Probably one of the more advanced flat-file serverless SQL database systems with bindings for many languages, and source code to poke at if you feel the need. They say it weighs in at about 250KiB with everything enabled.
From the site:
SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete SQL database with multiple tables, indices, triggers, and views, is contained in a single disk file. The database file format is cross-platform - you can freely copy a database between 32-bit and 64-bit systems or between big-endian and little-endian architectures. These features make SQLite a popular choice as an Application File Format. Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen().
Have we returned to the dark ages? I don't mind the mouse shape so much, but having a cord drag off the end is something that just doesn't do it for me anymore.
Does it matter? in a word, no. I sincerely doubt it makes any programmer less productive. Could you imagine telling your boss that having a widescreen made you less productive? He'd look at you like you had a 3rd arm.
Let's tag this one as slownewsday and move along.
Forgive my ignorance (admittedly, I have not been following the whole affair). This isn't me trolling, and I certainly agree that the process used to reach a determination as laid out in the article is questionable. However...
Could someone explain to me:
1) What the problems are with the current proposed standard (other than MS came up with it). I mean, is there something in it that isn't open, or makes software not designed by MS less usable? 2) Why should people should jump up and down and protest this action. Is there some specific point we should worry about? 3) What impact will this have on us?
Likely, I'm missing "the big picture" here, input is welcome.
Very few major establishments will have rolled out Vista as of yet.
How do you know this? Do you carry a crystal ball around that tells you who rolled what out?
If previous postings on Slashdot is anything to go by, I would say that it's about half-and-half, slightly in favour of those who are unhappy with it and/or are staying with XP as long as possible.
Slashdot is not a good metric for anything other than mob mentality, which is at it's very best, predictable. People swoon over the mac articles, cheer at the linux articles, and spit on the microsoft ones. This is the way it is here. It might not always be right, but what isÉ
And I'd also be happier if you didn't automatically bring Linux into this argument
Thankfully, your happiness is the least of our worries here.
Don't update for a little while, then do one big update. Then run dispatch-conf and sift diff files for a while. Better yet, install a gentoo from 5 years back, and then attempt to update it. You'll be in for a world of hurt. Your comments show a distinct lack of experience with these things. I'd hardly consider gentoo supported for the length of time you're suggesting, unless you happened to move with gentoo's schedule and kept updating regularly. Of course, good sysadmins will tell you that updating for the sake of updating, without knowing what changed is usually not a good idea.
Gentoo is so easy to break it's astounding. Watch what happens when you start playing with masked packages, or packages that get updated, but rely on untested packages. Gentoo as a server is a horrible idea, and there is a reason most people opt for distros with precompiled packages where their servers are concerned. Reliability.
I don't believe I called anyone a zealot, but I will admit you're coming off like one. At no point did I suggest you, or anyone else run any particular operating system.
Your comments are insulting, baseless and you sound like someone who doesn't take the time to read anything. Like my comment for example.
The article names "people" by "handles" who complain about non-specific problems and provide no real details. My only point is that 1) a lot of people who commented on the article referred to here had no problems, and 2) The rest want to advocate other operating systems. Not that advocacy is bad or wrong, but where are all the horror stories from people who had uncorrectable problems? You're trying to tell me that with all the vast amounts of traffic from slashdot, nobody had an issue with vista that had some documented substance to it?
The dozens and dozens of positive comments posted on the article's site? The comments seem to fall in to one of two categories. People who installed SP1 and had no issues, and people trying to convert the masses to Linux.
It makes me wonder if there is any actual credibility to these claims. I think I have to call kdawsonfud on this one. The article seems to imply that SP1 could be detrimental, or dangerous to people, but it fails to actually outline what those things might actually be. Instead, they quote completely random and anonymous sources who haven't actually provided any real information or details about the problems they may or may not be having.
If someone on some blog said "THE SKY IS FALLING" would you accept that on faith, or would you want a little more to go on?
Plans include having reactors supplied with fuel by the US and other trusted nations
Since when has the US government been a trusted country for anything? If other countries want nuclear reactors, allow them to build or purchase their own from who they want, and get their own fuel at their discretion. Don't make some stupid cartel that is controlled with an iron fist by the US.
The US needs to stop trying to be the world police, and clean up their own back yard for a change. If they can't do that, at the very least, they need to stop trying to profit from the roll at every turn.
Untrue, before they patched it to turn the fans back on (while it was in standby with WiiConnect24 active) when the thermal monitor detected dangerous levels of heat, these too were failing. I had a friend who had to send his back because the video subsystem in one died.
Fortunately this issue has since been patched, so if your firmware is up to date, it shouldn't be an issue.
This project is bound for failure simply because bayesian classifiers don't work that well. In the end, they're really good at picking up spam because spam contains a lot of keywords which are east to pick up. Stupidity implies that there is some comprehension at work, not the mindless firing of keywords.
People who would like to see another take on this should look at Utu, A reputation based system that penalizes people for being hated by the community. A lot more thought was put in to this project, and it already has a working client/server model which you can download.
You mean, like all the people who couldn't be stupid enough to open unknown email attachments on their Windows boxes? Then later bought Macs because Macs "don't have those kinds of problems"?
These people need to watch the James Randi take these frauds apart. The man is simply amazing (hence his stage name, The Amazing Randy).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTPj9VlNzQ0 is worth a watch if you want to see him in action.
We all know exactly how these comparison articles from slashdot go. Quit posting them - they're full of FUD and don't give you any idea of linux's problems. Seriously.
How exactly does google scan and report the contents of my hard drive? The only way they have to do that is with google desktop, and since it's not on my machine, it's a non-issue.
Replace "EA and Flagship" for Microsoft and use all the same details. People would go batshit. However, because it's a game people want to play, all the apologists are popping up. Them making a great game should _not_ excuse this kind of behavior.
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The people who whine are also typically the people who are incapable of writing the software in the first place. I do however, support your statement.
http://www.sqlite.org/
Probably one of the more advanced flat-file serverless SQL database systems with bindings for many languages, and source code to poke at if you feel the need. They say it weighs in at about 250KiB with everything enabled.
From the site:
SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete SQL database with multiple tables, indices, triggers, and views, is contained in a single disk file. The database file format is cross-platform - you can freely copy a database between 32-bit and 64-bit systems or between big-endian and little-endian architectures. These features make SQLite a popular choice as an Application File Format. Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen().
Have we returned to the dark ages? I don't mind the mouse shape so much, but having a cord drag off the end is something that just doesn't do it for me anymore.
Thanks for taking the time to write that. It cleared a lot of it up for me.
Does it matter? in a word, no. I sincerely doubt it makes any programmer less productive. Could you imagine telling your boss that having a widescreen made you less productive? He'd look at you like you had a 3rd arm. Let's tag this one as slownewsday and move along.
Forgive my ignorance (admittedly, I have not been following the whole affair). This isn't me trolling, and I certainly agree that the process used to reach a determination as laid out in the article is questionable. However...
Could someone explain to me:
1) What the problems are with the current proposed standard (other than MS came up with it). I mean, is there something in it that isn't open, or makes software not designed by MS less usable?
2) Why should people should jump up and down and protest this action. Is there some specific point we should worry about?
3) What impact will this have on us?
Likely, I'm missing "the big picture" here, input is welcome.
How do you know this? Do you carry a crystal ball around that tells you who rolled what out?
If previous postings on Slashdot is anything to go by, I would say that it's about half-and-half, slightly in favour of those who are unhappy with it and/or are staying with XP as long as possible.
Slashdot is not a good metric for anything other than mob mentality, which is at it's very best, predictable. People swoon over the mac articles, cheer at the linux articles, and spit on the microsoft ones. This is the way it is here. It might not always be right, but what isÉ
And I'd also be happier if you didn't automatically bring Linux into this argument
Thankfully, your happiness is the least of our worries here.
Don't update for a little while, then do one big update. Then run dispatch-conf and sift diff files for a while. Better yet, install a gentoo from 5 years back, and then attempt to update it. You'll be in for a world of hurt. Your comments show a distinct lack of experience with these things. I'd hardly consider gentoo supported for the length of time you're suggesting, unless you happened to move with gentoo's schedule and kept updating regularly. Of course, good sysadmins will tell you that updating for the sake of updating, without knowing what changed is usually not a good idea.
Gentoo is so easy to break it's astounding. Watch what happens when you start playing with masked packages, or packages that get updated, but rely on untested packages. Gentoo as a server is a horrible idea, and there is a reason most people opt for distros with precompiled packages where their servers are concerned. Reliability.
I don't believe I called anyone a zealot, but I will admit you're coming off like one. At no point did I suggest you, or anyone else run any particular operating system.
Your comments are insulting, baseless and you sound like someone who doesn't take the time to read anything. Like my comment for example.
The article names "people" by "handles" who complain about non-specific problems and provide no real details. My only point is that 1) a lot of people who commented on the article referred to here had no problems, and 2) The rest want to advocate other operating systems. Not that advocacy is bad or wrong, but where are all the horror stories from people who had uncorrectable problems? You're trying to tell me that with all the vast amounts of traffic from slashdot, nobody had an issue with vista that had some documented substance to it?
Ask yourself: How much did you like XP before SP1? How about before SP2?
The dozens and dozens of positive comments posted on the article's site? The comments seem to fall in to one of two categories. People who installed SP1 and had no issues, and people trying to convert the masses to Linux. It makes me wonder if there is any actual credibility to these claims. I think I have to call kdawsonfud on this one. The article seems to imply that SP1 could be detrimental, or dangerous to people, but it fails to actually outline what those things might actually be. Instead, they quote completely random and anonymous sources who haven't actually provided any real information or details about the problems they may or may not be having. If someone on some blog said "THE SKY IS FALLING" would you accept that on faith, or would you want a little more to go on?
Which sci-fi tech do you think needs to get invented over the weekend?
A cure to the common cold. Sooner is better than later. This cold sucks.
The alternative to this program is not that the developing world gets no nuclear material and no reactors.
Correct, the alternative is the fear that the US might accuse them of making weapons and devastate their country with another war.
Plans include having reactors supplied with fuel by the US and other trusted nations
Since when has the US government been a trusted country for anything? If other countries want nuclear reactors, allow them to build or purchase their own from who they want, and get their own fuel at their discretion. Don't make some stupid cartel that is controlled with an iron fist by the US.
The US needs to stop trying to be the world police, and clean up their own back yard for a change. If they can't do that, at the very least, they need to stop trying to profit from the roll at every turn.
Pro tip: You don't have to write software for the Mac. There are tons of other platforms.
They should quit speculating, and be like Nike. Just Do It. Everyone says "we'll have X by Y" few really deliver.
Not to mention Apple and Yahoo who want to make it even worse.
Untrue, before they patched it to turn the fans back on (while it was in standby with WiiConnect24 active) when the thermal monitor detected dangerous levels of heat, these too were failing. I had a friend who had to send his back because the video subsystem in one died. Fortunately this issue has since been patched, so if your firmware is up to date, it shouldn't be an issue.
Mine is a year and a half old now, still works like the day I bought it.
This project is bound for failure simply because bayesian classifiers don't work that well. In the end, they're really good at picking up spam because spam contains a lot of keywords which are east to pick up. Stupidity implies that there is some comprehension at work, not the mindless firing of keywords. People who would like to see another take on this should look at Utu, A reputation based system that penalizes people for being hated by the community. A lot more thought was put in to this project, and it already has a working client/server model which you can download.
You mean, like all the people who couldn't be stupid enough to open unknown email attachments on their Windows boxes? Then later bought Macs because Macs "don't have those kinds of problems"?
These people need to watch the James Randi take these frauds apart. The man is simply amazing (hence his stage name, The Amazing Randy). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTPj9VlNzQ0 is worth a watch if you want to see him in action.
-5 ignorant
We all know exactly how these comparison articles from slashdot go. Quit posting them - they're full of FUD and don't give you any idea of linux's problems. Seriously.
How exactly does google scan and report the contents of my hard drive? The only way they have to do that is with google desktop, and since it's not on my machine, it's a non-issue. Replace "EA and Flagship" for Microsoft and use all the same details. People would go batshit. However, because it's a game people want to play, all the apologists are popping up. Them making a great game should _not_ excuse this kind of behavior.