He didn't ask you why you're not running Oracle, he asked for a technical reason for running MySQL. You could still be running PostgreSQL, SAP, Firebird for the same cost as MySQL, even MS-SQL and Oracle are available if you qualify for the free versions.
Also a way to emulate MySQL idioms transparently on PostgreSQL would make migration a blast. I've been considering moving our system from MySQL to PostgreSQL but having to check and correct every single SQL query of a 100k+ PHP application is just not worth it.
I hope this is a joke. You want PostgreSql to emulate MySQL code? Please mod parent up +5 Funny.
That would put a layer of code onto PostgreSQL to slow it down to enable it to run bad SQL even slower. If you're trying to turn PostgreSQL into a dog and complain about performance it's a brilliant idea. Migrating from one RDBMS to another will always involve tweaking. If you're migrating from MySQL you can call it re-writing instead. There're lots of other posts explaining this better, but it's not really compatible with anything except itself.
It's probably easier to migrate from Access....
And saying the fee is the reason for the quality of the BBC is flat-out wrong. It's a cultural sensibility, reflected not just in the TV but in novels, film, music...
It's nice to be though of like that, and while I am still (mostly) proud to be English* you overlook other sterling examples of our cultural sensibilities: Our fine news media, the Sun, Star etc are the pinnacle of accurate sober reporting, Our film industry is wonderful, I hope that Sex Lives Of The Potato Men receives due recognition, Our football fans are the envy of the world...
enough, we may have given the world Shakespeare etc, but we also provide lager louts and arguably the most extreme tabloid journalism.
It's a bit like the US giving the world Twin Peaks and Married With Children, or Firefly and Jackass...
* I used to be proud to be British, but then the Scots and Welsh started being so anti-English. Time for home-rule for England and let the others have their MPs back, but that's not going to happen soon because Tony Blair would be in trouble without the non-English constituencies. (Not a political dig but an observation).
The tweezers aren't useless, I occasianlly use them for removing wood or metal splinters from my hands (cheap cases), but they are great for fiddling with jumpers on motherboards and hard drives. I have the Champion and it's big, so it's mostly in a bag rather than in my pocket but the wood saw has come in very handy on a number of occasions (also for cutting french bread) as have the file, metal saw and chisel. The only thing I can't remember actually using is the hook thing - turns the knife into a handle for lifting stuff by a wire etc. I have a leatherman too but Victorinox is my favourite, the only real advantage of the leatherman is the pliers but I find them uncomfortable, and the knife is a bit naff - if you need a decent knife get a locking blade, not the half assed attempt on the L'man. I've always fancied a Swiss Tool, or possibly a Gerber but I had my L'man before I knew better. I also have a miniature SAK on my keychain, just a few blades/scissors/screwdrivers etc but very handy.
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The trouble is when the cop doesn't like you, so then he can arrest you for carrying razor blades in your shopping.
Well, if some spammer remotes a desktop to do their dirty work they won't care if the real owner pays the cost - after that's pretty much status quo after all.
You yourself stated that taking refers to something physical, and I countered. You yourself were the imprecise one...
It was not I.
While I agree with you that the charge for your "stealing" music in a court of law would be "copyright infringement," we are not in one, and to force the use of legal terms in a common setting like you are doing is ignorant. Recognize it as such.
It was not I to whom you refer. In any case it is not ignorant, but it may be pedantic.
OT: Be more careful about your choice of words...
I made a spelling mistake, for which I apologise.
You suggest that I should be careful in my choice of words, presumably under the impression that I was the poster to whom you were replying earlier, whilst at the same time objecting to the desire of others for such precision. I find ironic your use 'ignorant' above.
A sharp tongue requires a sharp mind.
A sharp mind might have noticed that I wasn't the poster to whom you had previously replied. I do not wish to have a tongue that is sharp, merely accurate.
If you only want the browser firefox is pretty good. The mouse gestures work in firefox too, even though the docs don't mention it, if I can get multizilla working on firefox too I think I'd switch totally. I split between Moz, Firefoz and Opera at the moment, they all have their strengths, I suppose I could live with any of them - I just need to make my mind up.
Except it's not sticky and you can breathe when it goes over you...
I was thinking of Pterrys take on magic too. Particulartly the conservation of err, I suppose mass and energy so that when Rincewind got teleported one way a roughly eguvalent mass was transported the other way, and it was heated up in the process, awkward as it was a loaded cannon. Of course you have to allow for the changes in angular and linear momentum because of varying distance from the Hub. Which is why nobody does it very much, it's hard and dangerous.
Sorry, I spent too much time reading alt.fan.pratchett...
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Also the little matters of traction and pressure come to mind. If a human sized superhero tries to pick up a liner (and assuming as per parent that the liner remains intact) why doesn't he fall over? I mean he may have super strength but he still hasn't got the leverage to take advantage of it. Sort of like the chinese pole acrobats, you try to pick up a liner and you end up with your feet in the air... Similarly, if you have someone holding a (small) thousand ton ship overhead he'd disappear into the ground like a driven pile - A thousand tons exerted on the area of the soles of the feet is a ridiculous pressure. Your superhero would be OK but the ground probably would give up. For a cruise liner your probably up to ten thousand tons plus, and an aircraft carrier (I think that was the Hulk) is 70-100 kilotons.
This is why even as a kid I could never quite take the Six Million Dollar man even (not) seriously enough to be entertaining.
I tried windows 2.0 once, it was needed to run the version if Excel I wanted to try (either 1.0 and 2.0). It was unusable rubbish. Windows 3.0 was a major advance (yes 3.0 not 3.1). What baffled me was why they carried on with windows when 2.0 was so bad - DesqView and GEM were around at the time. It was nearly as painful as installing OS/2 from sloppy onto as PS/2 model 30...
I learnt a lot from programming the Motoral 6502 on my BBC micro back in aeons past. The instruction set was sweet and all made sense, those were the days. Of course Acorn had come up with a wonderfully hackable OS and BBC Basic had a built in assembler. I remember writing routines to cope with running tape based programs from disk. The (5.25 floppy) disk interface took up more memeory and sometimes you had to load the program, patch the OS and then move the whole program down a few hundred bytes and then run it. The OS was in ROM but loaded it's address table into RAM so you could intercept a system call, run your own code and then call the real OS code - that thing was designed to be hackable from the start, and the standard documentation included memory maps, details of the hardware addressing etc. It was a dream to use - and that's not mentioning the sideways rom (or RAM if you bought solidisks expansion) and the expandability.
Still my favourite computer and it was faster than the first IBM PC, but the 8 bit addressing limited it even with the tube interface and I was never interested in the z80 anyway.
I still have it and some emulators for windows, I wish I had time to write an emulator for linux...... anyway after that I found learning C (there was no C++ in those days children) a breeze after assembler, even C pointers made sense straight away and I couldn't understand the complaints.
The real curse of being British (English in my case) is moaning about how bad everything is here - Politicians, Roads (there should be a pothole tax on local councils to improve the roads), the trains, Politicians, the weather, politicians etc. - and then not doing anything about it! Like leaving the the bloody mess behind.
It is actually consistent with James - he was James I - ie the previous five Scots James were ignored. The numbering is of Monarchs of England - one of the consequence of being the senior partner/conqueror? Wales was under English rule by then so it wasn't just England, and there were some colonies in places like Virginia etc...
In my opinion, Open Office still has many issues which need to be fixed in future releases to compete with MS Office. I don't know whether that was taken into consideration in this move, but certainly a step in the right direction for open source.
I rather doubt that the Israeli Ministry of commerce did take your opinion into account when making a decision. Unless there's something you're not telling us of course....
2. Similarly, "hangman" is now the "person_executed_by_an_oppressive_regime."
Should be Executioner for oppresive regime, a hangman performs the act. The "person_executed_by_an_oppressive_regime" has been hanged, and could be referred to as a hanged man.
(And yes there is a difference between hung and hanged).
Faggot is also some sort of meat prodict - like a big meatball. "Eat Brain's Faggots" springs to mind. There may be some offal component, I can't remember as I don't eat the things...
I'll leave the cooking/eating jokes to those who are so inclined.
And why should it be in pounds anyway, when it's an EU project AND based in Brussels ?
Perhaps because it's a BBC website?
As in British Broadcasting Corporation - it's fairly normal for a site to give local equivalents for amounts in foreign currencies.
Perhaps the EU can hold seminars, teaching MS employees what's good and bad about virus protection. Hint: the 'execute' bit has a fair old say in the matter:-)
What execute bit? There's no such thing on windows. And MS haven't made any l?[iu]n[ui]x software that I can recall. I think suggesting that the EU execute MS employees is a bit extreme - I'm as anti-MS as most reasonable people but that's a bit extreme. If you'd said stocks, pillories, that sort of thing then well, that's a different matter.:-)
I'm 43 (just) going on 22:-)
I messed up the formatting slightly of the previous post, there was supposed to be a </pseud> at the end of the main text - I was just feeling a little whimsical sitting here waiting for a process to finish - just enough spare cycles to read/. and not enough to achieve anything useful (unless you would count other web sites...)
It was meant satirically - I mean War and Peace as 10 pages of text free cartoons? Having to explain an attempt at humour certainly brings your mood down - and I was wondering how many people will be reading in the future. Long live Project Guttenberg.
I agree totally about literacy, I don't want my son to grow up only knowing enough to press the picture to get the MegaGlobalCorp NutriFreeSoporific Meal he dislikes least. I fear the creation of a real underclass.
They're Grapic Novels not Comics - a serious art form which is bringing mainstream culture to a new generation. Todays youth is not restricted by the previous generations' inability to parse multiple data sources in quick succesion and is free from the straight jacket linear processing of redundant text. Witness the phenomenal sucess of the Graphic Novelization of War And Peace - 10 pages of beautiful pictures which are now part of our global gestalt, there can be argument that freed from the shackles of the printed word (or ideogram) this is truly a world-wide best-seller, and because the same print run can be sold worldwide the only change needed wherever it is sold is the price sticker on the front, making it cheaper for the pub^h^h^h consumer. It is printed on especially soft paper designed for re-cycling in the bathroom and is therfeore environmentally friendly too.
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You could still be running PostgreSQL, SAP, Firebird for the same cost as MySQL, even MS-SQL and Oracle are available if you qualify for the free versions.
What was your point?
You want PostgreSql to emulate MySQL code? Please mod parent up +5 Funny.
That would put a layer of code onto PostgreSQL to slow it down to enable it to run bad SQL even slower. If you're trying to turn PostgreSQL into a dog and complain about performance it's a brilliant idea.
Migrating from one RDBMS to another will always involve tweaking. If you're migrating from MySQL you can call it re-writing instead. There're lots of other posts explaining this better, but it's not really compatible with anything except itself. It's probably easier to migrate from Access....
Our fine news media, the Sun, Star etc are the pinnacle of accurate sober reporting,
Our film industry is wonderful, I hope that Sex Lives Of The Potato Men receives due recognition,
Our football fans are the envy of the world...
enough, we may have given the world Shakespeare etc, but we also provide lager louts and arguably the most extreme tabloid journalism.
It's a bit like the US giving the world Twin Peaks and Married With Children, or Firefly and Jackass...
* I used to be proud to be British, but then the Scots and Welsh started being so anti-English. Time for home-rule for England and let the others have their MPs back, but that's not going to happen soon because Tony Blair would be in trouble without the non-English constituencies. (Not a political dig but an observation).
The tweezers aren't useless, I occasianlly use them for removing wood or metal splinters from my hands (cheap cases), but they are great for fiddling with jumpers on motherboards and hard drives.
I have the Champion and it's big, so it's mostly in a bag rather than in my pocket but the wood saw has come in very handy on a number of occasions (also for cutting french bread) as have the file, metal saw and chisel. The only thing I can't remember actually using is the hook thing - turns the knife into a handle for lifting stuff by a wire etc.
I have a leatherman too but Victorinox is my favourite, the only real advantage of the leatherman is the pliers but I find them uncomfortable, and the knife is a bit naff - if you need a decent knife get a locking blade, not the half assed attempt on the L'man.
I've always fancied a Swiss Tool, or possibly a Gerber but I had my L'man before I knew better.
I also have a miniature SAK on my keychain, just a few blades/scissors/screwdrivers etc but very handy.
The trouble is when the cop doesn't like you, so then he can arrest you for carrying razor blades in your shopping.
Well, if some spammer remotes a desktop to do their dirty work they won't care if the real owner pays the cost - after that's pretty much status quo after all.
In the case of an assumed identity, colloquially referred to as 'identity theft' this would probably legally be fraud if their was a crime.
What was your point again? That imprecision is permissible when discussing legal matters?.
I suspect that YANALATEYHSMBSI .
If you only want the browser firefox is pretty good.
The mouse gestures work in firefox too, even though the docs don't mention it, if I can get multizilla working on firefox too I think I'd switch totally. I split between Moz, Firefoz and Opera at the moment, they all have their strengths, I suppose I could live with any of them - I just need to make my mind up.
I was thinking of Pterrys take on magic too. Particulartly the conservation of err, I suppose mass and energy so that when Rincewind got teleported one way a roughly eguvalent mass was transported the other way, and it was heated up in the process, awkward as it was a loaded cannon.
Of course you have to allow for the changes in angular and linear momentum because of varying distance from the Hub. Which is why nobody does it very much, it's hard and dangerous.
Sorry, I spent too much time reading alt.fan.pratchett ...
Similarly, if you have someone holding a (small) thousand ton ship overhead he'd disappear into the ground like a driven pile - A thousand tons exerted on the area of the soles of the feet is a ridiculous pressure. Your superhero would be OK but the ground probably would give up. For a cruise liner your probably up to ten thousand tons plus, and an aircraft carrier (I think that was the Hulk) is 70-100 kilotons.
This is why even as a kid I could never quite take the Six Million Dollar man even (not) seriously enough to be entertaining.
It was nearly as painful as installing OS/2 from sloppy onto as PS/2 model 30...
Some of the old days weren't so good.
Of course Acorn had come up with a wonderfully hackable OS and BBC Basic had a built in assembler. I remember writing routines to cope with running tape based programs from disk. The (5.25 floppy) disk interface took up more memeory and sometimes you had to load the program, patch the OS and then move the whole program down a few hundred bytes and then run it. The OS was in ROM but loaded it's address table into RAM so you could intercept a system call, run your own code and then call the real OS code - that thing was designed to be hackable from the start, and the standard documentation included memory maps, details of the hardware addressing etc. It was a dream to use - and that's not mentioning the sideways rom (or RAM if you bought solidisks expansion) and the expandability.
Still my favourite computer and it was faster than the first IBM PC, but the 8 bit addressing limited it even with the tube interface and I was never interested in the z80 anyway.
I still have it and some emulators for windows, I wish I had time to write an emulator for linux ......
anyway after that I found learning C (there was no C++ in those days children) a breeze after assembler, even C pointers made sense straight away and I couldn't understand the complaints.
Like leaving the the bloody mess behind.
And I'm as bad as everyone else. :-(
All of the above.
(Yes I know it's not necessary , it's called humour - and anyway it'd make you feel good).
It is actually consistent with James - he was James I - ie the previous five Scots James were ignored.
The numbering is of Monarchs of England - one of the consequence of being the senior partner/conqueror? Wales was under English rule by then so it wasn't just England, and there were some colonies in places like Virginia etc...
The "person_executed_by_an_oppressive_regime" has been hanged, and could be referred to as a hanged man.
(And yes there is a difference between hung and hanged).
There may be some offal component, I can't remember as I don't eat the things...
I'll leave the cooking/eating jokes to those who are so inclined.
As in British Broadcasting Corporation - it's fairly normal for a site to give local equivalents for amounts in foreign currencies.
And MS haven't made any l?[iu]n[ui]x software that I can recall.
I think suggesting that the EU execute MS employees is a bit extreme - I'm as anti-MS as most reasonable people but that's a bit extreme. If you'd said stocks, pillories, that sort of thing then well, that's a different matter.
I messed up the formatting slightly of the previous post, there was supposed to be a </pseud> at the end of the main text - I was just feeling a little whimsical sitting here waiting for a process to finish - just enough spare cycles to read
It was meant satirically - I mean War and Peace as 10 pages of text free cartoons? Having to explain an attempt at humour certainly brings your mood down - and I was wondering how many people will be reading in the future. Long live Project Guttenberg.
I agree totally about literacy, I don't want my son to grow up only knowing enough to press the picture to get the MegaGlobalCorp NutriFreeSoporific Meal he dislikes least. I fear the creation of a real underclass.
They're Grapic Novels not Comics - a serious art form which is bringing mainstream culture to a new generation. Todays youth is not restricted by the previous generations' inability to parse multiple data sources in quick succesion and is free from the straight jacket linear processing of redundant text.
Witness the phenomenal sucess of the Graphic Novelization of War And Peace - 10 pages of beautiful pictures which are now part of our global gestalt, there can be argument that freed from the shackles of the printed word (or ideogram) this is truly a world-wide best-seller, and because the same print run can be sold worldwide the only change needed wherever it is sold is the price sticker on the front, making it cheaper for the pub^h^h^h consumer. It is printed on especially soft paper designed for re-cycling in the bathroom and is therfeore environmentally friendly too.
Welcome to the ADHD generation.