I wouldn't drink anything that's a forced steam decoction of ground roasted arabica pits and neither should you, as the optimal brewing temperature for coffee is 195 - 205 degrees F and higher temperatures extract more harsh bitters. Espresso machines have pumps ( or levers ) and very strict temperature control.
they could manage to drive users slowly to a more insteresting field (be it free offers from Oracle as a "first dose for free" or even to Postgres as an entry point for "real" RBDMs to produce higher numbers of "real Linux/Unix DBA wannabes" that would look after Oracle on due time).
Well... Whether or not that happens aside, would everyone moving to a real RDBMS be such a bad thing overall?
It'll be exactly like every other operating system that uses X11.
I never understood the appeal of screenshots & livecd's. You can't judge an operating system or distro based on a slow & shitty disk and a half hour of un-demanding use
Then it's a good thing Sun keeps coming up with new ideas, so that they aren't circling the drain.
The old McNealy strategy of 1980's UNIX vendors failed and that's why Sun's in the state that it is, but taking on NetApp and EMC with the storage strategy ( storage 7000 boxes ) is brilliant
Culture and language are inseparable. Most Bilinguals agree that there are thoughts you can have in one language that you can't really have in the other. The ideas might be the same but the expression is not. Language is a huge part of culture
How is it any different from Europeans worried about losing their local cultural expressions to the Muslim immigrants? Or Americans worried about the influx of Spanish speaking latinos (some of which may just be blind racism but some might be people wanting American culture to survive)
People think their cultures are valuable. Quebec does something about it.
To make matters worse, I don't believe the requirements are nearly as bilingual in the other direction.
No, why would they be? English wasn't the declining language in the 60's. Nobody finds it more convenient to teach their kids French rather than English.
The whole idea behind the laws are that both cultures are intrinsically valuable and worth protecting. Except English culture and language doesn't need protection, it's doing quite fine on it's own
French culture and language was declining rapidly before the introduction of the language laws.
There's an Anglophone upper class in Quebec, and immigrants from non-English countries come in and generally want to learn English. That doesn't bode well for French so laws were introduced to attempt to encourage Francophone Quebequois from becoming Anglophone.
It's worked well enough that Latvia introduced similar laws to try to protect the Latvian language and culture from the massive influence of Russian after the Soviet Union fell apart
I have only once in my life seen a support contract used on anything other than replacing hardware- and then it took multiple weeks to get a response to our issue
So you've never worked anywhere big and complex enough to take advantage of problem escalations. Point?
Managers also have to make decisions based on things more than "what would be fun to work on"
The programmers may want to use some random opensource tool because it would shave a bit of dev. time in an integral role and the manager saying "no" and insisting on something that's a pain in the ass may actually have a reason for doing so. Availability of support contracts, for instance.
Your experience is probably due to the fact that programming is a marketable skill that is relatively easy to learn combined with other peoples' technophobia.
Once you're (using the general "you", not specifically "you") about 2 years in to your undergrad you'll understand that you can teach a monkey how to program a computer, it's programming it well that's the sticker. A handful of my peers @ uni. were self-taught programmers from highschool but they turned out to be sub-par software developers that didn't understand simple things like big-O analysis or basic formal linguistics, and half dropped out.
That you understand that teaching yourself how to program isn't terribly impressive is promising, you'll have a painfully easy first year of university and won't be struggling with the basics while trying to learn other things for the rest of it.
Idiocracy will be accurate only in so far as we manage to avoid disaster. Some catastrophic event that causes enough scarcity and hazard for long enough will result in the intelligent ( = resourceful ) people surviving and thriving, and the unintelligent ( = unresourceful and uncreative ) either dying or positioning themselves so low on the hierarchical totem pole their genes will become less relevant.
For the unintelligent to survive at all ( which is a biological imperative that animals as dumb as flatworms manage to pull off ) in the face of catastrophic events they need a larger number of offspring as a contingency for their genes... Like how crocodiles lay 50 eggs so that a few survive.
It makes evolutionary sense that low intelligence is correlated with large brood
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Or, less jobs if you consider that some number of these people would get fed up with working for someone else and start their own firm.
Previously they'd start them in Si Valley, now they'll start them in India or China; competing with, rather than contributing to, America
Compared to private industry, yes absolutely.
but the big DBs are Oracle+Linux
Generally the Big DB's are Oracle/Solaris/SPARC...
I wouldn't drink anything that's a forced steam decoction of ground roasted arabica pits and neither should you, as the optimal brewing temperature for coffee is 195 - 205 degrees F and higher temperatures extract more harsh bitters. Espresso machines have pumps ( or levers ) and very strict temperature control.
I wouldn't trust consumer reports to tell me what wines are worthwhile, similarly with coffee.
The SCAA exists for a reason
Ultimately it exists and is there for you to use, and does everything you need it to do. What other people choose to use is completely irrelevant.
This, running on a T1 or T2 machine, running ${FREEOSOFCHOICE}. yum.
they could manage to drive users slowly to a more insteresting field (be it free offers from Oracle as a "first dose for free" or even to Postgres as an entry point for "real" RBDMs to produce higher numbers of "real Linux/Unix DBA wannabes" that would look after Oracle on due time).
Well... Whether or not that happens aside, would everyone moving to a real RDBMS be such a bad thing overall?
I see it more likely that MySQl is in danger, since this is heavily overlapped with oracles own database applications.
Just like they did with BerkeleyDB ... oh, wait...
No... "definitive agreement" means that bidding is done.
Oracle offered, Sun accepted.
gradually let it become deprecatingly obsolete.
Too late.
I thought IPv6 was implemented first on a BSD distribution before Linux?
Hell, NFSv3 ( a completely open standard! ) still doesn't work correctly 14 years later...
It'll be exactly like every other operating system that uses X11.
I never understood the appeal of screenshots & livecd's. You can't judge an operating system or distro based on a slow & shitty disk and a half hour of un-demanding use
makes ... PCs in general look bad.
Yeah, right... like PC's need any help looking bad in general
*hugs* his Sun Blade 2000. Running Solaris.
just like there's american culture
Really? There's you don't see any cultural difference between people from the Louisiana bayou, Texas, New York, and central California at all?
Then it's a good thing Sun keeps coming up with new ideas, so that they aren't circling the drain.
The old McNealy strategy of 1980's UNIX vendors failed and that's why Sun's in the state that it is, but taking on NetApp and EMC with the storage strategy ( storage 7000 boxes ) is brilliant
Culture and language are inseparable. Most Bilinguals agree that there are thoughts you can have in one language that you can't really have in the other. The ideas might be the same but the expression is not. Language is a huge part of culture
How is it any different from Europeans worried about losing their local cultural expressions to the Muslim immigrants? Or Americans worried about the influx of Spanish speaking latinos (some of which may just be blind racism but some might be people wanting American culture to survive)
People think their cultures are valuable. Quebec does something about it.
It is now, yes. I'd give the language laws some credit
To make matters worse, I don't believe the requirements are nearly as bilingual in the other direction.
No, why would they be? English wasn't the declining language in the 60's. Nobody finds it more convenient to teach their kids French rather than English.
The whole idea behind the laws are that both cultures are intrinsically valuable and worth protecting. Except English culture and language doesn't need protection, it's doing quite fine on it's own
French culture and language was declining rapidly before the introduction of the language laws.
There's an Anglophone upper class in Quebec, and immigrants from non-English countries come in and generally want to learn English. That doesn't bode well for French so laws were introduced to attempt to encourage Francophone Quebequois from becoming Anglophone.
It's worked well enough that Latvia introduced similar laws to try to protect the Latvian language and culture from the massive influence of Russian after the Soviet Union fell apart
I have only once in my life seen a support contract used on anything other than replacing hardware- and then it took multiple weeks to get a response to our issue
So you've never worked anywhere big and complex enough to take advantage of problem escalations. Point?
Managers also have to make decisions based on things more than "what would be fun to work on"
The programmers may want to use some random opensource tool because it would shave a bit of dev. time in an integral role and the manager saying "no" and insisting on something that's a pain in the ass may actually have a reason for doing so. Availability of support contracts, for instance.
Your experience is probably due to the fact that programming is a marketable skill that is relatively easy to learn combined with other peoples' technophobia.
Once you're (using the general "you", not specifically "you") about 2 years in to your undergrad you'll understand that you can teach a monkey how to program a computer, it's programming it well that's the sticker. A handful of my peers @ uni. were self-taught programmers from highschool but they turned out to be sub-par software developers that didn't understand simple things like big-O analysis or basic formal linguistics, and half dropped out.
That you understand that teaching yourself how to program isn't terribly impressive is promising, you'll have a painfully easy first year of university and won't be struggling with the basics while trying to learn other things for the rest of it.
It's called the Idiocracy effect.
Idiocracy will be accurate only in so far as we manage to avoid disaster. Some catastrophic event that causes enough scarcity and hazard for long enough will result in the intelligent ( = resourceful ) people surviving and thriving, and the unintelligent ( = unresourceful and uncreative ) either dying or positioning themselves so low on the hierarchical totem pole their genes will become less relevant.
For the unintelligent to survive at all ( which is a biological imperative that animals as dumb as flatworms manage to pull off ) in the face of catastrophic events they need a larger number of offspring as a contingency for their genes... Like how crocodiles lay 50 eggs so that a few survive.
It makes evolutionary sense that low intelligence is correlated with large brood