Have you never had a pet? Never watched a wildlife film? Never interacted with a dog in the street?
I have, and have had, dogs. And no, I don't think that they perceive past and future, good and evil, love and hate.
Well, love, if by love you mean pack affiliation and hate, if by hate you mean, this other "dog" is a threat to my pack, "Woof, woof, woof", snarl, snarl.
Elephants, the higher primates and dolphins/whales seem to be the only other creatures to perceive past and love. Don't know about the other things.
I love ST:TOS just as much as any married-with-children geek, but how in the heck does anyone associate "transparent aluminum" with "bendable concrete"?
Science is about refusing to accept lack of knowledge and trying to figure things out.
Except the fact that more scientists that you think have been dogmatic about their own pet theories.
Religion is about rejoicing in lack of knowledge and refusing to figure things out.
Except that important scientists have been priests/monks. Examples are Joseph Priestley, Gregor Mendel, & Darwin. And up until the 20th century, most all scientist were regular church-goers.
Yup overly complicated. Science is simply coming up with an explanation for what we see around us. It has nothing to do with testing our stories. If enough people believe the story being told, it is science.
In contrast, a secure bitemporal DB would record not only the date of the what the data refers to... but also the date(s) of any modifications of the data
You mean your RDBMS doesn't have full auditing capabilities?
What are you using SQL Server?
Any "enterprise" RDBMS worth it's salt has had such features for 20 years.
Of course, before you enable full auditing, you'd better double your IO capacity, well as increasing your CPU capacity.
In the USA only the Northeast Corridor supports profitable train service. You can ride around DC all day on the Metro, hop on Amtrack, and then ride around NYC all night on the subway. This all works preyy well and it is worth noting that most of Europe resembles this population density.
This is a truly cogent point.
The distance from Cardiff, Wales to Prague CZ, is 1250 km, which is just 100 km longer than Chicago to New York.
Cardiff to Berlin is about that same Chicago-NYC distance.
So, Western/Central Europe is 1/2 the size of the US, but has ~10% more population.
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Have you never had a pet? Never watched a wildlife film? Never interacted with a dog in the street?
I have, and have had, dogs.
And no, I don't think that they perceive past and future, good and evil, love and hate.
Well, love, if by love you mean pack affiliation and hate, if by hate you mean, this other "dog" is a threat to my pack, "Woof, woof, woof", snarl, snarl.
Elephants, the higher primates and dolphins/whales seem to be the only other creatures to perceive past and love. Don't know about the other things.
painfully kill sentient and feeling beings
Are deer sentient? Do they conciously perceive past and future, good and evil, love and hate?
There's plenty of room on this Earth for all of God's animals. Right next to the mashed potato.
The mashed potatoes will be long gone by the time I start eating rats.
But the smoked venison tasted really good with the mashed potatoes, at Mother's Day dinner.
people said the same thing in 1990ish, when manufacturers started integrating serial/parallel/game ports onto the mobos.
back when engineers built computers instead of marketers
Engineers now build marketers?
I love ST:TOS just as much as any married-with-children geek, but how in the heck does anyone associate "transparent aluminum" with "bendable concrete"?
Science is about refusing to accept lack of knowledge and trying to figure things out.
Except the fact that more scientists that you think have been dogmatic about their own pet theories.
Religion is about rejoicing in lack of knowledge and refusing to figure things out.
Except that important scientists have been priests/monks. Examples are Joseph Priestley, Gregor Mendel, & Darwin. And up until the 20th century, most all scientist were regular church-goers.
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Yup overly complicated. Science is simply coming up with an explanation for what we see around us. It has nothing to do with testing our stories. If enough people believe the story being told, it is science.
Are you being facetious, or are you an idiot?
And guess where most of the people in the earth live? That's right, but the shoreline.
You think the water's going to rush in all at once?
Yes but its not cool like an AlphaServer
Point taken.
Last I checked a Multia wasn't an Alpha Server
Or this one? http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/gs320/ We have a couple (running OpenVMS, of course), and they're pretty sweet.
yum update is no more difficult than apt-get update.
RPMs tend to be much less granular than DEBs. So, you need to upgrade or newly install more stuff, even if you don't need/want it..
Shared storage hardware is VERY expensive for me (I am in india)
Ah.
Replication is nice, but a true multi-master setup would be even better.
Huh? Multi-master is replication.
Are you confusing replication with clustering?
the torrent would sure be a releaf.
... resist ... urge ... to ... ask ... why ... bit ... torrent ... would ... put ... leaves ... back ... on trees.
Must
Please name the last president that hasn't placed "cronies" in high ranking positions. I doubt you will find one after 1970.
1970???? Try 1829 (Andrew Jackson).
And don't forget that Kennedy put his brother in as Attorney General.
DEC Multia, to be exact. Not to be confused with something cool like an AlphaServer,
The Multia is Alpha, albeit rather anemic even back then.
http://www.obsolyte.com/dec/multia/
The article said that it was for ease of updates.
Somebody's smoking a bit too much weed, if they think that RH is easier to upgrade than Debian.
IIRC, though, I think it's simply because the admins know/like/use RH.
Seems pretty obvious to me:
I must be missing something.
GP thinks that 150GB is a large database.
The relational model is not going anywhere- and that's what every database is - an implementation of the relational model
If you think that the only kind of DBMS is the Relational DBMS, you must have flunked your Database Theory class, or gone to a piss-poor school.
Can you do this without shared storage?
Why would you want to?
With shared storage (hello, VAXcluster 1984!), you still have access to all of your data as long as one of the nodes stays up.
it's a little bit insane to suggest that all the experts should quit working on real databases and work on MySQL instead.
;)
You're right. They should use PostgreSQL instead.
But seriously, an Oracle DBA (who's not dependent on GUIs) would feel at home with PostgreSQL 8.0.
In contrast, a secure bitemporal DB would record not only the date of the what the data refers to ... but also the date(s) of any modifications of the data
You mean your RDBMS doesn't have full auditing capabilities?
What are you using SQL Server?
Any "enterprise" RDBMS worth it's salt has had such features for 20 years.
Of course, before you enable full auditing, you'd better double your IO capacity, well as increasing your CPU capacity.
<i>databases that are 150 GB large with hundreds of thousands of records</i>
That's not very big. It's down right small, in fact.
These figures, on one of many systems I manage, are about 30 minutes old. And they don't include index space, rollforward logs, etc, etc.
Names have been changed for privacy, of course.
TABLE_NAME CARDINALITY TOT_BYTES
TABLE_1 850,719,662 195,665,522,260
TABLE_2 756,309,106 223,867,495,376
TABLE_3 317,181,446 72,951,732,580
TABLE_4 179,099,344 11,462,358,016
TABLE_5 103,419,546 4,343,620,932
TABLE_6 95,075,479 9,222,321,463
TABLE_7 67,378,918 20,820,085,662
TABLE_8 64,940,525 12,598,461,850
Since I am fully aware that "my" databases are no where near the biggest, this is not the beginning of a pissing contest.
In the USA only the Northeast Corridor supports profitable train service. You can ride around DC all day on the Metro, hop on Amtrack, and then ride around NYC all night on the subway. This all works preyy well and it is worth noting that most of Europe resembles this population density.
This is a truly cogent point.
The distance from Cardiff, Wales to Prague CZ, is 1250 km, which is just 100 km longer than Chicago to New York.
Cardiff to Berlin is about that same Chicago-NYC distance.
So, Western/Central Europe is 1/2 the size of the US, but has ~10% more population.