good. No reason for more than that in 99% of the cases anyone can present. And don't say Google. Large globally accessed search engines are in the 1%. But there one per continent would give you seven if you include Antartica.
Actually, if you assigned one IP address per individual person, then the whole issue of security and domain parking and spam would go away. The addresses wouldn't change every time you threw up an RBL.
But if everything is written on Rails then the difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL are buried beneath the layers that the developers care about. There are few, if any, changes required to go from one to the other.
If you read through the article they make almost no mention of BIO-DIESEL which is significantly different in it's manufacturing methods and land use. This article is largely focused on the failures of Ethanol being a suitable fuel.
Bio-Diesel can be grown from a variety of plants ranging from palm trees (Southern), Soy Beans (Norther) and Algae (non-land use) which gives you a extremely wide range of climates available for the production of Bio-Diesel and a variety of farm land as well. This doesn't even take into account the potential for reusing cooking oils to convert to Bio-Diesel. This flexibility allows you to intelligently work around the rain forests rather than cutting them down. Clearing rain forests for Palm trees was an economical decision and was not a good one.
I think this story is accurate in it's assessment of Ethanol being largely a loser-fuel that is powned by Archer Daniels Midland, The Bush Administration, and a bunch of overly eager but short sighted farmers. However, it's completely unfair to lump ALL BioFuels into the same camp as Ethanol.
One thing that needs to be understood about BioDiesel is this: It's not driving around on vegetable oil. It's vegetable oil that has been converted into diesel fuel via trans-esterfication of the oils. This process gives you diesel fuel that you can use today in todays diesel engines without refit. It's compatible with todays distribution, storage, and pumping systems for diesel fuel. Ethanol has little or no compatability with gasoline.
I look forward to the day when someone actually looks into biodiesel as a real alternative. It's better because:
It's compatible with any diesel technology. So there is no new technology to develop for engines etc. Diesel technology is ubiquitous across the planet (economy of scale), is over 100 years old (proven), and used for transportation of vehicles, trains, ships, and electricity generation (diversified). Gasoline and Ethanol are not.
It's available from a wide range of sources, allowing for greater climatic and agricultural variances than corn. Wouldn't it be interesting if you took Ethiopia and converted it into a biodiesel plant growing nation. They could use the economy. The point is, production of bio-diesel is viable for many areas of the planet.
It's available today. Nothing needs to be invented or brought to market for it to work. Just scaling. Switchgrass doesn't do this.
It's flash point is so low it's approximately non-flammable. Ethanol is extremely volatile and nasty in this regard.
It's non-toxic. Really. It smells like fries and you can actually ingest it without death or illness. Ethanol it technically toxic and certainly not suitable for everyone.
It's biodegradable. If you spill it on the ground you don't have to call HazMat. It will clean up and if it doesn't, it will degrade gracefully into an environmentally friendly substance. Again, Gasoline and Ethanol don't do this very well.
Unfortunately, BioDiesel doesn't have ADM pumping billions into the government trying to force the issue.
Score one for the good guys. You may not like Trolls, but then neither did King George. If protecting my freedom of speech means I get to listen to a few immature Trolls, it's well worth the price.
This makes for a very interesting legal arguement if you can make the leap of interstate commerce being similar to inter-tube commerce. The similarity being that if you purchase Apples (the fruit) from New York and ship them through Pennsylvania, that Pennsylvania cannot add a transportation tax on the New York apples on their way to Ohio. That's what the whole Interstate Commerce department is all about.
Seems to me that the same thing essentially applies here. The company, or entity, that is responsible for the transfer of information through their network cannot interfere with or bias this process of delivery to enhance the availability or market appeal of someone elses product, be it theirs or someone elses.
You have made two very serious flaws with your thinking about how and why you chose MySQL. In general it's rampant with PHB thinking.
There is the obvious discussion you didn't have when you decided MySQL was better for your company. Why would you take something as important as your company database and leave it to a vendor to support? You have no in-house knowledge of your database. You have no back-up in the event that vendor gets into a contract dispute with you. And every time you need their support on anything you have to go through this slow interface of vendor management rather than just leaning over to the company employee named Roy who lives and breathes MySQL or PostgreSQL and say, "Hey Roy! Somethings wrong with the database. I need you to fix it right now. I'll get you a pizza for lunch."
The other error in your thinking is more elusive but this reminds me of a conversation I had with a room full of people regarding the expansion of Java at the potential cost of Perl developers.
"I can get a whole boatload of Java developers from overseas with a phone call and 72 hours. It's very hard to find 20 or 30 Perl developers for a project."
Nobody in that room had ever worked on a project requiring more than 5 developers. And they had worked on some largest Perl projects out there.
Subsequently I have found a lot of really bad Java developers.
I can have a similar discussion with MCSE in place of "Java developers".
The flaw is that you assume popular support equates itself to good support. I think the exact opposite is more likely to be true. If someone is in need of a quick job and quick bucks, they will take the fastest and lowest entry barrier solution. First comes Am-Way. But with a week of sitting in classes for each they can quickly become a Java certified developer, MySQL DBA, or dot-NET developers. All this in three weeks time and with the credentials to prove it. Are they any good at what they do? Not likely.
The contrary group of people are those who use PostgreSQL over MySQL or SQL Server, Linux over Windows, Perl/Python/Ruby over dot-NET or Java. They stay here and learn this less popular software because they enjoy it and find it interesting. It's generally not a decision based purely on money. It could be argued that Ruby isn't in the same camp as Perl & Python because it's having something of a feeding frenzy in the PHB camp. But that's Rails, not Ruby, and they are different.
It is fair odds that if I put out a couple inquiries I could find PostgreSQL support in Detroit, MI (not a software haven) within 72 hours and based on it's lack of a Marketing and PR campaign the person who shows up at the door will know more about PostgreSQL and how to get it working smoothly than the MySQL counterpart who shows up at my door. And I will only need one of them as opposed to hiring 2 or 3.
I guess after being told to "Go Fuck Yourself" for so many years, these scientists finally found a way to do it.
There will be some interesting debates raging about this one for a long time. I'm of the opinion that on the whole, we are better off with the process of gene mixing than practicing self-eugenics.
So we've found a solution to keep an additional 5 million people alive in a region of the planet where a majority of the countries are third world. A nice idea but it's going to actually increase the populations of poor and under fed people on the planet. I think someone should probably point that out to the NGO groups that have to feed all these poor.
Considering the amount of damage we have been able to inflict on the planet, shouldn't we be focusing on trying to heal the ecosystems so we'll have the food and materials to feed people without stripping the planet bare?
And for those who are sending food -- it hasn't helped them become self sufficient yet...
I won't comment on your dismissal of citizenship, but the consumer economics is dead on. We've changed since WWII into a nation where the economic engine is driven by the rapid expenditure of money. By purchasing many things all the time, the economy is extremely active and strong. But it is entirely dependent on spending money rapidly.
Once you gain the necessities: living space, transportation of some type, food, clothing, you are then spending your money on luxury items. Arguably this includes cell phones over land lines, DVR, HDTV, iPod and other items that we all have purchased that we really don't require to execute our lifes (not lifestyles).
As soon as you personally hit a financial crunch or even a severe doubt, you start to pull back on the luxury items and spend less money on them. This, when applied to the nation, has a severe impact on the economy. Much more so than other nations that are not so luxury consumer product driven. This was a part of the contribution to the housing collapse in the US. Consumer spending on housing over extended credit availability when everyone started to pull back on the luxury spending. This luxury spending impacted a lot of people in terms of lower pay raises or unemployment. It's by no means the root cause of the housing crash. But also note it's not happening in Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Brazil.
The contradiction of go shopping more is that we are no longer able to really do this on a sustainable basis. I think there is a good wake up coming with the increased attention towards sustainable energies. Consumer economics means you consume a lot of energy too. As we shift our power consumption down, we have to either increase our efficiency of energy use, or learn to do less. This will come out of the luxury consumer goods first. A simplified example is the use of a hot tub and the energy cost involved in maintenance.
This is also consistent with the migration of low-end labor out of the US. As we compete with lower wages in other nations, we cannot maintain the $7.50 minimum wage and compete in a global market. As energy, economy, labor becomes more leveled with other nations we will experience a decline in the American lifestyle. We have to choose to use less in order to survive.
And this arguement that we need to spend even more money falls right into the hands of those who argue we are imperialists who are systematically raping natural resources from other nations without regard for the well beings of the nations affected.
You are right. But we haven't a means to get this message out to anyone in politics such that they actually listen and act. I suppose we could start rampant impeachments or try to force the issue with the politicians. but they seem more involved with the micro-minority issues rather than just voters concerns.
I can't very well use my laptop for development unless I have that localhost server+php and mail server.
Specifically, if you try to configure postfix to be spam resistant, SuSE won't support it in the configuration meta files. And if you are a fan of Postgresql over MySQL you are also in a pickle. Of course, if you were doing any kind of development work, these configuration options would be pretty important. It gets even worse if you have to extend into the world of modules for your favoriate language
If you plan to use the laptop as a email reader and news gatherer then you might consider getting an iPhone instead. Not only is it cheaper, but it's smaller, less expensive to purchase, and chicks dig it. Studies have shown that having an iPhone over a laptop makes you ten times more likely to get nookie.
My experience with SLED has not been so favorable. SuSE works well as long as you do only what it expects you to do. If you deviate too far from their expectations in software installed and configuration options used, you might be OK.
But I seriously doubt that you can wipe the system, install something else Linux, and expect it to work as well. SuSE, with Novell, with Microsoft, gives you an avenue into highly proprietary closed binary software that is otherwise not utilized by most Linux distributions.
I am thrilled that they are doing this, it's a good sign. But the way to make this really cool, is to have Lenovo drive their hardware to work with existing Linux software code. This is more akin to Apple and it's OS and less like Microsoft and their hardware. Lenovo has the control of their software such that they can pre-publish all the specifics of their hardware and make the effort to get the Linux community all of the information necessary to make sure that the software/hardware combination works 100% of the time.
BioDiesel gives you a renewable energy source that is available from a wide variety of plants that can be grown in a wide range of climates, doesn't require vast amounts of fertilizer, is bio-dregradable and non-toxic, relatively inflammable, and uses combustion engine technology that is over 100 years old.
And yet, no one wants to consider using is as a serious alternative.
Why?
Probably for the same reason that feed corn, which competes with ethanol corn, is now so expensive that you have to feed livestock something. Someone is controlling the development of alternative energies such that their choice, not the best choice is made. Sorry if I sound like I'm paranoid, but when granola is cheaper than feedstock corn you should be.
And I picked up a macbook because I could never find a notebook that would work reliably and consistently under Linux. Most of this is the fault of the manufacturers who never disclose what they are putting into the computer in terms of hardware or refuse to make the API available for development.
I have no doubt that if the Linux community universally threw their support behind only one product line from one manufacturer and got that manufacturer to buy in their support, they could have an awesome notebook within a year. And it might even work equally well on Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu, Suse, Mandrake.
But Apple has a clear advantage here. They have dictatorial powers over the hardware as well as the software. The Linux community is subject to the whims and whinings of the notebook OEM manufacturing and legal groups in making a compatable platform. They are forever playing catch up.
Until Linux can set the guidelines and standards, like Apple does and Microsoft has to a lesser degree, they will remain behind the curve. The only way out for them is if the curve moves so slowly that they can catch up to enough of the curve to become good enough. Linux owns the server market if they want to. They have a good workstation product. But they have a relatively poor notebook reputation when compared against either the non-Linux notebooks or the Linux Servers/Workstations.
You're right, you can complain about the lock-ins knowing that the lock-ins exist before you open your wallet, but no one is going to listen to you. Talk with your money.
Apple cannot risk having an insecure hacked up iPhone. It's got the power of a PC, which means it has the potential danger of a PC. Would you feel safe using an iPhone running the equivalent to Windows 2000? The risk is in their reputation.
I really don't think the lock-in is about "seamless experience" and "ulterior motives" unless you buy into the hype. It's about the meritocracy standing that Apple has earned as a company that sells product that Just Works.
You might be waiting for a bi-mode player but I'm still looking at a perfectly functional TV, VHS, DVD and TiVO that are all Lo-Def. To replace everything in hardware alone would run about $2,000 and then what about all my old media?
And I don't expect HD DVD to be cheaper then what DVD costs..
So is there any motivation besides the consumerism I want what I want and I want it now syndrome? If you look at it from an economic vantage, there is no reason to move to HD until the parts are no longer available or maintenance is no longer cost effective. And considering that the US economy is pretty much on the rocks there are more people trying to conserve their finances rather than run up impulsive debts.
Personally, with the degradation of content quality and the escalation of recurring and non-recurring costs, I'm more inclined today to purchase Book of the Month club than Movies. But that's strictly my own opinion.
What did you expect? You purchased a product from a company. Said Company makes very clear that they do not authorize you to use third party applications and so when you do... they have an interest in tearing your mods out of the software. That's the nature of the product right now.
I don't think Apple is evil but they are working on a very fine edge right now. They are taking on the entire cellular industry with a product that they have tried previously to launch (Anyone remember Newton?) with updates to the 21st century. It's a major project trying to consolidate so many products into one.
Unlike the notebooks and PC's they cannot afford to have anyone's third part software screw up the iPhone. The fallout on the consumer market would be too damaging for them to take on right now. Even if it was someone elses fault for a bad product, Apple would be blamed for it.
Add to this the fact that they originally delayed the Mac OSX launch to get the iPhone launched last year. I would suspect that they have just barely managed to release their products with the stability that Apple strives for. With that delicate stability, third party software isn't going to help them.
I do believe that eventually Apple will be required through consumer pressure to open up the iPhone but they are not about to do it right now. Once they get some market share and solid progress in the market, they can start taking a more open road.
But for now, they are taking on a lot of companies: Verizon, AllTel, T-Mobile, Microsoft, LG, Nokia in this bid. they are not about to take up company with some 1/2 baked software that maybe works most of the time.
I'm glad you got there before me. I was thinking that this jerkwad with the slick iPhone was going to get his latte via suppository rather than a regular cup. This might sound appealing but there's going to be hell to pay in the lines.
But then you had to go and mention customer service as if anyone gives a damn about that anymore.
We need a patent to punch the guy in the mouth when he strolls up with his iPhone asking for his double latte foo-foo coffee drink for $15.75 before we can get our morning grog.
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Several things come to mind when I read the post.
I thought Linux cached used libraries in RAM already, resulting in the appearance that Linux was always using up all my memory but wasn't really. If true, then this basically does what? Guesses what you want to use and loads them for me? Decides what I use a lot and makes certain they never fall out of memory? In both cases, someone is not using my resources in an optimum manner.
If I use the price of my first desktop computer and use that to purchase a new computer at Dell I am moving up 40 times in speed, 2x in architecture buss, 4x in cores, blah blah blah. Compared to the last computer (2006) I purchased I can still get something easily double in performance from that.
So, Not sure what you need in performance, but between the stupid amount of computing power and Linux already doing a lot of in-memory caching there might be a pretty small margin for improvement. But I guess what I really struggle with is the idea of someone/something trying to proactively determine what I'm going to use and then force my computer into a certain behavioural pattern that is making assumptions about my use. Sure, it screams marketing demographics, but even without a PR department for Linux I still don't think there is sufficient need for something like this.
Can someone elaborate on practical reasons where this is something I would really need
Please keep in mind that Detroit is amazingly corrupt and generally ignorant
Yahoo has made a pretty clear declaration that they feel they are worth more than what Microsoft has offered. That's fare. And I don't think they are too out of line given the industry at the moment.
Detroit is a town made up of bungling fools, thugs, gangsters, and generally fellonious criminals who believe in entitlements and hand-outs and have no concept of self responsibility or accountability. Don't believe me, take a look at the recent activities of the Mayor, Police Chief, and countless others. Last year they lost 9 million dollars because they fired the police who where investigating the murder of a stripper at a Mayors Mansion party that for some reason, no one recalls ever happening. So, they have murder, drugs at the Mayors house, police who fire honest police to cover the mayor. And most recently, they covered up affairs in the Mayors office that would have come up in the trial and rather figured they could lie their way out of it.
Detroit is top of the list of loser villages in this country. Recognize it as that.
Maybe Yahoo should pay them off directly and allow them to cut and run.
One obvious solution is for everyone to get a dedicated IP address given to them based on first-in to the internet. If you don't have an IP address, you can't use the internet.
The next would be to sell them off to individual persons, one IP per person. Again, if you don't have an IP address, you can't use the internet.
The Final Solution would be to sell the IP addresses to individuals (no companies please) and anyone left without an IP address would have to die. This would solve the IPv4 problem, over crowding, poverty, and likely you wouldn't have any third world developing nations left over either.
But seriously, I think the question needs to be asked, how many IP addresses does one person/company really need? One seems good. No reason for more than that in 99% of the cases anyone can present. And don't say Google. Large globally accessed search engines are in the 1%. But there one per continent would give you seven if you include Antartica.
Actually, if you assigned one IP address per individual person, then the whole issue of security and domain parking and spam would go away. The addresses wouldn't change every time you threw up an RBL.
But if everything is written on Rails then the difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL are buried beneath the layers that the developers care about. There are few, if any, changes required to go from one to the other.
If you read through the article they make almost no mention of BIO-DIESEL which is significantly different in it's manufacturing methods and land use. This article is largely focused on the failures of Ethanol being a suitable fuel.
Bio-Diesel can be grown from a variety of plants ranging from palm trees (Southern), Soy Beans (Norther) and Algae (non-land use) which gives you a extremely wide range of climates available for the production of Bio-Diesel and a variety of farm land as well. This doesn't even take into account the potential for reusing cooking oils to convert to Bio-Diesel. This flexibility allows you to intelligently work around the rain forests rather than cutting them down. Clearing rain forests for Palm trees was an economical decision and was not a good one.
I think this story is accurate in it's assessment of Ethanol being largely a loser-fuel that is powned by Archer Daniels Midland, The Bush Administration, and a bunch of overly eager but short sighted farmers. However, it's completely unfair to lump ALL BioFuels into the same camp as Ethanol.
One thing that needs to be understood about BioDiesel is this: It's not driving around on vegetable oil. It's vegetable oil that has been converted into diesel fuel via trans-esterfication of the oils. This process gives you diesel fuel that you can use today in todays diesel engines without refit. It's compatible with todays distribution, storage, and pumping systems for diesel fuel. Ethanol has little or no compatability with gasoline.
I look forward to the day when someone actually looks into biodiesel as a real alternative. It's better because:
- It's compatible with any diesel technology. So there is no new technology to develop for engines etc. Diesel technology is ubiquitous across the planet (economy of scale), is over 100 years old (proven), and used for transportation of vehicles, trains, ships, and electricity generation (diversified). Gasoline and Ethanol are not.
- It's available from a wide range of sources, allowing for greater climatic and agricultural variances than corn. Wouldn't it be interesting if you took Ethiopia and converted it into a biodiesel plant growing nation. They could use the economy. The point is, production of bio-diesel is viable for many areas of the planet.
- It's available today. Nothing needs to be invented or brought to market for it to work. Just scaling. Switchgrass doesn't do this.
- It's flash point is so low it's approximately non-flammable. Ethanol is extremely volatile and nasty in this regard.
- It's non-toxic. Really. It smells like fries and you can actually ingest it without death or illness. Ethanol it technically toxic and certainly not suitable for everyone.
- It's biodegradable. If you spill it on the ground you don't have to call HazMat. It will clean up and if it doesn't, it will degrade gracefully into an environmentally friendly substance. Again, Gasoline and Ethanol don't do this very well.
Unfortunately, BioDiesel doesn't have ADM pumping billions into the government trying to force the issue.Score one for the good guys. You may not like Trolls, but then neither did King George. If protecting my freedom of speech means I get to listen to a few immature Trolls, it's well worth the price.
This makes for a very interesting legal arguement if you can make the leap of interstate commerce being similar to inter-tube commerce. The similarity being that if you purchase Apples (the fruit) from New York and ship them through Pennsylvania, that Pennsylvania cannot add a transportation tax on the New York apples on their way to Ohio. That's what the whole Interstate Commerce department is all about.
Seems to me that the same thing essentially applies here. The company, or entity, that is responsible for the transfer of information through their network cannot interfere with or bias this process of delivery to enhance the availability or market appeal of someone elses product, be it theirs or someone elses.
You have made two very serious flaws with your thinking about how and why you chose MySQL. In general it's rampant with PHB thinking.
There is the obvious discussion you didn't have when you decided MySQL was better for your company. Why would you take something as important as your company database and leave it to a vendor to support? You have no in-house knowledge of your database. You have no back-up in the event that vendor gets into a contract dispute with you. And every time you need their support on anything you have to go through this slow interface of vendor management rather than just leaning over to the company employee named Roy who lives and breathes MySQL or PostgreSQL and say, "Hey Roy! Somethings wrong with the database. I need you to fix it right now. I'll get you a pizza for lunch."
The other error in your thinking is more elusive but this reminds me of a conversation I had with a room full of people regarding the expansion of Java at the potential cost of Perl developers.
"I can get a whole boatload of Java developers from overseas with a phone call and 72 hours. It's very hard to find 20 or 30 Perl developers for a project."
Nobody in that room had ever worked on a project requiring more than 5 developers. And they had worked on some largest Perl projects out there.
Subsequently I have found a lot of really bad Java developers.
I can have a similar discussion with MCSE in place of "Java developers".
The flaw is that you assume popular support equates itself to good support. I think the exact opposite is more likely to be true. If someone is in need of a quick job and quick bucks, they will take the fastest and lowest entry barrier solution. First comes Am-Way. But with a week of sitting in classes for each they can quickly become a Java certified developer, MySQL DBA, or dot-NET developers. All this in three weeks time and with the credentials to prove it. Are they any good at what they do? Not likely.
The contrary group of people are those who use PostgreSQL over MySQL or SQL Server, Linux over Windows, Perl/Python/Ruby over dot-NET or Java. They stay here and learn this less popular software because they enjoy it and find it interesting. It's generally not a decision based purely on money. It could be argued that Ruby isn't in the same camp as Perl & Python because it's having something of a feeding frenzy in the PHB camp. But that's Rails, not Ruby, and they are different.
It is fair odds that if I put out a couple inquiries I could find PostgreSQL support in Detroit, MI (not a software haven) within 72 hours and based on it's lack of a Marketing and PR campaign the person who shows up at the door will know more about PostgreSQL and how to get it working smoothly than the MySQL counterpart who shows up at my door. And I will only need one of them as opposed to hiring 2 or 3.
If you are connecting over a network you are probably spending more time on the network connection than the database itself.
I guess after being told to "Go Fuck Yourself" for so many years, these scientists finally found a way to do it.
There will be some interesting debates raging about this one for a long time. I'm of the opinion that on the whole, we are better off with the process of gene mixing than practicing self-eugenics.
So we've found a solution to keep an additional 5 million people alive in a region of the planet where a majority of the countries are third world. A nice idea but it's going to actually increase the populations of poor and under fed people on the planet. I think someone should probably point that out to the NGO groups that have to feed all these poor.
Considering the amount of damage we have been able to inflict on the planet, shouldn't we be focusing on trying to heal the ecosystems so we'll have the food and materials to feed people without stripping the planet bare?
And for those who are sending food -- it hasn't helped them become self sufficient yet...
I won't comment on your dismissal of citizenship, but the consumer economics is dead on. We've changed since WWII into a nation where the economic engine is driven by the rapid expenditure of money. By purchasing many things all the time, the economy is extremely active and strong. But it is entirely dependent on spending money rapidly.
Once you gain the necessities: living space, transportation of some type, food, clothing, you are then spending your money on luxury items. Arguably this includes cell phones over land lines, DVR, HDTV, iPod and other items that we all have purchased that we really don't require to execute our lifes (not lifestyles).
As soon as you personally hit a financial crunch or even a severe doubt, you start to pull back on the luxury items and spend less money on them. This, when applied to the nation, has a severe impact on the economy. Much more so than other nations that are not so luxury consumer product driven. This was a part of the contribution to the housing collapse in the US. Consumer spending on housing over extended credit availability when everyone started to pull back on the luxury spending. This luxury spending impacted a lot of people in terms of lower pay raises or unemployment. It's by no means the root cause of the housing crash. But also note it's not happening in Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Brazil.
The contradiction of go shopping more is that we are no longer able to really do this on a sustainable basis. I think there is a good wake up coming with the increased attention towards sustainable energies. Consumer economics means you consume a lot of energy too. As we shift our power consumption down, we have to either increase our efficiency of energy use, or learn to do less. This will come out of the luxury consumer goods first. A simplified example is the use of a hot tub and the energy cost involved in maintenance.
This is also consistent with the migration of low-end labor out of the US. As we compete with lower wages in other nations, we cannot maintain the $7.50 minimum wage and compete in a global market. As energy, economy, labor becomes more leveled with other nations we will experience a decline in the American lifestyle. We have to choose to use less in order to survive.
And this arguement that we need to spend even more money falls right into the hands of those who argue we are imperialists who are systematically raping natural resources from other nations without regard for the well beings of the nations affected.
You are right. But we haven't a means to get this message out to anyone in politics such that they actually listen and act. I suppose we could start rampant impeachments or try to force the issue with the politicians. but they seem more involved with the micro-minority issues rather than just voters concerns.
I can't very well use my laptop for development unless I have that localhost server+php and mail server.
Specifically, if you try to configure postfix to be spam resistant, SuSE won't support it in the configuration meta files. And if you are a fan of Postgresql over MySQL you are also in a pickle. Of course, if you were doing any kind of development work, these configuration options would be pretty important. It gets even worse if you have to extend into the world of modules for your favoriate language
If you plan to use the laptop as a email reader and news gatherer then you might consider getting an iPhone instead. Not only is it cheaper, but it's smaller, less expensive to purchase, and chicks dig it. Studies have shown that having an iPhone over a laptop makes you ten times more likely to get nookie.
No need to go to the grocery store, just have Microsoft do the shopping for me.
My experience with SLED has not been so favorable. SuSE works well as long as you do only what it expects you to do. If you deviate too far from their expectations in software installed and configuration options used, you might be OK.
But I seriously doubt that you can wipe the system, install something else Linux, and expect it to work as well. SuSE, with Novell, with Microsoft, gives you an avenue into highly proprietary closed binary software that is otherwise not utilized by most Linux distributions.
I am thrilled that they are doing this, it's a good sign. But the way to make this really cool, is to have Lenovo drive their hardware to work with existing Linux software code. This is more akin to Apple and it's OS and less like Microsoft and their hardware. Lenovo has the control of their software such that they can pre-publish all the specifics of their hardware and make the effort to get the Linux community all of the information necessary to make sure that the software/hardware combination works 100% of the time.
BioDiesel gives you a renewable energy source that is available from a wide variety of plants that can be grown in a wide range of climates, doesn't require vast amounts of fertilizer, is bio-dregradable and non-toxic, relatively inflammable, and uses combustion engine technology that is over 100 years old.
And yet, no one wants to consider using is as a serious alternative.
Why?
Probably for the same reason that feed corn, which competes with ethanol corn, is now so expensive that you have to feed livestock something. Someone is controlling the development of alternative energies such that their choice, not the best choice is made. Sorry if I sound like I'm paranoid, but when granola is cheaper than feedstock corn you should be.
And I picked up a macbook because I could never find a notebook that would work reliably and consistently under Linux. Most of this is the fault of the manufacturers who never disclose what they are putting into the computer in terms of hardware or refuse to make the API available for development.
I have no doubt that if the Linux community universally threw their support behind only one product line from one manufacturer and got that manufacturer to buy in their support, they could have an awesome notebook within a year. And it might even work equally well on Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu, Suse, Mandrake.
But Apple has a clear advantage here. They have dictatorial powers over the hardware as well as the software. The Linux community is subject to the whims and whinings of the notebook OEM manufacturing and legal groups in making a compatable platform. They are forever playing catch up.
Until Linux can set the guidelines and standards, like Apple does and Microsoft has to a lesser degree, they will remain behind the curve. The only way out for them is if the curve moves so slowly that they can catch up to enough of the curve to become good enough. Linux owns the server market if they want to. They have a good workstation product. But they have a relatively poor notebook reputation when compared against either the non-Linux notebooks or the Linux Servers/Workstations.
His only mistake is that he didn't invent the Internet. Wait... That's been taken.
I couldn't keep up with the processing power they required after the second version was released. The wherecasking for too much and I had to bail.
You're right, you can complain about the lock-ins knowing that the lock-ins exist before you open your wallet, but no one is going to listen to you. Talk with your money.
Apple cannot risk having an insecure hacked up iPhone. It's got the power of a PC, which means it has the potential danger of a PC. Would you feel safe using an iPhone running the equivalent to Windows 2000? The risk is in their reputation.
I really don't think the lock-in is about "seamless experience" and "ulterior motives" unless you buy into the hype. It's about the meritocracy standing that Apple has earned as a company that sells product that Just Works.
You might be waiting for a bi-mode player but I'm still looking at a perfectly functional TV, VHS, DVD and TiVO that are all Lo-Def. To replace everything in hardware alone would run about $2,000 and then what about all my old media?
And I don't expect HD DVD to be cheaper then what DVD costs..
So is there any motivation besides the consumerism I want what I want and I want it now syndrome? If you look at it from an economic vantage, there is no reason to move to HD until the parts are no longer available or maintenance is no longer cost effective. And considering that the US economy is pretty much on the rocks there are more people trying to conserve their finances rather than run up impulsive debts.
Personally, with the degradation of content quality and the escalation of recurring and non-recurring costs, I'm more inclined today to purchase Book of the Month club than Movies. But that's strictly my own opinion.
What did you expect? You purchased a product from a company. Said Company makes very clear that they do not authorize you to use third party applications and so when you do... they have an interest in tearing your mods out of the software. That's the nature of the product right now.
I don't think Apple is evil but they are working on a very fine edge right now. They are taking on the entire cellular industry with a product that they have tried previously to launch (Anyone remember Newton?) with updates to the 21st century. It's a major project trying to consolidate so many products into one.
Unlike the notebooks and PC's they cannot afford to have anyone's third part software screw up the iPhone. The fallout on the consumer market would be too damaging for them to take on right now. Even if it was someone elses fault for a bad product, Apple would be blamed for it.
Add to this the fact that they originally delayed the Mac OSX launch to get the iPhone launched last year. I would suspect that they have just barely managed to release their products with the stability that Apple strives for. With that delicate stability, third party software isn't going to help them.
I do believe that eventually Apple will be required through consumer pressure to open up the iPhone but they are not about to do it right now. Once they get some market share and solid progress in the market, they can start taking a more open road.
But for now, they are taking on a lot of companies: Verizon, AllTel, T-Mobile, Microsoft, LG, Nokia in this bid. they are not about to take up company with some 1/2 baked software that maybe works most of the time.
I'm glad you got there before me. I was thinking that this jerkwad with the slick iPhone was going to get his latte via suppository rather than a regular cup. This might sound appealing but there's going to be hell to pay in the lines.
But then you had to go and mention customer service as if anyone gives a damn about that anymore.
We need a patent to punch the guy in the mouth when he strolls up with his iPhone asking for his double latte foo-foo coffee drink for $15.75 before we can get our morning grog.
Found it HERE. Says the US loses an estimated 5% to standby power and some countries are upwards of 20% standby power.