Very true. You can see it everywhere, but especially in courts. Just recently in Australia we had three people try a "wrongful life" suit against a Doctor. The claim was that the doctor should have *aborted* them before they became full developed, despite the mother of these three not requesting an abortion. The Judge canned the case, but I think this is the loudest indication to date that everyone wants to blame everyone else for thier own problems, mistakes and crimes.
It's a nice idea in theory, but when I went to have a play with it (using XP & IE) it kept whinging about not being able to make any sort of socket connection. Is this just being slashdotted, or the 'standard' a bit of a bandwidth hog?
Maybe a hybrid system then? Have a program that uses the normal interface for e-mail, then have that program archive old e-mails to the RDBMS system for easy historical queries. That way, you have the emails you actually want to use now in a quick and accessable format, and the older ones 'filed' in an orderly manner.
Be careful what you wish for. According to The Register Microsoft is thinking the same thing. In theory it's a great idea, but in reality... I get the feeling that SQL is suddenly getting some new non-standard extentions coming on.
Agreed, but my problem is with the brutality of the cuts. I can understand where they were coming from (according to the papers, the worst offenders were costing approx $400 a month loss each), but 3gig is just Telstra level stingy because they (Optus) know they can get away with it due to a certain other company testing the waters. We are going from a theoretical cap of about 18gig, down to 3gig, a 600% decrease. If it had have been 5gig, I would have had no problems. But 3gig on a broadband connection is like saying "Here is a porche, but you can only of 3 litres of fuel".
Just because something is weird doen't make it bad. The way linux works is still 'weird' to me (sorry, but I just haven't had the time to sit down and tool around with it), yet I'm sure many people here would say that linux is not bad, and I don't think it is either.
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Very true. You can see it everywhere, but especially in courts. Just recently in Australia we had three people try a "wrongful life" suit against a Doctor. The claim was that the doctor should have *aborted* them before they became full developed, despite the mother of these three not requesting an abortion. The Judge canned the case, but I think this is the loudest indication to date that everyone wants to blame everyone else for thier own problems, mistakes and crimes.
It's a nice idea in theory, but when I went to have a play with it (using XP & IE) it kept whinging about not being able to make any sort of socket connection. Is this just being slashdotted, or the 'standard' a bit of a bandwidth hog?
Maybe a hybrid system then? Have a program that uses the normal interface for e-mail, then have that program archive old e-mails to the RDBMS system for easy historical queries. That way, you have the emails you actually want to use now in a quick and accessable format, and the older ones 'filed' in an orderly manner.
Be careful what you wish for. According to The Register Microsoft is thinking the same thing. In theory it's a great idea, but in reality... I get the feeling that SQL is suddenly getting some new non-standard extentions coming on.
Agreed, but my problem is with the brutality of the cuts. I can understand where they were coming from (according to the papers, the worst offenders were costing approx $400 a month loss each), but 3gig is just Telstra level stingy because they (Optus) know they can get away with it due to a certain other company testing the waters. We are going from a theoretical cap of about 18gig, down to 3gig, a 600% decrease. If it had have been 5gig, I would have had no problems. But 3gig on a broadband connection is like saying "Here is a porche, but you can only of 3 litres of fuel".
Just because something is weird doen't make it bad. The way linux works is still 'weird' to me (sorry, but I just haven't had the time to sit down and tool around with it), yet I'm sure many people here would say that linux is not bad, and I don't think it is either.