It is a pretty broad and sweeping statement to say you shouldn't use MySQL for *any* website.
If your project is small enough, it will probably be sufficient. Even Access is a reasonable solution for many problems.
Anyone who says you should use Oracle for everything is probably an Oracle consultant/developer who want you to hire them. Or Oracle, who wants you to buy your software.
But ease of copying doesn't mean that an item was cheap to produce.
You have to pay the people to design and create the product. There are costs. The ease of stealing something doesn't justify theft (although it may make insurance more costly)
Interesting, but if I scanned in the entire text of Hellmouth and Geeks and put it on Wrapster for everyone to download, you or your publisher may be a little miffed. However, I would have you own best interests at heart:)
The debate kind of reminds me of those about legalization of drugs. We can't stop it, kids are going to do it anyway, why not just make it legal?
I think things like Open Source, Free Software and the GPL are wonderful notions, but only if they are voluntary.
Jon, you seem to be saying that it is alright to pirate music, basicly because music is expensive and we geeks are supposed to believe that Information Wants To Be Free (tm). Cars are expensive, but it doesn't make stealing them legal.
It would be great if artists made music free or cheaply available via download. But, as it stands, they don't and I believe that whoever creates the music (or software) has the right to set the license associated with it. If someone says, "Distribute my music however you like." Great. Fine. If I like it I will. If someone decides that I have to buy a CD, if I like the music, I will. No matter how much you talk about revolutions, Napster is still all about distributing illegal music (by and large). Most people I know don't have illusions about being internet revolutionaires. They know they are breaking the law, they just say they are too cheap to by the CDs.
You can't force Open Source on people who don't want it. It would be like someone decompiling, say, Unreal Tournament, declaring it GPLed and posting it on a webpage.
As a side note, I think it would be interesting to convince one of the Napster friendly artists to release a GPLed song, with a license that stated that anyone who sampled it have to make the new song GPLed as well:)
Well, generally hard real time systems have much more strick conditions under how stuff operates. Ie. processes *must* be done within a certain time or they aren't allowed to run.
Your patient's heart monitor shouldn't be kept waiting while Unreal Tournament is trying to calculate where the body parts land:)
I don't know how rigidly QNX adhears to a hard real time design, though.
Unfortunately, a lot of them don't provide a way to differentiate between advertisements and, say, tech support or security alerts. You end up with the same problem mentioned in the article: opt out of the list (or filter the email) and you don't get the information you actually gave them your email address for.
Some companies are good that way. When I signed up for a bunch of IBM mailing lists, they gave me several options of getting ads from "IBM's Partners", just IBM or no ads at all. That way, I get the info I want and no ads.
I think this is a good model for other companies to follow as it is fair. Some people do want to get the spam (otherwise email advertising wouldn't work and would have died out), and they can sign up for the ads. Some of us who don't want to, don't have it.
I think you may be referring to a proposed law up here in Canada where there were going to start charging a levy on CDRs to compensate the industry for all the piracy that they think is going on.
I don't think the bill ever passed, but I can't remember for sure.
Dana
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I'd have to agree with you that it would be silly to donate to the band. But I have a feeling the website is meant to be sarcastic. I mean, they have what I think is a truly assinine quote form Lars on the main page, but who knows? Maybe the guy is a diehard fan who really wants to help out poor Metallica.
...wouldn't community relations have been better served by a private email to the Be engineers?
As has happened in similar cases (I'm thinking Corel's gafs), Be will probably recieve a LOT of angry/nasty/rude email from some of the more fanatic GPL/Linux advocates.
I don't see why Bruce had to draw attention to what he already believes is a simple, honest mistake. It would have been more professional to deal with it privately and only make it a community issue if Be ignored him or refused to fix the problem.
No! I absolutely do not ignore bug patches from Apache and Linux. But if someone says, "Hey, there is a backdoor in Apache!" it can be proven or disproven much faster. Less stress. Less time wasted.
But that is the annoying thing about Microsoft. Whenever there is even a fake report, they've had such a bad history of denying bugs for days, weeks or even months (I'm still bitter about DOS 6.0....) that when stuff like this happens, you have to take it seriously if you are using their products. It gets awfully frustrating.
Sure, *now* we can say it was probably nothing, but for a while, folks running IIS had to be worried, and waste time and money fixing the problem. The problem didn't exist, but because of Microsoft's unreliable history, people couldn't give them the benefit of the doubt.
I think I read somewhere (this may even have been in the Debate) that Tanenbaum was intentionally getting it simple and refraining from adding too many features in order to get in manageable for instruction purposes.
If you are a prof teaching an OS course and you want your students to mess around with the source for an OS, then Minix might be a little less overwhelming.
Mind you, you are probably also likely to find lots of students who already are messing around with Linux or *BSD source code. But having Minix is just one more option, and it never hurts to have options:)
I guess I can see why they may want to switch to the M$ brand if they are going to try to sell to Joe Average Consumer. My parents haven't heard of Linux, but if you tell tell them it runs Windows or Microsoft, they've at least heard of it.
The sad truth is that many people buy products this way, they look for brand names that they've heard of, so Wyse is probably making a reasonable decision if they are trying to enter the consumer market. (On the other hand, how many people need barcoders in their homes?)
Given the fact that there are only three of these things in the world, it probably won't be sold over the internet. Gee...there's an Enigma machine on Ebay, it wonder if it is the stolen one?
My guess it that it was meant to be a prank, or someone who on a whim thought, "That will look cool in my flat!" and grabbed it. My fear now would be that since such a big deal was made about the theft, the thief will try to destroy the evidence, rather than return it.
A similar thing happened in Toronto a while ago. A CSIS agent (one of the Canadian spy organizations) left a briefcase in his car while attending a Maple Leafs game. The briefcase had a bunch of sensitive documents and was stolen when his car was broken into.
Maybe Canada and the UK use the same training programs for their agents:)
remember my first time on Unix, I was in grade 9 in high school. The OS was actually called QNX on a 8086 machine called the Icon that was made here in Canada.
The Icons ran an early QNX???? All I remember about them is that my elementary schools had 3 Icon boxes and that I was *really* frustrated in grade 7 because the BASIC interpreter was incompatible with Commodore 64 BASIC (I was pretty naive back then:) )
Most universities let their students create personal web pages, so it's probably reasonable for censorware programs to check them. (Not that I think it is reasonable for censorware to exist in the first place, mind you)
Now, I imagine that most universities have policies against posting pornographic or illegal material (mine does), but potentially 1000s of pages being hosted, it must be difficult to keep tabs on everyone.
The Raelian website can be found at www.rael.org. It's pretty funny (and the design is nicer than the Clonaid site). A few snippets...
<ul> <li> There are building a embassay to communicate with the Elohim <li> The founder apparently used to be a Formula-1 Driver <li> They have an online shop where you can buy their book </ul>
I didn't quite get the article, but then again, The Tao of Physics (one of the more laymen friendly descriptions of quantum physics, I've been told) made we want to curl up in a ball and suck my thumb:)
Anyway, the author of this theory (or the reporter who summarized it into an article) didn't explain where bad mutations come from. From what I understand, most mutations are neutral or bad and selected out. If our DNA is picking beneficial mutations, where do the bad mutations come from?
Keep in mind that Mozilla is still (officially, anyway), pre-alpha, which usually means almost-working.
It may be worse publicity to unleash an un-finished product on your co-workers and have them seem it crash all the time. (The last I heard, M12 was still crashing every hour or so, but then again, that's how often Communicator 4.6 seems to crash for me:) )
I've never had a New Year's resolution before, and so I resolve to think up a a good resolution for next year, so I can start the new millenium on a good foot.
Oh, and I won't be *too* smug when speaking to crackpot survivalists who are trying to find the receipts for all the canned food they bought:)
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It is a pretty broad and sweeping statement to say you shouldn't use MySQL for *any* website.
If your project is small enough, it will probably be sufficient. Even Access is a reasonable solution for many problems.
Anyone who says you should use Oracle for everything is probably an Oracle consultant/developer who want you to hire them. Or Oracle, who wants you to buy your software.
Dana
But ease of copying doesn't mean that an item was cheap to produce.
You have to pay the people to design and create the product. There are costs. The ease of stealing something doesn't justify theft (although it may make insurance more costly)
Dana
Interesting, but if I scanned in the entire text of Hellmouth and Geeks and put it on Wrapster for everyone to download, you or your publisher may be a little miffed. However, I would have you own best interests at heart :)
The debate kind of reminds me of those about legalization of drugs. We can't stop it, kids are going to do it anyway, why not just make it legal?
Dana
I think things like Open Source, Free Software and the GPL are wonderful notions, but only if they are voluntary.
:)
Jon, you seem to be saying that it is alright to pirate music, basicly because music is expensive and we geeks are supposed to believe that Information Wants To Be Free (tm). Cars are expensive, but it doesn't make stealing them legal.
It would be great if artists made music free or cheaply available via download. But, as it stands, they don't and I believe that whoever creates the music (or software) has the right to set the license associated with it. If someone says, "Distribute my music however you like." Great. Fine. If I like it I will. If someone decides that I have to buy a CD, if I like the music, I will. No matter how much you talk about revolutions, Napster is still all about distributing illegal music (by and large). Most people I know don't have illusions about being internet revolutionaires. They know they are breaking the law, they just say they are too cheap to by the CDs.
You can't force Open Source on people who don't want it. It would be like someone decompiling, say, Unreal Tournament, declaring it GPLed and posting it on a webpage.
As a side note, I think it would be interesting to convince one of the Napster friendly artists to release a GPLed song, with a license that stated that anyone who sampled it have to make the new song GPLed as well
Dana
If you still want to use GEOS, you can still fire up a Commodore 64 emmulator and run it :)
Dana
Well, generally hard real time systems have much more strick conditions under how stuff operates. Ie. processes *must* be done within a certain time or they aren't allowed to run.
:)
Your patient's heart monitor shouldn't be kept waiting while Unreal Tournament is trying to calculate where the body parts land
I don't know how rigidly QNX adhears to a hard real time design, though.
Unfortunately, a lot of them don't provide a way to differentiate between advertisements and, say, tech support or security alerts. You end up with the same problem mentioned in the article: opt out of the list (or filter the email) and you don't get the information you actually gave them your email address for.
Some companies are good that way. When I signed up for a bunch of IBM mailing lists, they gave me several options of getting ads from "IBM's Partners", just IBM or no ads at all. That way, I get the info I want and no ads.
I think this is a good model for other companies to follow as it is fair. Some people do want to get the spam (otherwise email advertising wouldn't work and would have died out), and they can sign up for the ads. Some of us who don't want to, don't have it.
Dana
I think you may be referring to a proposed law up here in Canada where there were going to start charging a levy on CDRs to compensate the industry for all the piracy that they think is going on.
I don't think the bill ever passed, but I can't remember for sure.
Dana
I'd have to agree with you that it would be silly to donate to the band. But I have a feeling the website is meant to be sarcastic. I mean, they have what I think is a truly assinine quote form Lars on the main page, but who knows? Maybe the guy is a diehard fan who really wants to help out poor Metallica.
Dana
From what I understand, the error inserted is about 100 metres. Would that make a lot of difference if you were using a nuclear device?
Dana
...wouldn't community relations have been better served by a private email to the Be engineers?
As has happened in similar cases (I'm thinking Corel's gafs), Be will probably recieve a LOT of angry/nasty/rude email from some of the more fanatic GPL/Linux advocates.
I don't see why Bruce had to draw attention to what he already believes is a simple, honest mistake. It would have been more professional to deal with it privately and only make it a community issue if Be ignored him or refused to fix the problem.
Dana
A friend of mine who owns a Japanese Dreamcast told me that it is water cooled.
Dana
Tomorrow, you'll hear of someone running Ghost n Goblins on an NT box running *100,000* Christmas lights.
:)
Then, Sun will insist that Java is the best platform for this sort of thing and promptly release the Java Christmas Light Interface API
Dana
No! I absolutely do not ignore bug patches from Apache and Linux. But if someone says, "Hey, there is a backdoor in Apache!" it can be proven or disproven much faster. Less stress. Less time wasted.
Dana
But that is the annoying thing about Microsoft. Whenever there is even a fake report, they've had such a bad history of denying bugs for days, weeks or even months (I'm still bitter about DOS 6.0....) that when stuff like this happens, you have to take it seriously if you are using their products. It gets awfully frustrating.
Sure, *now* we can say it was probably nothing, but for a while, folks running IIS had to be worried, and waste time and money fixing the problem. The problem didn't exist, but because of Microsoft's unreliable history, people couldn't give them the benefit of the doubt.
Dana
I think I read somewhere (this may even have been in the Debate) that Tanenbaum was intentionally getting it simple and refraining from adding too many features in order to get in manageable for instruction purposes.
:)
If you are a prof teaching an OS course and you want your students to mess around with the source for an OS, then Minix might be a little less overwhelming.
Mind you, you are probably also likely to find lots of students who already are messing around with Linux or *BSD source code. But having Minix is just one more option, and it never hurts to have options
Dana
I guess I can see why they may want to switch to the M$ brand if they are going to try to sell to Joe Average Consumer. My parents haven't heard of Linux, but if you tell tell them it runs Windows or Microsoft, they've at least heard of it.
The sad truth is that many people buy products this way, they look for brand names that they've heard of, so Wyse is probably making a reasonable decision if they are trying to enter the consumer market. (On the other hand, how many people need barcoders in their homes?)
Dana
Given the fact that there are only three of these things in the world, it probably won't be sold over the internet. Gee...there's an Enigma machine on Ebay, it wonder if it is the stolen one?
My guess it that it was meant to be a prank, or someone who on a whim thought, "That will look cool in my flat!" and grabbed it. My fear now would be that since such a big deal was made about the theft, the thief will try to destroy the evidence, rather than return it.
Dana
A similar thing happened in Toronto a while ago. A CSIS agent (one of the Canadian spy organizations) left a briefcase in his car while attending a Maple Leafs game. The briefcase had a bunch of sensitive documents and was stolen when his car was broken into.
:)
Maybe Canada and the UK use the same training programs for their agents
Dana
remember my first time on Unix, I was in grade 9 in high school. The OS was actually called QNX on a 8086 machine called the Icon that was made here in Canada.
:) )
The Icons ran an early QNX???? All I remember about them is that my elementary schools had 3 Icon boxes and that I was *really* frustrated in grade 7 because the BASIC interpreter was incompatible with Commodore 64 BASIC (I was pretty naive back then
Dana
Most universities let their students create personal web pages, so it's probably reasonable for censorware programs to check them. (Not that I think it is reasonable for censorware to exist in the first place, mind you)
Now, I imagine that most universities have policies against posting pornographic or illegal material (mine does), but potentially 1000s of pages being hosted, it must be difficult to keep tabs on everyone.
Dana
The Raelian website can be found at www.rael.org. It's pretty funny (and the design is nicer than the Clonaid site). A few snippets...
<ul>
<li> There are building a embassay to communicate with the Elohim
<li> The founder apparently used to be a Formula-1 Driver
<li> They have an online shop where you can buy their book
</ul>
Dana
I didn't quite get the article, but then again, The Tao of Physics (one of the more laymen friendly descriptions of quantum physics, I've been told) made we want to curl up in a ball and suck my thumb :)
Anyway, the author of this theory (or the reporter who summarized it into an article) didn't explain where bad mutations come from. From what I understand, most mutations are neutral or bad and selected out. If our DNA is picking beneficial mutations, where do the bad mutations come from?
Dana
Keep in mind that Mozilla is still (officially, anyway), pre-alpha, which usually means almost-working.
:) )
It may be worse publicity to unleash an un-finished product on your co-workers and have them seem it crash all the time. (The last I heard, M12 was still crashing every hour or so, but then again, that's how often Communicator 4.6 seems to crash for me
Dana
I've never had a New Year's resolution before, and so I resolve to think up a a good resolution for next year, so I can start the new millenium on a good foot.
:)
Oh, and I won't be *too* smug when speaking to crackpot survivalists who are trying to find the receipts for all the canned food they bought
Dana