There is only doom the way you are going. Stop hinking now, and we may keep our cars. You know, everybody loves cars (to the point of insisting to spend endless hours inside them every day), and if you go that way, well, you'll discover that we should stop spending money on the death machines^W^W i mean... cars.
Also, everybody knows that cars are the single product that moves the economy nowadays. If we stopped manufacturing them, unenployment would rise to unprecedented levels (by the way, did you already throwed a stone in your windows today? You know, you have a duty to make the economy grow), and everybody will become poor.
It will come from an army or some factory first. Self cleaning surfaces have no need for reproduction, but weapons and industrial equipment have (ok, exponential factories reproduce in a much safer way, if they actualy work).
The interesting thing about diplomatic immunity is that it is up to the host country to observe it or not. Of course, not observing it will bring consequences, but the choice is always there.
The point is to give a name to the overall system, so people wouldn't confuse GNU/Linux with Linux systems that don't run GNU.
This point was made moot recently, as Androind made a precedent, and now it is impossible to use the name "Linux" for anything that isn't GNU/Linux. We settled at the most confusing nomeoclature that isn't ambiguous, but at least, it isn't ambiguous.
The above distributions appear that they like to live dangerously by pre-installing "libdvdcss"
That's not a certainty. Those distros may be based in places where you can't go to jail just because you distributed a piece of software (isn't it funny that software == speech?). I could (without bringing any problem to myself*) post here instructions for installing libdvdcss on those distros that don't come with them, but that would put/. in trouble. It would be preaching to the choir anyway, so I won't.
* That is, unless the US start requiring that people that post such things be extradicted there.
And I understood they didn't found a new bond type or whatever; their discovery was "oh look, orbitals can be deformed by magnetic fields!".
Everybody and their dog already knew that orbitals are deformed by magnetic fields. What they found is that the model of how they deform is wrong at very intense fields.
As you said, there is no shortage of small phones. What is in short supply is people buying those small phones. (And I'm one of them, yep, I'm in the minority here.)
How so? How can you possibly claim that putting that phrase hidden in a magick number discriminates people?
It is a childish, stupid, and bad joke. The only things you can't claim are that it is sexist, and that it is useless (yes those jokes are utilitarian, they make the number easy to remember).
If you use transistors that can't stop conducting, yes, resistive loss will be dominant. Things get even worse if you make your wires of one of the best conductors known (graphene).
No, that is not the natural progression of manufacturers doing as they wish. That is the progression of monopolists being able to offer "special" deals to manufacturers.
Who was pushing locked cell phones in Brazil were the carriers, the manufacturers didn't care any way. The same way, it is Microsoft pushing secure boot into computers. Again, the manufacturers don't care.
Yeah, once you buy something, you should be entitled to do whatever you want with it. Laws restricting that (like US's DMCA) are wrong, but the manufacturers shouldn't be under any obligation to make one or another use easier, unless they are monopolists.
My smartphone stays on for an entire week if you don't enable any kind of Internet connection, and don't run any program on it (that is, if you use it like a dumb phone). It is not even top of line, the better models tend to have more battery.
Most programmers are most decidedly not competent in the relational model
See, that's you problem. Most programmers around you aren't qualified to write enterprize* software. That may be a fault of management, or just a simptom of low priority of IT at your company.
If it is just due to low priority (and that priority is justified), you are right, the DBAs should help the developers do their job.
* I cringe every time I hear that word, but it is really what goes here.
That means you don't know the hardware you buy for other companies, only from Oracle?
better permissions structures
Yes and no. In some ways the permission structure of Postgres is more versatile than Oracle's. In other ways it's not. The differences between the big DBMS are getting less and less relevant each day.
ability to get support from the company
As oposed to the ability to get support from hundreds of companies, all with the same level of access to Postgres as Oracle's people have to Oracle, and with as competent people. Oh, and as a bonus, you get to deal with Oracle. They are a great company at parties.
data security, replication, backup
Are you joking? Are you really implying Oracle does something here that Postgres doesn't?
clustering
Oracle is way behind on clustering.
not wanting to reinvent the wheel using man-hours when you can more easily pay for a known working solution that is well documented...
Now you are joking! Well documented?! If you don't want to reinvent the weel, you should use a DBMS that actualy do things for you, instead of one that is stuck at last century's features.
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There is only doom the way you are going. Stop hinking now, and we may keep our cars. You know, everybody loves cars (to the point of insisting to spend endless hours inside them every day), and if you go that way, well, you'll discover that we should stop spending money on the death machines^W^W i mean... cars.
Also, everybody knows that cars are the single product that moves the economy nowadays. If we stopped manufacturing them, unenployment would rise to unprecedented levels (by the way, did you already throwed a stone in your windows today? You know, you have a duty to make the economy grow), and everybody will become poor.
So, for everybody's sake, stop thinking!
It will come from an army or some factory first. Self cleaning surfaces have no need for reproduction, but weapons and industrial equipment have (ok, exponential factories reproduce in a much safer way, if they actualy work).
You probably lost some throughput because of them. That is, unless you have a very unusual usage pattern.
I guess it is a recognition that: "Yeah, we tried making a standard, it didn't work."
Everybody is complaining, while simply igoniring the elephant in the room, that is, W3C standards mean nothing in practice.
The interesting thing about diplomatic immunity is that it is up to the host country to observe it or not. Of course, not observing it will bring consequences, but the choice is always there.
Anybody can understand it.
The point is to give a name to the overall system, so people wouldn't confuse GNU/Linux with Linux systems that don't run GNU.
This point was made moot recently, as Androind made a precedent, and now it is impossible to use the name "Linux" for anything that isn't GNU/Linux. We settled at the most confusing nomeoclature that isn't ambiguous, but at least, it isn't ambiguous.
Wow, there are plenty of A/Cs on this thread claimming that Linux did X, or Linux did Y, or that it should have done Z...
When did Linux gain sentience and started to write its own code? Did I miss the Singularity?
Did you put them in a RAID? Green drivers suck AT A RAID. If you don't put them in a RAID, they'll do fine.
If you don't access those files a lot, and don't use a RAID, those green drivers are great. They'll save power and last more.
Japan's government doesn't bow to corporations. By definition one can't bow to itself.
That's not a certainty. Those distros may be based in places where you can't go to jail just because you distributed a piece of software (isn't it funny that software == speech?). I could (without bringing any problem to myself*) post here instructions for installing libdvdcss on those distros that don't come with them, but that would put /. in trouble. It would be preaching to the choir anyway, so I won't.
* That is, unless the US start requiring that people that post such things be extradicted there.
You mean propaganda and social pressure.
Religion and war are just consequences of those.
The PC was also a pure-hobbist form factor when it was created. In time, we'll see what those boards can do.
Everybody and their dog already knew that orbitals are deformed by magnetic fields. What they found is that the model of how they deform is wrong at very intense fields.
I wouldn't bet on this bound being hightly reactive. The oposite is more likely, that this thing is extremely stable.
It's worse than that.
As you said, there is no shortage of small phones. What is in short supply is people buying those small phones. (And I'm one of them, yep, I'm in the minority here.)
Your version would create much more angst, as the kernel wouldn't compile.
How so? How can you possibly claim that putting that phrase hidden in a magick number discriminates people?
It is a childish, stupid, and bad joke. The only things you can't claim are that it is sexist, and that it is useless (yes those jokes are utilitarian, they make the number easy to remember).
If you use transistors that can't stop conducting, yes, resistive loss will be dominant. Things get even worse if you make your wires of one of the best conductors known (graphene).
No, that is not the natural progression of manufacturers doing as they wish. That is the progression of monopolists being able to offer "special" deals to manufacturers.
Who was pushing locked cell phones in Brazil were the carriers, the manufacturers didn't care any way. The same way, it is Microsoft pushing secure boot into computers. Again, the manufacturers don't care.
Yeah, once you buy something, you should be entitled to do whatever you want with it. Laws restricting that (like US's DMCA) are wrong, but the manufacturers shouldn't be under any obligation to make one or another use easier, unless they are monopolists.
No, that price is to make someone buy one. After buying people can still toss it away and get a real phone.
That's part of the $400 * #phones-sold MS is spending on marketing.
My smartphone stays on for an entire week if you don't enable any kind of Internet connection, and don't run any program on it (that is, if you use it like a dumb phone). It is not even top of line, the better models tend to have more battery.
See, that's you problem. Most programmers around you aren't qualified to write enterprize* software. That may be a fault of management, or just a simptom of low priority of IT at your company.
If it is just due to low priority (and that priority is justified), you are right, the DBAs should help the developers do their job.
* I cringe every time I hear that word, but it is really what goes here.
That means you don't know the hardware you buy for other companies, only from Oracle?
Yes and no. In some ways the permission structure of Postgres is more versatile than Oracle's. In other ways it's not. The differences between the big DBMS are getting less and less relevant each day.
As oposed to the ability to get support from hundreds of companies, all with the same level of access to Postgres as Oracle's people have to Oracle, and with as competent people. Oh, and as a bonus, you get to deal with Oracle. They are a great company at parties.
Are you joking? Are you really implying Oracle does something here that Postgres doesn't?
Oracle is way behind on clustering.
Now you are joking! Well documented?! If you don't want to reinvent the weel, you should use a DBMS that actualy do things for you, instead of one that is stuck at last century's features.