Ironsides wrote: "People want to watch in real time, not download and then watch."
Actually if people used PVR systems they would get used to the "downloading" or recording of shows and then watching them when they want where they want. Using a PVR (mythtv, tivo, freevo) system changes the way people watch TV. About the only type of shows that anyone would want to watch "real time" would be sporting events or space launches. Most everything else does not suffer anything by being watched at a later time.
The bandwidth arguments and is legit and the real issue trying to do this over the Internet. And if the FCC does not regulate the airwaves those with the biggest transmitters will win. Not something that would be sustainable.
The FCC is still needed. There is still a finite set of bandwidth available. Technology may allow more and more things to utilize that bandwidth but there are limits. And if it is unregulated then the most powerful transmitter wins will be the way it works. This would result in areas where lower power devices would not be able to operate because someone is splattering the spectrum those devices use with their own noise.
Actually it might not be bad if you could walk/drive around with a cell phone jammer. Or even better a high frequency Ham radio that can cause that rolling speaker that pulled up next to you some serious interference directly into the speakers.:)
Just need enough power to permanetly damage his speakers with one ear shattering squelch!
Don't misconstrue healty discussion as being detrimental to OSS. It is by discussing the good and bad points of different ways of doing things that all sides advance. Typical leap frog effect, one product develops a novel solution to a problem. Product B improves on novel solution and includes it in their product. Product A learns from Product B and further improves on the solutions. It goes back and forth like that. The idea is to have such free exchange of ideas and have discussions about them. Nothing bad about that, it is actually healthy. So predicting the death of OSS in 20 years is a little silly.
Stating facts about these two databases is not attempting to discredit mysql at "any cost". It is simply stating the facts. Mysql has used a unique interpetation of the GPL which if applied in how they interpet it would require a company that has built an application for internal use to release all of the code for that application. I respected their rights to interpet the GPL that way and as such I chose to use a different database. Nothing more or less.
Personally the definition of derivative works in regards to the GPL needs to be clarified. Simply linking to libraries is not in my opinion create a derivitive work. If you modified those libraries for your own use then that is a derivitive work and according to the GPL should be published. This allows others to look at your modifications of that library and decide if your changes are better and if they should be included by default in future versions. But that is my opinion only.
I'm not the first engineer to move away from mysql because of their interpetation. A database by itself is not really that useful. You have to have code that uses that database to do something. The programmer for that piece of code should decide if they want to release it under the GPL or not.
And remember one of the ideas behind OSS is freedom of choice. You personally get to decide between the options available what you want to use or don't use. No one is forcing you to make that choice.
BTW: I have read many things indicating that postgresql is more reliable than mysql. I always take such reports with a grain of salt. Your experience seems to validate those items. But in some cases reliability may not be a major factor. You get to decide that. I have one application running that uses a 1TB file system using LVM across four drives. If/when one of those drives fail I fully expect to lose all the data on that file system. If I was concerned about that I would setup the drives in a raid configuration. But in this case I chose not to since that is not a high priority concern to me. We all get to make such choices. That is what makes this stuff interesting.:)
Get real! This is the same kind of predictions about USENET imploding that occured every few months so many years ago. Never happened. And since when is it such a horrible thing to express an opinion? If you look back over my posts I stated the reasons I made a particular choice. Did not say anyone else had to follow that choice. If you like mysql and it does the job for you then use it. I've been there done that and finally decided that postgresql for various reasons works better for the projects I work on. kevinadi has even stated in his own posts that he sees benefits in using postgresql. Funny what learning a few new things can do for one isn't it.:)
kevinadi wrote: "Might worth trying.
Anyway, I'm not as dumb as you suggest."
You actually think that suggestion was serious? Did not really suggest you were dumb but now I am having serious doubts.:)
BTW: I don't think I ever suggested you dump mysql. Your project, you pick the tools you are familiar, happy with to complete that project. I don't really care. As to your examples I think if you spent a little time learning postgresql you would find that anything you can do in mysql can be done in postgresql as well as the other way around. Will the implementation be exactly the same, no, but they will have equivalent results. But then you don't want to get bogged down in learning anything so I guess you closed that door already.
Say again? When did I ever state that I represented the postgresql community? kevinadi apparently does not waste time trying to learn how to use tools. His words not mine. Regardless of the database you use it usually a good practice to spend some time learning how things work. His statements indicate that he expects things to just work. Postgresql is not harder to use that Mysql. I've used both. My personal preference currently is postgresql for most things. I don't harbor any strong negative feelings toward Mysql, I just find the licensing provided by Postgresql easier to deal with than some of the ambigous information published on the mysql web site concerning their licensing. As such it is easier for me to justify and defend the use of postgresql for projects used in a business, no risk of running into any licensing issues.
What other people use for their database is up to them. I don't really care. But silly statements along the lines of
kevinadi wrote: "I prefer to use simple tools to help with my work and not get bogged down trying to learn how to use the tools in the first place."
should be called out. He probably also has a shelf full of technical books that have never been opened, why should he spend time getting bogged down reading about a subject when he can just get along with what he already knows?
And some companies use unlicensed software. Does not make it ethical or the right thing to do.:)
A lot of people don't realize the licensing nightmares they can get into until they are responsible for certifying that their company only has licensed software running on their systems. After doing the research and inventory of systems I found that we were short a small number of visio licenses. I provided the info to upper management and told them either we had to remove the software or buy licenses. They did nothing until I also passed along the letter from Microsoft which required a VPs signature verifying that the company was in compliance. A purchase order was cut that day. Upper management should not have to have been forced to do this. And I did not like being in that position. But that was several years ago now. All bad memories.
The last time I looked at the mailing list I think they were trying to abstract the whole database portion so you could use what ever database you wanted. As far as the BSD type licensing of postgresql there really is no restriction other than attribution which is not a big issue and just good form.
They will until someone takes over their system the first time and causes them to lose data as well as time getting their system rebuilt. Have seen this happen more than once.
Same for companies that were lax in doing backups of their servers. It's not an issue until that server crashes and they don't have backups recent enough to get back those important documents or databases. Then it becomes a priority until the next crisis which causes those things to fade into the background again.
You are correct in that most users just want the system to work and let them do the things they want to do. Only when that becomes impossible will the user consider changing they way they do things.
At the time the licensing issue came up the info on the site appeared to say if you were a commercial business and you used mysql for anything that you needed a license. At the time the particular application I had setup was used by internal users only. Had no plans to distribute this program outside of the company. Not wanting to get the group in trouble for any licensing issues it was easier to just change databases where there was no question about licensing. It was tough enough to do the inventory and verification for the microsoft products we had at that time. And the switch over was not that difficult. In some ways I like postgresql better but that is more of a personal opinion. Either database could be used in this particular job. I did not have any heavy duty performance requirements in this particular case.
At home currently I use one application that uses a mysql database extensively, mythtv. There is some work being done (or was being done) to enable the use of postgresql or other similar databases. In this case the database sits behind the scenes doing what it is suppose to do. And I don't have any license issues since this is not a commercial application or business. If mythtv had the option I would probably opt for postgresql. That's just my personal prefrence. But now that mythtv is running fine with mysql I probably won't change that any time soon.
When the new season started I setup the mythtv box to record almost all of the new shows. Some of which have already been cancelled (for good reason). I now have the chance to check out each of the new shows instead of having to decide which ones I will try to catch in reruns. I have also found that I have plenty of new stuff recorded so when I sit down to watch TV I don't have to go searching for something new to watch. I get to watch that episode of Lost later in the week since I watched something else I recorded previously while that was being broadcast.
A new project I am starting to plan out is to build a couple of cheap diskless frontend systems for mythtv to put at the other TVs in the house. This will let me watch anything I have recorded at any of the TVs. It has also allowed me to catch a few movies that were being broadcast that I would not normally have been able to watch. I can skim the listings for the next few weeks and tell the system to record one instance of a particluar movie. Then when I have time I can watch the movie with out commercials.
Why not use a PVR and skip the commercials? I do this now with a mythtv setup. Has changed the way I watch TV completely. I rarely watch "live" TV anymore. I record everthing I want to watch and watch it when I want with out commercials. As PVRs become more common the concept of commercials will have to change since advertisers will no longer get the value of getting their ads out as they once did. Kind of like applying spamassassin to your TV. And with the kinds of ads that seem to be most common I don't see much difference between spam and ads on TV anymore.
PVRs are poised to change TV quicker than podcasting. Per the article blurb above advertising on TV will have to change as PVRs allow users to skip over commercials easily. mythtv has changed the way a lot of people view TV. Personally I rarely watch "live" TV anymore, I much prefer to record a show, commercial flag it, and watch it when I want to watch it with the added benefit of not having to watch any commercials.
What I find particularly funny is that the ads on TV have started to mirror the spam in email, they all seem to be pushing viagra and variants. The PVR will allow users to reclaim thier TVs just like spamassassin allowed us to reclaim our email systems.
As to selling shows over the Internet, it may have a niche market, realizing you only need a small percentage of Internet users to make a reasonable profit. But to appeal to the widest possible audience such distribution of shows will need to be bundled with the cost of Internet access in some way as part of the $40/month this most cable services charge for access.
A few years ago I wrote some applications that used mysql as the database. Worked just fine for that purpose. This application was used internally to the company. Then the big change in how mysql did their licensing came around. Because of that whole discussion and the uncertainty regarding when a paid license was required it was easier to switch to using postgresql. The postgresql license is unambigous and did not put any work done internal to the company at risk unlike mysql. Personally I can use either database, but my current preference is to use postgresql. If the licensing was not an issue it would be a toss up as to which I would use. At the present time I would lean toward postgresql since I have used it more recently.
Quoting kevinadi: "As for myself, I prefer to use simple tools to help with my work and not get bogged down trying to learn how to use the tools in the first place."
Now that's a neat trick! Kind of like using a hammer to drive screws. No need to learn how to use a screw driver, that simple hammer thing gets the job done with a little effort. Or do you just pile the tools on the table and push them around hoping they do something useful?
I always find it comical when one of the talking heads gets two people on different sides of an issue and spits slanted questions at both and don't give either one a chance to really answer or allows them to answer to the point they look like idiots. "if it bleeds it leads" is the motto of the news media today. The sad part is they don't report on the real news in your neighborhood like how many burglaries occured which would affect you personally. These things are not the "big scoops" that the talking heads want to report on. And it is not the stuff that allows them to sell more commercials at higher prices. What was it they said a long time ago, "Follow the money". The same applies here.
You almost have it right, the news channels don't have a policy of broadcasting news. They are an entertainment venue cloaked in the trappings of journalism and news reporting. The people spouting their views, sorry, reading the news, are nothing more than actors. They sensationalize everything because that draws more viewers which translates in to ratings which ultimately determines how much they charge for commercials. Ideally a real news channel would not have commercials. They would report news items 24x7 with in depth reports on the really complex issues. Instead we get a series of sound bites choosen to get the most sensational play and keep people tuned in for the next round of commercials.
As to journalistic integrity there is none. The self appointed talking heads feel it is their place to present their personal view on a topic as the correct view instead of presenting facts and letting the public decide.
As to getting any real information from the news media, good luck. You can usually tell that something happened but as to actual details don't count on anything they state as fact being correct. Headlines screamed 10,000+ dead in New Orleans when the reality was much different. The stories appear to be based on second or third hand rumors with no verification. This applies equally to all news media including papers such as the New York Times.
Instead of reporting "news" the media is just another circus act there to entertain the masses and in some cases push the masses to cast votes for those that crave power over the rest of us. Check out the marketing departments at these news organizations sometimes. I expect you will find they have huge budgets to sell their "product" and use focus groups to determine what will get another half share against their competitors.
This is really a silly question. People don't like ads, TV, Web, otherwise, because they are intrusive. On top of that most ads treat their prospective audience as if they are complete idiots. Do they really think people are so dumb they can't use a simple product unless it has {name of brand} printed on it? Both TV and Web ads seem to have a large majority of ads pushing viagra and similar types of products. Is it any wonder that a lot of people use ad blockers on line? And as soon as more people learn about things like mythtv which let you easily skip ads on TV those systems will become even more popular. With those tools in place I personally do not see many ads at all anymore. And for the past year or two the national do not call list has eliminated obnoxious phone solicitors.
Now I just need to figure out a tool to block the ads that pop up on/.'s web page.
Thank goodness for ad blockers, mythtv, and the national do not call list. Now I can spend less of my time watching ads for stuff I do not need or want.
So this is what they were testing a few years ago off the West coast. At the time people thought it was a new sonar system that was causing whales and dolphins to beach themselves. They were test firing this system and seeing how well it did against a torpedo! How would you have liked to be the Navy seaman playing air guitar as a torpedo came at your ship?
In a related news story a small number of early adopters of Microsofts new malware protecton utility reported problems installing something called grub on some systems. The vast majority of users reported initial confusion with new menus and utilities being loaded on their systems. The renaming of Word to oowriter probably caused the most confusion. Most users were already familiar with Firefox having switched to this more secure browser in the past from Internet Explorer.
Rumors are that the new malware protection utility may actually be based on linux. This is seen as a surprising move by Microsoft since linux was long considered an upstart rival to Microsoft.
Early reports are that systems using the new malware protection utility indicate that systems are more secure and require fewer reboots.
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Ironsides wrote: "People want to watch in real time, not download and then watch."
Actually if people used PVR systems they would get used to the "downloading" or recording of shows and then watching them when they want where they want. Using a PVR (mythtv, tivo, freevo) system changes the way people watch TV. About the only type of shows that anyone would want to watch "real time" would be sporting events or space launches. Most everything else does not suffer anything by being watched at a later time.
The bandwidth arguments and is legit and the real issue trying to do this over the Internet. And if the FCC does not regulate the airwaves those with the biggest transmitters will win. Not something that would be sustainable.
The FCC is still needed. There is still a finite set of bandwidth available. Technology may allow more and more things to utilize that bandwidth but there are limits. And if it is unregulated then the most powerful transmitter wins will be the way it works. This would result in areas where lower power devices would not be able to operate because someone is splattering the spectrum those devices use with their own noise.
:)
Actually it might not be bad if you could walk/drive around with a cell phone jammer. Or even better a high frequency Ham radio that can cause that rolling speaker that pulled up next to you some serious interference directly into the speakers.
Just need enough power to permanetly damage his speakers with one ear shattering squelch!
Don't misconstrue healty discussion as being detrimental to OSS. It is by discussing the good and bad points of different ways of doing things that all sides advance. Typical leap frog effect, one product develops a novel solution to a problem. Product B improves on novel solution and includes it in their product. Product A learns from Product B and further improves on the solutions. It goes back and forth like that. The idea is to have such free exchange of ideas and have discussions about them. Nothing bad about that, it is actually healthy. So predicting the death of OSS in 20 years is a little silly.
:)
Stating facts about these two databases is not attempting to discredit mysql at "any cost". It is simply stating the facts. Mysql has used a unique interpetation of the GPL which if applied in how they interpet it would require a company that has built an application for internal use to release all of the code for that application. I respected their rights to interpet the GPL that way and as such I chose to use a different database. Nothing more or less.
Personally the definition of derivative works in regards to the GPL needs to be clarified. Simply linking to libraries is not in my opinion create a derivitive work. If you modified those libraries for your own use then that is a derivitive work and according to the GPL should be published. This allows others to look at your modifications of that library and decide if your changes are better and if they should be included by default in future versions. But that is my opinion only.
I'm not the first engineer to move away from mysql because of their interpetation. A database by itself is not really that useful. You have to have code that uses that database to do something. The programmer for that piece of code should decide if they want to release it under the GPL or not.
And remember one of the ideas behind OSS is freedom of choice. You personally get to decide between the options available what you want to use or don't use. No one is forcing you to make that choice.
BTW: I have read many things indicating that postgresql is more reliable than mysql. I always take such reports with a grain of salt. Your experience seems to validate those items. But in some cases reliability may not be a major factor. You get to decide that. I have one application running that uses a 1TB file system using LVM across four drives. If/when one of those drives fail I fully expect to lose all the data on that file system. If I was concerned about that I would setup the drives in a raid configuration. But in this case I chose not to since that is not a high priority concern to me. We all get to make such choices. That is what makes this stuff interesting.
Get real! This is the same kind of predictions about USENET imploding that occured every few months so many years ago. Never happened. And since when is it such a horrible thing to express an opinion? If you look back over my posts I stated the reasons I made a particular choice. Did not say anyone else had to follow that choice. If you like mysql and it does the job for you then use it. I've been there done that and finally decided that postgresql for various reasons works better for the projects I work on. kevinadi has even stated in his own posts that he sees benefits in using postgresql. Funny what learning a few new things can do for one isn't it. :)
kevinadi wrote: "Might worth trying. Anyway, I'm not as dumb as you suggest."
:)
You actually think that suggestion was serious? Did not really suggest you were dumb but now I am having serious doubts.
BTW: I don't think I ever suggested you dump mysql. Your project, you pick the tools you are familiar, happy with to complete that project. I don't really care. As to your examples I think if you spent a little time learning postgresql you would find that anything you can do in mysql can be done in postgresql as well as the other way around. Will the implementation be exactly the same, no, but they will have equivalent results. But then you don't want to get bogged down in learning anything so I guess you closed that door already.
Say again? When did I ever state that I represented the postgresql community? kevinadi apparently does not waste time trying to learn how to use tools. His words not mine. Regardless of the database you use it usually a good practice to spend some time learning how things work. His statements indicate that he expects things to just work. Postgresql is not harder to use that Mysql. I've used both. My personal preference currently is postgresql for most things. I don't harbor any strong negative feelings toward Mysql, I just find the licensing provided by Postgresql easier to deal with than some of the ambigous information published on the mysql web site concerning their licensing. As such it is easier for me to justify and defend the use of postgresql for projects used in a business, no risk of running into any licensing issues.
What other people use for their database is up to them. I don't really care. But silly statements along the lines of
kevinadi wrote: "I prefer to use simple tools to help with my work and not get bogged down trying to learn how to use the tools in the first place."
should be called out. He probably also has a shelf full of technical books that have never been opened, why should he spend time getting bogged down reading about a subject when he can just get along with what he already knows?
" I personally liked the "grass sour" phrase that was used a few times."
He got ahold of some really bad joints.....
And some companies use unlicensed software. Does not make it ethical or the right thing to do. :)
A lot of people don't realize the licensing nightmares they can get into until they are responsible for certifying that their company only has licensed software running on their systems. After doing the research and inventory of systems I found that we were short a small number of visio licenses. I provided the info to upper management and told them either we had to remove the software or buy licenses. They did nothing until I also passed along the letter from Microsoft which required a VPs signature verifying that the company was in compliance. A purchase order was cut that day. Upper management should not have to have been forced to do this. And I did not like being in that position. But that was several years ago now. All bad memories.
The last time I looked at the mailing list I think they were trying to abstract the whole database portion so you could use what ever database you wanted. As far as the BSD type licensing of postgresql there really is no restriction other than attribution which is not a big issue and just good form.
They will until someone takes over their system the first time and causes them to lose data as well as time getting their system rebuilt. Have seen this happen more than once.
Same for companies that were lax in doing backups of their servers. It's not an issue until that server crashes and they don't have backups recent enough to get back those important documents or databases. Then it becomes a priority until the next crisis which causes those things to fade into the background again.
You are correct in that most users just want the system to work and let them do the things they want to do. Only when that becomes impossible will the user consider changing they way they do things.
At the time the licensing issue came up the info on the site appeared to say if you were a commercial business and you used mysql for anything that you needed a license. At the time the particular application I had setup was used by internal users only. Had no plans to distribute this program outside of the company. Not wanting to get the group in trouble for any licensing issues it was easier to just change databases where there was no question about licensing. It was tough enough to do the inventory and verification for the microsoft products we had at that time. And the switch over was not that difficult. In some ways I like postgresql better but that is more of a personal opinion. Either database could be used in this particular job. I did not have any heavy duty performance requirements in this particular case.
At home currently I use one application that uses a mysql database extensively, mythtv. There is some work being done (or was being done) to enable the use of postgresql or other similar databases. In this case the database sits behind the scenes doing what it is suppose to do. And I don't have any license issues since this is not a commercial application or business. If mythtv had the option I would probably opt for postgresql. That's just my personal prefrence. But now that mythtv is running fine with mysql I probably won't change that any time soon.
When the new season started I setup the mythtv box to record almost all of the new shows. Some of which have already been cancelled (for good reason). I now have the chance to check out each of the new shows instead of having to decide which ones I will try to catch in reruns. I have also found that I have plenty of new stuff recorded so when I sit down to watch TV I don't have to go searching for something new to watch. I get to watch that episode of Lost later in the week since I watched something else I recorded previously while that was being broadcast.
:)
A new project I am starting to plan out is to build a couple of cheap diskless frontend systems for mythtv to put at the other TVs in the house. This will let me watch anything I have recorded at any of the TVs. It has also allowed me to catch a few movies that were being broadcast that I would not normally have been able to watch. I can skim the listings for the next few weeks and tell the system to record one instance of a particluar movie. Then when I have time I can watch the movie with out commercials.
It is nice to be in control like that.
Why not use a PVR and skip the commercials? I do this now with a mythtv setup. Has changed the way I watch TV completely. I rarely watch "live" TV anymore. I record everthing I want to watch and watch it when I want with out commercials. As PVRs become more common the concept of commercials will have to change since advertisers will no longer get the value of getting their ads out as they once did. Kind of like applying spamassassin to your TV. And with the kinds of ads that seem to be most common I don't see much difference between spam and ads on TV anymore.
PVRs are poised to change TV quicker than podcasting. Per the article blurb above advertising on TV will have to change as PVRs allow users to skip over commercials easily. mythtv has changed the way a lot of people view TV. Personally I rarely watch "live" TV anymore, I much prefer to record a show, commercial flag it, and watch it when I want to watch it with the added benefit of not having to watch any commercials.
What I find particularly funny is that the ads on TV have started to mirror the spam in email, they all seem to be pushing viagra and variants. The PVR will allow users to reclaim thier TVs just like spamassassin allowed us to reclaim our email systems.
As to selling shows over the Internet, it may have a niche market, realizing you only need a small percentage of Internet users to make a reasonable profit. But to appeal to the widest possible audience such distribution of shows will need to be bundled with the cost of Internet access in some way as part of the $40/month this most cable services charge for access.
A few years ago I wrote some applications that used mysql as the database. Worked just fine for that purpose. This application was used internally to the company. Then the big change in how mysql did their licensing came around. Because of that whole discussion and the uncertainty regarding when a paid license was required it was easier to switch to using postgresql. The postgresql license is unambigous and did not put any work done internal to the company at risk unlike mysql. Personally I can use either database, but my current preference is to use postgresql. If the licensing was not an issue it would be a toss up as to which I would use. At the present time I would lean toward postgresql since I have used it more recently.
Quoting kevinadi: "As for myself, I prefer to use simple tools to help with my work and not get bogged down trying to learn how to use the tools in the first place."
Now that's a neat trick! Kind of like using a hammer to drive screws. No need to learn how to use a screw driver, that simple hammer thing gets the job done with a little effort. Or do you just pile the tools on the table and push them around hoping they do something useful?
I always find it comical when one of the talking heads gets two people on different sides of an issue and spits slanted questions at both and don't give either one a chance to really answer or allows them to answer to the point they look like idiots. "if it bleeds it leads" is the motto of the news media today. The sad part is they don't report on the real news in your neighborhood like how many burglaries occured which would affect you personally. These things are not the "big scoops" that the talking heads want to report on. And it is not the stuff that allows them to sell more commercials at higher prices. What was it they said a long time ago, "Follow the money". The same applies here.
Don't ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to incompetence. Incompetence is rapant every where.
Intelligence in the universe is a constant. The population is growing. If you can, do the math.
You almost have it right, the news channels don't have a policy of broadcasting news. They are an entertainment venue cloaked in the trappings of journalism and news reporting. The people spouting their views, sorry, reading the news, are nothing more than actors. They sensationalize everything because that draws more viewers which translates in to ratings which ultimately determines how much they charge for commercials. Ideally a real news channel would not have commercials. They would report news items 24x7 with in depth reports on the really complex issues. Instead we get a series of sound bites choosen to get the most sensational play and keep people tuned in for the next round of commercials.
As to journalistic integrity there is none. The self appointed talking heads feel it is their place to present their personal view on a topic as the correct view instead of presenting facts and letting the public decide.
As to getting any real information from the news media, good luck. You can usually tell that something happened but as to actual details don't count on anything they state as fact being correct. Headlines screamed 10,000+ dead in New Orleans when the reality was much different. The stories appear to be based on second or third hand rumors with no verification. This applies equally to all news media including papers such as the New York Times.
Instead of reporting "news" the media is just another circus act there to entertain the masses and in some cases push the masses to cast votes for those that crave power over the rest of us. Check out the marketing departments at these news organizations sometimes. I expect you will find they have huge budgets to sell their "product" and use focus groups to determine what will get another half share against their competitors.
So they finally add features that postgresql has. And don't forget the more difficult to use licensing they have imposed compared to postgresql.
Damn drafty windows!
This is really a silly question. People don't like ads, TV, Web, otherwise, because they are intrusive. On top of that most ads treat their prospective audience as if they are complete idiots. Do they really think people are so dumb they can't use a simple product unless it has {name of brand} printed on it? Both TV and Web ads seem to have a large majority of ads pushing viagra and similar types of products. Is it any wonder that a lot of people use ad blockers on line? And as soon as more people learn about things like mythtv which let you easily skip ads on TV those systems will become even more popular. With those tools in place I personally do not see many ads at all anymore. And for the past year or two the national do not call list has eliminated obnoxious phone solicitors.
/.'s web page.
Now I just need to figure out a tool to block the ads that pop up on
Thank goodness for ad blockers, mythtv, and the national do not call list. Now I can spend less of my time watching ads for stuff I do not need or want.
So this is what they were testing a few years ago off the West coast. At the time people thought it was a new sonar system that was causing whales and dolphins to beach themselves. They were test firing this system and seeing how well it did against a torpedo! How would you have liked to be the Navy seaman playing air guitar as a torpedo came at your ship?
Fine, but I have the patent on this counter measure, earplugs for torpedos. :)
And this covers all the variations, ear muffs, fingers in ears, scarfs, saying "na na na na na na", etc.
So how much does this system cost per ship vs. some simple counter measure? Really think this will see wide spread deployment?
In a related news story a small number of early adopters of Microsofts new malware protecton utility reported problems installing something called grub on some systems. The vast majority of users reported initial confusion with new menus and utilities being loaded on their systems. The renaming of Word to oowriter probably caused the most confusion. Most users were already familiar with Firefox having switched to this more secure browser in the past from Internet Explorer.
Rumors are that the new malware protection utility may actually be based on linux. This is seen as a surprising move by Microsoft since linux was long considered an upstart rival to Microsoft.
Early reports are that systems using the new malware protection utility indicate that systems are more secure and require fewer reboots.