"Microsoft can't beat us technically, so they've decided to strangle us in legal paperwork," said Lorne Cooper, president of NuSphere, distributor of the MySQL open source database system, a potential competitor. Microsoft announced its restrictions as NuSphere and Great Bridge, a distributor of another open source database system, have begun to enjoy limited success as Internet systems.
So the distributor of MySQL, the most brain-dead POS DBMS on the planet, says MS can't beat them technically. I'm sorry, but MySQL cannot even come close to MSSQL.
I guess it goes to show that FUD comes from both directions.
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These actions are justifyable from a moral standpoint. When the established government is commiting crimes, the only way to respond to that is overthrowing the government...
Oh, what irony. Didn't we just kill Timothy McVeigh for thinking (and acting upon) these lines of thought?
oh, i've used lotsa lisp. in the dialects i've used, it would be (setq a b) or (set 'a b) vs (= a b). but i haven't used ML.
i'm inclined to agree with the original poster as well. i've been using python for everything lately, and you couldn't pay me enough to write C/C++/java(tm).
are you on crack? the only language i can think of where the compiler determines the context of a=b (assignment vs. equality) is visual basic. every language worth it's weight in bits has separate assignment and equality operators.
Morally speaking, killing Nazi's is easier to justify than killing Japanese soldiers or Isreali stormtroopers.
You were doing great until that part. Morally speaking, if you make the determination to kill a person or group of people based on their beliefs (or race, national origin, etc), then you have done no better than the Nazis themselves. I know it's hard to swallow, but that's what morals are all about: doing what's right, and not just what's easy.
oh, i could tell you stories. if you're working at a company as a sql programmer or dba, 9 times out of 10 you can run something like this
"update employee set salary=salary*1.5 where id=yours" without anyone ever even knowing.
Latest version of Oracle costs about $40k per CPU. DB2 & SQL Server are not much cheaper.
are you on crack? sql server doesn't cost anywhere near $40k per cpu. hell, the unlimited "internet" version costs $10k per instance, which could be run on any number of cpus in a smp machine.
as a parent of two, let me fill you in on a little secret: the only way you're going to know what your kids are up to is to spend time with them. in other words, get off your lazy ass and spend time with them. especially if you only have her 2 days a week. sheesh.
If MS had adopted OpenGL and stayed the course, hardware/software would be much farther along today
in a word: bullshit. what has gotten hardware and software to the point it's at today is the games. it's the games that push the hardware, not MS's adoption, it's the games that push the operating system and the libraries, not MS's adoption. and if you really think about it, it was The Carmak's company that pushed harder than anyone. and they've used OpenGL since '96, noless.
The JXTA protocol(s) etc are going to be STANDARDS that can be worked into ANY application, regardless of programing language.
Where on the JXTA site does it meantion the word "STANARD"? Does it meantion ANSI? W3C? Any standards body? I'm afraid you've bought in to the Sun(TM) Patented(TM) Misuse(TM) of(TM) Language(TM). You've fallen prey to the same trick that Sun(TM) used to convince the great unwashed that Sun(TM) Java(TM) is a STANDARD.
c) Its not a standard until Sun submits it to a real standards setting body. Until then its just as proprietary (in my mind) as Visual Basic, etc.
actually, it should be proprietary in the minds of everyone... the little TM (trademark) gives it away!
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A minor annoyance is that you have to explicitly pass "self" to methods.
wrong. you do not pass "self" to methods, the interpreter does that for you. all you have to do is declare your class methods with at least one argument, which is by convention, "self". oh, and yes, i know that you have to pass an instance to an unbound method, but that's not the same thing.
A major annoyance is that, as in java, there are data structures that are not objects - thus you have an unnecessary and uncomfortable mix of methodologies.
to which data structures are you referring? iirc, there are a *few* like this in python, but damn near everything is a "first class object".
no, it's not about b2b, and neither is it about web browsing and searching (ala google as the first poster stated).
put simply, UDDI is about applications finding other applications and services. something along the lines of:
i write a program that is a UDDI client and a SOAP client. my program accepts data from the user regarding travel arrangements. based on the input, i query a UDDI registry for services relating to travel. from the results of that query, my program can connect to the individual services (via SOAP) for price, availablity, etc. from there, the app can show the results to the user and allow them to select the most appropriate choice. then, the app could communicate that choice (via SOAP) to the web service and pay for the whole thing.
ok, my example is contrived and stupid, but it points out the really cool parts of SOAP and UDDI: all of the above can happen without ever writing code to a specific service. in fact, when new travel companies come on line, this program would automagically pick them up and use them in it's searches.
Correct. also irrelevant, since there is virtually no-one who actually PROMOTES abortion outside of China.
Have you never heard of Planed Parenthood? They PROMOTE abortion every single day, to the tune of some 17 million abortions annually. And if you don't believe me, talk to a few girls who have visited them and ask them the first option given to them by the PP people.
While in the womb, it's not yet a baby. The term is zygote or fetus depending on how many cells are currently involved.
Let me tell you something personal: my wife is pregnant with our baby right now. She doesn't have a fetus in her belly, nor does she have a zygote, she has our baby . That baby has a name, and his name is Dax. The fact that he has not yet been born is the truly irrelevant matter, because all of the genetic information necessary to create him was determined at conception. If you choose to play semantics with the life of a human being, fine, go right ahead. However, let me share a thought: in pre-emancipation days, slaves were considered 3/5ths human in matters of property. They played with semantics to make their argument, too. The parallels between abortion and slavery are chilling; in both cases, those that argue and fight against them do/did so because those they were fighting for could not speak for themselves.
This leads me to guess that you in fact anti-choice, although you havn't yet come right out and said so
If your definition of choice is "one willing to kill human babies before they are born", then yes, I would proudly wear the label of "anti choice". Since you, too, have loaded your questions, I dismiss your argument in its entirety. But let me also note that your intent here is to dismiss my views because they disagree with your own, not because they are invalid or illogical.
Do you believe that abortion should be illegal under all circumstancs?
Absolutely.
Bonus question: * Do you believe that the death penalty should be an option?
No, not ever. You see, my arguments are entirely consistent: human life is valuable at every stage, regardless of time and circumstance. Are yours?
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From the article:
"Microsoft can't beat us technically, so they've decided to strangle us in legal paperwork," said Lorne Cooper, president of NuSphere, distributor of the MySQL open source database system, a potential competitor. Microsoft announced its restrictions as NuSphere and Great Bridge, a distributor of another open source database system, have begun to enjoy limited success as Internet systems.
So the distributor of MySQL, the most brain-dead POS DBMS on the planet, says MS can't beat them technically. I'm sorry, but MySQL cannot even come close to MSSQL.
I guess it goes to show that FUD comes from both directions.
These actions are justifyable from a moral standpoint. When the established government is commiting crimes, the only way to respond to that is overthrowing the government...
Oh, what irony. Didn't we just kill Timothy McVeigh for thinking (and acting upon) these lines of thought?
oh, i've used lotsa lisp. in the dialects i've used, it would be (setq a b) or (set 'a b) vs (= a b). but i haven't used ML.
i'm inclined to agree with the original poster as well. i've been using python for everything lately, and you couldn't pay me enough to write C/C++/java(tm).
are you on crack? the only language i can think of where the compiler determines the context of a=b (assignment vs. equality) is visual basic. every language worth it's weight in bits has separate assignment and equality operators.
Morally speaking, killing Nazi's is easier to justify than killing Japanese soldiers or Isreali stormtroopers.
You were doing great until that part. Morally speaking, if you make the determination to kill a person or group of people based on their beliefs (or race, national origin, etc), then you have done no better than the Nazis themselves. I know it's hard to swallow, but that's what morals are all about: doing what's right, and not just what's easy.
10,000,000 channels, and nothing is on.
oh, i could tell you stories. if you're working at a company as a sql programmer or dba, 9 times out of 10 you can run something like this
"update employee set salary=salary*1.5 where id=yours" without anyone ever even knowing.
Latest version of Oracle costs about $40k per CPU. DB2 & SQL Server are not much cheaper.
are you on crack? sql server doesn't cost anywhere near $40k per cpu. hell, the unlimited "internet" version costs $10k per instance, which could be run on any number of cpus in a smp machine.
the best place i've found is register buzz. $10/year/domain. sweet.
you said only an awareness of what she surfs.
as a parent of two, let me fill you in on a little secret: the only way you're going to know what your kids are up to is to spend time with them. in other words, get off your lazy ass and spend time with them. especially if you only have her 2 days a week. sheesh.
ah, but if you use a pocketpc device, you could be playing freecell on the crapper. that, my friend, would be a little slice of heaven.
Ah, true. But you could measure the the profits of Sun(tm) using a short.
ROTFL
mod this the fuck up.
yeah, but it's the urban people who are stupid enough to believe them.
300 fps Quake 3...
kids these days! don't you know that q3 caps the max fps at 250?
If MS had adopted OpenGL and stayed the course, hardware/software would be much farther along today
in a word: bullshit. what has gotten hardware and software to the point it's at today is the games. it's the games that push the hardware, not MS's adoption, it's the games that push the operating system and the libraries, not MS's adoption. and if you really think about it, it was The Carmak's company that pushed harder than anyone. and they've used OpenGL since '96, noless.
Sun(tm) Processors(tm) Are(tm) Really(tm) Cool(tm)
Did you even read the info???
Did you? I'm asking because you said this:
The JXTA protocol(s) etc are going to be STANDARDS that can be worked into ANY application, regardless of programing language.
Where on the JXTA site does it meantion the word "STANARD"? Does it meantion ANSI? W3C? Any standards body? I'm afraid you've bought in to the Sun(TM) Patented(TM) Misuse(TM) of(TM) Language(TM). You've fallen prey to the same trick that Sun(TM) used to convince the great unwashed that Sun(TM) Java(TM) is a STANDARD.
hm...
c) Its not a standard until Sun submits it to a real standards setting body. Until then its just as proprietary (in my mind) as Visual Basic, etc.
actually, it should be proprietary in the minds of everyone... the little TM (trademark) gives it away!
A minor annoyance is that you have to explicitly pass "self" to methods.
wrong. you do not pass "self" to methods, the interpreter does that for you. all you have to do is declare your class methods with at least one argument, which is by convention, "self". oh, and yes, i know that you have to pass an instance to an unbound method, but that's not the same thing.
A major annoyance is that, as in java, there are data structures that are not objects - thus you have an unnecessary and uncomfortable mix of methodologies.
to which data structures are you referring? iirc, there are a *few* like this in python, but damn near everything is a "first class object".
- isn't it all about business-to-business?
no, it's not about b2b, and neither is it about web browsing and searching (ala google as the first poster stated).
put simply, UDDI is about applications finding other applications and services. something along the lines of:
i write a program that is a UDDI client and a SOAP client. my program accepts data from the user regarding travel arrangements. based on the input, i query a UDDI registry for services relating to travel. from the results of that query, my program can connect to the individual services (via SOAP) for price, availablity, etc. from there, the app can show the results to the user and allow them to select the most appropriate choice. then, the app could communicate that choice (via SOAP) to the web service and pay for the whole thing.
ok, my example is contrived and stupid, but it points out the really cool parts of SOAP and UDDI: all of the above can happen without ever writing code to a specific service. in fact, when new travel companies come on line, this program would automagically pick them up and use them in it's searches.
got you beat:
i work at a telco, and our billing system runs emulated wang on aix.
You cant even get a half-decent JVM for the thing.
you say that like it's a bad thing. free your mind and the code will follow.
Correct. also irrelevant, since there is virtually no-one who actually PROMOTES abortion outside of China.
Have you never heard of Planed Parenthood? They PROMOTE abortion every single day, to the tune of some 17 million abortions annually. And if you don't believe me, talk to a few girls who have visited them and ask them the first option given to them by the PP people.
While in the womb, it's not yet a baby. The term is zygote or fetus depending on how many cells are currently involved.
Let me tell you something personal: my wife is pregnant with our baby right now. She doesn't have a fetus in her belly, nor does she have a zygote, she has our baby . That baby has a name, and his name is Dax. The fact that he has not yet been born is the truly irrelevant matter, because all of the genetic information necessary to create him was determined at conception. If you choose to play semantics with the life of a human being, fine, go right ahead. However, let me share a thought: in pre-emancipation days, slaves were considered 3/5ths human in matters of property. They played with semantics to make their argument, too. The parallels between abortion and slavery are chilling; in both cases, those that argue and fight against them do/did so because those they were fighting for could not speak for themselves.
This leads me to guess that you in fact anti-choice, although you havn't yet come right out and said so
If your definition of choice is "one willing to kill human babies before they are born", then yes, I would proudly wear the label of "anti choice". Since you, too, have loaded your questions, I dismiss your argument in its entirety. But let me also note that your intent here is to dismiss my views because they disagree with your own, not because they are invalid or illogical.
Do you believe that abortion should be illegal under all circumstancs?
Absolutely.
Bonus question: * Do you believe that the death penalty should be an option?
No, not ever. You see, my arguments are entirely consistent: human life is valuable at every stage, regardless of time and circumstance. Are yours?