In the music production business, we often say turd pollishing is a waste of time, 'cause it's still a turd inside. Might this apply here? Can you envision a sleek, sexy, powerful turd? Every blue-screen-of-death is going to generate some nasty stink.
I'm been a PostgreSQL user for a few years now. Damn fine database, complete with triggers, RI, stored procs, etc. It's replication situation isn't quite solid yet (several add-on products, no clear leader), but scripting up a satisifactory work-around is typically a breeze.
A newcomer to the open source DB scene is Ingres - it went open source just over a year ago. I've used Ingres at various times in the last 20 years and it too is a totally solid performer. It's much bigger than PostgreSQL - has all the toys and them some, of course including replication.
These are two serious contenders for database jobs, and should be considered by anyone fleeing from the pointy end of MySQL's pitchfork. To offer a general guideline, I'd say it's appropriate to use PostgreSQL for light to heavy lifting, and Ingres for heavy to super-heavy. And Ingres does high-availability better - it even runs on OpenVMS 7.3+!
From the article:
"Remember too that IE7 is built from the same code base as Windows Vista which has received a huge amount of scrutiny, so this is going to be the most solid code base of IE we've ever produced."
I really liked your post, and think I can suggest an answer to the business of why ads are free. It's the "barrier to entry" thing. It's already happened to me. I wanted to test my very first web site product ad - so I put it in CraigsList for free. There's no way I would have given anyone on the web my credit card number for this tiny test (more worried about personal security on this one than the ten or fifteen bucks, I suppose). I got 20 hits on my web site, confirming that it's worthwhile to advertise/give-away on CraigsList. Because I can advertise for free, but more importantly - because I could initially conduct a small test for free - it will be my primary vehicle when my product goes live.
I think if one had worked in *any* marketing department, or even -near- one, or had beers at a table near a table of marketing guys, one would be suspicious when the typically MS-friendly computer rags like ComputerWorld make their headline "The 20 Things You'll Hate About Vista".
There can be many reasons why ComputerWorld (and others) would publish such articles, but the most historically accurate one would be "... because Microsoft wants them to".
Keep you eye on the flaming security ball kiddies... that smell coming from behind the curtain will be good for you. Honest. Trust us.
While Microsoft has everyone screaming bloody murder about all these security prompts - keep this in mind: It's probably an intentional distraction.
Very few folks seem to be analyzing and criticizing the other 99% of this operating system. Keep focusing on this security-prompt-red-herring, and we'll fail to uncover the real turds before it's too late.
Just my 2 cents, but I think the use of a downward-pointing triangle on the left-most section headers is a poor choice. My natural tendancy (which may differ from yours) is to click on the triangle, expecting a drop-down menu. Instead, it does nothing in Firefox 1.5.0.3.
Microsoft, at least once a year, ends up in front of a judge defending their "right to innovate" (aka "copy", in the Redmond area, anyway). It's a spurious argument really - each time they defend it, they sound like innovation is some sacrament bestowed on only Microsoft - as if no one else has the right to innovate. I say the argument is spurious, because when you look up "innovate", at dictionary.com you see this definition: "To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time."
Since they so so seldomly do anything but copy/buy/nick successful patterns invented elsewhere, we really have to stretch the "... as if for the first time" part of that definition to fit MS in there. But hey, stretching the truth, where Microsfsoft is concerned, is hardly innovative.
Calm down, take a deep breath, relax. The point of my original post (which you can verify by carefully reading it), is that eating processed foods makes you overweight and sick. Both happened to me. When changed to unprocessed foods, I lost weight and my various symptoms disappeared. That's it. Whatever argument you're trying to have with me, well, please have it with someone else.
Thanks for sharing your story Emetophobe - and I'm glad you found your way out of the Symptom Management Maze called modern medicine. For every one like you, I'd bet there's 50 more stuck inside the maze, wondering why they're getting sicker as the doctors pour their "treatments" on top of the processed food they're eating.
I especially noticed you're developed a sensitivy to flour and yeast. This is one food I need to get off of. I eat only organic breads, but it's still a man-made processed food, and your experience piles on a little more evidence that the human body might tolerate it, but probably doesn't like it. Got any suggestions for what is a good substitute?
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I doubt it. It was a GUI for a call center with 50 operators (more than a toy), and I didn't advertise that it took only 3 months to build. Something else is watering down the Ajax demand, I suspect.
When people ask, like you, I tell them to eat a Survivor Diet.
Pretend you're on an deserted semi-tropical island with no man-made anything. You can eat anything you find: vegetables, fruits, nuts, fish, cows, pigs etc. You can even cook some of it (certainly the meat!). That's what humans ate for many thousands of years, and therefore it's what we're biologically adapted to consume.
Stick to a Survivor Diet, and I'm certain you'll shrink right back down to your normal weight within a couple of months.
My daily foods are nuts, veggies (mostly raw), fruit (always raw), a little meat (always cooked), and organically prepared bread. Shame about that last one (man-made), but I can't yet seem to replace it.
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I "learned" Ajax last month. Well, ok, "enough" to produce a small GUI that did some cool things, asynchronously.
I beefed up my resume on Monster.com expecting a flood of Ajax inquiries. Although 2 recruiters have contacted me recently, neither was interested in my Ajax stuff. Just PHP, Oracle, SQL server, etc.
I'm quite surprised - either I suck (alway a possbility), or Ajax jobs are not the hot thing right now.
I did not claim that eating organic food caused the weight loss. You're really going to have to get your shit together if you're going to make a post worth reading.
I was not constructing an argument for you disection - in fact, my world does not revolve around you at all. So please feel free to take two sentences from different paragraphs in my previous post, mash them together into 'quote', and demonstrate how completely illogical I am. Oops, you already did that.
But at the end of the day, you're fat and sick, I'm slim and healthy. If you don't believe obesity is a precusor to a plethora of "diseases", please go talk to Any Medical Professional On Earth - traditional or otherwise.
Readers are no doubt dying (literally?) to know: Do you consider yourself overweight?
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In the music production business, we often say turd pollishing is a waste of time, 'cause it's still a turd inside. Might this apply here? Can you envision a sleek, sexy, powerful turd? Every blue-screen-of-death is going to generate some nasty stink.
I'm been a PostgreSQL user for a few years now. Damn fine database, complete with triggers, RI, stored procs, etc. It's replication situation isn't quite solid yet (several add-on products, no clear leader), but scripting up a satisifactory work-around is typically a breeze.
A newcomer to the open source DB scene is Ingres - it went open source just over a year ago. I've used Ingres at various times in the last 20 years and it too is a totally solid performer. It's much bigger than PostgreSQL - has all the toys and them some, of course including replication.
These are two serious contenders for database jobs, and should be considered by anyone fleeing from the pointy end of MySQL's pitchfork. To offer a general guideline, I'd say it's appropriate to use PostgreSQL for light to heavy lifting, and Ingres for heavy to super-heavy. And Ingres does high-availability better - it even runs on OpenVMS 7.3+!
From the article: "Remember too that IE7 is built from the same code base as Windows Vista which has received a huge amount of scrutiny, so this is going to be the most solid code base of IE we've ever produced."
So that's a good thing, right?
Some folks may think otherwise
Correction: DCOM runs on both Windows and OpenVMS. You can write code in any supported language on OpenVMS to chat DCOM to Windoze clients.
I really liked your post, and think I can suggest an answer to the business of why ads are free. It's the "barrier to entry" thing. It's already happened to me. I wanted to test my very first web site product ad - so I put it in CraigsList for free. There's no way I would have given anyone on the web my credit card number for this tiny test (more worried about personal security on this one than the ten or fifteen bucks, I suppose). I got 20 hits on my web site, confirming that it's worthwhile to advertise/give-away on CraigsList. Because I can advertise for free, but more importantly - because I could initially conduct a small test for free - it will be my primary vehicle when my product goes live.
"What kind of company turns up its nose at $500 million?"
One led by a person believing there is more to their enterprise than money. I think I'd like to work there.
This flexible paper can fold into 3D nanostructures..."
Sure sure sure... but can it be folded more than seven times??
I think if one had worked in *any* marketing department, or even -near- one, or had beers at a table near a table of marketing guys, one would be suspicious when the typically MS-friendly computer rags like ComputerWorld make their headline "The 20 Things You'll Hate About Vista".
There can be many reasons why ComputerWorld (and others) would publish such articles, but the most historically accurate one would be "... because Microsoft wants them to".
Keep you eye on the flaming security ball kiddies... that smell coming from behind the curtain will be good for you. Honest. Trust us.
While Microsoft has everyone screaming bloody murder about all these security prompts - keep this in mind: It's probably an intentional distraction.
Very few folks seem to be analyzing and criticizing the other 99% of this operating system. Keep focusing on this security-prompt-red-herring, and we'll fail to uncover the real turds before it's too late.
Perhaps my sanity is intact afterall? Thanks!
Indeed it does! I must have mis-clicked first time around. Thanks gregbains!
Just my 2 cents, but I think the use of a downward-pointing triangle on the left-most section headers is a poor choice. My natural tendancy (which may differ from yours) is to click on the triangle, expecting a drop-down menu. Instead, it does nothing in Firefox 1.5.0.3.
Microsoft, at least once a year, ends up in front of a judge defending their "right to innovate" (aka "copy", in the Redmond area, anyway). It's a spurious argument really - each time they defend it, they sound like innovation is some sacrament bestowed on only Microsoft - as if no one else has the right to innovate. I say the argument is spurious, because when you look up "innovate", at dictionary.com you see this definition: "To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time."
Since they so so seldomly do anything but copy/buy/nick successful patterns invented elsewhere, we really have to stretch the "... as if for the first time" part of that definition to fit MS in there. But hey, stretching the truth, where Microsfsoft is concerned, is hardly innovative.
The truth is that the model which has fueled the incredible popularity and affordability of the PC will continue ...
So now Bill Gates can predict the future? Geeze, the guy really *is* drinking his own coolaid.
Calm down, take a deep breath, relax. The point of my original post (which you can verify by carefully reading it), is that eating processed foods makes you overweight and sick. Both happened to me. When changed to unprocessed foods, I lost weight and my various symptoms disappeared. That's it. Whatever argument you're trying to have with me, well, please have it with someone else.
Thanks for sharing your story Emetophobe - and I'm glad you found your way out of the Symptom Management Maze called modern medicine. For every one like you, I'd bet there's 50 more stuck inside the maze, wondering why they're getting sicker as the doctors pour their "treatments" on top of the processed food they're eating.
I especially noticed you're developed a sensitivy to flour and yeast. This is one food I need to get off of. I eat only organic breads, but it's still a man-made processed food, and your experience piles on a little more evidence that the human body might tolerate it, but probably doesn't like it. Got any suggestions for what is a good substitute?
Great post sien - thanks for the real data!
Only a mental one ;-)
I doubt it. It was a GUI for a call center with 50 operators (more than a toy), and I didn't advertise that it took only 3 months to build. Something else is watering down the Ajax demand, I suspect.
When people ask, like you, I tell them to eat a Survivor Diet.
Pretend you're on an deserted semi-tropical island with no man-made anything. You can eat anything you find: vegetables, fruits, nuts, fish, cows, pigs etc. You can even cook some of it (certainly the meat!). That's what humans ate for many thousands of years, and therefore it's what we're biologically adapted to consume.
Stick to a Survivor Diet, and I'm certain you'll shrink right back down to your normal weight within a couple of months.
My daily foods are nuts, veggies (mostly raw), fruit (always raw), a little meat (always cooked), and organically prepared bread. Shame about that last one (man-made), but I can't yet seem to replace it.
I "learned" Ajax last month. Well, ok, "enough" to produce a small GUI that did some cool things, asynchronously.
I beefed up my resume on Monster.com expecting a flood of Ajax inquiries. Although 2 recruiters have contacted me recently, neither was interested in my Ajax stuff. Just PHP, Oracle, SQL server, etc.
I'm quite surprised - either I suck (alway a possbility), or Ajax jobs are not the hot thing right now.
You sound a litte negative ;-)
I see we agree on the food thing. Shame my poetry is nowhere as good as yours!
I did not claim that eating organic food caused the weight loss. You're really going to have to get your shit together if you're going to make a post worth reading.
I was not constructing an argument for you disection - in fact, my world does not revolve around you at all. So please feel free to take two sentences from different paragraphs in my previous post, mash them together into 'quote', and demonstrate how completely illogical I am. Oops, you already did that.
But at the end of the day, you're fat and sick, I'm slim and healthy. If you don't believe obesity is a precusor to a plethora of "diseases", please go talk to Any Medical Professional On Earth - traditional or otherwise.
Readers are no doubt dying (literally?) to know: Do you consider yourself overweight?