And it's not clear to me why you think he's "trying to improve things" or "doing the only thing he can".
This is a very surprising comment, and in a most negative way. I'm not sure what I can say here that doesn't sound condescending. How is health care reform not, "trying to improve things." You may disagree on his approach but I honestly can't see how you can saw the above with a straight face.
I'm yet further confused because you bash Obama for his policies and then you pat Bush on the back. The confusing part is that you're bashing Obama for following what Bush laid out - in almost every case. This is why time and time again it seems you have an irrational hatred of Obama.
Whatever else you can say about Bush, no further terrorist attacks occurred in the US on his watch. What is Obama doing that is comparable?
Ummm....more of the same? He's literally following McCain's stated campaign plans, which is only slightly different from the path set forward by Bush. In other words, you're very clearly hypocritically bashing Obama for following the Republican path.
The rest of your solutions are completely unattainable or just plain crazy. I assume you don't realize the AARP is one of the largest citizen lobbying groups in the US. Going against them means losing elections for a long time.
Then it would be unneeded since the US already has private, for profit insurance companies. From what I've seen, the health reform plans backed by Obama all have a public insurance option and they need one in order to implement universal (or perhaps near universal) health care.
There is a difference between profit and raping customers. Seems you prefer the later. At a minimum today, you receiving roughly 35% of the health care coverage for which you actually pay for.
Also, very few of the bills being pushed have had a public option and none of the ones being pushed today have such an option. Rather, the current bills intend to provide x-million additional new customers to existing insurance companies.
Name calling is uncivilized and indicates that the person doing the name calling has no case and probably should not be listened to on any substantived matter. It, however, a matter of free speech.
In many cases you would be wrong. People become frustrated over time with the inability of so many to see what is often obvious and well documented - to them. Accordingly, sometimes you have to crack a few heads to get people's attention. Even then sometimes people are so stupid you still can't get them to address the issue even if they can see a legitimate complaint. Which in turn leads to yet more frustration.
Said another way, that type of attitude you recommend is often the cause of the very problem which forces you to ignore it. In other words, you are your own problem. Its generally more important to listen to the message than shoot the messenger.
IMOHO, almost without fail, when I see people doing what you recommend, there is a huge ego problem behind the closed minded attitude.
Not really true. In general the two primary outputs from refining a barrel of crude oil are gasoline and diesel.
That's what I said.
This is a function of demand.
That's what I said.
Diesel prices did not increase significantly due to the transition from high to low sulfur. They went up well BEFORE the transition in the US.
Not true. Prices went up following the general trend of oil but it did significantly jump and maintain with the new diesel legislation. You're attributing the wrong rise to the wrong factor.
The question is, why did they not sell those engines/cars in the US?
Because oil interests saw the trend in Europe and lobbied for two things. First they lobbied to decrease allowed diesel emissions such that only the latest of engines can quality. Second, they lobbied to drastically increase sulfur legislation such that only fuel which requires much more processing can be sold. The combination prevented the majority (at the time) of engines from qualifying while at the same time drastically pumping up the cost of diesel fuel.
As most US consumers are already shy about diesels from poor experiences of two decades ago, limited consumer options and drastic fuel price increases all but shut out diesels from the US market.
You need to keep in mind diesel is basically a byproduct of making petrol. The new regulations simply require an extra round of filtration. This means diesel is actually pretty cheap compared to petrol. The new laws, however, allow them to artificially restrict diesel production (limited processing plants) which provides justification for hugely increased diesel prices. This in turn allows them to continue raping consumers in both diesel and petrol markets. Its a win-win for oil companies in the US and a huge loss for consumers.
Many phones and especially phones being pushed by a specific carrier have been rigged to show higher bars than signal physically available. Thusly, comparison of signal bars between two different phones or even two of the same phones provided by two different carriers is an extremely easy way to be suckered.
The best way to compare signal quality is to make calls from key locations to key locations and verify you like the signal quality indicated by voice quality.
Lastly, any 3G phone, while operating in a supported 3G area, is likely to provide a superior voice experience at the cost of shorter battery life. Regardless, if any phones used in your comparison support 3G, ensure you only compare with other 3G phones to allow for fairness in voice quality comparisons. And if the majority of your users will be operating outside of 3G coverage, best to not use a 3G phone for comparison as it will not be representative of what the majority of your users will experience.
Security. Scalability. And recently, raw performance with more much more room through to exist. Superior query plan general for non-trivial queries; which also goes to the first three items listed. Extensibility such that MySQL can't even be compared. Geospacial capabilities with indicies + ACID. PLs for stored procedures and a multitude of choices and capabilities. Real life deployments where ACID accounts; compared to MySQL where people generally use it as a large, non-ACID storage retrieval system where data inconsistencies are typically also allowed, rather than an ACID-compliant RDBMS.
In all seriousness, for the vast, vast majority of users, the only literal advantage MySQL has over PostgreSQL is DB upgrade paths, and even then, huge strides are being made on the PostgreSQL front. See PG Migrator. Huge improvements have been made since the 7.x days. See the docs for more info.
You can, at any time, build your own Android without any of the Google ties. For example, AT&T is not using Google, rather, they are using Yahoo as their default search engine. Likewise, it will not use Google mail ties, etc.
As I said before, Android is 100% free. That's a factually accurate statement anyway you want to look at it. Ask AT&T if they are generating revenue in the way you suggest and they will tell you absolutely not!
The drive is there because the "promise" of riches is there.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. I have no idea why some people keep pushing this lie. Either you're completely uninformed or are pushing a known lie. Simple fact is, no developer is chasing the iPhone or Android with "promises of riches." None. Most developers simply hope to make a modest living while being their own boss. In other words, such a statement is completely without merit. To suggest these developers are chasing riches implies people who actually work for a company are totally fucking nuts trying to make it rich. Of course, such a statement is even dumber.
And with so many well publicized stories of the fact NO ONE is making a living on Android - NO ONE - only a complete fucking idiot believes there are riches to be had there. So please stop pushing this well established lie. Its not true. Period. Because of this reason, many well established mobile device developers have walked away from Android - because piracy is killing it.
Furthermore, the entire article is complete horse shit. The entire purpose of free software is entirely to allow people to make a living off of it. So many nuts cases completely ignore this fact. From the start, the purpose is to create software which can be freely received as a shared development effort. In exchange, these developers are to making a living off of additional applications, customizations, and support services. In this case, as few applications are open for extended services, etc., proprietary applications are built on top of a free base. IMOHO, is the exact intention of open source licenses and software; in this case, Android. Everyone benefits and hopefully some can even scratch out a living by being their own boss and enjoying what they do.
And by me saying, "everyone benefits", I mean exactly that. Everyone can improve Android without a high barrier for entry. Everyone can develop applications without a high barrier for entry. Everyone can make money without a high barrier of entry, which in turn continues the commercial drive on everything I previously mentioned. Everyone wins. And if some developers are able to scratch out a living, or better, then free software has worked exactly as intended, allowing for developers, users, and companies to all benefit while continuing to directly benefit free software and all that use it. That's entirely the point of free software!!!!
Contrary to the idiots who believe software should be free and no one should making a living, always reviling themselves to be complete hypocrites, the reality is, free software exists precisely to generate revenues to allow continued development on free software. For Android, commercial applications are exactly the gateway to allow continued free development on Android.
So you hate Obama for trying to improve things. You hate Obama for doing the only thing he can. You hate Obama for going against his campaign promises (aka lied) and doing things that actually make sense (McCain path). You hate Obama for following the path set by Republicans. The simple fact is, his campaign lies were never an option because only a fucking idiot would act on most of his campaign promises. He said those things to get elected by morons that want to believe lies rather than facts and reality.
So what would you like to actually see done? Millions more out of work? Terrorist attacks in the US and on our allies? Continued insurance fraud? What are the great solutions here?
I also want to add, from an insurance perspective, we're already paying for those moochers at extortion and fraud rate health care costs. The same is also true for tax costs.
In short, the moochers perspective is only an issue for those people who have been lied to by the likes of Fox News.
Net cost between plans - zero! In fact, if anything, its more likely the net cost will actually save us money.
Exactly! Especially since MySQL is already well known for both data loss and corruption in the name of performance. Made all the more embarrassing is that PostgreSQL consistently either meets or beats MySQL in performance and leaves it far behind in scalability. In short, PostgreSQL is literally the poster boy proving such an errant trend is bad for everyone.
At the end of the day, that's just MySQL marketing trying to explain why MySQL is inferior to PostgreSQL and other commercial offers. After all, bringing feature parity is lots of very, very, hard and complicated work. Best to simply not do it and market that as a pro rather than the con it is.
Factually, how is that statement even close to being true; especially since I've already addressed the issue and your statement alone, appears to be false at every angle. Especially considering the almost sole exception of health care, Obama has followed the Republican plan of action on just about everything that matters. That's the reason Obama's ratings are so low. Its also the reason I can point and laugh at just about every Democrat while saying, "I told you so"; literally.
In short, you're saying Republicans are working hard to be against everything US. Makes one wonder why you're anti-Obama.
Seriously, care to elaborate? Thus far, the only counter argument I've read here are the factually incorrect lies spewed forth from the likes of Fox News. Care to support your position with something other than known lies and irrational fears?
Getting to decide what's in their policy is more than 10% of the power in the industry. Hence, they don't have "90% of the power". The rest of your remarks border on delusional. For example,
You've completely missed the boat. Insurance companies can change today, without a law. Period. But they don't. That's the point. The only reason its not 100% is because they can't stop all the fraud. Thusly, they can literally change the entire problem tomorrow, if only they wanted to. Reality is, they are not going to willingly do anything which cuts their revenue by more than half while at the same time provide the care people have paid for. And yet, that's what the majority of Republicans are fighter for.
People who ignorantly bitch about how much these would-be bills will cost everyone seem completely ignorant of the fact that they are already paying, at a minimum, 50% too much! And in exchange for paying a world premium price, we receive less care. We are literally getting something like 35%-40%, on the dollar, the health care we pay for. And yet you want to fight to maintain the status quo. No wonder so many look at Republican's like idiots.
Once you put your head around the facts, its pretty difficult not to look down on the ignorance everyone is spewing.
Second, Obama is in my view working diligently against the general good. Hence, it is ok for me to hope he fails - hard.
How is improving health care and saving money working against the general good?
Ironically, Obama lied about everything he said he would do on all the major issues. The idiots that voted for Obama are just that - idiots. The fact is, on just about every major issue, Obama has literally followed McCain's plan of attack. There are only two reasons Obama got elected. One, he's black. Two, he lied; and people wanted to hear a lie rather than McCain's truth.
Maybe it's just me, but I find 'Psotgres' to be far lacking compared to mysql.
Factually, its just you. The fact is, MySQL is horribly lacking compared to PostgreSQL. MySQL is constantly chasing PostgreSQL's feature set. That's the facts. No trolling required.
Why do you think so many PostgreSQL supports are so rabid about how inferior MySQL is in just about every metric that matters for a RDBMS? Its like constantly watching Pinto owners rave about how great their car is when for the same money they could have gotten just about anything else and been better off, not to mention safer.
And how many of those "others" have that position because they've been lied to and been told that the position they should have. It appears, the majority. What's left are largely politicians who receive payola either directly or indirectly from insurance companies.
What ease of use issues? That hasn't been an issue in years. PostgreSQL is well supported even on Windows these days.
For the vast majority of users, PostgreSQL scales better, has far more features, supports far more PLs, is technically more advanced, has a vastly superior query optimizer, is more stable, is well supported, and doesn't have the politics surrounding it like MySQL does. Even better, it teaches proper ANSI SQL which carries over to any number of other engines, excepting MySQL.
Given there are no ease of use issues and all the above, why would any sane person care about MySQL.
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I must say you answers surprise me.
And it's not clear to me why you think he's "trying to improve things" or "doing the only thing he can".
This is a very surprising comment, and in a most negative way. I'm not sure what I can say here that doesn't sound condescending. How is health care reform not, "trying to improve things." You may disagree on his approach but I honestly can't see how you can saw the above with a straight face.
I'm yet further confused because you bash Obama for his policies and then you pat Bush on the back. The confusing part is that you're bashing Obama for following what Bush laid out - in almost every case. This is why time and time again it seems you have an irrational hatred of Obama.
Whatever else you can say about Bush, no further terrorist attacks occurred in the US on his watch. What is Obama doing that is comparable?
Ummm....more of the same? He's literally following McCain's stated campaign plans, which is only slightly different from the path set forward by Bush. In other words, you're very clearly hypocritically bashing Obama for following the Republican path.
The rest of your solutions are completely unattainable or just plain crazy. I assume you don't realize the AARP is one of the largest citizen lobbying groups in the US. Going against them means losing elections for a long time.
Then it would be unneeded since the US already has private, for profit insurance companies. From what I've seen, the health reform plans backed by Obama all have a public insurance option and they need one in order to implement universal (or perhaps near universal) health care.
There is a difference between profit and raping customers. Seems you prefer the later. At a minimum today, you receiving roughly 35% of the health care coverage for which you actually pay for.
Also, very few of the bills being pushed have had a public option and none of the ones being pushed today have such an option. Rather, the current bills intend to provide x-million additional new customers to existing insurance companies.
They might be killer features for other users too if you explain on what some of the buzzwords mean.
Name calling is uncivilized and indicates that the person doing the name calling has no case and probably should not be listened to on any substantived matter. It, however, a matter of free speech.
In many cases you would be wrong. People become frustrated over time with the inability of so many to see what is often obvious and well documented - to them. Accordingly, sometimes you have to crack a few heads to get people's attention. Even then sometimes people are so stupid you still can't get them to address the issue even if they can see a legitimate complaint. Which in turn leads to yet more frustration.
Said another way, that type of attitude you recommend is often the cause of the very problem which forces you to ignore it. In other words, you are your own problem. Its generally more important to listen to the message than shoot the messenger.
IMOHO, almost without fail, when I see people doing what you recommend, there is a huge ego problem behind the closed minded attitude.
Not really true. In general the two primary outputs from refining a barrel of crude oil are gasoline and diesel.
That's what I said.
This is a function of demand.
That's what I said.
Diesel prices did not increase significantly due to the transition from high to low sulfur. They went up well BEFORE the transition in the US.
Not true. Prices went up following the general trend of oil but it did significantly jump and maintain with the new diesel legislation. You're attributing the wrong rise to the wrong factor.
The question is, why did they not sell those engines/cars in the US?
Because oil interests saw the trend in Europe and lobbied for two things. First they lobbied to decrease allowed diesel emissions such that only the latest of engines can quality. Second, they lobbied to drastically increase sulfur legislation such that only fuel which requires much more processing can be sold. The combination prevented the majority (at the time) of engines from qualifying while at the same time drastically pumping up the cost of diesel fuel.
As most US consumers are already shy about diesels from poor experiences of two decades ago, limited consumer options and drastic fuel price increases all but shut out diesels from the US market.
You need to keep in mind diesel is basically a byproduct of making petrol. The new regulations simply require an extra round of filtration. This means diesel is actually pretty cheap compared to petrol. The new laws, however, allow them to artificially restrict diesel production (limited processing plants) which provides justification for hugely increased diesel prices. This in turn allows them to continue raping consumers in both diesel and petrol markets. Its a win-win for oil companies in the US and a huge loss for consumers.
You can't trust bars on phones!
Many phones and especially phones being pushed by a specific carrier have been rigged to show higher bars than signal physically available. Thusly, comparison of signal bars between two different phones or even two of the same phones provided by two different carriers is an extremely easy way to be suckered.
The best way to compare signal quality is to make calls from key locations to key locations and verify you like the signal quality indicated by voice quality.
Lastly, any 3G phone, while operating in a supported 3G area, is likely to provide a superior voice experience at the cost of shorter battery life. Regardless, if any phones used in your comparison support 3G, ensure you only compare with other 3G phones to allow for fairness in voice quality comparisons. And if the majority of your users will be operating outside of 3G coverage, best to not use a 3G phone for comparison as it will not be representative of what the majority of your users will experience.
What are the compelling differences?
Security. Scalability. And recently, raw performance with more much more room through to exist. Superior query plan general for non-trivial queries; which also goes to the first three items listed. Extensibility such that MySQL can't even be compared. Geospacial capabilities with indicies + ACID. PLs for stored procedures and a multitude of choices and capabilities. Real life deployments where ACID accounts; compared to MySQL where people generally use it as a large, non-ACID storage retrieval system where data inconsistencies are typically also allowed, rather than an ACID-compliant RDBMS.
In all seriousness, for the vast, vast majority of users, the only literal advantage MySQL has over PostgreSQL is DB upgrade paths, and even then, huge strides are being made on the PostgreSQL front. See PG Migrator. Huge improvements have been made since the 7.x days. See the docs for more info.
To be clear, I meant, "if they are generating revenue [for Google]..."
That would be wrong.
You can, at any time, build your own Android without any of the Google ties. For example, AT&T is not using Google, rather, they are using Yahoo as their default search engine. Likewise, it will not use Google mail ties, etc.
As I said before, Android is 100% free. That's a factually accurate statement anyway you want to look at it. Ask AT&T if they are generating revenue in the way you suggest and they will tell you absolutely not!
Nothing is free. Period.
The big difference is Linux is free. Android is not.
Correction. Linux and Android are both free.
The drive is there because the "promise" of riches is there.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. I have no idea why some people keep pushing this lie. Either you're completely uninformed or are pushing a known lie. Simple fact is, no developer is chasing the iPhone or Android with "promises of riches." None. Most developers simply hope to make a modest living while being their own boss. In other words, such a statement is completely without merit. To suggest these developers are chasing riches implies people who actually work for a company are totally fucking nuts trying to make it rich. Of course, such a statement is even dumber.
And with so many well publicized stories of the fact NO ONE is making a living on Android - NO ONE - only a complete fucking idiot believes there are riches to be had there. So please stop pushing this well established lie. Its not true. Period. Because of this reason, many well established mobile device developers have walked away from Android - because piracy is killing it.
Furthermore, the entire article is complete horse shit. The entire purpose of free software is entirely to allow people to make a living off of it. So many nuts cases completely ignore this fact. From the start, the purpose is to create software which can be freely received as a shared development effort. In exchange, these developers are to making a living off of additional applications, customizations, and support services. In this case, as few applications are open for extended services, etc., proprietary applications are built on top of a free base. IMOHO, is the exact intention of open source licenses and software; in this case, Android. Everyone benefits and hopefully some can even scratch out a living by being their own boss and enjoying what they do.
And by me saying, "everyone benefits", I mean exactly that. Everyone can improve Android without a high barrier for entry. Everyone can develop applications without a high barrier for entry. Everyone can make money without a high barrier of entry, which in turn continues the commercial drive on everything I previously mentioned. Everyone wins. And if some developers are able to scratch out a living, or better, then free software has worked exactly as intended, allowing for developers, users, and companies to all benefit while continuing to directly benefit free software and all that use it. That's entirely the point of free software!!!!
Contrary to the idiots who believe software should be free and no one should making a living, always reviling themselves to be complete hypocrites, the reality is, free software exists precisely to generate revenues to allow continued development on free software. For Android, commercial applications are exactly the gateway to allow continued free development on Android.
So you hate Obama for trying to improve things. You hate Obama for doing the only thing he can. You hate Obama for going against his campaign promises (aka lied) and doing things that actually make sense (McCain path). You hate Obama for following the path set by Republicans. The simple fact is, his campaign lies were never an option because only a fucking idiot would act on most of his campaign promises. He said those things to get elected by morons that want to believe lies rather than facts and reality.
So what would you like to actually see done? Millions more out of work? Terrorist attacks in the US and on our allies? Continued insurance fraud? What are the great solutions here?
Unlike government, insurance companies spend considerable effort and money to combat fraud.
which is why, contrary to the lies pushed by the Republicans, the "government option" was always to be a private, for profit, company.
I also want to add, from an insurance perspective, we're already paying for those moochers at extortion and fraud rate health care costs. The same is also true for tax costs.
In short, the moochers perspective is only an issue for those people who have been lied to by the likes of Fox News.
Net cost between plans - zero! In fact, if anything, its more likely the net cost will actually save us money.
We are already paying for those "moochers." In fact, that's already part of both insurance coverage and taxes.
Agreed. While I've never used Firebird, I've never once heard a bad thing about.
I share your pain.
Exactly! Especially since MySQL is already well known for both data loss and corruption in the name of performance. Made all the more embarrassing is that PostgreSQL consistently either meets or beats MySQL in performance and leaves it far behind in scalability. In short, PostgreSQL is literally the poster boy proving such an errant trend is bad for everyone.
At the end of the day, that's just MySQL marketing trying to explain why MySQL is inferior to PostgreSQL and other commercial offers. After all, bringing feature parity is lots of very, very, hard and complicated work. Best to simply not do it and market that as a pro rather than the con it is.
Neither activity is being done by Obama.
Factually, how is that statement even close to being true; especially since I've already addressed the issue and your statement alone, appears to be false at every angle. Especially considering the almost sole exception of health care, Obama has followed the Republican plan of action on just about everything that matters. That's the reason Obama's ratings are so low. Its also the reason I can point and laugh at just about every Democrat while saying, "I told you so"; literally.
In short, you're saying Republicans are working hard to be against everything US. Makes one wonder why you're anti-Obama.
Seriously, care to elaborate? Thus far, the only counter argument I've read here are the factually incorrect lies spewed forth from the likes of Fox News. Care to support your position with something other than known lies and irrational fears?
We have a winner!
Amazing how many people seem to have their "information" spoon fed from Fox News.
select * from features where build = 'current' and product = 'postgresql'
They are continuously chasing PostgreSQL.
Getting to decide what's in their policy is more than 10% of the power in the industry. Hence, they don't have "90% of the power". The rest of your remarks border on delusional. For example,
You've completely missed the boat. Insurance companies can change today, without a law. Period. But they don't. That's the point. The only reason its not 100% is because they can't stop all the fraud. Thusly, they can literally change the entire problem tomorrow, if only they wanted to. Reality is, they are not going to willingly do anything which cuts their revenue by more than half while at the same time provide the care people have paid for. And yet, that's what the majority of Republicans are fighter for.
People who ignorantly bitch about how much these would-be bills will cost everyone seem completely ignorant of the fact that they are already paying, at a minimum, 50% too much! And in exchange for paying a world premium price, we receive less care. We are literally getting something like 35%-40%, on the dollar, the health care we pay for. And yet you want to fight to maintain the status quo. No wonder so many look at Republican's like idiots.
Once you put your head around the facts, its pretty difficult not to look down on the ignorance everyone is spewing.
Second, Obama is in my view working diligently against the general good. Hence, it is ok for me to hope he fails - hard.
How is improving health care and saving money working against the general good?
Ironically, Obama lied about everything he said he would do on all the major issues. The idiots that voted for Obama are just that - idiots. The fact is, on just about every major issue, Obama has literally followed McCain's plan of attack. There are only two reasons Obama got elected. One, he's black. Two, he lied; and people wanted to hear a lie rather than McCain's truth.
Maybe it's just me, but I find 'Psotgres' to be far lacking compared to mysql.
Factually, its just you. The fact is, MySQL is horribly lacking compared to PostgreSQL. MySQL is constantly chasing PostgreSQL's feature set. That's the facts. No trolling required.
Why do you think so many PostgreSQL supports are so rabid about how inferior MySQL is in just about every metric that matters for a RDBMS? Its like constantly watching Pinto owners rave about how great their car is when for the same money they could have gotten just about anything else and been better off, not to mention safer.
Others don't.
And how many of those "others" have that position because they've been lied to and been told that the position they should have. It appears, the majority. What's left are largely politicians who receive payola either directly or indirectly from insurance companies.
What ease of use issues? That hasn't been an issue in years. PostgreSQL is well supported even on Windows these days.
For the vast majority of users, PostgreSQL scales better, has far more features, supports far more PLs, is technically more advanced, has a vastly superior query optimizer, is more stable, is well supported, and doesn't have the politics surrounding it like MySQL does. Even better, it teaches proper ANSI SQL which carries over to any number of other engines, excepting MySQL.
Given there are no ease of use issues and all the above, why would any sane person care about MySQL.