Whoo Hoo. I can't wait till they modernize and make all their girls run around dressed like $5.00 prostitutues too!. It will be so cool to go to bagdad get shitfaced in a bar, puke on the sidewalk and watch the skimpily dressed girls flash the crowd!. Now that's what I call western civilization damnit.
This whole thing is a canard. It's a fucking joke. It's just an excuse to hold people without charges (and possibly send them off to get tortured).
If you need time to crack the hard drive YOU FUCKING TAKE THE HARD DRIVE!. Why do you need to hold the person for 90 days when you can simply take his hard drive and hold it for as long as you want. Look at the Scott Peterson case. They came and took his car, and pretty much emptied his house and held it for over a year while he was awaiting trial. Which brings up another point. YOU CAN HOLD PEOPLE FOR A VERY LONG TIME IF YOU SIMPLY CHARGE THEM WITH A CRIME.
See how easy that is. Arrest the guy, charge him with conspiracy to commit crimes, deny bail, get a warrant, hold him in jail, take all his stuff and take your time combing through it.
" It seems like most of the advances that Firefox made vs. IE have now been neutralized "
Most? Most? I think not. After three years of complete stagnation IE has come within 50 or 60% of the features of firefox I rely on daily. These come immediately into mind.
Find as you type, mouse gestures, flashblock, adblock, live bookmarks, nuke anything (great for printing!), web developer, foxylicious, and of course bork bork bork!.
Whenever I am forced to use IE I feel like somebody tied my hands behind my back.
Since sneakers are hard goods it takes a lot of money to make them, distribute them and then to stock them on the shelves. So even though the cost of making them has stayed the same or gone down the cost of shipping them has gone up.
Also consider that one of the foibles of the market is that items are priced according not only the cost to produce them but the percieved worth to the consumer. In other words what the consumers are willing to pay.
In your example the cost to produce the sneakers may have stayed the same but the consumers are willing to pay more for it.
In the case of music people are not willing to pay more. In a true free market this would mean the cost of music should be much lower because not only does it cost less to produce and distribute but also the consumer is thinking that it's not all that great.
What makes you think a tiny little applet took up a giant mefa memory footprint. I bet IE uses more memory now then the applet did back then. Have you looked at how bloated IE is?
"That's because their shirt can't instantly become six billion more shirts, which you can give away for free (or sell for next to nothing, like AllofMP3.com does) and take away any reason for anybody else to buy one from them."
By the same token you can not produce a shirt and then replicate for pennies while selling each one at $20.00.
What this points out is that music has been overpriced for years. The cost of production has kept going down without corresponding reduction in price.
the so called "piracy" is simply the market nomalizing itself.
""Atlas" is not merely another implementation of AJAX. Instead, "Atlas" extends the AJAX concept in two significant ways. First, the "Atlas" client script libraries dramatically simplify the tasks of creating rich UIs and remote procedures calls by providing you with true object-oriented APIs and components for Atlas development. Second, "Atlas" extends the AJAX concept by providing a rich, integrated server development platform in ASP.NET 2.0. The "Atlas" server components include ASP.NET Web services and server controls that enable you to take advantage of the power of ASP.NET, such as the ASP.NET profiles service, in an "Atlas" application."
It looks like a embrace and extend version of AJAX.
It's avalon really. MS is hoping that people stop developing HTML/AJAX applications once their version of XUL hits the streets. AJAX applications are very dangerous because they don't require windows, thankfully avalon does!.
"Microsoft invented the XmlHttpRequest functionality,"
Microsoft invented XMLHttpRequest because before that people were using tiny little java applets to accomplish the same thing. In fact the original version of remote scripting in IE also used a java applet. When MS decided that java was the enemy they figured a way to do it without java.
I for one see no need for AJAX, it's better to just write java applications or even applets (or thinlets).
They already have an exchange server alternative. It's called.MAC. Go read the features, file sharing, calender sharing, email, syncing with pocket devices, spam filtering. It's all there and only costs 99/year/employee. Cheaper then deploying exchange for most companies.
Don't talk cost to CIOs, they don't care. They like having big budgets. Talk freedom. Tell them they can avoid vendor lock, tell them they can upgrade when they want to, tell them they don't lord over vendors by pitting them against each other. CIOs love that too.
Remember with a CIO it's all about power. Bigger budgets mean more power, being able to lord over vendors is even more power.
Except that in this case the acheologist stubled upon a leaf in the jungle.
But hey, let's presume the existance of the designer. I figure Allah did create the world and I think we should teach that to americna children. If you object to allah as the creator may I suggest the flying spaghetti monster.
They have trademarked but it's probably not a valid trademark. It can be challanged in court and if it ever gets there it will probably be overturned. This is why MS is deathly afraid of taking it to court and will pay anybody money to settle out of court (see lindows).
If this guy was smart he would have found a lawyer to take it to court. MS would have paid him just about anything not to have their trademark overturned.
Really the headline should have been "MS screws another developer, news at 11".
"Open ingres would be interesting if it worked on FreeBSD and had a working jdbc driver that works in 64-bit environments. Not to mention the database would have to manage a 64-bit environment, but it might, I haven't checked."
It's build on unix, at a minimum you could compile it on freebsd I would think.
You should check it out. If you can save 16,000 per processor it would be worth it.
By the way I should also point out that Microsoft SQL server does not run on freebsd either.
"Intelligent Design is the claim that punctuated equilibrium is mathematically unlikely without a designer. As I said, ID can be reduced to signal analysis so it is 'scientific' in that it can be shown to be false if random processes can be demonstrated to be sufficient to do evolution."
OK, all you have to do is to prove it. You also have to explain who the designer is, what forces he or she allays in order to effect change, when and where these forces were used. For a bonus you could also try to explain why the designer does what he does.
1) It's free. SQL server costs 5000 per processor or 16,000 per processor depending on the version 2) It runs on every platform. SQL server only runs on windows. It's the only database in wisespread use that locks you to one operating system. 3) It has no limits on how much memory it uses. SQL server standard edition limits itself to 2 gigs as of SQL server 2K (don't know if they fixed that by now). 4) it supports text fields that are only limited by your OS and uses them extremely efficiently. These are not like SQL server blob fields but they are like HUGE text fields that can be indexed or used in aggregate functions. 5) It has user definable data types, user definable operators, user definable functions. 6) It can use perl, python, java, tcl or PG/Pqsl as it's stored procedure languages. YOu can also use C and even compile your C stored procs in with the server if you want super speed. 7) It has multi version concurrency control. This means readers never block writers, ever. 8) No lock escalation. SQL server users know the value of this, everybody else takes it for granted. 9) Lots of built in datatypes like arrays, IP address, geometric types, GIS types etc. Yes it's possible to write a query that asks "select all rectangles that contain this point" or "select all ip addresses in this address mask" 10) Support for hierarchies (in the contrib) so you can natually and intuitively model graphs without writing code or using complex self joins and such. Look up ltree. 11) A fantastic rule system. You can make anything look like a updateable recordset if you are willing to code it. 12) PostGIS.
I am just scratching the surface. I am sure I have missed some other features but that should whet you appetite.
Open ingres does have clustering and multi master replication. I suggest you check it out. Yes it's open source.
By the way clustering and multi master replication is a massive feature. You have to pay for SQL server enterprise edition ($16,000 per processor) before you get it with shared nothing architecture and even then it doesn't work all that great.
The problem is that in the software development lifecycle the build phase takes less then 10% of the overall time. It makes no sense to make a product that makes the build faster especially if it also makes debugging, integration, maintenance, and documentation slower. Visual studio is supremely guilty of this. Sure slapping a control on the screen and seeing the the data cool but having to maintain that SQL statement bound to the form for the rest of the applications life or trying to document that form is a pain.
People complain (rightfully so) about the complexity of J2EE but whatever it lacks in RAD development it makes up for in maintenance and refinement of the application later.
Frameworks like ruby on rail are the best of both worlds, rapid development and deployment AND a properly abstracted MVC and persistance layers to make maintenance easier.
Their market share is less then 1/3 and dropping. I suspect that's because both orace and IBM database servers offer more for the same price and the open source databases are cleaning up at the bottom end.
The only reason to go with SQL server is for zealotry really. There are a lot of CIOs who make choices based on religion rather then features. They refuse to let anything not made by MS into their networks.
My question was why would anybody use a crippled database when real full fledged, enterprise proven databases like ingres, firebird, sapdb, postgres, and mysql are free.
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Whoo Hoo. I can't wait till they modernize and make all their girls run around dressed like $5.00 prostitutues too!. It will be so cool to go to bagdad get shitfaced in a bar, puke on the sidewalk and watch the skimpily dressed girls flash the crowd!. Now that's what I call western civilization damnit.
This whole thing is a canard. It's a fucking joke. It's just an excuse to hold people without charges (and possibly send them off to get tortured).
If you need time to crack the hard drive YOU FUCKING TAKE THE HARD DRIVE!. Why do you need to hold the person for 90 days when you can simply take his hard drive and hold it for as long as you want. Look at the Scott Peterson case. They came and took his car, and pretty much emptied his house and held it for over a year while he was awaiting trial. Which brings up another point. YOU CAN HOLD PEOPLE FOR A VERY LONG TIME IF YOU SIMPLY CHARGE THEM WITH A CRIME.
See how easy that is. Arrest the guy, charge him with conspiracy to commit crimes, deny bail, get a warrant, hold him in jail, take all his stuff and take your time combing through it.
" It seems like most of the advances that Firefox made vs. IE have now been neutralized "
Most? Most? I think not. After three years of complete stagnation IE has come within 50 or 60% of the features of firefox I rely on daily. These come immediately into mind.
Find as you type, mouse gestures, flashblock, adblock, live bookmarks, nuke anything (great for printing!), web developer, foxylicious, and of course bork bork bork!.
Whenever I am forced to use IE I feel like somebody tied my hands behind my back.
Since sneakers are hard goods it takes a lot of money to make them, distribute them and then to stock them on the shelves. So even though the cost of making them has stayed the same or gone down the cost of shipping them has gone up.
Also consider that one of the foibles of the market is that items are priced according not only the cost to produce them but the percieved worth to the consumer. In other words what the consumers are willing to pay.
In your example the cost to produce the sneakers may have stayed the same but the consumers are willing to pay more for it.
In the case of music people are not willing to pay more. In a true free market this would mean the cost of music should be much lower because not only does it cost less to produce and distribute but also the consumer is thinking that it's not all that great.
Once again, compare that IE and all of it's components.
What makes you think a tiny little applet took up a giant mefa memory footprint. I bet IE uses more memory now then the applet did back then. Have you looked at how bloated IE is?
"That's because their shirt can't instantly become six billion more shirts, which you can give away for free (or sell for next to nothing, like AllofMP3.com does) and take away any reason for anybody else to buy one from them."
By the same token you can not produce a shirt and then replicate for pennies while selling each one at $20.00.
What this points out is that music has been overpriced for years. The cost of production has kept going down without corresponding reduction in price.
the so called "piracy" is simply the market nomalizing itself.
From their web page.
""Atlas" is not merely another implementation of AJAX. Instead, "Atlas" extends the AJAX concept in two significant ways. First, the "Atlas" client script libraries dramatically simplify the tasks of creating rich UIs and remote procedures calls by providing you with true object-oriented APIs and components for Atlas development. Second, "Atlas" extends the AJAX concept by providing a rich, integrated server development platform in ASP.NET 2.0. The "Atlas" server components include ASP.NET Web services and server controls that enable you to take advantage of the power of ASP.NET, such as the ASP.NET profiles service, in an "Atlas" application."
It looks like a embrace and extend version of AJAX.
It's avalon really. MS is hoping that people stop developing HTML/AJAX applications once their version of XUL hits the streets. AJAX applications are very dangerous because they don't require windows, thankfully avalon does!.
"Microsoft invented the XmlHttpRequest functionality,"
Microsoft invented XMLHttpRequest because before that people were using tiny little java applets to accomplish the same thing. In fact the original version of remote scripting in IE also used a java applet. When MS decided that java was the enemy they figured a way to do it without java.
I for one see no need for AJAX, it's better to just write java applications or even applets (or thinlets).
OWA looks and works like ass in firefox though. It's IE only for all practical purposes.
Of course this makes sense as the primary purpose of exchange is to lock people into windows both on the server and client.
They already have an exchange server alternative. It's called .MAC. Go read the features, file sharing, calender sharing, email, syncing with pocket devices, spam filtering. It's all there and only costs 99/year/employee. Cheaper then deploying exchange for most companies.
Don't talk cost to CIOs, they don't care. They like having big budgets. Talk freedom. Tell them they can avoid vendor lock, tell them they can upgrade when they want to, tell them they don't lord over vendors by pitting them against each other. CIOs love that too.
Remember with a CIO it's all about power. Bigger budgets mean more power, being able to lord over vendors is even more power.
"It is like someone from the USA thinks all French are cowards, or all Germans are fascists, or all Muslims are terrorists. "
Isn't that pretty much true? How many jokes have seen on slashdot about the french being cowards?
Except that in this case the acheologist stubled upon a leaf in the jungle.
But hey, let's presume the existance of the designer. I figure Allah did create the world and I think we should teach that to americna children. If you object to allah as the creator may I suggest the flying spaghetti monster.
Why is "sound like" tradememarked? Is it even possible to trademark things that "sound like" other things?
If you ask me the world has gone to hell if that's possible.
They have trademarked but it's probably not a valid trademark. It can be challanged in court and if it ever gets there it will probably be overturned. This is why MS is deathly afraid of taking it to court and will pay anybody money to settle out of court (see lindows).
If this guy was smart he would have found a lawyer to take it to court. MS would have paid him just about anything not to have their trademark overturned.
Really the headline should have been "MS screws another developer, news at 11".
"Open ingres would be interesting if it worked on FreeBSD and had a working jdbc driver that works in 64-bit environments. Not to mention the database would have to manage a 64-bit environment, but it might, I haven't checked."
It's build on unix, at a minimum you could compile it on freebsd I would think.
You should check it out. If you can save 16,000 per processor it would be worth it.
By the way I should also point out that Microsoft SQL server does not run on freebsd either.
"Intelligent Design is the claim that punctuated equilibrium is mathematically unlikely without a designer. As I said, ID can be reduced to signal analysis so it is 'scientific' in that it can be shown to be false if random processes can be demonstrated to be sufficient to do evolution."
OK, all you have to do is to prove it. You also have to explain who the designer is, what forces he or she allays in order to effect change, when and where these forces were used. For a bonus you could also try to explain why the designer does what he does.
What would be great is a replication mechanism where you can replicate from a remote postgres server to a local embedded sqlite database.
1) It's free. SQL server costs 5000 per processor or 16,000 per processor depending on the version
2) It runs on every platform. SQL server only runs on windows. It's the only database in wisespread use that locks you to one operating system.
3) It has no limits on how much memory it uses. SQL server standard edition limits itself to 2 gigs as of SQL server 2K (don't know if they fixed that by now).
4) it supports text fields that are only limited by your OS and uses them extremely efficiently. These are not like SQL server blob fields but they are like HUGE text fields that can be indexed or used in aggregate functions.
5) It has user definable data types, user definable operators, user definable functions.
6) It can use perl, python, java, tcl or PG/Pqsl as it's stored procedure languages. YOu can also use C and even compile your C stored procs in with the server if you want super speed.
7) It has multi version concurrency control. This means readers never block writers, ever.
8) No lock escalation. SQL server users know the value of this, everybody else takes it for granted.
9) Lots of built in datatypes like arrays, IP address, geometric types, GIS types etc. Yes it's possible to write a query that asks "select all rectangles that contain this point" or "select all ip addresses in this address mask"
10) Support for hierarchies (in the contrib) so you can natually and intuitively model graphs without writing code or using complex self joins and such. Look up ltree.
11) A fantastic rule system. You can make anything look like a updateable recordset if you are willing to code it.
12) PostGIS.
I am just scratching the surface. I am sure I have missed some other features but that should whet you appetite.
Open ingres does have clustering and multi master replication. I suggest you check it out. Yes it's open source.
By the way clustering and multi master replication is a massive feature. You have to pay for SQL server enterprise edition ($16,000 per processor) before you get it with shared nothing architecture and even then it doesn't work all that great.
The problem is that in the software development lifecycle the build phase takes less then 10% of the overall time. It makes no sense to make a product that makes the build faster especially if it also makes debugging, integration, maintenance, and documentation slower. Visual studio is supremely guilty of this. Sure slapping a control on the screen and seeing the the data cool but having to maintain that SQL statement bound to the form for the rest of the applications life or trying to document that form is a pain.
People complain (rightfully so) about the complexity of J2EE but whatever it lacks in RAD development it makes up for in maintenance and refinement of the application later.
Frameworks like ruby on rail are the best of both worlds, rapid development and deployment AND a properly abstracted MVC and persistance layers to make maintenance easier.
Their market share is less then 1/3 and dropping. I suspect that's because both orace and IBM database servers offer more for the same price and the open source databases are cleaning up at the bottom end.
The only reason to go with SQL server is for zealotry really. There are a lot of CIOs who make choices based on religion rather then features. They refuse to let anything not made by MS into their networks.
My question was why would anybody use a crippled database when real full fledged, enterprise proven databases like ingres, firebird, sapdb, postgres, and mysql are free.