I think this way at least it appeals to a broader audience, not just the CS audience who would know what a binary min heap is if I were to use it.
Hate to tell ya, but the CS audience is probably the only audience interested in the inner workings of the 2.6 kernel and the O(1) Scheduler... "Hey pops, check out this article on the O(1) Scheduler... You know, in Linux?"
This story will of course bring out all the PostgreSQL trolls, But really, there are very few trolls against MySQL that hold much water, anymore. The response to this post (if there are any) will go like this: A bulleted list of general gripes with nothing to back them up. Funny thing is, these trolls are quite willing to pass off on the faults of their favorite dB by downplaying the importance of a particular lacked feature, or that some shortcoming really doesn't have much effect in "real-world" use. Like many fine products, MySQL does not try to be all things to all people, unlike the code-bloat MS-SQL and Oracle.
...I'm so sweet and accommodating to the idiot customer service folks (they don't have a clue anyway), then I introduce them to my lawyer, the barracuda.
Migrating will not be so easy. And also while the time Linux was used SCO may ask people to pay up the 'license fee'.
The first part is a given, migrating is never easy. But remember: It's easier to migrate from Linux to BSD than from Windoz to Linux... As to the second part, what you are talking about, 'license fees', have about ZERO chance of happening.
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WHy is it that the "first post" is always som ignorent irrelevent tripe? By the way let me tell you about my web sit...
But really, I must say this: The average Slashdotter must have way more cash than me. I've got an old Banshee card, it has served me well. I think when I have $100 - $200 to spend on a new video card, I'll just save a few more months and buy a new box. Or, more likly, dinner on the town for my wife.
Just think: If you took all the $ you spend on technology you don't really need, at the end of the year, what could you then buy with it?
What I mean by this is: it is a very Western view that more guns equil safty. It may well be so in suburban US, but that is an ethnocentric view. It is NOT that way in the majority of the world.
The idea that a total level playing field can be achieved by allowing everyone to have all the same tools of death is flawed. We should all be working for a weapons free world. In a lot of ways, though the United States insists on a double standard, they have the right idea that tyrants and tribes should not have weapons. In the tribal society that many people still live, annihilation of you foe is the rout to prosperity. We must fight these ideas.
Perhaps the nuclear arms race might have been avoided or blunted by allowing openness in nuclear technology.
Excellent. So you would there for have no problems with North Korea exporting nuke bomb technology to, say, Iran or Syria? I know the Slashdot Group-Think is Isreal == Bad, but that does not mean it's OK for other Mideast nut-cases to nuke them...
I wonder if interpersonal violence might be avoided or blunted by allowing open access to personal weapons?
Excellent. Give everyone guns and we'll all be safer? Go live in Liberia or one of the "stans".
Does allowing anyone to have a (nuclear/personal) weapon work better than trying to deny everyone (nuclear/personal) weapons?
Oh, and why would Microsoft use surveymonkey.com to run a survey? I've been accosted by Microsoft many times to answer surveys, and they have ALL been HOSTED at a Microsoft site. This whole thing just smells bad.
The OSDN story describes a short e-mail exchange that seems to be managed by someone who says he is working with Microsoft, but gee, he seems to be sending from a disposable Hotmail account, jsut like I use when I want to Spam, err, annoy people.
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Ypu know, if you don't like Slashdot, there are many other forums out there, no one is forcing you to post here...
Open the damn source, and pull your head out.
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Yes, this is an excellent point that seems to be lost on the zealots here. It wouldn't really matter if the source code where published in every newspaper in the world, since the people at Diebold are both incompetent and crooks. This whole "open the damn source" garbage goes back to this erroneous assumption that Open Source is inherently more secure, an assumption intelligent people understand to be a fallacy. Certainly Open Source allows many people to look at the code and find the bugs, but Diebold is a business and is under no obligation to change anything., especially when their current program works fine for their Republican masters.
Oh but wouldn't it be so deee-licious if people FED UP with Windoz bugs started relieasing fixes independent of M$? What do you suppose Bill and Friends would do?
No, I don't think so. At least in my case, the chip in my head communicates via satalite down/uplink. As you all know, Major Leage Baseball is behind this.
The war was NEVER about "weapons of mass destruction". And GWB never said that, just as Al "The Wooden Plank" Gore NEVER sead he was the inventor of the Internet. Certainly the American president wanted to find WMDs, but there have always been other issues.
And what is the proof of this silly child's tale? Lies, all lies. Saddam is in contact with his loyal armies at this very moment. You will all roast in the fires at the bottom level of hell.
"Given that no rational and well-informed person would buy SCO stock, I'm stumped to guess why it's as high as it is"
Because they know that SCO will be bought out. It's a simple as that. [tinfoil hat]Maybe not by IDM, but perhaps by it's secret daddy, M$. [/timfoil hat]
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Hate to tell ya, but the CS audience is probably the only audience interested in the inner workings of the 2.6 kernel and the O(1) Scheduler... "Hey pops, check out this article on the O(1) Scheduler... You know, in Linux?"
Two holes? Is that all?
This story will of course bring out all the PostgreSQL trolls, But really, there are very few trolls against MySQL that hold much water, anymore. The response to this post (if there are any) will go like this: A bulleted list of general gripes with nothing to back them up. Funny thing is, these trolls are quite willing to pass off on the faults of their favorite dB by downplaying the importance of a particular lacked feature, or that some shortcoming really doesn't have much effect in "real-world" use. Like many fine products, MySQL does not try to be all things to all people, unlike the code-bloat MS-SQL and Oracle.
...I'm so sweet and accommodating to the idiot customer service folks (they don't have a clue anyway), then I introduce them to my lawyer, the barracuda.
The first part is a given, migrating is never easy. But remember: It's easier to migrate from Linux to BSD than from Windoz to Linux... As to the second part, what you are talking about, 'license fees', have about ZERO chance of happening.
Arn't you a regular FuckedCompany troll?
But really, I must say this: The average Slashdotter must have way more cash than me. I've got an old Banshee card, it has served me well. I think when I have $100 - $200 to spend on a new video card, I'll just save a few more months and buy a new box. Or, more likly, dinner on the town for my wife.
Just think: If you took all the $ you spend on technology you don't really need, at the end of the year, what could you then buy with it?
What I mean by this is: it is a very Western view that more guns equil safty. It may well be so in suburban US, but that is an ethnocentric view. It is NOT that way in the majority of the world.
A very WESTERN view.
The idea that a total level playing field can be achieved by allowing everyone to have all the same tools of death is flawed. We should all be working for a weapons free world. In a lot of ways, though the United States insists on a double standard, they have the right idea that tyrants and tribes should not have weapons. In the tribal society that many people still live, annihilation of you foe is the rout to prosperity. We must fight these ideas.
Excellent. So you would there for have no problems with North Korea exporting nuke bomb technology to, say, Iran or Syria? I know the Slashdot Group-Think is Isreal == Bad, but that does not mean it's OK for other Mideast nut-cases to nuke them...
I wonder if interpersonal violence might be avoided or blunted by allowing open access to personal weapons?
Excellent. Give everyone guns and we'll all be safer? Go live in Liberia or one of the "stans".
Does allowing anyone to have a (nuclear/personal) weapon work better than trying to deny everyone (nuclear/personal) weapons?
No.
When I bought RH8 it came with about the same documentation as dod Windows2000 Pro.
Yes, I know it's a troll post, but it's hard to resist sometimes: GO TO ANY FUCKING BOOK STORE! There are thousends of Linux references.
Oh, and why would Microsoft use surveymonkey.com to run a survey? I've been accosted by Microsoft many times to answer surveys, and they have ALL been HOSTED at a Microsoft site. This whole thing just smells bad.
The OSDN story describes a short e-mail exchange that seems to be managed by someone who says he is working with Microsoft, but gee, he seems to be sending from a disposable Hotmail account, jsut like I use when I want to Spam, err, annoy people.
Ypu know, if you don't like Slashdot, there are many other forums out there, no one is forcing you to post here...
Yes, this is an excellent point that seems to be lost on the zealots here. It wouldn't really matter if the source code where published in every newspaper in the world, since the people at Diebold are both incompetent and crooks. This whole "open the damn source" garbage goes back to this erroneous assumption that Open Source is inherently more secure, an assumption intelligent people understand to be a fallacy. Certainly Open Source allows many people to look at the code and find the bugs, but Diebold is a business and is under no obligation to change anything., especially when their current program works fine for their Republican masters.
Oh but wouldn't it be so deee-licious if people FED UP with Windoz bugs started relieasing fixes independent of M$? What do you suppose Bill and Friends would do?
No, I don't think so. At least in my case, the chip in my head communicates via satalite down/uplink. As you all know, Major Leage Baseball is behind this.
...wonder if this falls under DCMA?
The war was NEVER about "weapons of mass destruction". And GWB never said that, just as Al "The Wooden Plank" Gore NEVER sead he was the inventor of the Internet. Certainly the American president wanted to find WMDs, but there have always been other issues.
And what is the proof of this silly child's tale? Lies, all lies. Saddam is in contact with his loyal armies at this very moment. You will all roast in the fires at the bottom level of hell.
[lame joke]You're new here, arn't you?[/lame joke]
Because they know that SCO will be bought out. It's a simple as that. [tinfoil hat]Maybe not by IDM, but perhaps by it's secret daddy, M$. [/timfoil hat]
I don't know why this is modded "offtopic", it's funny as, er, shit?