While darker than previous Batman movies, The Dark Knight was still PG-13. Makes the target audience much, much larger. Especially amongst teens with disposable income and time to see the movie 3 times in the cinema.
Most people I know that plan to start with a OSS database and move to Oracle start with PostgreSQL, since PostgreSQL mirrors the capabilities and features of Oracle pretty close, just it's not quite as fast. (But the PostgreSQL folks have been making progress).
...but I'd really like to know how to file one of those amateur circus briefs.
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No, there is no anti-trust here because in the high-end database market Oracle still has competition from IBM DB2 and a little company called Teradata. In the open source world, you still have PostgreSQL and Firebird. Just because something is popular, and why Oracle is so popular is beyond me other than slick marketing, does not make it a trust.
I've spent the last six months working around databases. The development platform was on MySQL simply because it was already there and available on most hosting/dedicated server set ups by default. We had enough work to write the code for the web apps, but we wrote everything using Database abstraction. I knew the day that SUN bought MySQL, MySQL's days were probably numbered as the development team would fracture and start their own forks. So the MySQL world would experience something similar to what happened during the Mambo/Joomla spit a couple years ago. (A lot of uncertainty until one side wins out).
Our major concern was the need to be able to cluster and scale the database rather quickly. In the past I had heard database people call MySQL, and to a lesser extent, PostgreSQL, toy databases. I thought it was out of spite at first, but I learned quickly why they said that when you needed MySQL or PostgreSQL to scale into a high availability cluster. I know MySQL has made some strides in 5.0 and 5.1 in the clustering arena, but PostgreSQL is still lagging.
Right now we're working with the developers edition of DB2 and Teradata on the backend.
The big question now is what does Google do? They've done a lot of hacking of MySQL and it is a critical component of their business. I could see them forking MySQL and offering GoogleDB as a replacement since they have the people to maintain/add to the code.
I'm not a big fan of a huge federal government, but at the local level, cities and towns should have been building out the last mile of service instead of granting local monopolies. If building that infrastructure IS so expensive that no business would do it without the monopoly status, then it probably is something best left to local governments to fund/build and then lease out to whomever wants to offer services to the residents.
My Dad has this problem. He has the choice between the sucky local phone monopoly for DSL or the sucky local cable monopoly for cable.
No, but I do believe that a President *should* have spent time in the military, preferably as an enlisted man not an officer. Hell, even Plato argued that leaders should have military experience a couple thousand years ago. But sadly, we don't seem to nominate philosopher kings.
And ironically, we need more local/light rail as opposed to a high speed rail links between cities because most people drive their daily commute. That's what puts the vast majority of cars on the road is the daily commute. I grew up 40 minutes west of St. Louis. After the Metro was built, we'd to the Metro station past Lambert and hop on any time we had to go down town for a Cards game or Blues game. It's great, even if the Metro still doesn't really go anywhere people want to go(TM)[and inside St. Louis joke].
If it was built all the way out to Wentzville where it would be a 5 minute drive to hop on it, we would have gone downtown more. My Dad would have used it when he was commuting, but instead of giving St. Charles County a plan of exactly where Metro would go and when, St. Louis County/Metro said "Pass a tax increase and we MAY build out service to St. Charles County in the next 20 years. And if we don't, we'll give the county 2/3s of the money we collected back."
So the voters in St. Charles County rejected the tax and was basically labelled as a bunch of hillbilly idiots. If the Metro planning people had a solid plan of where the rail line was going to run, where stops would have been, and a time frame for competition, it would have overwhelmingly passed in St. Charles County. And given the growth in the past 10 years where I grew up, it would have been a wise investment.
As soon as Linux has applications such as Photoshop CS 4 that people don't want to pay for and will download infected versions from bittorrent, Linux too will have malware infected botnets. No OS will ever protect against social engineering the users.
What the *IUX do offer is better protection against surfing and having a random ad banner infect your machine via browser or activex exploit.
This used to be a huge problem, then Apple switched to Intel and you can load Windows via Bootcamp for gaming. I had friends get the 512MB video card option on their MBP's just so they could play the latest games.
I'm in the local coffee shop a lot. And I can sit in the back and see that at any given time, half or more of the student's computer screens have facebook on them. Personally I only got FB after I needed the developers API. (To develop a FB app for said coffee shop). At first I was on it a lot since suddenly I was in contact with a lot of people I've not heard/seen about in a decade.
But now, I usually check FB on my iPhone once in the morning, once in the afternoon browse the news and answer any PM's and that's about it.
No one's produced a computer game I've wanted to buy since about 2005 with Falcon 4.0 Allied force. The combat flight simulator genre is dead. The Space Flight Sim is dead. And the FPS's these days are all pretty much the same. I loved the early Tom Clancy games: Rainbow 6, Rogue Spear, Black Thorn, Ghost Recon, Desert Seige, Island Thunder, etc.. Then all of a sudden the elements that made those game fun, such as tactical planning before you went into a mission, were gone and the Ghost Recon and Rainbow 6 games became nothing more than arcade shoot em ups. Really, to me it was nothing much more than the scripted games you play at arcades only you get dictate when you move instead of a script.
The strategy of how you were going to attack a situation, what equipment and people you needed on your team, etc. was all gone.
Sure the graphics looked better, but why I played the games in the first place was gone.
The computer games I play today: Beyond the Red Line (Fan made Battlestar game based on the Freespace 2 engine), Fleet Commander (again BSG mod of Homeworld 2), Vegastrike (opensource game like Privateer).
******** Now the Wii, different story. Lots of fun and different games on there, like Wii fit, Wii sports, etc. that are a blast at parties. Lots of people who normally wouldn't be playing games love playing Mario Tennis etc..
We did remapped SSH to a higher unused port and then took it a step further blocking access to that port on the hardware firewall from every IP address except for the office. If I need to connect to the server, I first have to connect to an OpenBSD box in the office.
We have 3 - 4 PCI scans a day (seems like every payment gateway we support for our clients scans the server daily. None of them even see SSH.
That's always hard to calculate. It's always licensing costs vs. man hour costs. I've been involved in projects where people were trying to get MySQL to play nicely with EC2 without paying for MySQL enterprise. The amount of man hours it cost them would have made DB2 a much better solution. Especially with the fact that DB2 Express-C is free and already had AMI's ready to go.
Linux annoys me. I learned the basics of the *iux world on Linux, but moved to BSD within a few months for the server side. That was mainly due to the Linux Community. I've heard it said in Geekdom that BSD is full of elitists, but generally I've found the support community to be a lot friendlier than of Linux. I kept a dual boot Windows 2k pro/SuSE box up until 2002. The sound card didn't work, the only way I could get it connected to the internet was either an old ISA Ethernet card or a 33.6k modem with jumpers.
In 2002 I needed a new laptop. I was also tried of dealing with the "If you don't like it, code your own" mentality that I kept running across. About that time, OS X 10.2 was out. That got me my Unix development stack AND commercial applications such as Adobe's apps and *gasp* MS Office and no hardware compatibility issues. I tired of neither Windows nor Linux really just working. And my time to piddle with the little things also became scarce. I needed something that worked and didn't have to be tweaked.
So I ditched Linux for OSX and never looked back. So did a lot of other people who were pragmatic and not zealots about opensource. When Apple switched to intel chips, just about everyone I knew that did any type of web development work switched.
We had a short internship during the winter break a few months ago for local college students. Each one received a netbook as their compensation. When given the choice, they all wanted XP. Part of that had do with the fact they would be using visual studio for spring classes.
Personally, I'd stick with a RAID-5 of standard HDD's for now. I'm waiting a couple years for SSD's to get cheaper and to have more reliable statistics on failure rates.
Databases has always been an area where I stick with old and proven before going with new and shiny. I've been called into projects where new and shiny ended up costing more than if they had gone with old and proven in the first place.
That being said...I'd never be getting an Xserve to start with. Failure rates and hardware issues in the field were a lot higher than they should have been and other than the Xgrid or Qmaster controller, I never saw anything that couldn't be done cheaper with other hardware and FreeBSD.
We had an internship for a group of college students over winter break. For completing their task, they each got an Acer Aspire One. Most of the students had 2 - 5 year old laptops and the freaking netbooks had the same speed processors with more ram, larger HDD (120GB), and even more Video Ram (32MB vs 8MB shared).
Biggest complaints were lack of media drive and screen size. But after classes started again, they loved 'em. Perfect for taking notes and running most of their programs and they fit inside their backpacks without having to lug around an extra laptop bag.
But again, they all wanted XP. (and were glad it wasn't vista)
I agree. But I'm not sure how much longer consumers will have much of a choice. Smart phones are nice for the carriers because it allows them to tack on more services they can charge for. A couple weeks ago I went in to add a line to my AT&T account for my Dad. He's up in his late 60's and has had a pre-paid phone he kept in the car for emergencies, but it wouldn't work too well down on the farm. Last time I was down there, I kept getting pinged with emails, so I knew he could get service if he had a decent phone.
Well I walked into the AT&T company store to get him a basic phone with good reception. The phone didn't need to do anything other than make phone calls, but they didn't have any that would just make phone calls. Everything they had on display were smart phones. Even the most basic phone I could find came with the ability to get mobile TV. (which I admit is cool, but he'd never use it. )
I ended up having to go ATT Wireless's website to find just a basic phone.
Someone posted this the other day and at first it made a little sense. Afterall, Apple doesn't really have an enterprise market presences and Sun doesn't have much in the desktop arena. Not much of the two companies would overlap in terms of canabalizing products. IBM already has a RISC server line as well as a java app server as well as a damn good database system, even if it has a price tag.
But Apple is getting away from being a computer company and getting more into being a consumer electronics and media company. They've developed the first online content delivery system that works for consumers and producers.
I went through this with a company 3 years ago that was running their billing and inventory system off DOS and it still worked with all their venders/payment company. The owners were getting ready to sell and retire (both in their mid 60's.) Contingency of the sale was the upgrade of their systems.
Fortunately, their backend wrote to CSV files. When it came time to choose a new billing system, we found one that ran over generic ODBC and could support a number of database venders including PostgreSQL (which is what we used) and coded the front end in Java.
The software now is no longer dependent on hardware platform. Now moving forward, if a server fails, load the last back up on new hardware and go.
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We run Teradata actually.
While darker than previous Batman movies, The Dark Knight was still PG-13. Makes the target audience much, much larger. Especially amongst teens with disposable income and time to see the movie 3 times in the cinema.
Most people I know that plan to start with a OSS database and move to Oracle start with PostgreSQL, since PostgreSQL mirrors the capabilities and features of Oracle pretty close, just it's not quite as fast. (But the PostgreSQL folks have been making progress).
...but I'd really like to know how to file one of those amateur circus briefs.
No, there is no anti-trust here because in the high-end database market Oracle still has competition from IBM DB2 and a little company called Teradata. In the open source world, you still have PostgreSQL and Firebird. Just because something is popular, and why Oracle is so popular is beyond me other than slick marketing, does not make it a trust.
I've spent the last six months working around databases. The development platform was on MySQL simply because it was already there and available on most hosting/dedicated server set ups by default. We had enough work to write the code for the web apps, but we wrote everything using Database abstraction. I knew the day that SUN bought MySQL, MySQL's days were probably numbered as the development team would fracture and start their own forks. So the MySQL world would experience something similar to what happened during the Mambo/Joomla spit a couple years ago. (A lot of uncertainty until one side wins out).
Our major concern was the need to be able to cluster and scale the database rather quickly. In the past I had heard database people call MySQL, and to a lesser extent, PostgreSQL, toy databases. I thought it was out of spite at first, but I learned quickly why they said that when you needed MySQL or PostgreSQL to scale into a high availability cluster. I know MySQL has made some strides in 5.0 and 5.1 in the clustering arena, but PostgreSQL is still lagging.
Right now we're working with the developers edition of DB2 and Teradata on the backend.
The big question now is what does Google do? They've done a lot of hacking of MySQL and it is a critical component of their business. I could see them forking MySQL and offering GoogleDB as a replacement since they have the people to maintain/add to the code.
I'm not a big fan of a huge federal government, but at the local level, cities and towns should have been building out the last mile of service instead of granting local monopolies. If building that infrastructure IS so expensive that no business would do it without the monopoly status, then it probably is something best left to local governments to fund/build and then lease out to whomever wants to offer services to the residents.
My Dad has this problem. He has the choice between the sucky local phone monopoly for DSL or the sucky local cable monopoly for cable.
No, but I do believe that a President *should* have spent time in the military, preferably as an enlisted man not an officer. Hell, even Plato argued that leaders should have military experience a couple thousand years ago. But sadly, we don't seem to nominate philosopher kings.
And ironically, we need more local/light rail as opposed to a high speed rail links between cities because most people drive their daily commute. That's what puts the vast majority of cars on the road is the daily commute. I grew up 40 minutes west of St. Louis. After the Metro was built, we'd to the Metro station past Lambert and hop on any time we had to go down town for a Cards game or Blues game. It's great, even if the Metro still doesn't really go anywhere people want to go(TM)[and inside St. Louis joke].
If it was built all the way out to Wentzville where it would be a 5 minute drive to hop on it, we would have gone downtown more. My Dad would have used it when he was commuting, but instead of giving St. Charles County a plan of exactly where Metro would go and when, St. Louis County/Metro said "Pass a tax increase and we MAY build out service to St. Charles County in the next 20 years. And if we don't, we'll give the county 2/3s of the money we collected back."
So the voters in St. Charles County rejected the tax and was basically labelled as a bunch of hillbilly idiots. If the Metro planning people had a solid plan of where the rail line was going to run, where stops would have been, and a time frame for competition, it would have overwhelmingly passed in St. Charles County. And given the growth in the past 10 years where I grew up, it would have been a wise investment.
As soon as Linux has applications such as Photoshop CS 4 that people don't want to pay for and will download infected versions from bittorrent, Linux too will have malware infected botnets. No OS will ever protect against social engineering the users.
What the *IUX do offer is better protection against surfing and having a random ad banner infect your machine via browser or activex exploit.
This used to be a huge problem, then Apple switched to Intel and you can load Windows via Bootcamp for gaming. I had friends get the 512MB video card option on their MBP's just so they could play the latest games.
Don't forget that Obama is from Illinois and Southern Illinois has a lot of coal.
I'm in the local coffee shop a lot. And I can sit in the back and see that at any given time, half or more of the student's computer screens have facebook on them. Personally I only got FB after I needed the developers API. (To develop a FB app for said coffee shop). At first I was on it a lot since suddenly I was in contact with a lot of people I've not heard/seen about in a decade.
But now, I usually check FB on my iPhone once in the morning, once in the afternoon browse the news and answer any PM's and that's about it.
really? I thought we called it timeshare.
No one's produced a computer game I've wanted to buy since about 2005 with Falcon 4.0 Allied force. The combat flight simulator genre is dead. The Space Flight Sim is dead. And the FPS's these days are all pretty much the same. I loved the early Tom Clancy games: Rainbow 6, Rogue Spear, Black Thorn, Ghost Recon, Desert Seige, Island Thunder, etc.. Then all of a sudden the elements that made those game fun, such as tactical planning before you went into a mission, were gone and the Ghost Recon and Rainbow 6 games became nothing more than arcade shoot em ups. Really, to me it was nothing much more than the scripted games you play at arcades only you get dictate when you move instead of a script.
The strategy of how you were going to attack a situation, what equipment and people you needed on your team, etc. was all gone.
Sure the graphics looked better, but why I played the games in the first place was gone.
The computer games I play today: Beyond the Red Line (Fan made Battlestar game based on the Freespace 2 engine), Fleet Commander (again BSG mod of Homeworld 2), Vegastrike (opensource game like Privateer).
********
Now the Wii, different story. Lots of fun and different games on there, like Wii fit, Wii sports, etc. that are a blast at parties. Lots of people who normally wouldn't be playing games love playing Mario Tennis etc..
Who needs a framework? It can be done with mod_rewrite on apache or similar on lighttpd and a few lines in the .htaccess file.
We did remapped SSH to a higher unused port and then took it a step further blocking access to that port on the hardware firewall from every IP address except for the office. If I need to connect to the server, I first have to connect to an OpenBSD box in the office.
We have 3 - 4 PCI scans a day (seems like every payment gateway we support for our clients scans the server daily. None of them even see SSH.
BSD can be traced back to MaBell and Unix.
This video has a decent history of BSD in a nutshell:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7833143728685685343
It's linux that advertised itself as being "Unix-like".
That's always hard to calculate. It's always licensing costs vs. man hour costs. I've been involved in projects where people were trying to get MySQL to play nicely with EC2 without paying for MySQL enterprise. The amount of man hours it cost them would have made DB2 a much better solution. Especially with the fact that DB2 Express-C is free and already had AMI's ready to go.
Linux annoys me. I learned the basics of the *iux world on Linux, but moved to BSD within a few months for the server side. That was mainly due to the Linux Community. I've heard it said in Geekdom that BSD is full of elitists, but generally I've found the support community to be a lot friendlier than of Linux. I kept a dual boot Windows 2k pro/SuSE box up until 2002. The sound card didn't work, the only way I could get it connected to the internet was either an old ISA Ethernet card or a 33.6k modem with jumpers.
In 2002 I needed a new laptop. I was also tried of dealing with the "If you don't like it, code your own" mentality that I kept running across. About that time, OS X 10.2 was out. That got me my Unix development stack AND commercial applications such as Adobe's apps and *gasp* MS Office and no hardware compatibility issues. I tired of neither Windows nor Linux really just working. And my time to piddle with the little things also became scarce. I needed something that worked and didn't have to be tweaked.
So I ditched Linux for OSX and never looked back. So did a lot of other people who were pragmatic and not zealots about opensource. When Apple switched to intel chips, just about everyone I knew that did any type of web development work switched.
We had a short internship during the winter break a few months ago for local college students. Each one received a netbook as their compensation. When given the choice, they all wanted XP. Part of that had do with the fact they would be using visual studio for spring classes.
Personally, I'd stick with a RAID-5 of standard HDD's for now. I'm waiting a couple years for SSD's to get cheaper and to have more reliable statistics on failure rates.
Databases has always been an area where I stick with old and proven before going with new and shiny. I've been called into projects where new and shiny ended up costing more than if they had gone with old and proven in the first place.
That being said...I'd never be getting an Xserve to start with. Failure rates and hardware issues in the field were a lot higher than they should have been and other than the Xgrid or Qmaster controller, I never saw anything that couldn't be done cheaper with other hardware and FreeBSD.
More likely it was Shermen
We had an internship for a group of college students over winter break. For completing their task, they each got an Acer Aspire One. Most of the students had 2 - 5 year old laptops and the freaking netbooks had the same speed processors with more ram, larger HDD (120GB), and even more Video Ram (32MB vs 8MB shared).
Biggest complaints were lack of media drive and screen size. But after classes started again, they loved 'em. Perfect for taking notes and running most of their programs and they fit inside their backpacks without having to lug around an extra laptop bag.
But again, they all wanted XP. (and were glad it wasn't vista)
I agree. But I'm not sure how much longer consumers will have much of a choice. Smart phones are nice for the carriers because it allows them to tack on more services they can charge for. A couple weeks ago I went in to add a line to my AT&T account for my Dad. He's up in his late 60's and has had a pre-paid phone he kept in the car for emergencies, but it wouldn't work too well down on the farm. Last time I was down there, I kept getting pinged with emails, so I knew he could get service if he had a decent phone.
Well I walked into the AT&T company store to get him a basic phone with good reception. The phone didn't need to do anything other than make phone calls, but they didn't have any that would just make phone calls. Everything they had on display were smart phones. Even the most basic phone I could find came with the ability to get mobile TV. (which I admit is cool, but he'd never use it. )
I ended up having to go ATT Wireless's website to find just a basic phone.
Someone posted this the other day and at first it made a little sense. Afterall, Apple doesn't really have an enterprise market presences and Sun doesn't have much in the desktop arena. Not much of the two companies would overlap in terms of canabalizing products. IBM already has a RISC server line as well as a java app server as well as a damn good database system, even if it has a price tag.
But Apple is getting away from being a computer company and getting more into being a consumer electronics and media company. They've developed the first online content delivery system that works for consumers and producers.
I went through this with a company 3 years ago that was running their billing and inventory system off DOS and it still worked with all their venders/payment company. The owners were getting ready to sell and retire (both in their mid 60's.) Contingency of the sale was the upgrade of their systems.
Fortunately, their backend wrote to CSV files. When it came time to choose a new billing system, we found one that ran over generic ODBC and could support a number of database venders including PostgreSQL (which is what we used) and coded the front end in Java.
The software now is no longer dependent on hardware platform. Now moving forward, if a server fails, load the last back up on new hardware and go.