Some one please don't. It's in a half stage of trying to be big while not being small. It has a lot of flaws in it that don't make it a large RDBMS. PostgreSQL comes a lot closer, but there are a lot of larger databases that can pound both of them out for reliability and overall performance.
Please don't post that link about mysql's supposed better performance. It likes to choke after dealing with much MUCH larger sets of data. But I digress.
I'd imagine something MUCH smaller, like mini sql or SQLLite as someone else pointed out.
A better language, may be one that compiles or at least turns into byte code. Perl+parrot, c, c++, java mayyybe if the vm is small. Because these devices are limited in speed and memory, extra overhead is bad. If a VM can stay in memory and run the programs as they come w/o a combilation process, the better. Imagine if a project like Eclipse was written in php-gtk. It'd be a resource-bear and slower than it is on some machines.
If Tom's Corner hardware says they are doing something, a small town notices. If Pathmark (non-national supermarket) says they are doing something, a good part of the nation may notice. The larger they are, the more people take notice.. whether it is a fact or an opinion.
The power of authority is attributed to power in economics, age and other non-easily atainable traits and attributes. It's not always right, but it's not always wrong.
Say that your pigeon has an average time V for the velocity (damned physics and their letters). Unless we are building faster pigeons, we'll assume this this average to be fixed. You know you want to reply you monty-python-heads.
Let's also assume we aren't making storage or jumps in transmition time any faster than before. It's fixed too. S for storage capacity time to double, T for transmition speed to double.
Which is greater? VS or T? I haven't worked out the units, since I'm lazy, but you get the idea. If storage gets bigger and bigger at a faster rate than the transmition times to double, then pigeons could be a feasible solution -- ala sneaker net?
It may be a little childish, but if the gov't steps in NOW of all times, it sets a huge presedent on the entire idea of law enforcement and the internet.
Get DDOS'd AND you are a big company, you get protected. You provide a great service on the net that many people use, and you are fly paper.
Btw, the hitler argument doesn't work. Spam prevention sites are way different from sco. In the case of spam prevention sites, yeah, our enemy's enemy is our friend and always was. SCO, they just mucked it up for everybody.
... this should come from IETF or some other body not from a company.
We should expect something like this to come from the IETF, but big corps do good things all the time. What makes you uncomfortable about it? The privacy issue? If it's on the net and you want privacy, encrypt the content. But if you want to hit my network w/ SMTP, much less an ICMP package, I want to at least know who you are.
Are you worrying who will govern the entire thing? Who do you trust? Some.org run by someone? Some corp? The gov't? All-in-all, you have to trust SOMEONE.
The big problem is, humans make mistakes. Not that humans never can perform a task w/o a mistake, but it's always possible. Implementing an API to access the phone book and dialing mechanisms, can lead to a new virus platform, phones, which in turn, can lead to a lot of headache.
nope. no special third party addressbooks/pims. no handy apps t prepend special #'s, like 911 pause pause pause..
I'd imagine encryption to be hardware based, since software ones would take up more cycles and power. and it has nothing to do with lockin. It doesn't prevent another company from transfering your # from one phone to the next, or hooking up some hardware to switch your current phone from one thing to the next.
Er? nononono.. not the thing that attaches a button to a cursor to a phone number. i'm talking about the connection from the OS to your phone book. Make sure the OS has no way of communicating w/ the phone book.
Yes, why yes I have. When downloading from sites like yahoo or akamai hosted things, I usually get the best speeds.
And I do get 20GB hd's.
It's not the advertising spec's that are wrong. It's the wording of the specs that are fooked.
What ISP's don't tell you is, you get high speeds TO the isp. Not to what the ISP connects to, so if the backbone is bad, so is your connection. That is usually the case.
HD manufacturererers, don't usually tell you that there is a conversion error from 1billion bytes to 2^9 bytes. They do tell you it's based off of 1 billion bytes, but most good programs will use the base 2 thing.
Otherwise, we'd see a lot more court cases about this stuff and false advertising. I'mm sure there were a few.
That means he should go on with his businesses and not trying to make the public think he is such a good person...
At what cost? By his own judgement, he felt it best to sell the company obviously. If it were lucrative, he would have kept it, eh?
i do have a lot of trouble with business people that try very hard to make others think that he/she is a saint...
He's not a saint. No one is. We all have our best interests at heart. Unless he was doing it as a charity, I wouldn't dismiss the idea of mp3.com turning into a porn site.
When a human player take a look at the chess board, he rejects the vast majority of the possible moves and concentrate only on very few of them.
So can a computer. It's called dynamic programming. Problem is, we can do it faster. Some algorithms are in the realm of O(n^3)'d and others still in the realm of n^2'd. Our minds have some sorta uber-analysis taht says, "ok, that's stupid. doing this or anything like it is MOST likely stupid. let's try the smarter ways first."
Probably due to lack of spacial awareness or something, but computers just suck when it comes it... at least now.
Installation difficulties != graphical installer. Installation difficulties are due to a bad user interface.
OpenBSD has a great installer for the tecnically inclined, while dselect is just plain annoying. You have so many keys to remember just to select stuff, and the screen's view keeps changing.
Redhat's text mode interface is quite nice, 'cept it doesn't provide all the right questions or choices all the time. If i select something and its dependencies aren't met, it should ask me right away, "Do I want to add this or forget about my selection." I shouldn't have to think, I selected some packages before, and these are the missing dependencies over all of them, now I can go back and guess which ones i fooked up on.
The autodetect and what not is important too, getting rid of stupid questions like, "do you have a 3 button mouse." If there was a way it could figure it out, do it damnit. And this project at LEAST strives for the autodetection. Hopefully, it'd streamline the package selection process and what not.
The computer is a non-specialized, multipurpose artifact. A programmer can make it into a very expensive word processor, or a very expensive ledger, or a very expensive sliderule, or a very expensive map, or... To suggest that the operator must be able to provide at least some of the instructions the computer needs, in order to make full use of it to accomplish his job, doesn't seem entirely silly.
I dunno. I think that's perfectly logical. If I want a wordprocessor, I shouldn't have to do more than request it. The idea of a "folder" where all my "applications" go is a little silly.
On the command line (*nix), if I want an editor, I can type vi. If I want my calculator, I can type bc, and that's it. It's all in a path.
Would it be unreasonable to make it simple enough to start the word processor w/o having to deal with more than one real step and w/o cluttering up my desktop with all the applications I like to use?
Sometimes, people don't have the time nor the care to have anything more than a shallow understanding, and that's ok. If an accountant can do his work well, and can be sped up by a calculator and be sped up again by a computer, he shouldn't have to "figure it out". 1+1=2. On a calculator, "1" "+" "1" "=" should get him 2. On a computer, he should expect the same after requesting a calculator.
You are right, the complexity is what makes it very valuable. It's a multipurpose tool, as you've said before. But so is a car, if you understand it inside and out, so you can turn it into a plane, or an electric generator. Should somethign that is intended as a multipurpose tool be THAT complex to convert from one tool to another?
Isn't this too much of a burden for the average computer user? Shouldn't we try to force computers to adapt to us as much as possible by giving them user-friendly interfaces and hiding their internal workings? Shouldn't we be able to get on with our jobs without worrying about what is going inside the black box? If that is your attitude, fine. If you want to remain inside the dream world of The Matrix, that's your choice.
I'm a programmer for quite a long time. I've dealt with designing interfaces (not too bad at it) and implementing other's designs (some are really great, it's where i've learned). Keeping the insides-in and the outsides-out is what keeps our lives simple. It's also what makes interface programming such a friggin' pain.
Let's take a screen that has just a simple checkbox. On.. off.. that's pretty easy.
Something more complex: a set of radio buttons. If none are on by default, you have to add a check to make sure things are fine.
Now let's add something like the slashdot post-comment page. Strip all "bad stuff", check that both aren't empty and check against a few rules.
How about an international address form. City/state is in the US or CANADA, you check for zip codes of certain types. (I know these two off the top ya' brit's:P). In the USA? Then yuo have the state thing, but if it's not, you turn that into a province thing, but only for certain countries.
Want to include a phone number? Forget it. In the US, it's an area code that doesn't begin with 1 or 0, doesn't have 3 repeating digits (I believe), prefix doesn't start with 555, 1,0 or a few other things. No symbols except possibly -'s in the right place...
Now if this were done all premptively, warning you "no, you can't do that" along the way, it's one big pain-in-the-ass. Warning you after the fact that you can't continue is also another big PITA.
But you know what? It's so very necessary. Anyone remember OS/2's SYS1375 error? I hated that frickin' thing. It was the equiv of a segfault or sigbus in OS/2, when a program crashed... something like that. But you know what, those overly-verbose messages are great when you are in charge of maintaining or creating a system.
In the end, I want to be babied from A->B when going through some task or process that has an interface. I like the idea of not needing to consciously think that, "I have to create an image of a cd first THEN i burn it." That's one thing I like about CD burning tools vs cli's making an ISO first and then burning. I wish configuring a kernel to my system were that simple. It'd be nice if it all worked with autodetecting modules upon first-time startup.
It's the difference of wasting those internal mental cycles of figuring out what's going on. If I wanted complex, I'd figure out how to read my phone bill. They like to send it in spanish, though I told them I want it in english. Morons..
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Some one please don't. It's in a half stage of trying to be big while not being small. It has a lot of flaws in it that don't make it a large RDBMS. PostgreSQL comes a lot closer, but there are a lot of larger databases that can pound both of them out for reliability and overall performance.
Please don't post that link about mysql's supposed better performance. It likes to choke after dealing with much MUCH larger sets of data. But I digress.
I'd imagine something MUCH smaller, like mini sql or SQLLite as someone else pointed out.
A better language, may be one that compiles or at least turns into byte code. Perl+parrot, c, c++, java mayyybe if the vm is small. Because these devices are limited in speed and memory, extra overhead is bad. If a VM can stay in memory and run the programs as they come w/o a combilation process, the better. Imagine if a project like Eclipse was written in php-gtk. It'd be a resource-bear and slower than it is on some machines.
If Tom's Corner hardware says they are doing something, a small town notices. If Pathmark (non-national supermarket) says they are doing something, a good part of the nation may notice. The larger they are, the more people take notice.. whether it is a fact or an opinion.
The power of authority is attributed to power in economics, age and other non-easily atainable traits and attributes. It's not always right, but it's not always wrong.
It's simply a race.
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Say that your pigeon has an average time V for the velocity (damned physics and their letters). Unless we are building faster pigeons, we'll assume this this average to be fixed. You know you want to reply you monty-python-heads.
Let's also assume we aren't making storage or jumps in transmition time any faster than before. It's fixed too. S for storage capacity time to double, T for transmition speed to double.
Which is greater? VS or T? I haven't worked out the units, since I'm lazy, but you get the idea. If storage gets bigger and bigger at a faster rate than the transmition times to double, then pigeons could be a feasible solution -- ala sneaker net?
Maybe NOW it's silly, but you never know
It may be a little childish, but if the gov't steps in NOW of all times, it sets a huge presedent on the entire idea of law enforcement and the internet.
Get DDOS'd AND you are a big company, you get protected. You provide a great service on the net that many people use, and you are fly paper.
Btw, the hitler argument doesn't work. Spam prevention sites are way different from sco. In the case of spam prevention sites, yeah, our enemy's enemy is our friend and always was. SCO, they just mucked it up for everybody.
Electric bill for a pc MAY be higher unless you use something very low end too.
We should expect something like this to come from the IETF, but big corps do good things all the time. What makes you uncomfortable about it? The privacy issue? If it's on the net and you want privacy, encrypt the content. But if you want to hit my network w/ SMTP, much less an ICMP package, I want to at least know who you are.
Are you worrying who will govern the entire thing? Who do you trust? Some
Super Mario Advance != Super Mario Bros. It's a GBA remake of super mario 2 (not 3, right?).
The big problem is, humans make mistakes. Not that humans never can perform a task w/o a mistake, but it's always possible. Implementing an API to access the phone book and dialing mechanisms, can lead to a new virus platform, phones, which in turn, can lead to a lot of headache.
Good! Great! I wish they would do that so my cell wouldn't get someone's stupid virus.
Imagine if they didn't tie IE to the OS. It'd be a lot harder to get those stupid activex viruses, eh?
nope. no special third party addressbooks/pims. no handy apps t prepend special #'s, like 911 pause pause pause..
I'd imagine encryption to be hardware based, since software ones would take up more cycles and power. and it has nothing to do with lockin. It doesn't prevent another company from transfering your # from one phone to the next, or hooking up some hardware to switch your current phone from one thing to the next.
Er? nononono.. not the thing that attaches a button to a cursor to a phone number. i'm talking about the connection from the OS to your phone book. Make sure the OS has no way of communicating w/ the phone book.
There should NEVER be an api to mess with the phone numbers and dialing.
keep them seperate from your applications. otherwise you have these silly problems.
Oops :)
cioxii?
Yes, why yes I have. When downloading from sites like yahoo or akamai hosted things, I usually get the best speeds.
And I do get 20GB hd's.
It's not the advertising spec's that are wrong. It's the wording of the specs that are fooked.
What ISP's don't tell you is, you get high speeds TO the isp. Not to what the ISP connects to, so if the backbone is bad, so is your connection. That is usually the case.
HD manufacturererers, don't usually tell you that there is a conversion error from 1billion bytes to 2^9 bytes. They do tell you it's based off of 1 billion bytes, but most good programs will use the base 2 thing.
Otherwise, we'd see a lot more court cases about this stuff and false advertising. I'mm sure there were a few.
At what cost? By his own judgement, he felt it best to sell the company obviously. If it were lucrative, he would have kept it, eh?
He's not a saint. No one is. We all have our best interests at heart. Unless he was doing it as a charity, I wouldn't dismiss the idea of mp3.com turning into a porn site.
From a dilbert strip, "Is it ok to do things really fast even if they are really wrong?"
So can a computer. It's called dynamic programming. Problem is, we can do it faster. Some algorithms are in the realm of O(n^3)'d and others still in the realm of n^2'd. Our minds have some sorta uber-analysis taht says, "ok, that's stupid. doing this or anything like it is MOST likely stupid. let's try the smarter ways first."
Probably due to lack of spacial awareness or something, but computers just suck when it comes it... at least now.
Can I move my house towards "1 infinite loop"? (Apple's address).
Installation difficulties != graphical installer. Installation difficulties are due to a bad user interface.
OpenBSD has a great installer for the tecnically inclined, while dselect is just plain annoying. You have so many keys to remember just to select stuff, and the screen's view keeps changing.
Redhat's text mode interface is quite nice, 'cept it doesn't provide all the right questions or choices all the time. If i select something and its dependencies aren't met, it should ask me right away, "Do I want to add this or forget about my selection." I shouldn't have to think, I selected some packages before, and these are the missing dependencies over all of them, now I can go back and guess which ones i fooked up on.
The autodetect and what not is important too, getting rid of stupid questions like, "do you have a 3 button mouse." If there was a way it could figure it out, do it damnit. And this project at LEAST strives for the autodetection. Hopefully, it'd streamline the package selection process and what not.
Make sure to use lots of animated gifs... or so strongbad says.
whoa. meta trolling. dude. he was right to begin with.
Yeah.. those not even in the RIAA are paying the RIAA. Sorry dude. indie peeps are there. :P
I dunno. I think that's perfectly logical. If I want a wordprocessor, I shouldn't have to do more than request it. The idea of a "folder" where all my "applications" go is a little silly.
On the command line (*nix), if I want an editor, I can type vi. If I want my calculator, I can type bc, and that's it. It's all in a path.
Would it be unreasonable to make it simple enough to start the word processor w/o having to deal with more than one real step and w/o cluttering up my desktop with all the applications I like to use?
Sometimes, people don't have the time nor the care to have anything more than a shallow understanding, and that's ok. If an accountant can do his work well, and can be sped up by a calculator and be sped up again by a computer, he shouldn't have to "figure it out". 1+1=2. On a calculator, "1" "+" "1" "=" should get him 2. On a computer, he should expect the same after requesting a calculator.
You are right, the complexity is what makes it very valuable. It's a multipurpose tool, as you've said before. But so is a car, if you understand it inside and out, so you can turn it into a plane, or an electric generator. Should somethign that is intended as a multipurpose tool be THAT complex to convert from one tool to another?
I'm a programmer for quite a long time. I've dealt with designing interfaces (not too bad at it) and implementing other's designs (some are really great, it's where i've learned). Keeping the insides-in and the outsides-out is what keeps our lives simple. It's also what makes interface programming such a friggin' pain.
Let's take a screen that has just a simple checkbox. On.. off.. that's pretty easy.
Something more complex: a set of radio buttons. If none are on by default, you have to add a check to make sure things are fine.
Now let's add something like the slashdot post-comment page. Strip all "bad stuff", check that both aren't empty and check against a few rules.
How about an international address form. City/state is in the US or CANADA, you check for zip codes of certain types. (I know these two off the top ya' brit's
Want to include a phone number? Forget it. In the US, it's an area code that doesn't begin with 1 or 0, doesn't have 3 repeating digits (I believe), prefix doesn't start with 555, 1,0 or a few other things. No symbols except possibly -'s in the right place...
Now if this were done all premptively, warning you "no, you can't do that" along the way, it's one big pain-in-the-ass. Warning you after the fact that you can't continue is also another big PITA.
But you know what? It's so very necessary. Anyone remember OS/2's SYS1375 error? I hated that frickin' thing. It was the equiv of a segfault or sigbus in OS/2, when a program crashed... something like that. But you know what, those overly-verbose messages are great when you are in charge of maintaining or creating a system.
In the end, I want to be babied from A->B when going through some task or process that has an interface. I like the idea of not needing to consciously think that, "I have to create an image of a cd first THEN i burn it." That's one thing I like about CD burning tools vs cli's making an ISO first and then burning. I wish configuring a kernel to my system were that simple. It'd be nice if it all worked with autodetecting modules upon first-time startup.
It's the difference of wasting those internal mental cycles of figuring out what's going on. If I wanted complex, I'd figure out how to read my phone bill. They like to send it in spanish, though I told them I want it in english. Morons..