MS SQL is getting quite tolerable in the mid to to upper mid range. It's still not in a place to compete with Oracle at the top end, but for most use cases it's perfectly adequate.
I don't know anyone who isn't a MySQL salesman or an open source fanatic who has never heard of Postgres who thinks MySQL is capable even in the mid level use case.
That's not to say that Oracle pouring money into it couldn't make it good, or that they don't have plans for it or for Innobase, but as is, it's a joke.
It's a phone, you're supposed to carry it around with you everywhere, get at it quickly when it rings and use it one handed. If it can't survive a drop onto concrete it's a piece of crap no matter how much it costs.
It also shouldn't actually need a case. This isn't some esoteric piece of hardware, it's a bloody phone.
I've never broken a screen either, my wife has though.
Want to know the main difference between her and me when it comes to phones? I've never owned a phone with a phone with a screen that covers the full front of the unit, let alone one with glass covering the back as well.
That said, I have dropped my iPod Touch onto concrete a number of times without the screen breaking, but it's a lot lighter than an iPhone and it's the 3rd gen model.
MySQL is a joke, always has been, it's possible that Oracle could make it into something that's not a Joke, but if you're running anything enterprise level in MySQL that's not a LAMP CMS then you're insane.
If you're talking about Web Services which is where things like Java and.NET are growing, the only thing which has to be Windows is the server you're hosting the application on, and.NET is sufficiently nicer for that to be a tradeoff you consider. Relying on any third party plugin to be present on your client's PC is really rather risky in this day and age anyway.
You can't take a compliant java application and compile it into Dalvik and have it work, you can't take compliant java byte code and run it in dalvik and you can't take dalvik byte code and run it in a compliant JVM.
gcj is not java, it's a convertor from java to machine code.
Because if Java fails,.NET takes over, and.NET integrates a lot smoother with MS SQL than with Oracle(not that you can't access Oracle, just that the built in frameworks are all based on SQL). MS SQL is essentially the number one threat to Oracle's business in the short term, since for the vast majority of cases it's a perfectly viable solution, generally costs less(presuming you already have any MS products in your organization), and to be honest, Microsoft are a lot nicer to deal with than Oracle.
IBM and Oracle both desperately need Java to survive, that's half the reason that Oracle bought Sun in the first place.
Thing is though that Android doesn't actually use Java, just a java syntax, so if anything the success of Android is hurting Java by further diluting it.
At this point, there are a few major threats to java. Oracle and IBM getting into a hissy fit and forking it, the fact that Oracle is involved in it poisoning it, the JCP process getting bogged down and causing it to stagnate, and.NET just being a lot easier to use.
This change doesn't actually eliminate any of these problems, but it does mitigate at least the first three, which are crucial to doing anything about the 4th.
Now true, generally evolution doesn't happen terribly quickly, but generally shifts in selection pressures happen very slowly too. There's plenty of empirical evidence that well educated affluent people are having fewer and fewer children while teenage pregnancy is generally on the rise. There's definitely a fairly major evolutionary shift towards the stupid, especially since, to be perfectly honest, human mate selection hasn't ever really caught up to the realities of the modern era in the first place. Most of us, male and female, select our mates more for appearance than intellect, at least in the early stages of our lives.
Now personally I think that a lot of it has a lot more to do with social factors than anything else, but there's definitely evolutionary pressure as well.
It's gotten to the point in the US where you need a college degree to have any level of success at all. If we're going to expect everyone we employee to have a college degree we're going to have to require that everyone is able to get a college degree, which will of necessity require college degrees to get better.
We're also starting to take into account the fact that not everyone has the same opportunities, why shouldn't we offer people who had access to shitty primary and secondary school the opportunity to catch up in university, just because most people on Slashdot went to white middle class suburban schools which did a halfway decent job of educating us, doesn't mean everyone else did.
The world, thank goodness, is not the same place it was 50 years ago, and unfortunately for a lot of people a college degree is required for things which have absolutely no need of one. It's not the end of the world, or the end of education it's merely come to a point where just having education doesn't make you better than anyone else anymore.
It's definitely provable that, on average, worse spaces mean worse education, distractions, inadequate facilities, bad ergonomics etc. One can of course deduce from this that, up to some point, better spaces mean better education.
The interesting question of course is how you define better and therefor what constitutes best. It may very well be a rectangle filled with desks.
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I suppose there's also a matter of scale, when you're probably not going to live to see 30, waiting till 25 seems a bit of a stretch.
I've seen far too many apps written in access that should never have been, and to be honest I wouldn't even remotely be surprised if they actually did do this one in access.
Treating all people equally isn't a "Western" value, it's a basic part of not being a total jackass. That's not to say that women who want to cover every inch of their bodies shouldn't be allowed to do so, but people who judge other women based on whether they do or do not cover every inch of their bodies are jackasses no matter how long their culture has been doing it.
Not all ideas are equal, not all values are equal, sometimes following a thousand year old tradition just makes you a douche.
That sort of presumes that your ISP doesn't assume that "customer downloads more than we want them to" or "customer runs a server of any kind" or "traffic logs indicate that customer is using a product that competes with those produced by my company or the company I just took a large financial contribution from" indicates a bot net. Or of course there's "we require you to install an application on your PC so we can monitor it and ensure it's not part of a bot net and it won't run on anything but the version of Windows we bothered to right it for, which may or may not be the most recent one, and certainly not on mac or any of those commie linux installs".
Plus of course it would really just mean that the people running the bot net would just more evenly distribute the load over a larger number of PC's, same DDOS attacks, same spam, more power to ISPs
The reason those outfits charge that kind of money is that they have to pay for insurance, taxes, office space, employee benefits, and operational staff.
It's fine if you want to take the liability risk that you won't get hurt and no one will sue you and work for $20/hr, but if you're not a single freelancer and/or you can't accept the liability risk of the work, it's just not worth it to work at that kind of level.
To be perfectly honest, even in the current US economy $20/hr is pretty low for the kind of hassle and risk dealing with peoples home PCs entails. If you go to people's homes all sorts of legal issues can arise, and if you have people come to you you need adequate facilities for those purposes and you're still at risk of liability. That's before you even take into account the actual work, a lot of people store valuable information on those PCs and they often don't back it up adequately.
Just because no one has sued you yet because they lost their manuscript, or claimed you sexually harassed them, or tripped over your carpet on the way into your home(or you on the way out of theirs) doesn't mean it can't happen.
Mostly because it's expensive, painful, and older versions of most operating systems don't properly support it. No one wants to deal with the dramas before they absolutely have to. That and there's the fact that as far as I can tell the one and only killer feature of IPv6 is a larger address space and having every item have a publicly addressable IP, which isn't a really huge selling point especially when you consider that while IPv4 addresses are easy to remember, IPv6 addresses are not.
Most people don't want to run servers, NAT and port forwarding isn't all that hard to set up, and not every device needs or even should have a public IP address. There's still a whole bunch of unused Class A's floating around that were picked up by companies who were there in the early days and who aren't actually using them, I'm sure a lot of those will be reclaimed before we run out of space. Hell I'm sure Sun had a couple which Oracle doesn't need.
I'm not talking about the people who bought a PC with XP on it and don't know any better. I'm not even talking about the people who bought a PC with Vista and downgraded.
It's more the people who sit there using XP, insist they'll never upgrade, and then criticize Microsoft for not adding anything to their OS in ten years.
Most people on slashdot who actually use Windows are mindlessly clinking to the clunker than is XP, so they really have no idea of what Microsoft has done in the last 10 years.
The metaphor is crap. For one thing, while I disagreed strongly with the RealId system, it wasn't obviously wrong from Blizzard's point of view the way that punching your spouse is, and second of all they never did it.
Metaphorically it's a bit more like telling your wife you're going to grab her breast, her saying I really don't want you to and you saying "Oh, well then I won't".
Blizzard doesn't do that, never have, it's what makes them a successful company.
That's not to say they've never released code with bugs in it, they like all other developers most certainly have, especially with WoW where you're dealing with huge numbers and infinite different configurations. What they've never done is release a product before it was ready, and if they managed not to do that when they weren't generating a billion or so dollars in revenue every year I doubt they're going to start caving in to marketing now.
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MS SQL is getting quite tolerable in the mid to to upper mid range. It's still not in a place to compete with Oracle at the top end, but for most use cases it's perfectly adequate.
I don't know anyone who isn't a MySQL salesman or an open source fanatic who has never heard of Postgres who thinks MySQL is capable even in the mid level use case.
That's not to say that Oracle pouring money into it couldn't make it good, or that they don't have plans for it or for Innobase, but as is, it's a joke.
This would also be fairly pointless for picking up the players anyway since they're moving rather rapidly.
I don't know about funk and ship, but winker is pretty funny.
It's a phone, you're supposed to carry it around with you everywhere, get at it quickly when it rings and use it one handed. If it can't survive a drop onto concrete it's a piece of crap no matter how much it costs.
It also shouldn't actually need a case. This isn't some esoteric piece of hardware, it's a bloody phone.
I've never broken a screen either, my wife has though.
Want to know the main difference between her and me when it comes to phones? I've never owned a phone with a phone with a screen that covers the full front of the unit, let alone one with glass covering the back as well.
That said, I have dropped my iPod Touch onto concrete a number of times without the screen breaking, but it's a lot lighter than an iPhone and it's the 3rd gen model.
MySQL is a joke, always has been, it's possible that Oracle could make it into something that's not a Joke, but if you're running anything enterprise level in MySQL that's not a LAMP CMS then you're insane.
If you're talking about Web Services which is where things like Java and .NET are growing, the only thing which has to be Windows is the server you're hosting the application on, and .NET is sufficiently nicer for that to be a tradeoff you consider. Relying on any third party plugin to be present on your client's PC is really rather risky in this day and age anyway.
You can't take a compliant java application and compile it into Dalvik and have it work, you can't take compliant java byte code and run it in dalvik and you can't take dalvik byte code and run it in a compliant JVM.
gcj is not java, it's a convertor from java to machine code.
Because if Java fails, .NET takes over, and .NET integrates a lot smoother with MS SQL than with Oracle(not that you can't access Oracle, just that the built in frameworks are all based on SQL). MS SQL is essentially the number one threat to Oracle's business in the short term, since for the vast majority of cases it's a perfectly viable solution, generally costs less(presuming you already have any MS products in your organization), and to be honest, Microsoft are a lot nicer to deal with than Oracle.
IBM and Oracle both desperately need Java to survive, that's half the reason that Oracle bought Sun in the first place.
Thing is though that Android doesn't actually use Java, just a java syntax, so if anything the success of Android is hurting Java by further diluting it.
It's a start.
At this point, there are a few major threats to java. Oracle and IBM getting into a hissy fit and forking it, the fact that Oracle is involved in it poisoning it, the JCP process getting bogged down and causing it to stagnate, and .NET just being a lot easier to use.
This change doesn't actually eliminate any of these problems, but it does mitigate at least the first three, which are crucial to doing anything about the 4th.
Why wouldn't they have an effect?
Now true, generally evolution doesn't happen terribly quickly, but generally shifts in selection pressures happen very slowly too. There's plenty of empirical evidence that well educated affluent people are having fewer and fewer children while teenage pregnancy is generally on the rise. There's definitely a fairly major evolutionary shift towards the stupid, especially since, to be perfectly honest, human mate selection hasn't ever really caught up to the realities of the modern era in the first place. Most of us, male and female, select our mates more for appearance than intellect, at least in the early stages of our lives.
Now personally I think that a lot of it has a lot more to do with social factors than anything else, but there's definitely evolutionary pressure as well.
It's gotten to the point in the US where you need a college degree to have any level of success at all. If we're going to expect everyone we employee to have a college degree we're going to have to require that everyone is able to get a college degree, which will of necessity require college degrees to get better.
We're also starting to take into account the fact that not everyone has the same opportunities, why shouldn't we offer people who had access to shitty primary and secondary school the opportunity to catch up in university, just because most people on Slashdot went to white middle class suburban schools which did a halfway decent job of educating us, doesn't mean everyone else did.
The world, thank goodness, is not the same place it was 50 years ago, and unfortunately for a lot of people a college degree is required for things which have absolutely no need of one. It's not the end of the world, or the end of education it's merely come to a point where just having education doesn't make you better than anyone else anymore.
It's definitely provable that, on average, worse spaces mean worse education, distractions, inadequate facilities, bad ergonomics etc. One can of course deduce from this that, up to some point, better spaces mean better education.
The interesting question of course is how you define better and therefor what constitutes best. It may very well be a rectangle filled with desks.
I suppose there's also a matter of scale, when you're probably not going to live to see 30, waiting till 25 seems a bit of a stretch.
I've seen far too many apps written in access that should never have been, and to be honest I wouldn't even remotely be surprised if they actually did do this one in access.
It's a sadly believable joke.
Nor should it, if you've got 2 billion records use something designed for that kind of load.
Treating all people equally isn't a "Western" value, it's a basic part of not being a total jackass. That's not to say that women who want to cover every inch of their bodies shouldn't be allowed to do so, but people who judge other women based on whether they do or do not cover every inch of their bodies are jackasses no matter how long their culture has been doing it.
Not all ideas are equal, not all values are equal, sometimes following a thousand year old tradition just makes you a douche.
In any country other than the US I'd agree with you, but do you really trust Comcast, or Verizon to not abuse this policy?
That sort of presumes that your ISP doesn't assume that "customer downloads more than we want them to" or "customer runs a server of any kind" or "traffic logs indicate that customer is using a product that competes with those produced by my company or the company I just took a large financial contribution from" indicates a bot net. Or of course there's "we require you to install an application on your PC so we can monitor it and ensure it's not part of a bot net and it won't run on anything but the version of Windows we bothered to right it for, which may or may not be the most recent one, and certainly not on mac or any of those commie linux installs".
Plus of course it would really just mean that the people running the bot net would just more evenly distribute the load over a larger number of PC's, same DDOS attacks, same spam, more power to ISPs
The reason those outfits charge that kind of money is that they have to pay for insurance, taxes, office space, employee benefits, and operational staff.
It's fine if you want to take the liability risk that you won't get hurt and no one will sue you and work for $20/hr, but if you're not a single freelancer and/or you can't accept the liability risk of the work, it's just not worth it to work at that kind of level.
To be perfectly honest, even in the current US economy $20/hr is pretty low for the kind of hassle and risk dealing with peoples home PCs entails. If you go to people's homes all sorts of legal issues can arise, and if you have people come to you you need adequate facilities for those purposes and you're still at risk of liability. That's before you even take into account the actual work, a lot of people store valuable information on those PCs and they often don't back it up adequately.
Just because no one has sued you yet because they lost their manuscript, or claimed you sexually harassed them, or tripped over your carpet on the way into your home(or you on the way out of theirs) doesn't mean it can't happen.
Mostly because it's expensive, painful, and older versions of most operating systems don't properly support it. No one wants to deal with the dramas before they absolutely have to. That and there's the fact that as far as I can tell the one and only killer feature of IPv6 is a larger address space and having every item have a publicly addressable IP, which isn't a really huge selling point especially when you consider that while IPv4 addresses are easy to remember, IPv6 addresses are not.
Most people don't want to run servers, NAT and port forwarding isn't all that hard to set up, and not every device needs or even should have a public IP address. There's still a whole bunch of unused Class A's floating around that were picked up by companies who were there in the early days and who aren't actually using them, I'm sure a lot of those will be reclaimed before we run out of space. Hell I'm sure Sun had a couple which Oracle doesn't need.
I'm not talking about the people who bought a PC with XP on it and don't know any better. I'm not even talking about the people who bought a PC with Vista and downgraded.
It's more the people who sit there using XP, insist they'll never upgrade, and then criticize Microsoft for not adding anything to their OS in ten years.
Yes, yes it is.
Most people on slashdot who actually use Windows are mindlessly clinking to the clunker than is XP, so they really have no idea of what Microsoft has done in the last 10 years.
The metaphor is crap. For one thing, while I disagreed strongly with the RealId system, it wasn't obviously wrong from Blizzard's point of view the way that punching your spouse is, and second of all they never did it.
Metaphorically it's a bit more like telling your wife you're going to grab her breast, her saying I really don't want you to and you saying "Oh, well then I won't".
Blizzard doesn't do that, never have, it's what makes them a successful company.
That's not to say they've never released code with bugs in it, they like all other developers most certainly have, especially with WoW where you're dealing with huge numbers and infinite different configurations. What they've never done is release a product before it was ready, and if they managed not to do that when they weren't generating a billion or so dollars in revenue every year I doubt they're going to start caving in to marketing now.