Oracle is quite fond of slapping their over charged customers with a wet fish from time to time, There is no reason to expect them to "support the community" other than with a millstone round the neck. They never have in the past.
There is also no sane reason to use mySQL (or Oracle) when PostgreSQL is better than both in almost every respect.
FYI Computer != PC, and you dont need a new machine anyway. Get a second hand Sparc machine or something.
I guarantee that, outside of the USA, there will be plenty of computers that can run whatever you want. Perhaps you should relocate to a land that is slightly more free?
eventually the cops will have the license plate recognition systems that are tied into insurance databases and all the other databases and it will be nearly impossible to drive without insurance,
We already have that in the UK. They can stop you if the APNR cameras say your car is untaxed, take your car and crush it. If you have no insurance, they hold it till you have. but some people cannot get insurance because of their postal address!. This system is an outrage, but so far, people have not done much about it, because the alternative party is hell bent on worse.
This is true. I have sent a great number of emails to Lenovo complaining that they no longer produce a laptop worth buying because the screen resolutions of the new ones are not as good as the old ones.
Their response is to send me emails of models with even worse resolution!
Anything beyond the typical stuff (fire, flood, hacking, etc) is likely going to make you question whether or not civilization as we know it will even survive - and I'm fairly sure that you place your family/spouse/kids/etc at a far higher priority than a bunch of source code to a game.
You clearly lack experience of the end of civilisation as we know it! Realistically, in any such senario, the other games providers will be trashed, and if you are the only games provider...
I can speak for Nigeria - it has very few landlines, and most of those don't work. Many Nigerians have relatives in Europe who send their old phone to them when the contract expires (American phones are, of course, even more useless outside America than inside).
The income distribution in Nigeria is radically different from Europe or America, and a great many Nigerians are outside the monetary economy, and quite a few are reasonably well off, In any case, no one in Nigeria believes statistical data, especially if it originates with the private sector or the government, or anyone else.
Yes but they did not post their logs on the Internet for criminals to steal, or leave them on USB sticks in popular places.
The government has proven completely unable to keep data safe (cf Wikileaks), and this is not about to change now, even if there is an election in the US.
You seem to assume that they want to stop the "accidents". You misunderstand the senario - the whole thing is a distributed Ponzi scheme. It works like a sort of "reverse pass the parcel". Each transaction takes a small percentage in brokerage fees as the underlying "commodity" gains or loses value. However, over time, the brokerage fees exceed the true worth of the commodity has in real life.
The spectacular "losses" are the path by which the money leaves investors, and is syphoned off to pay the disproportionate brokerage fees.
As a point of reference see gold - the value of gold traded between speculators each day is 1,000 times the value actually sold into industry/jewelery/etc - so a 0.25% brokerage fee on both buyer an seller is worth 5* the value of the gold that enters or leaves the market each day. Obviously, the additional margin actually paid by real life users for the benefits of a liquid market is a tiny fraction of the value of the gold - sometimes there has to be a "software problem" or "rogue trader" or, to use the colloquial term "scapegoat", to provide the money distributed on brokerage fees.
I am not suggesting any one person is responsible for this - the banks have colluded to look the other way while this system has developed in an ad-hoc manner. In all probability, many of the so called "masters of the universe" are too stupid to understand what is going on, as it requires an understanding of the laws of maths, which they generally don't have. The few "whizz-kids" who could understand are "highly motivated" to look the other way.
BASIC was invented to teach the writing of interpreters, not to actually use. The problem was a whole generation of students then knew how to write BASIC interpreters.
The real question is "Why did IBM even think Bill gates, a schoolboy at the time, might have an OS worth actually paying for without seeing it first, and why did they sign the most stupid license agreement since records began, if there was no corruption involved?"
Disclaimer: My employers at the time had a much better OS, (with a high level of compatibility with Intel's ISIS (I know because I dis-assembled virtually the whole of ISIS to achieve this)) but failed to even try to sell it "Because no one would buy a British OS!"
Its spaghetti we are talking about here. Bolognaise source is the appropriate treatment - although you might want to add some chilli to your standard recipe, as it is code.
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But mutant ninja bootlockers are a bigger risk!
There is also no sane reason to use mySQL (or Oracle) when PostgreSQL is better than both in almost every respect.
I guarantee that, outside of the USA, there will be plenty of computers that can run whatever you want. Perhaps you should relocate to a land that is slightly more free?
We already have that in the UK. They can stop you if the APNR cameras say your car is untaxed, take your car and crush it. If you have no insurance, they hold it till you have. but some people cannot get insurance because of their postal address!. This system is an outrage, but so far, people have not done much about it, because the alternative party is hell bent on worse.
But, in America "You have the right to remain stupid!"
Their response is to send me emails of models with even worse resolution!
You clearly lack experience of the end of civilisation as we know it! Realistically, in any such senario, the other games providers will be trashed, and if you are the only games provider...
1) Profit!!!!!
a) The government of Nigeria itself is a boring, idiotic scam
b) The government of Nigeria is completely irrelevant to most Nigerians, and incapable of enforcing anything significant
Unlike America where:
a) The government of America is a boring, idiotic scam
b) The government of America controls the lives of most Americans, and is capable of enforcing anything it likes.
The income distribution in Nigeria is radically different from Europe or America, and a great many Nigerians are outside the monetary economy, and quite a few are reasonably well off, In any case, no one in Nigeria believes statistical data, especially if it originates with the private sector or the government, or anyone else.
The government has proven completely unable to keep data safe (cf Wikileaks), and this is not about to change now, even if there is an election in the US.
You must be new here!
But now you will be able to use Norton Antivirus to get rid of the clap!
Then again, the reviews suggest Windows 8 ACTUALLY IS epic $#!+, and probably will bankrupt the company as a direct result of this situation.
Its educational - they not only learn there ARE bad words, they get to figure out what they are!
You obviously have not seen an American sit on a car!
And there was I thinking the purpose was to facilitate Mafia hits on rival drug lords. My bad.
Younger than what? My mother has been a computer user since 1958, and got used to an iPad in a few days, that wont make her use win8, or not use it.
The spectacular "losses" are the path by which the money leaves investors, and is syphoned off to pay the disproportionate brokerage fees.
As a point of reference see gold - the value of gold traded between speculators each day is 1,000 times the value actually sold into industry/jewelery/etc - so a 0.25% brokerage fee on both buyer an seller is worth 5* the value of the gold that enters or leaves the market each day. Obviously, the additional margin actually paid by real life users for the benefits of a liquid market is a tiny fraction of the value of the gold - sometimes there has to be a "software problem" or "rogue trader" or, to use the colloquial term "scapegoat", to provide the money distributed on brokerage fees.
I am not suggesting any one person is responsible for this - the banks have colluded to look the other way while this system has developed in an ad-hoc manner. In all probability, many of the so called "masters of the universe" are too stupid to understand what is going on, as it requires an understanding of the laws of maths, which they generally don't have. The few "whizz-kids" who could understand are "highly motivated" to look the other way.
I take your Lisp and raise you a SNOBOL.
Every MINI. BASIC existed 10 years before the micro.
Now get of my lawn.
(The point of SQL is that you say what you want, not where to find it - hence the concept of "NoSQL" just silly)
Disclaimer: My employers at the time had a much better OS, (with a high level of compatibility with Intel's ISIS (I know because I dis-assembled virtually the whole of ISIS to achieve this)) but failed to even try to sell it "Because no one would buy a British OS!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCZUODkP13Y
Its spaghetti we are talking about here. Bolognaise source is the appropriate treatment - although you might want to add some chilli to your standard recipe, as it is code.