Your slippery slope argument is a bullshit fallacy. Smoking is being banned across the world and rightly so, yet the sale of alcohol and cars (toxic fumes) are not. Therefore no slippery slope
In short: you stop at banning the sale of cigarettes you moron.
ORLY?!?!? Seems like the the bad on stuff that is unhealthy has already tried to move past the point of a ban on cigarettes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Oh, sure. He's only violating the Constitution a little bit.
Oh FFS, can you show me where in the Constitution that the U.S. has to respect the rights of ANY citizen in ANY other country?
There are other treaties and documents you can point at to back up this claim (U.N. Convention on Human Rights, for example), but last time I checked, U.K., French, or whatever citizens in other countries aren't covered by the U.S. Constitution anymore than U.S. citizens are protected by the Magna Carta.
In my work, I don't encounter too many enterprises running web apps on DB2
Ditto. I've come across a lot of legacy systems that use it, but all of them did so because they were on IBM mainframes, and it was the only serious offering on that line of hardware. I don't think I've ever come across anyone using it on Intel hardware, unless it was for a development environment.
You'd be suprised how many installs still use VSAM or IMS for data....I still see this popup quite a bit.
Depending on the size of the database and the actual crunching involved, you can quickly get to impossible on SQL Server since databases are still not distributed.
Fair enough, but if done correctly it's hard to get to that point. AlwaysOn can scale your reads out now, but it's still not as easy as coding for Oracle RAC. Not having a proper N+1 solution for SQL Server has always been one of the biggest gripes.
There are also lots of exotic features on Oracle that require third party tools or extensive development to be done in SQL Server.
I could say the same about SQL Server. You get stuff like SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and Data Quality Services (that's sure is a lot of s'es). I doubt most of the Slashdot crowd likes those tools, but they probably feel the same way about the Oracle stuff too.
Also jokes aside, it's very possible to have a SQL Server implementation that's still more $$$ than Oracle or DB2.
I definitely agree with you there, ever since MS changed SQL licensing to per core back in 2012. It gets really crazy if you end up paying for a per-core license on a virtual machine with Enterprise licensing; you end up paying for every core in every host within the VM cluster, at somewhere in the vicinity of $16,000 US per core. Oracle licensing works the same way, but Oracle's Standard+ licensing has also leveled the playing field.
It's also just much much more fragile than Oracle or DB2.
That may have been true way back when, but I've seen SQL Server clusters with an uptime stretching years. I don't think it's anymore fragile than Oracle.
If you care about your transactional data, it can't be beat by any other on-premises RDBMS
I *somewhat* agree with you, but not everyone reaches that point. You can use the other solutions for less cost, and they will cover most everyones needs.
One thing that nobody on here has touched on though are the REALLY big systems like Teradata. Although I've never had the pleasure of working with it, I'm willing to bet that it can smoke Oracle.....of course I'm sure you'll pay a pretty hefty sum to do so. If you have THAT much data to crunch though, cost should be less of a deciding factor. Look at how much data Wal-Mart crunches through it, it's pretty mind-boggling. Have you ever used it? If so I'd love to hear about it, as I have yet to find anybody that has actually had to support it.
DB/2 on z/OS can beat it to, but of course you're tied to IBM's hardware stack for that, with A LOT more cost. I read somewhere once that Larry Ellison said that DB/2 on Z/OS is "the only other database system I respect". He definitely had this to say:
"IBM DB2 is good on mainframes, the best in the world. Oracle is good on everything else-x86 and all others. It's too bad DB2 can't run on modern machines. Can't scale either-the most [instances] you can have of DB2 is one." http://www.eweek.com/database/...
I know that he's incorrect the "modern machines" part, and it's meant as a swipe against IBM, but it does mean something when Oracle used to run on z/OS until they pulled support for it back in 2009.
I would imagine that this was something the parents sought out and wanted to buy
I'm not so sure about that. I doubt most people actually know the true definition of homeopathic. A lot of people get that confused with "organic" (which is an entirely different argument). A while back I had to explain this to my mother-in-law. She had totally confused "organic" and "homeopathic" with "natural". She had no idea that these were 3 completely unrelated things. I doubt that she's an outlier; quite a lot of people get their medical advice from Oprah and Dr. Oz.
In the case at hand, the solution still contained traces of belladonna. How in the hell did this get screwed up? Aren't homeopathic remedies supposed to "work" better in higher dilutions?
Agreed, virtualization has come a long way in the past 10 years. Back into 2005 I would have laughed at you if you told me you wanted to virtualize my DB server....but nowadays I don't want anything else.
DBA here. I work with SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. Each has it's pros and cons. One thing that Oracle offers which the other vendors can't really match at this point is Oracle RAC. It's the only out-of-the-box N+1 shared-disk solution that somewhat works properly. SQL Server has tried to offer something comparable with AlwaysOn, and MySQL has MySQL Clusters*, but these really don't fit into the same roles.
I haven't worked enough with DB2, and nothing large scale with PostGres to comment on those. I do feel that RAC is less of a necessity nowadays anyway, and will continue to be so, since the hardware has improved so much that the SQL Server/MySQL solutions can handle pretty much anything. I also don't think RAC is a good fit for a cloud-based solution.
As somebody who has Type 1 diabetes, I really want this to work on people, but it's so hard to be optimistic when I hear about research like this. Animal models don't always translate well when it comes to humans.
It's a shame that Mary Tyler Moore didn't make it long enough to hear about this.
I was especially disgusted when they claimed Snowden was trying to court favor with Obama to get a pardon, and then stated that they "saved Snowden's ass": http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/06/...
Actually, he WAS owed for his contributions to the war then bypassed by nepotism then accused of stealing when he actually used his own personal funds.
You mean where he *claimed* to be owed more than he actually spent. There's no doubt that he spent some of his own money in the Quebec campaign, but he failed to document just how much that was (or lost the documentation.....doesn't matter, he didn't have it). If I go to my boss asking for reimbursement for something without any receipts or actual proof that the money was spent, I wouldn't expect him to just pay it.
Benedict did had genuine grievances and reason to flee his sleazy enemies. It's not hard to research either
In his mind, "genuine" just meant "I'm not being paid what I want". I don't expect the average Revolutionary War combat soldier to be too sympathetic a man who was essentially an 18th century 1%'er with that type of attitude.
"Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" -- John Brown, Army Officer, said before Arnold defected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm Type 1, and of course I don't know your' particular situation, but once I got an insulin pump, I no longer needed Lantus. This is because the pump gives you small doses of fast acting insulin through out the day, 24x7 (Humulog or Novolog).
The pump has been one of the greatest improvements in my quality of life.
our government should be diverting resources to finding solutions to far bigger risks, like obesity
Problem is the "solutions" they'll come up with to fixing that will also take away my rights.....like my right to eat a Big Mac*, or not having to go for a jog today.
What, you don't think that'll happen? Then how is it that we're having this conversation?
I recently tried Sony Playstaton Vue for a few weeks, and the experience was almost exactly like that being described by Walt....different channel packages at different price levels. I think the base package was $30 a month for about two dozen channels. I even had to sit through commercials, which is one of the primary reasons I ditched cable way back when.
I cancelled it after a few days. If you don't offer me anything at that price that I can't already get with cable, I'm not interested.
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It could have been the single most successful thing on day one and they still would have declared it a failure .
In all fairness, it could also be a colossal failure on day one, and the other side would declare it a success.
My money is on.... ... backup tapes.
So you still backup all of your Bitcoins to tape? Dude, just put it in the cloud! ;-)
Would $45k not be considered an acceptable pay, for a straight out of collage programmer?
Depends on location, but even here in Louisiana, I'm seeing kids straight outta school starting at $60k. Hell I even know interns that make $40k.
The workers MS bring in AREN'T cheaper, they are paid at the same rate as US workers or in most cases higher.
But you can't hire Americans and ask them to work 80+ hours a week under the threat of deportation.
Fuck off you idiot.
Your slippery slope argument is a bullshit fallacy. Smoking is being banned across the world and rightly so, yet the sale of alcohol and cars (toxic fumes) are not. Therefore no slippery slope
In short: you stop at banning the sale of cigarettes you moron.
ORLY?!?!? Seems like the the bad on stuff that is unhealthy has already tried to move past the point of a ban on cigarettes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Oh, sure. He's only violating the Constitution a little bit.
Oh FFS, can you show me where in the Constitution that the U.S. has to respect the rights of ANY citizen in ANY other country?
There are other treaties and documents you can point at to back up this claim (U.N. Convention on Human Rights, for example), but last time I checked, U.K., French, or whatever citizens in other countries aren't covered by the U.S. Constitution anymore than U.S. citizens are protected by the Magna Carta.
SQL Server Log Shipping and Transactional Replication are pretty similar.
In my work, I don't encounter too many enterprises running web apps on DB2
Ditto. I've come across a lot of legacy systems that use it, but all of them did so because they were on IBM mainframes, and it was the only serious offering on that line of hardware. I don't think I've ever come across anyone using it on Intel hardware, unless it was for a development environment.
You'd be suprised how many installs still use VSAM or IMS for data....I still see this popup quite a bit.
Cause of death: Pac-man Fever.
RIP, many happy hours were spent playing your games.
LOL this should be model +1 funny, but I know you're probably not joking.
That's a good point, of course you're tied to the number of vCores that you're licensed for.
Depending on the size of the database and the actual crunching involved, you can quickly get to impossible on SQL Server since databases are still not distributed.
Fair enough, but if done correctly it's hard to get to that point. AlwaysOn can scale your reads out now, but it's still not as easy as coding for Oracle RAC. Not having a proper N+1 solution for SQL Server has always been one of the biggest gripes.
There are also lots of exotic features on Oracle that require third party tools or extensive development to be done in SQL Server.
I could say the same about SQL Server. You get stuff like SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and Data Quality Services (that's sure is a lot of s'es). I doubt most of the Slashdot crowd likes those tools, but they probably feel the same way about the Oracle stuff too.
Also jokes aside, it's very possible to have a SQL Server implementation that's still more $$$ than Oracle or DB2.
I definitely agree with you there, ever since MS changed SQL licensing to per core back in 2012. It gets really crazy if you end up paying for a per-core license on a virtual machine with Enterprise licensing; you end up paying for every core in every host within the VM cluster, at somewhere in the vicinity of $16,000 US per core. Oracle licensing works the same way, but Oracle's Standard+ licensing has also leveled the playing field.
It's also just much much more fragile than Oracle or DB2.
That may have been true way back when, but I've seen SQL Server clusters with an uptime stretching years. I don't think it's anymore fragile than Oracle.
If you care about your transactional data, it can't be beat by any other on-premises RDBMS
I *somewhat* agree with you, but not everyone reaches that point. You can use the other solutions for less cost, and they will cover most everyones needs.
One thing that nobody on here has touched on though are the REALLY big systems like Teradata. Although I've never had the pleasure of working with it, I'm willing to bet that it can smoke Oracle.....of course I'm sure you'll pay a pretty hefty sum to do so. If you have THAT much data to crunch though, cost should be less of a deciding factor. Look at how much data Wal-Mart crunches through it, it's pretty mind-boggling. Have you ever used it? If so I'd love to hear about it, as I have yet to find anybody that has actually had to support it.
DB/2 on z/OS can beat it to, but of course you're tied to IBM's hardware stack for that, with A LOT more cost. I read somewhere once that Larry Ellison said that DB/2 on Z/OS is "the only other database system I respect". He definitely had this to say:
"IBM DB2 is good on mainframes, the best in the world. Oracle is good on everything else-x86 and all others. It's too bad DB2 can't run on modern machines. Can't scale either-the most [instances] you can have of DB2 is one."
http://www.eweek.com/database/...
I know that he's incorrect the "modern machines" part, and it's meant as a swipe against IBM, but it does mean something when Oracle used to run on z/OS until they pulled support for it back in 2009.
I would imagine that this was something the parents sought out and wanted to buy
I'm not so sure about that. I doubt most people actually know the true definition of homeopathic. A lot of people get that confused with "organic" (which is an entirely different argument). A while back I had to explain this to my mother-in-law. She had totally confused "organic" and "homeopathic" with "natural". She had no idea that these were 3 completely unrelated things. I doubt that she's an outlier; quite a lot of people get their medical advice from Oprah and Dr. Oz.
In the case at hand, the solution still contained traces of belladonna. How in the hell did this get screwed up? Aren't homeopathic remedies supposed to "work" better in higher dilutions?
I apologize for the over-use of double-quotes. :-)
Agreed, virtualization has come a long way in the past 10 years. Back into 2005 I would have laughed at you if you told me you wanted to virtualize my DB server....but nowadays I don't want anything else.
DBA here. I work with SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. Each has it's pros and cons. One thing that Oracle offers which the other vendors can't really match at this point is Oracle RAC. It's the only out-of-the-box N+1 shared-disk solution that somewhat works properly. SQL Server has tried to offer something comparable with AlwaysOn, and MySQL has MySQL Clusters*, but these really don't fit into the same roles.
I haven't worked enough with DB2, and nothing large scale with PostGres to comment on those. I do feel that RAC is less of a necessity nowadays anyway, and will continue to be so, since the hardware has improved so much that the SQL Server/MySQL solutions can handle pretty much anything. I also don't think RAC is a good fit for a cloud-based solution.
*owned by none-other than Oracle nowadays
As somebody who has Type 1 diabetes, I really want this to work on people, but it's so hard to be optimistic when I hear about research like this. Animal models don't always translate well when it comes to humans.
It's a shame that Mary Tyler Moore didn't make it long enough to hear about this.
My university gets stormed with new students every September and their solution was quite simple: Radical testing.
If the States tried that, I'd expect mass lawsuits from inner-city students who fail the test and don't get accepted because of "discrimination".
How about we first find out why college is so expensive and fix that?
If you think it's expensive now, just wait until it's free.
I was especially disgusted when they claimed Snowden was trying to court favor with Obama to get a pardon, and then stated that they "saved Snowden's ass":
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/06/...
Actually, he WAS owed for his contributions to the war then bypassed by nepotism then accused of stealing when he actually used his own personal funds.
You mean where he *claimed* to be owed more than he actually spent. There's no doubt that he spent some of his own money in the Quebec campaign, but he failed to document just how much that was (or lost the documentation.....doesn't matter, he didn't have it). If I go to my boss asking for reimbursement for something without any receipts or actual proof that the money was spent, I wouldn't expect him to just pay it.
Benedict did had genuine grievances and reason to flee his sleazy enemies. It's not hard to research either
In his mind, "genuine" just meant "I'm not being paid what I want". I don't expect the average Revolutionary War combat soldier to be too sympathetic a man who was essentially an 18th century 1%'er with that type of attitude.
"Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country"
-- John Brown, Army Officer, said before Arnold defected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm Type 1, and of course I don't know your' particular situation, but once I got an insulin pump, I no longer needed Lantus. This is because the pump gives you small doses of fast acting insulin through out the day, 24x7 (Humulog or Novolog).
The pump has been one of the greatest improvements in my quality of life.
Or you could try reading up on what Type 1 Diabetes actually is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
our government should be diverting resources to finding solutions to far bigger risks, like obesity
Problem is the "solutions" they'll come up with to fixing that will also take away my rights.....like my right to eat a Big Mac*, or not having to go for a jog today.
What, you don't think that'll happen? Then how is it that we're having this conversation?
*with moderation
I recently tried Sony Playstaton Vue for a few weeks, and the experience was almost exactly like that being described by Walt....different channel packages at different price levels. I think the base package was $30 a month for about two dozen channels. I even had to sit through commercials, which is one of the primary reasons I ditched cable way back when.
I cancelled it after a few days. If you don't offer me anything at that price that I can't already get with cable, I'm not interested.