Why is the ability to link clients even that big of a deal anyway? Can't you just connect on 3306? What about JDBC (for java nerds) or ODBC drivers?
Who links to client libraries these days?
Plus, one thing that drives me nuts about all these MySQL based OSS projects, this LAMP stuff, is that developers don't even try to make things database independant. I mean, come on!
The GPL needs to be fixed. The zealotry needs to be put aside and people need to realize that internal corporate use of software should trump so-called "freedom", so long as the modified versions of the software are not distributed outside an organization/corporation and its partners.
First of all, why? Why is it in the best interest of GPL Developers to make their work easier to use in ways they don't want it used? That's like saying Microsoft needs to make it easier for people to use their OSs on more then one PC at a time. Why the hell do I want to make it easier for people to modify my code without giving anything back? That doesn't do me any good.
Secondly, what about the GPL makes it not possible for companies to distribute software to employees without giving them the source? Other then overly-paranoid lawyers, that is.
Anything that helps postgres is a good thing to me!
Also, arn't those engines open source? Is Innodb closed source but free to use? If thats the case postgres is a much better system, fully GPLd and much, much more capable then MySQL.
But yeah, clearly these moves are targeted to MySQL.
In all honesty, Ford was about the only good thing the movie had going for it. Mos Def did a fantastic job and gained more respect (from me)
Ironicaly, that was something people complaned about the most before seeing the movie. They're like "OMG THEY PUT IN A RAPPER!?"
First of all, on a per-capita basis the U.S is more oppressive to its citizens then the Chinese government. An American is almost four times as likely to be imprisoned then a Chinese citizen. In fact, the US has more total people in jail then the Chinese, despite the fact that china has almost four times as many people as the US.
Half the people in jail are there for non-violent drug offenses.
Just because you can complain all you want to doesn't mean you're not oppressed. People confuse freedom of speech for actual liberty. The problems don't come from the top here (unless you're a suspicious A-rab) but from local incompetent governments jailing people without access to decent legal defense. Police abuse is rampant, etc.
Proper punctuation is only valued by a small minority of readers. Someone can be taken nearly as seriously with extra apostrophes strewn about like so much of yesterday's garbage..
Unfortunetly there are not really enough non-halfwits to go around. It would be nice if all software could be written by CS-Gods, but that's never going to happen.
It's always better to hire the best, and pay for it, but most bosses don't see the value. And some projects can be done by less then the best, if there simple enough (of course, for a non-technical person to figure out which are which are which isn't always so easy)
Sorry, I can't imagine a situation where one programming language can do something another programming language can't. There all turing complete, of course, but more then that, all the major languages have rich apis that let you do whatever you want. Yeah, it might be easier to whip up a quick'n'dirty web app in PHP then in JSP, but that dosn't mean you can't use JSP.
The only reason I can think of to use multiple languages is to get quick access to an already existing module. If most of your work involves tying together pre-existing modules (where most of your code is already written and you just need to tie it together) you're going to need multiple languages.
If the majority of the code is going to be written by yourself and your team standardizing on one (or maybe two or three) languages is a much better idea.
I would prefer two or three languages with a standard way of communicating between them. Like for app logic, C++ for low level OS stuff, and maybe PHP for web stuff, with standard agreed upon ways of communicating (like JNI for java->C++, PHP's java extension for PHP -> java)
Unless you're lucky enough to work somewhere were every programmer can use any language (not too many places, sadly) it's much better to have a standard, so everyone can follow along.
You can't change licenses, but you can mix code with compatible licenses. Like BSD and GPL. The BSD stuff stays BSD, and the GPL stuff stays GPL. It could be that half the code in the kernel is GPL3 and half of it is GPL2. In that case, you would need to abide by the restrictions on both licenses in order to distribute it.
It's odd that this comment was modded down as "overrated", it looks like someone whent through my history and dumped all their negative mod points on me. Not that I'm worried, in the past 24 comments I've been modded up 8 times, I'm just pointing out how lame whoever's doing it is.
The question is, is this compound safe for humans as well as harmful to HIV? (asside from the obvious other question of wether or not it really is as harmful to aids as they say it is)
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If it was, then Oracle wouldn't need to buy them in the first place. Duh.
Why is the ability to link clients even that big of a deal anyway? Can't you just connect on 3306? What about JDBC (for java nerds) or ODBC drivers?
Who links to client libraries these days?
Plus, one thing that drives me nuts about all these MySQL based OSS projects, this LAMP stuff, is that developers don't even try to make things database independant. I mean, come on!
Couldn't MySQL AB simply poach some of the new Oracle developers to work on InnoDB or BDB's GPL'd code?
Maybe MySQL can switch to Postgres as a storage engine. Now that would be intresting.
The GPL needs to be fixed. The zealotry needs to be put aside and people need to realize that internal corporate use of software should trump so-called "freedom", so long as the modified versions of the software are not distributed outside an organization/corporation and its partners. First of all, why? Why is it in the best interest of GPL Developers to make their work easier to use in ways they don't want it used? That's like saying Microsoft needs to make it easier for people to use their OSs on more then one PC at a time. Why the hell do I want to make it easier for people to modify my code without giving anything back? That doesn't do me any good. Secondly, what about the GPL makes it not possible for companies to distribute software to employees without giving them the source? Other then overly-paranoid lawyers, that is.
Anything that helps postgres is a good thing to me!
Also, arn't those engines open source? Is Innodb closed source but free to use? If thats the case postgres is a much better system, fully GPLd and much, much more capable then MySQL.
But yeah, clearly these moves are targeted to MySQL.
If someone gets a hold of your whole computer, they can read files. If someone hacks your system, they can read your files.
About the only thing windows encryption seems to be able to do is prevent you from recovering your files if your PC ever dies.
Whats the point?
Pretty much all of his books are like that, even the baroque cycle. The joy in a Stephenson book isn't getting to the end, it's the journey.
Of all of his books I've read maybe the Big-U has the best ending, and that's his least favorite book.
In all honesty, Ford was about the only good thing the movie had going for it. Mos Def did a fantastic job and gained more respect (from me) Ironicaly, that was something people complaned about the most before seeing the movie. They're like "OMG THEY PUT IN A RAPPER!?"
Blade Runner was based on a Philip K. Dick novel that gibson would probably already have been familiar with.
Although I'd never read the books and don't plan to. Fuck all ya'll hatas.
Now that is a cool name.
First of all, on a per-capita basis the U.S is more oppressive to its citizens then the Chinese government. An American is almost four times as likely to be imprisoned then a Chinese citizen. In fact, the US has more total people in jail then the Chinese, despite the fact that china has almost four times as many people as the US. Half the people in jail are there for non-violent drug offenses. Just because you can complain all you want to doesn't mean you're not oppressed. People confuse freedom of speech for actual liberty. The problems don't come from the top here (unless you're a suspicious A-rab) but from local incompetent governments jailing people without access to decent legal defense. Police abuse is rampant, etc.
Proper punctuation is only valued by a small minority of readers. Someone can be taken nearly as seriously with extra apostrophes strewn about like so much of yesterday's garbage..
If I invented a near light speed technology, the first place I'd announce it was a cheezy website filled with text (and link) ads too.
I'd love to have all email for all my domains sent to google, with no need to host my own mail server.
Well, if everyone has two GB of space, it makes sense to use it somehow. These guys sure do want to get their hands on a lot of data.
I've never heard of any online game called "golf". Who the hell would want to play golf online?
You could setup mod_proxy on your webserver.
Really was limited. And you couldn't just emulate it with function pointers like you can in C.
Unfortunetly there are not really enough non-halfwits to go around. It would be nice if all software could be written by CS-Gods, but that's never going to happen.
It's always better to hire the best, and pay for it, but most bosses don't see the value. And some projects can be done by less then the best, if there simple enough (of course, for a non-technical person to figure out which are which are which isn't always so easy)
Sorry, I can't imagine a situation where one programming language can do something another programming language can't. There all turing complete, of course, but more then that, all the major languages have rich apis that let you do whatever you want. Yeah, it might be easier to whip up a quick'n'dirty web app in PHP then in JSP, but that dosn't mean you can't use JSP.
The only reason I can think of to use multiple languages is to get quick access to an already existing module. If most of your work involves tying together pre-existing modules (where most of your code is already written and you just need to tie it together) you're going to need multiple languages.
If the majority of the code is going to be written by yourself and your team standardizing on one (or maybe two or three) languages is a much better idea.
I would prefer two or three languages with a standard way of communicating between them. Like for app logic, C++ for low level OS stuff, and maybe PHP for web stuff, with standard agreed upon ways of communicating (like JNI for java->C++, PHP's java extension for PHP -> java)
Unless you're lucky enough to work somewhere were every programmer can use any language (not too many places, sadly) it's much better to have a standard, so everyone can follow along.
You can't change licenses, but you can mix code with compatible licenses. Like BSD and GPL. The BSD stuff stays BSD, and the GPL stuff stays GPL. It could be that half the code in the kernel is GPL3 and half of it is GPL2. In that case, you would need to abide by the restrictions on both licenses in order to distribute it.
It's odd that this comment was modded down as "overrated", it looks like someone whent through my history and dumped all their negative mod points on me. Not that I'm worried, in the past 24 comments I've been modded up 8 times, I'm just pointing out how lame whoever's doing it is.
The question is, is this compound safe for humans as well as harmful to HIV? (asside from the obvious other question of wether or not it really is as harmful to aids as they say it is)