1. Build inferior, insecure platform on shaky technological underpinnings 2. Cheat, bribe, lie and threaten your way to 97% market share 3. One company profits!!!! 4. Lose cyberwar 5. Oops
Uh, probably not. Over past 12 months Yahoo! is down 60%. But guess what? AMD is down 80%, the Dow is down 40%, Sun is down 85%, MSFT themselves are down 45%, even Apple is down 50%.
Shall we blame Jerry for 12 months of decline across the board?? If you correct for the market downturn, even just the Dow index, then Yahoo! has barely dipped.
(Actually the offer was made around 1 Feb, but the dips since then are about the same.)
PgSQL is not the only, nor necessarily the best open source choice. There are DB2, Firebird, Ingres, and dozens more. Some of them have mature implementations of the features new to 5.1.
MySQL is a very valid choice also, for a variety of reasons that you may not have considered. Or are you saying Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, Slashdot, SABRE, Wikipedia, YouTube are all stupid?
Ryan Thiessen, a long-time 5.1 user, strongly rebuts Monty on his blog.
I would go further and suggest that the MySQL organization has if anything been too conservative about declaring 5.1 GA....
I have been developing for and administering MySQL 5.1 production instances for 18 months,... we have not seen *any* table corruption or random server crashes relating to mysqld, despite having tables with hundreds of million of rows....
Obviously 5.1 is not a perfect release. Quality is critically important to a database and I hope MySQL/Sun takes note of Montyâ(TM)s concerns,... However in my opinion MySQL 5.1 a very good release, long ready for general production usage.
Should there be a guild of programmers that is given grants by governments and industry to work on certain projects?
That is how the major open source projects are already funded!
As others have pointed out, though, it's nonsensical to say "the people who write the code get paid very little - if at all". Open source programmers are paid as much, and in some cases far more, than proprietary coders. They have mortgages, kids to put through college, like everyone else.
That was also the first "production ready" release of OS X, at least according to the experiences of my studio. We tested 10.0 and 10.1 and began migrating at 10.2 Jaguar. 10.3 Panther was even better - performance noticeably improved on G3 machines.
Microsoft's talent lies in greed, fraud and extortion, not software engineering; the comparison with Apple proves that better than anything else.
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Being electrical, it could be Executioner as well. Sit suspect in the apparatus, press DETECT GUILT and wait for the fireworks.
I am sure dozens of books and films already use this premise.
Just to criminalise computer ownership?
Re-inventing the wheel is the pathology.
One of the most significant advantages of Java *is* the availability of mature libraries! They are there to be used.
Can we bomb Redmond yet?
1. Build inferior, insecure platform on shaky technological underpinnings
2. Cheat, bribe, lie and threaten your way to 97% market share
3. One company profits!!!!
4. Lose cyberwar
5. Oops
Apparently, Slash articles need to have pre-posting supplemental research/vetting/URL-add-ons before going into the wild:
Then it just wouldn't be Slashdot ...
This is old, old news... 3.5 years old, in fact.
And even fewer in MACRO-32 no doubt. :-)
Jerry Yang is the reason Yahoo is in the toilet
Uh, probably not. Over past 12 months Yahoo! is down 60%. But guess what? AMD is down 80%, the Dow is down 40%, Sun is down 85%, MSFT themselves are down 45%, even Apple is down 50%.
Shall we blame Jerry for 12 months of decline across the board?? If you correct for the market downturn, even just the Dow index, then Yahoo! has barely dipped.
(Actually the offer was made around 1 Feb, but the dips since then are about the same.)
He runs OS X.
But we all know the real answer. :) Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm this dogfood tastes greaaaat.
Nice smart-ass tag, but it's practically true, due to light pollution.
If you can't see the stars, they are effectively 'out'. Sad. Especially since we only need a tiny fraction of the night lighting currently used.
PgSQL is not the only, nor necessarily the best open source choice. There are DB2, Firebird, Ingres, and dozens more. Some of them have mature implementations of the features new to 5.1.
MySQL is a very valid choice also, for a variety of reasons that you may not have considered. Or are you saying Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, Slashdot, SABRE, Wikipedia, YouTube are all stupid?
The world just isn't as simple as you think.
I've been using 5.0 in production for well over a year and found no 'critical' bugs. (For most of that time I had access to MySQL's paid support.)
As Ryan said there is no such thing as bug free software but there is such a thing as production-ready software. MYSQL 5.0 HAZ IT.
-> 18 months.
Ryan Thiessen, a long-time 5.1 user, strongly rebuts Monty on his blog.
Memo to OP: Never, never, brag how short your code is, especially if you're using something as bloated as Python.
There's always a more concise way. And a faster way.
You're just asking for a beating, and well-deserved.
Full of that fresh, shiny VISTA goodness.. you'll be deliriously happy!
Be patient, my lad - The WOW starts... soon!
When will people learn...
So? Read a freaking book.
Alien notion: There's more to life than speed and convenience.
n/t
Should there be a guild of programmers that is given grants by governments and industry to work on certain projects?
That is how the major open source projects are already funded!
As others have pointed out, though, it's nonsensical to say "the people who write the code get paid very little - if at all". Open source programmers are paid as much, and in some cases far more, than proprietary coders. They have mortgages, kids to put through college, like everyone else.
Critics agree - he wrote A New Kind of Science during full moons.
it's closed source nature, combined with its almost universal presence in scientific research is very troubling.
Ditto any Microsoft or Adobe product.
Can't say we were not warned, though, can we?
That was also the first "production ready" release of OS X, at least according to the experiences of my studio. We tested 10.0 and 10.1 and began migrating at 10.2 Jaguar. 10.3 Panther was even better - performance noticeably improved on G3 machines.
Microsoft's talent lies in greed, fraud and extortion, not software engineering; the comparison with Apple proves that better than anything else.