Hmm... forgive me if I'm mistaken, but from all of the stories I've been reading on the 'net, it appears that Sweden is dismantling its welfare state as quickly as possible to become more economically competitive with the rest of the EU.
Having lived in the UK and the United States, I've seen nothing proving that "progressive" (aka. liberal) policies do anything but keep the poor poor (tax any extra money they make, remove the incentive to work harder or retrain) and fuel the fires of class warfare.
As a former Java developer who _actually coded_ a cross platform Java application, I quickly learned that Java was not "Write Once, Run Anywhere" but "Write Once, Debug on the UltraSparc, Write again, Debug on the Windows box, repeat." Java sucked then and I'm pretty sure it still sucks in the area of cross-platform compatibility now.
Computer security is really a joke. Instead of venting your rage on MSFT, even though that might have been the platform of choice, the time to root on a lot of linux distros and Solaris boxes is pretty appalling too. I think the CC companies will hit the breaking point of paying up on all of these fraud claims and begin to demand better of the software industry.
The interface isn't simpler, the boxes are ugly and unpractical, the service costs a fortune. I can't see why the Minitel couldn't be replaced by cheap, mass produced computers connected to the internet.
What are they going to do next? Change our intuitive utility names like grep, ls, rm, tail, mv, and fsck? What the hell is the world coming to?!?! We'll actually have users trying to use these utilities instead of referring to the oh so helpfully named man pages or just giving up all together...
Hmm, I'm not sure (I can't get in Monty's head), but my guess is that Monty was answering a different question than the one the interviewer was asking. I suppose the reviewer believed since all of this stuff was now in RAM, one could simply slap a mutex or some other locking mechanism around the shared resource and magically satisfy ACID properties. Monty seemed to be saying that not having to consider crap like OS buffering would make implementing an ACID database a lot easier and some shortcuts for concurrent access control could be taken in places where you might not need the strictness of strategies like multi-version timestamps. I really hope he's not as clueless as the reviewer.
...have nothing to do with the medium the data is stored in! What you're trying to guard against is concurrent access of resources by transactions which in cases can cause incorrect or inconsistent results in a RDBMS. I think this article is a bit obvious for most people who've had any training in how databases actually work and I think Monty was actually pretty gracious for taking the time to give the interviewer a smidgeon of clue.
By your logic I will never drive my car again. It's got so many embedded controllers and runs so much code that I could never trust it. Plus, it was written by evil capitalists and isn't under the GPL, so it obviously can't be reliable.
I say this is unacceptable and an enormous security blunder. Verisign, a US company, could issue some revocations, and thereby completely stop the flow of information inside the.be gov!
Yes and then the space aliens which control the U.S. Government will swoop down and abduct all of the waffles from Belgium, truly "striking while the irons are hot"...:)
Huh??? If open source is really the compelling choice, than it _should_ be selected. If not, then the governement should go with closed source. I think laying down a law restricing the choice to one side or the other will be counterproductive, and ultimately hurtful to the open source cause. Imagine the backlash when people in government have things like OpenOffice forced on them when they are used to WordPerfect or MS Office? On the flip-side, wouldn't they be more receptive to change if they tried something like apache, samba, openoffice, etc. on their servers/workstations and came to the conclusion _on their own_ that open source really was the way to go?
If open source really is compelling, people will flock to it, no matter how many barriers are put up. Just look at what has happened in the server rooms. How many companies are running Linux now that used to run Solaris/HP-UX, etc.? Linux became the "best tool" for the job and quickly took over. Hopefully, the same will happen one day for the desktop.
I'm pretty sure most American citizens are in violation of the Federal Tax Code in some way or another. I think about everyone becomes a criminal or perjures himself when he signs next to the X on his tax forms:) So what's the big deal with violating this (obviously unenforceable) law?
Maybe the real motivation behind his comments to the press is to influence any of the negotiations that may be ongoing between Microsoft and Quantum. Remember that only a couple of weeks ago, there was a story on how Microsoft gave subsidies to people who mentioned Linux while haggling over software licenses. Maybe these comments are in the same vein?
If you want to look at it from a purely economic point of view, you get more by taking the dollars you have and spending them on better equipment than you do on the programmer time taken while making code more efficient (using lower level languages, etc.) This is almost like saying "why do we need a copy machine when we can just hire a crapload of scribes to copy all of the machines in the office, we'll save a bundle on toner that way!"
Hmmm... gotta love capitalism. Seriously though, it's nothing more than the natural "separation of the wheat from the chaff" which occurs during an economic downturn. If the site was amazingly inspiring and you know of a way to make money of of it, it's time to recycle their good idea into a profit-making venture (hell, O'Reilly is doing just that).
I would have to differ with you on this one. I took a CS class this semester that dealt with the advantages and disadvantages of using OO code to solve damped spring problems, ODE solvers, etc. Using template engines, the Barton-Nackman trick, and other less-than obvious tricks allow you to have most of the benefits of a pure OO system without the speed tradeoffs.
If my memory serves me correctly, the only correct way to deal with barbarians is to kill them, enslave their families (to get rid any potential grudge-holders), burn their crops, and salt their fields. Since the US obviously cannot stomach this politically, what will it do to break their resolve now?
The only way this war will end is when the fundamentalist (Muslims/Christians/insert fanatic sect name here) are absolutely terrified of harming the free world. A terrorist may be ready to die for his cause, but I doubt he'll want to sacrifice his mother, father, wife, and children to his cause. Just my 2 cents.
What about the rest of us who already _pay_ for something like Explorer??? Why should we tax the already overburdened taxpayer even more for a product he/she possibly does not want to use?
This is completely harebrained and not rational thinking.
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Hmm... forgive me if I'm mistaken, but from all of the stories I've been reading on the 'net, it appears that Sweden is dismantling its welfare state as quickly as possible to become more economically competitive with the rest of the EU.
Having lived in the UK and the United States, I've seen nothing proving that "progressive" (aka. liberal) policies do anything but keep the poor poor (tax any extra money they make, remove the incentive to work harder or retrain) and fuel the fires of class warfare.
As a former Java developer who _actually coded_ a cross platform Java application, I quickly learned that Java was not "Write Once, Run Anywhere" but "Write Once, Debug on the UltraSparc, Write again, Debug on the Windows box, repeat." Java sucked then and I'm pretty sure it still sucks in the area of cross-platform compatibility now.
Computer security is really a joke. Instead of venting your rage on MSFT, even though that might have been the platform of choice, the time to root on a lot of linux distros and Solaris boxes is pretty appalling too. I think the CC companies will hit the breaking point of paying up on all of these fraud claims and begin to demand better of the software industry.
The interface isn't simpler, the boxes are ugly and unpractical, the service costs a fortune. I can't see why the Minitel couldn't be replaced by cheap, mass produced computers connected to the internet.
Welcome to socialism!
What are they going to do next? Change our intuitive utility names like grep, ls, rm, tail, mv, and fsck? What the hell is the world coming to?!?! We'll actually have users trying to use these utilities instead of referring to the oh so helpfully named man pages or just giving up all together...
The world is truly coming to an end.
Hmm, I'm not sure (I can't get in Monty's head), but my guess is that Monty was answering a different question than the one the interviewer was asking. I suppose the reviewer believed since all of this stuff was now in RAM, one could simply slap a mutex or some other locking mechanism around the shared resource and magically satisfy ACID properties. Monty seemed to be saying that not having to consider crap like OS buffering would make implementing an ACID database a lot easier and some shortcuts for concurrent access control could be taken in places where you might not need the strictness of strategies like multi-version timestamps. I really hope he's not as clueless as the reviewer.
...have nothing to do with the medium the data is stored in! What you're trying to guard against is concurrent access of resources by transactions which in cases can cause incorrect or inconsistent results in a RDBMS. I think this article is a bit obvious for most people who've had any training in how databases actually work and I think Monty was actually pretty gracious for taking the time to give the interviewer a smidgeon of clue.
By your logic I will never drive my car again. It's got so many embedded controllers and runs so much code that I could never trust it. Plus, it was written by evil capitalists and isn't under the GPL, so it obviously can't be reliable.
What total bullshit!
Piles! Couldn't Apple have thought of a less painful (and disgusting) name for this feature? I can just see it now:
:)
Switcher: I swapped from Windows to Apple because OS X gave me piles!
Random Person: Dear God! Have you visited your proctologist?
I say this is unacceptable and an enormous security blunder. Verisign, a US company, could issue some revocations, and thereby completely stop the flow of information inside the .be gov!
:)
Yes and then the space aliens which control the U.S. Government will swoop down and abduct all of the waffles from Belgium, truly "striking while the irons are hot"...
*Me adjusts tin hat*
Huh??? If open source is really the compelling choice, than it _should_ be selected. If not, then the governement should go with closed source. I think laying down a law restricing the choice to one side or the other will be counterproductive, and ultimately hurtful to the open source cause. Imagine the backlash when people in government have things like OpenOffice forced on them when they are used to WordPerfect or MS Office? On the flip-side, wouldn't they be more receptive to change if they tried something like apache, samba, openoffice, etc. on their servers/workstations and came to the conclusion _on their own_ that open source really was the way to go?
If open source really is compelling, people will flock to it, no matter how many barriers are put up. Just look at what has happened in the server rooms. How many companies are running Linux now that used to run Solaris/HP-UX, etc.? Linux became the "best tool" for the job and quickly took over. Hopefully, the same will happen one day for the desktop.
I'm pretty sure most American citizens are in violation of the Federal Tax Code in some way or another. I think about everyone becomes a criminal or perjures himself when he signs next to the X on his tax forms :) So what's the big deal with violating this (obviously unenforceable) law?
Aren't street "performers" often the ones you see dumpster-diving for table scraps?
Maybe the real motivation behind his comments to the press is to influence any of the negotiations that may be ongoing between Microsoft and Quantum. Remember that only a couple of weeks ago, there was a story on how Microsoft gave subsidies to people who mentioned Linux while haggling over software licenses. Maybe these comments are in the same vein?
If you want to look at it from a purely economic point of view, you get more by taking the dollars you have and spending them on better equipment than you do on the programmer time taken while making code more efficient (using lower level languages, etc.) This is almost like saying "why do we need a copy machine when we can just hire a crapload of scribes to copy all of the machines in the office, we'll save a bundle on toner that way!"
but do you think Walmart wouldn't love shipping Wintel platforms with OS X and saving the Windows OS fee?
In exchange for the Mac OS X fee? Why?
Dude, quit hogging the Kool-Aid.
Oops....
:)
s/of of/out of/
sorry, I'm a bit caffeine deprived
Hmmm... gotta love capitalism. Seriously though, it's nothing more than the natural "separation of the wheat from the chaff" which occurs during an economic downturn. If the site was amazingly inspiring and you know of a way to make money of of it, it's time to recycle their good idea into a profit-making venture (hell, O'Reilly is doing just that).
Yep, I can see the headlines now...
"IBM strategically targets less than 1% of all laptop users by investing in Linux on the Thinkpad."
Give me a break and quit drinking the Kool-Aid.
I would have to differ with you on this one. I took a CS class this semester that dealt with the advantages and disadvantages of using OO code to solve damped spring problems, ODE solvers, etc. Using template engines, the Barton-Nackman trick, and other less-than obvious tricks allow you to have most of the benefits of a pure OO system without the speed tradeoffs.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal..."
A quote by someone much wiser than I.
If my memory serves me correctly, the only correct way to deal with barbarians is to kill them, enslave their families (to get rid any potential grudge-holders), burn their crops, and salt their fields. Since the US obviously cannot stomach this politically, what will it do to break their resolve now?
The only way this war will end is when the fundamentalist (Muslims/Christians/insert fanatic sect name here) are absolutely terrified of harming the free world. A terrorist may be ready to die for his cause, but I doubt he'll want to sacrifice his mother, father, wife, and children to his cause. Just my 2 cents.
You mean that Canada is still a soveriegn nation and not the 51st state? That's news to us south of the border :)
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"Guns don't kill people. People kill People."
becomes
"Software doesn't commit piracy. People commit piracy."
What about the rest of us who already _pay_ for something like Explorer??? Why should we tax the already overburdened taxpayer even more for a product he/she possibly does not want to use?
This is completely harebrained and not rational thinking.