If you want to move off SQL Server, might as well go to Sybase ASE. They both share the same history (MS-SQL Server was in fact Sybase SQL Server) and also share more or less the same Transact-SQL syntax. When porting apps becomes a huge pain in the ass, this can be a significant advantage.
Lets see you try implementing code for doing locking across processes on an SMP system. And any organisation/product worth its salt will have parallel application on an SMP system.
You can try a Peterson's algorithm (pure code) but that wont scale well over 2 procs and its perf sux. The only way is to do an atomic test and set style spinlock and thats gonna need assembler.
It's not the first time that they have done this, during the training maneuvers against against the Indian Air Force they sent outdated aircraft and crippled the ROE and engagement envelopes of the AIM-120s.
That argument is not such a good example. The IAF were using Mig-21 Bis along with older Jaguars and Mirage 2000 fighters. Even if they had some Mig29s and Su-30s the Mig21s were the ones that gave the American pilots trouble. If you have a 50 year old aircraft that can beat the crap out of the slightly not so modern F-15Cs you'd better sit up and take notice.
Just the fact that no one has attempted to contact this smoke belching tub of belligerent semi-evolved apes is proof enough that there is intelligent life out there;-)
No it doesn't make sense. At a time when the internet provide dozens of different way to get that specific information, be it in several other on-line aerial-photo mapping softwares, or on various other online source,
I don't buy that. Sure there is a lot of stuff on the internet but super high res satellite photographs of sensitive government installations ? Give me a break. That wont happen until every tom dick and harry gets his own satellite.
And besides, it's just security through obscurity, and we all know very well how much that strategy works well.
Your trying to draw a parallel between two completely different fields with different goals and purposes. A government installation is not "open source software" that everyone gets a chance to get a peek see and everyone by and large is benevolent when looking at the source. When you have a country's defense on the line and a lot of baddies want to maim and kill people, obscurity is one of the best weapons. What next ? Show people on the witness relocation program on national television ?
... mini-glider with a webcame stuck on it
HAHA! Tell you what, try flying over the Air Defence HQ of any country slightly larger than a banana republic - I doubt you'll survive, let alone take a photo shoot of your trip..
Even if the candidate doesn't get the job because they weren't qualified, you want them to be excited about the company.
Thats not the half of it. Information Technology is a field that is LEARNED. One isn't born with it. And one certainly isn't good at it with whatever learns straight out of college. Most people (including myself) sucked at almost all the interviews I gave early in my career. However, the companies that dissed me left a lasting impression.
Now that I have invested time and effort in developing my skills, read 100s of books to be "better than the next guy", and have companies chasing me to work for them. But the companies that didnt give the decency to give a polite "no thanks" to me and wasted whole days of mine in the past, get the same treatment now.
Alienate fresh talent and make sure they will never work for you again.
It's not like there's about to be a cold war style infusion of cash for ya.
I wish theres a little "cold war cash" that went towards your education. India was not on America's side during the cold war and it didn't get any cash from the Russians. They might have got loans but practically every country in the world has been taking loans even before the cold war and will continue to do so.
I wish people like you would get over the superiority complex of thinking your supporting the whole world.
When IE7 comes in they will just consider it another one of Windows quirks and happily chug along with it.
Maybe not. For the first time Microsoft has played a risk and moved around the entire UI layout. When I used IE7 my first reaction was that I cant easily find what I look for. It gets frustrating after a while. After people are so used to finding menus and toolbars in predictable places, if you radically move them all around, people will not look at it like "just another upgrade" to chug along with it. They will look to restore their familiarity... maybe in Firefox 2.
A better chance of keeping Russian and Chinese spies out of our security forces may very well outweigh turning away candidates incorrectly classified as deceitful.
If a spy agency wants to infiltrate a country, the least they will make sure of is to get folks who can beat any lie detector test. They aren't going to hire Joe sixpack to take over the pentagon you know! The polygraph test can be beaten, and considering the ambiguity of its results and with enough training (as a spy would presumably get if on a mission), it can be easily beaten.
A better use of this kind of technology is to find lost pets. According to this site you can have a cat collar with a GSM Modem that does pretty much the same thing. Just out of curiosity I wrote to these guys about it and they said they have not miniaturized the technology enough to be light and comfortable enough for little kitty, but its just a matter of time before that happens.
Windows Media Player download size : 24 MB
Apple iTunes download size : 35 M-fucking-B!
WinAMP 5.3 (latest with all the bells and whistles) : 1.2MB (LITE) all the way upto 12 MB (BUNDLE)
Forget the fact that those without decent broadband would be wasting bandwidth on an app that wont give them anything particularly special by way of functionality, but this kind of code bloat over the long term is just terrible. What next, a notepad.exe that takes up 10 MB ?
WMP has some nice stuff in it, but frankly the usability of WinAMP beats it hands down. iTunes is just a mess any which way.
If he encourages the use of the blink tag I vote we brand him a heretic and burn him at the stake.
Umm... "Smita" is a she:).
No one has to believe in what she says. Its just a point of view. I'm not saying I support her viewpoint, but I'm not saying she should be punished for having an opinion either. This is a democracy isn't it ?:D
In all fairness, FF is dual-licensed under the GPL.
Would it have made any difference to uptake if it wasn't ?
I would have to agree with the original poster on this. IBM has a habit of badmouthing everything about Sun while not doing a shitworth of anything unless it directly benefits itself. Open sourcing Eclipse was a good move but it is TINY compared to open sourcing Solaris 10 for instance. Most of the patents they release to "the community" are much less philanthropic measures - they are just aimed to make them look warm and fuzzy, and "open". Many of those patents probably don't make a whit of a difference to the free software community either way.
Even after OpenSolaris came out, IBM and RedHat jeered it for not being "open". WTF! Lets see them open source AIX.. then we'll talk.
Hoary Hedgehog was the worst by far. I actually kind of liked Breezy Badger, and Dapper Drake exudes coolness.
This sort of naming has plusses and minuses.
The plusses are obviously, like you said, the "cool" factor. Even if the name isnt cool, its still annoying enough to remain in your memory long after "Red Hat 8.0" or the like. Its like those stupid TV ads where the flick has no bearing whatsoever with what they are selling. Its either cool...or it sucks. But either way you remember it well.
The obvious minuses are with PHBs who are in control of the technology direction for companies. They would rather go with a name like Vista rather than "Edgy Eft" because Vista sounds corporatish enough. Like the old saying goes "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". If the PHB has to make an argument for "Edgy Eft" to a bunch of other PHBs, they would lampoon the effort neglecting the obvious benefits of Ubuntu. I'll bet anything that corporate adoption of Ubuntu is hindered in no small part because of the name.
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I have been a user of NetBSD since version 1.6 upto version 3.0. I have always used NetBSD over Linux since my student days for reasons which I'm sure will apply equally to a lot of people even today.
1) The complexity of NetBSD is just enough to handle for a person attempting to get into OS kernel development. Its a lot simpler than deciphering a current Linux kernel.
2) It runs surprisingly quick even with very little resources but is yet fully functional for most student projects. I used to run NetBSD off 16 MB of RAM inside a VMWare virtual machine running on a dog slow 333 MHz Celeron. Tried to run Linux inside a similar setup but it was just too bulky.
3) It has all the tools any CS guy would need for course projects. Everything from gdb to gcc to perl to bash. If you're one of those GUI folks theres a decently functional X running off it. All of this while being prudent with resources.
4) Being BSD, its more Unix than Linux is. Granted this may not be a huge plus but with folks who want to develop software targetting other BSDs its prolly a better place to start off on.
5) Blazing fast protocol stack. Its a great case study for a Networking/Protocol course
Considering students stand to benefit so much from such a system its a wonder why more students dont work on this system and eventually develop for it. Perhaps its the Linux hype generated the world over that precludes other choices for young college folks.
How is it that the largest democracy in the world manages to get it right while these guys foul up. I imagine they didnt test this properly at all. Classic case of 'someone effed up' and didnt test the most basic function of this machine properly.
Wouldnt it be uber cool to have Apple "adopt" the Solaris 10 kernel. I realise that switching from a BSD to a system V kernel will be heresy to some but think about the possibilities : You have one of the best UIs on the planet talking to one of the most advanced OSes at present. Before all the Linux fanboys climb up onto me, I have got to say that Solaris 10 is an extremely capable system and has a lot of innovation from Sun right from Dtrace to containers which Linux doesnt yet support (AFAIK). It also has a good track record of being used for several decades on mission critical systems so stability/scalability is never an issue. Mac/Sun would scratch each others back - one by diving into the server space firmly while the other getting a good toehold on the desktop.
The only real issue is hardware support. But considering Apple has gone Intel and Solaris with better support for AMD, if Apple and Sun get together and try to churn out device support for more peripheral devices with the help of the community it should be a sight to see. Wish it happens in my lifetime:)
On large projects it can take a week to write a single line, if that line is (say) a bugfix for an bizarre race condition emerging from the interaction of several components.
The problem with Vista all along is that MS got embroiled into scope runoff. They thought they could deliver the world in terms of features. All the plans and designs started off with that intent in mind and by the time they actually realized they couldnt deliver on most counts they had already dug themselves into such a deep hole that now merely making the OS survive with all those dropped features is going to be an uphill task. I can probably expect Vista to be an OS with a lot more bloat than any of its predessors because a lot of code for [insert favourite 'intended' feature here] simply doesnt exist at this point but the code is probably halfway there. Given the usual intention MS has of "integrating" everything I wont be a bit surprised if they cant undo the damage so far.
Now they have a mind numbingly complex system thats too heavy to fly and too complex to fix. They have to release just to save face.
Thank you for providing a bold opinion on a country..Mr. Anonymous Coward. +1 Interesting my ass. Despite colonial occupation that bled our country for hundreds of years, within the span of 50 years of independence we have an educated middle class that outnumbers the TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE in the US. America gained independence so long ago that people like you seem to have forgotten the burden a nation has to carry to set everything right again.
india does not guarantee universal education
How about free education to all women until senior college ? How about free education to all the lower castes in society all the way upto and including the IITs and IIMs. Get a clue bitch!
who the fuck is hrd to accept or reject such proposals? do they speak for india? its people? its poor? obviously they have done precious little to improve the life of india's poor so far.
Do you have any idea how full of crap you are. Your country is being run by a president who feels no qualms about policing the whole world. Does he speak for the whole world ? He was voted in an enormously suspect election in how own country to begin with! As far as us being poor, yes were poor. But we have gone from becoming a basket case country that had famine and starvation in the early years of our independence to becoming a hub of information technology and a net food exporter within the span of 30 odd years. Our economy is growing second only to China. So dont bullshit me about how "precious little" the country has progressed. We have big problems but we have fixed bigger ones already.
I wont even bother replying to the rest of your comments because you have amply shown that despite being from an "advanced society" your just as bigoted and moronic as any bovine idiot one could find.
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If you want to move off SQL Server, might as well go to Sybase ASE. They both share the same history (MS-SQL Server was in fact Sybase SQL Server) and also share more or less the same Transact-SQL syntax. When porting apps becomes a huge pain in the ass, this can be a significant advantage.
- Spinlocks
Lets see you try implementing code for doing locking across processes on an SMP system. And any organisation/product worth its salt will have parallel application on an SMP system.You can try a Peterson's algorithm (pure code) but that wont scale well over 2 procs and its perf sux. The only way is to do an atomic test and set style spinlock and thats gonna need assembler.
Isn't there a lot of water in Uranus
:D
Sorry
It's not the first time that they have done this, during the training maneuvers against against the Indian Air Force they sent outdated aircraft and crippled the ROE and engagement envelopes of the AIM-120s.
That argument is not such a good example. The IAF were using Mig-21 Bis along with older Jaguars and Mirage 2000 fighters. Even if they had some Mig29s and Su-30s the Mig21s were the ones that gave the American pilots trouble. If you have a 50 year old aircraft that can beat the crap out of the slightly not so modern F-15Cs you'd better sit up and take notice.
that there is intelligent life on Earth?
;-)
Just the fact that no one has attempted to contact this smoke belching tub of belligerent semi-evolved apes is proof enough that there is intelligent life out there
That got modded insightful ? Get real!
... mini-glider with a webcame stuck on it
No it doesn't make sense. At a time when the internet provide dozens of different way to get that specific information, be it in several other on-line aerial-photo mapping softwares, or on various other online source,
I don't buy that. Sure there is a lot of stuff on the internet but super high res satellite photographs of sensitive government installations ? Give me a break. That wont happen until every tom dick and harry gets his own satellite.
And besides, it's just security through obscurity, and we all know very well how much that strategy works well.
Your trying to draw a parallel between two completely different fields with different goals and purposes. A government installation is not "open source software" that everyone gets a chance to get a peek see and everyone by and large is benevolent when looking at the source. When you have a country's defense on the line and a lot of baddies want to maim and kill people, obscurity is one of the best weapons. What next ? Show people on the witness relocation program on national television ?
HAHA! Tell you what, try flying over the Air Defence HQ of any country slightly larger than a banana republic - I doubt you'll survive, let alone take a photo shoot of your trip..
Does this mean it doesn't crash as gracefully as XP ?
Shatner ...captain of the enterprise ... again? ... ..Bones ... there must be ... some other way!!...
Even if the candidate doesn't get the job because they weren't qualified, you want them to be excited about the company.
Thats not the half of it. Information Technology is a field that is LEARNED. One isn't born with it. And one certainly isn't good at it with whatever learns straight out of college. Most people (including myself) sucked at almost all the interviews I gave early in my career. However, the companies that dissed me left a lasting impression.
Now that I have invested time and effort in developing my skills, read 100s of books to be "better than the next guy", and have companies chasing me to work for them. But the companies that didnt give the decency to give a polite "no thanks" to me and wasted whole days of mine in the past, get the same treatment now.
Alienate fresh talent and make sure they will never work for you again.
...will it run .NET ?
*ducks*
It's not like there's about to be a cold war style infusion of cash for ya.
I wish theres a little "cold war cash" that went towards your education. India was not on America's side during the cold war and it didn't get any cash from the Russians. They might have got loans but practically every country in the world has been taking loans even before the cold war and will continue to do so.
I wish people like you would get over the superiority complex of thinking your supporting the whole world.
When IE7 comes in they will just consider it another one of Windows quirks and happily chug along with it.
... maybe in Firefox 2.
Maybe not. For the first time Microsoft has played a risk and moved around the entire UI layout. When I used IE7 my first reaction was that I cant easily find what I look for. It gets frustrating after a while. After people are so used to finding menus and toolbars in predictable places, if you radically move them all around, people will not look at it like "just another upgrade" to chug along with it. They will look to restore their familiarity
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...will it run Linux
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
- All your desktops are belong to us
- In Soviet Russia, the web owns you.
ThereA better chance of keeping Russian and Chinese spies out of our security forces may very well outweigh turning away candidates incorrectly classified as deceitful.
If a spy agency wants to infiltrate a country, the least they will make sure of is to get folks who can beat any lie detector test. They aren't going to hire Joe sixpack to take over the pentagon you know! The polygraph test can be beaten, and considering the ambiguity of its results and with enough training (as a spy would presumably get if on a mission), it can be easily beaten.
A better use of this kind of technology is to find lost pets. According to this site you can have a cat collar with a GSM Modem that does pretty much the same thing. Just out of curiosity I wrote to these guys about it and they said they have not miniaturized the technology enough to be light and comfortable enough for little kitty, but its just a matter of time before that happens.
Windows Media Player download size : 24 MB
Apple iTunes download size : 35 M-fucking-B!
WinAMP 5.3 (latest with all the bells and whistles) : 1.2MB (LITE) all the way upto 12 MB (BUNDLE)
Forget the fact that those without decent broadband would be wasting bandwidth on an app that wont give them anything particularly special by way of functionality, but this kind of code bloat over the long term is just terrible. What next, a notepad.exe that takes up 10 MB ?
WMP has some nice stuff in it, but frankly the usability of WinAMP beats it hands down. iTunes is just a mess any which way.
If he encourages the use of the blink tag I vote we brand him a heretic and burn him at the stake.
... "Smita" is a she :).
:D
Umm
No one has to believe in what she says. Its just a point of view. I'm not saying I support her viewpoint, but I'm not saying she should be punished for having an opinion either. This is a democracy isn't it ?
In all fairness, FF is dual-licensed under the GPL.
.. then we'll talk.
Would it have made any difference to uptake if it wasn't ?
I would have to agree with the original poster on this. IBM has a habit of badmouthing everything about Sun while not doing a shitworth of anything unless it directly benefits itself. Open sourcing Eclipse was a good move but it is TINY compared to open sourcing Solaris 10 for instance. Most of the patents they release to "the community" are much less philanthropic measures - they are just aimed to make them look warm and fuzzy, and "open". Many of those patents probably don't make a whit of a difference to the free software community either way.
Even after OpenSolaris came out, IBM and RedHat jeered it for not being "open". WTF! Lets see them open source AIX
Hoary Hedgehog was the worst by far. I actually kind of liked Breezy Badger, and Dapper Drake exudes coolness.
...or it sucks. But either way you remember it well.
This sort of naming has plusses and minuses.
The plusses are obviously, like you said, the "cool" factor. Even if the name isnt cool, its still annoying enough to remain in your memory long after "Red Hat 8.0" or the like. Its like those stupid TV ads where the flick has no bearing whatsoever with what they are selling. Its either cool
The obvious minuses are with PHBs who are in control of the technology direction for companies. They would rather go with a name like Vista rather than "Edgy Eft" because Vista sounds corporatish enough. Like the old saying goes "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". If the PHB has to make an argument for "Edgy Eft" to a bunch of other PHBs, they would lampoon the effort neglecting the obvious benefits of Ubuntu. I'll bet anything that corporate adoption of Ubuntu is hindered in no small part because of the name.
I have been a user of NetBSD since version 1.6 upto version 3.0. I have always used NetBSD over Linux since my student days for reasons which I'm sure will apply equally to a lot of people even today. 1) The complexity of NetBSD is just enough to handle for a person attempting to get into OS kernel development. Its a lot simpler than deciphering a current Linux kernel. 2) It runs surprisingly quick even with very little resources but is yet fully functional for most student projects. I used to run NetBSD off 16 MB of RAM inside a VMWare virtual machine running on a dog slow 333 MHz Celeron. Tried to run Linux inside a similar setup but it was just too bulky. 3) It has all the tools any CS guy would need for course projects. Everything from gdb to gcc to perl to bash. If you're one of those GUI folks theres a decently functional X running off it. All of this while being prudent with resources. 4) Being BSD, its more Unix than Linux is. Granted this may not be a huge plus but with folks who want to develop software targetting other BSDs its prolly a better place to start off on. 5) Blazing fast protocol stack. Its a great case study for a Networking/Protocol course Considering students stand to benefit so much from such a system its a wonder why more students dont work on this system and eventually develop for it. Perhaps its the Linux hype generated the world over that precludes other choices for young college folks.
How is it that the largest democracy in the world manages to get it right while these guys foul up. I imagine they didnt test this properly at all. Classic case of 'someone effed up' and didnt test the most basic function of this machine properly.
I have two words for you: Game Theory
Wouldnt it be uber cool to have Apple "adopt" the Solaris 10 kernel. I realise that switching from a BSD to a system V kernel will be heresy to some but think about the possibilities : You have one of the best UIs on the planet talking to one of the most advanced OSes at present. Before all the Linux fanboys climb up onto me, I have got to say that Solaris 10 is an extremely capable system and has a lot of innovation from Sun right from Dtrace to containers which Linux doesnt yet support (AFAIK). It also has a good track record of being used for several decades on mission critical systems so stability/scalability is never an issue. Mac/Sun would scratch each others back - one by diving into the server space firmly while the other getting a good toehold on the desktop.
:)
The only real issue is hardware support. But considering Apple has gone Intel and Solaris with better support for AMD, if Apple and Sun get together and try to churn out device support for more peripheral devices with the help of the community it should be a sight to see. Wish it happens in my lifetime
On large projects it can take a week to write a single line, if that line is (say) a bugfix for an bizarre race condition emerging from the interaction of several components.
The problem with Vista all along is that MS got embroiled into scope runoff. They thought they could deliver the world in terms of features. All the plans and designs started off with that intent in mind and by the time they actually realized they couldnt deliver on most counts they had already dug themselves into such a deep hole that now merely making the OS survive with all those dropped features is going to be an uphill task. I can probably expect Vista to be an OS with a lot more bloat than any of its predessors because a lot of code for [insert favourite 'intended' feature here] simply doesnt exist at this point but the code is probably halfway there. Given the usual intention MS has of "integrating" everything I wont be a bit surprised if they cant undo the damage so far. Now they have a mind numbingly complex system thats too heavy to fly and too complex to fix. They have to release just to save face.
Thank you for providing a bold opinion on a country ..Mr. Anonymous Coward. +1 Interesting my ass. Despite colonial occupation that bled our country for hundreds of years, within the span of 50 years of independence we have an educated middle class that outnumbers the TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE in the US. America gained independence so long ago that people like you seem to have forgotten the burden a nation has to carry to set everything right again.
india does not guarantee universal education
How about free education to all women until senior college ? How about free education to all the lower castes in society all the way upto and including the IITs and IIMs. Get a clue bitch!
who the fuck is hrd to accept or reject such proposals? do they speak for india? its people? its poor? obviously they have done precious little to improve the life of india's poor so far.
Do you have any idea how full of crap you are. Your country is being run by a president who feels no qualms about policing the whole world. Does he speak for the whole world ? He was voted in an enormously suspect election in how own country to begin with! As far as us being poor, yes were poor. But we have gone from becoming a basket case country that had famine and starvation in the early years of our independence to becoming a hub of information technology and a net food exporter within the span of 30 odd years. Our economy is growing second only to China. So dont bullshit me about how "precious little" the country has progressed. We have big problems but we have fixed bigger ones already.
I wont even bother replying to the rest of your comments because you have amply shown that despite being from an "advanced society" your just as bigoted and moronic as any bovine idiot one could find.