Is this FEMA demanding? Or an ignorant IT services supplier supplying a solution which only works on the IE6 platform? Or (horror of horrors) is this system an in-house job?
Maybe FEMA need to revist their IT procurement strategy - if they have one.
In a situation like this, I would have thought that every effort would be made to make the application process accessible to everybody.
Oracle is a pig, and it requires a professional, certified swineherd. If you spend an amazing amount of money on licenses, gear, and certified DBAs you will presumably get good performance;
Nonsense. Oracle won't be any good for people who like plug and play DBMSs, but its power lies in its configurability. The only money you need to spend is on a cheap book which will show you how to get the best from it. Or get the info free on the web.
I however was never able to get it past 60% of the performance of MS-SQL or Postgres
One of the primary uses of the oil tax is to build public transport systems, but most rural taxpayers see very little of that benefit, making it more sensible to live closer to town.
Don't you mean most tax payers (rural, sub-urban and urban) see very little of that benefit - unless they live in central London.
This is evidenced by their choice of Itanium over Opteron.
Large corporates don't base purchasing descisions soley on the best technical solution. Vendor support, volume discounts and "Roadmaps" play a major part in selecting a solution.
Two years ago, Itanium probably made a lot of sense to Unilever.
OK, just in case you're not trolling for humour points, I'll bite. I meant Moores Law (as in Gordon Moore). Ok, so I didn't capitalise the "M" and I missed an "o", but come on! This is Slashdot!
If this "Perfect 10" found a publisher illegally using their images was advertising in a local newspaper, they'd sue the newspaper rather than the publisher, right?
Well, as machines get more powerful (mores law) and end-user bandwidth increases it becomes possible to do things that weren't possible before. Things like streaming HD video on demand with no interruptions or loss of quality, downloading a multi-cd linux distro in less than 60 seconds etc, VoIP etc.
This could lead to an increase in people doing things which weren't previously possible and larger file sizes as powerful machines can process more data.
The upshot of that will be slow and steady growth of internet traffic.
The GLA and the borough councils aren't run by Nigerians, so who benefits from these parking tickets? Even if the ticket wardens are working on a commission basis, illegally issued parking tickets are easily contested, so why would they do it?
As for your bank example, that sounds like bull$#!+ too.
You heard it here first... IBM just doesn't have their shit together at 90nm
Yeah, that'll be like hearing all of that other scoop $#!+ first on slashdot - you know, like Natalie Portman likes bathing in hot grits in soviet russia because everyone's new here.
I agree 100% At work, we use Tomcat, Linux and Apache serverside. We use Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Commons for developement. We do so, purely because they cost nothing to buy.
In our line of business, we'd be better off with Websphere or one of the other 'heavyweight' J2EE containers, but those cost serious wonga.
We use WindowsXP and 2000 for our development - a sure sign that "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" (tm) because if it was - we'd be using it!
And as a user, I am free to write or modify the software I use
Just so. As a user, you are free. The software isn't. It is controlled by some entity - that's why it's licenced. The form of control the software is under keeps it in the realm of allowing you the freedom to change it.
Of course, there are many licences like this. The GPL forces you to make your additions or amendments available in such a way as to accord another user the freedom to modify your changes.
So while the software is also going to probably be free (of money purchase cost) at the point of use, it isn't free in any other sense, especially when you consider that you're not free to keep your changes to yourself if you decide to re-distribute a GPL'd work.
I think it should be called Stallman Software and then we wouldn't keep having this silly strife about words.
Unauthorized use of software somebody has created with the idea of supporting himself through selling it most certainly is theft. It is not theft of the work, it is theft of the revenue that the author could expect
And there's the rub. If Microsoft won't let me upgrade directly from Windows95 to WindowsXP without paying for Windows98 and/or WindowsME and the cost being prohibitive, I pirate a version of XP, how am I stealing revenue that MS could expect?
Given that my "theft" isn't depriving anyone else of using Windows XP (in the way that, my theft of a Ferrari, say would) and that I'm not paying for windows because I can't afford to, doesn't that mean that "revenues the author could expect" would, in this case, be precisely zero and therefore, I'm not actually stealing anything?
The department of leisure and entertainment (DOLE) will give you £112.40 a week, minimum. Taken into account the fact that if you're working you're probably paying at least £2 per shift to get there, you'll be better off on the dole.
Thought one had to demonstrate that one was actively looking for work and unable to actually work in order to get a handout from Gordon?
Sitting on the sofa's probably not an option for most people under those circumstances.
As for the travel bit, it always cracks me up hearing Londoners complain about their travel options.
Out here in the sticks, I *have* to use a car to drive to work - usually with coppers hiding in fields and behind trees with speed cameras. The public transport system in London may be breaking down, but at least it exists.
Best laugh I've had all day!
Truth is, though, most sane people wouldn't choose a council house just for the sake of "earning" more than the minimum wage.
Or would they!?:)
Only six miles? You'd better buy a bicycle - and BTW, can you verify your comment about getting "paid more to sit on your fat ass on the sofa all day than you would with a minimum wage job" ?
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Your sense of humour is so, so old
You must be new here...
"FEMA Demands Use of IE"
Is this FEMA demanding? Or an ignorant IT services supplier supplying a solution which only works on the IE6 platform? Or (horror of horrors) is this system an in-house job?
Maybe FEMA need to revist their IT procurement strategy - if they have one.
In a situation like this, I would have thought that every effort would be made to make the application process accessible to everybody.
Oracle is a pig, and it requires a professional, certified swineherd. If you spend an amazing amount of money on licenses, gear, and certified DBAs you will presumably get good performance;
Nonsense. Oracle won't be any good for people who like plug and play DBMSs, but its power lies in its configurability. The only money you need to spend is on a cheap book which will show you how to get the best from it. Or get the info free on the web.
I however was never able to get it past 60% of the performance of MS-SQL or Postgres
That says more about you than about Oracle.
One of the primary uses of the oil tax is to build public transport systems, but most rural taxpayers see very little of that benefit, making it more sensible to live closer to town.
Don't you mean most tax payers (rural, sub-urban and urban) see very little of that benefit - unless they live in central London.
This is evidenced by their choice of Itanium over Opteron.
Large corporates don't base purchasing descisions soley on the best technical solution. Vendor support, volume discounts and "Roadmaps" play a major part in selecting a solution.
Two years ago, Itanium probably made a lot of sense to Unilever.
You must be new here... ;)
OK, just in case you're not trolling for humour points, I'll bite. I meant Moores Law (as in Gordon Moore). Ok, so I didn't capitalise the "M" and I missed an "o", but come on! This is Slashdot!
If this "Perfect 10" found a publisher illegally using their images was advertising in a local newspaper, they'd sue the newspaper rather than the publisher, right?
Well, as machines get more powerful (mores law) and end-user bandwidth increases it becomes possible to do things that weren't possible before. Things like streaming HD video on demand with no interruptions or loss of quality, downloading a multi-cd linux distro in less than 60 seconds etc, VoIP etc.
This could lead to an increase in people doing things which weren't previously possible and larger file sizes as powerful machines can process more data.
The upshot of that will be slow and steady growth of internet traffic.
...bull$#!+
;)
The GLA and the borough councils aren't run by Nigerians, so who benefits from these parking tickets? Even if the ticket wardens are working on a commission basis, illegally issued parking tickets are easily contested, so why would they do it?
As for your bank example, that sounds like bull$#!+ too.
You must be "colour prejudiced"....
..seriously.
..they dared not name it after a year. That would have been like 3drealms naming Duke Nukem 1998 instead of Duke Nukem forever.
You heard it here first... IBM just doesn't have their shit together at 90nm
Yeah, that'll be like hearing all of that other scoop $#!+ first on slashdot - you know, like Natalie Portman likes bathing in hot grits in soviet russia because everyone's new here.
BTW, you forgot to add "FP" to your subject line.
The real reason you have to post anonymously is because you posted the original anonymous post claiming IBM have problems moving to a 90nm fab.
If you don't get it, why don't you try reading the article? That may be a start...
Dude needs to chillax and smoke a bowl I say
and you need to read and understand the article rather than the idiotic slashdot summary - preferably before you touch your bowl...
"then I'm going to make all the money off of it!"
Game publishers, book publishers, movie companies, tv stations, music labels and so on usually have to pay someone for what they use.
Did you bother to read the article?
I agree 100% At work, we use Tomcat, Linux and Apache serverside. We use Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Commons for developement. We do so, purely because they cost nothing to buy.
In our line of business, we'd be better off with Websphere or one of the other 'heavyweight' J2EE containers, but those cost serious wonga.
We use WindowsXP and 2000 for our development - a sure sign that "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" (tm) because if it was - we'd be using it!
I suggest "Stallman Software". That's all that really fits.
And if you run privoxy, you can rewrite "Free Software" into "Stallman Software" and you know here you are.
And as a user, I am free to write or modify the software I use
Just so. As a user, you are free. The software isn't. It is controlled by some entity - that's why it's licenced. The form of control the software is under keeps it in the realm of allowing you the freedom to change it. Of course, there are many licences like this. The GPL forces you to make your additions or amendments available in such a way as to accord another user the freedom to modify your changes.
So while the software is also going to probably be free (of money purchase cost) at the point of use, it isn't free in any other sense, especially when you consider that you're not free to keep your changes to yourself if you decide to re-distribute a GPL'd work.
I think it should be called Stallman Software and then we wouldn't keep having this silly strife about words.
Unauthorized use of software somebody has created with the idea of supporting himself through selling it most certainly is theft. It is not theft of the work, it is theft of the revenue that the author could expect
And there's the rub. If Microsoft won't let me upgrade directly from Windows95 to WindowsXP without paying for Windows98 and/or WindowsME and the cost being prohibitive, I pirate a version of XP, how am I stealing revenue that MS could expect?
Given that my "theft" isn't depriving anyone else of using Windows XP (in the way that, my theft of a Ferrari, say would) and that I'm not paying for windows because I can't afford to, doesn't that mean that "revenues the author could expect" would, in this case, be precisely zero and therefore, I'm not actually stealing anything?
The department of leisure and entertainment (DOLE) will give you £112.40 a week, minimum. Taken into account the fact that if you're working you're probably paying at least £2 per shift to get there, you'll be better off on the dole.
Thought one had to demonstrate that one was actively looking for work and unable to actually work in order to get a handout from Gordon?
Sitting on the sofa's probably not an option for most people under those circumstances.
As for the travel bit, it always cracks me up hearing Londoners complain about their travel options.
Out here in the sticks, I *have* to use a car to drive to work - usually with coppers hiding in fields and behind trees with speed cameras. The public transport system in London may be breaking down, but at least it exists.
Best laugh I've had all day! Truth is, though, most sane people wouldn't choose a council house just for the sake of "earning" more than the minimum wage. Or would they!? :)
Only six miles? You'd better buy a bicycle - and BTW, can you verify your comment about getting "paid more to sit on your fat ass on the sofa all day than you would with a minimum wage job" ?