When searching for an opensource alternative for Oracle, I came across a frequently asked questions page on MySQL. One question asked "Is it stable?" and the answer was "MySQL has been tested under the numerous conditions.. blablabla" but the effective answer was they could not be sure it was stable in all conditions. The moment stability and therefor data integrity became an issue, my searching for an open source database was over. A DBMS should have 100% reliability, anything less and the system may as well be free. If you are unsure whether any of your data is incorrect, then you can consider the whole database corrupt. You pay for a system such as Oracle to ensure your database is stable.
This seems to be the kind of question my mom would ask "Can we put linux in the car? its running rough, i thought linux might be able to fix it. linux works for everything, right?"
Seriously, what is wrong with Windows for children to use? These 486s probably already have an OS on them now. there are probably many abandonware programs available for it. My neice is only three years old and she knows how to use her mom's computer. She likes the Dragon Naturally Speaking software and the Magic school bus and Barney programs that are available for Windows. I'm not sure what programs would be available for linux that she would be interested in using. Maybe there are some platform independent websites that use Flash or Java that the kids could use to play games or for learning.
I found DOS tough to use when i was 6 or 7 years old, but back then the computer booted right up into IBM Basic 1.0 and my dad taught me how to program basic. I would've been lost without that help... I could only see how 4-7 year olds would fair with an unsupervised Linux box.
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yeah, but MIS people only know how to use Microsoft Access and the help desk.
heres something an MIS major might say "SQL Server crashed again! What, you mean you have to recompile a stored procedure or else it returns the wrong data than what's actually in the database? What kind of crap is that. My data is corrupt! Why can't Microsoft put my company's money to good use to fix these bugs?"
and when they become managment "Yes, we've been having problems with that database application. But I think its an advantage to be able to return two different sets of data from same database, isn't it? I mean you as the programmer should know the advantage of parallel computing."
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In my University we now have three degrees concentrated on computer science: Computer Science& Engineering, Computer Science, and Management Information Systems. The difference between the CSE and CS degrees is electrical engineering courses and hardware design. In the CSE program, you learn to engineer computer hardware as well as software. You are also expected to apply the stuff learned in physics and calculus to computer science courses.
Both CS and CSE require six or so calculus classes. But the big difference between the degrees is that the CSE degree requires 8 more credits. I wont even count MIS students as being 'in' computer science, they're in information processing which is much different than engineering. You dont need to know probabilistic analysis methods of computer systems to shovel data for an Insurance company.
There is also a lot of joking from the CSE majors that we should change to CS because it would be easier.. we may even have time to date or something. We stay in the program because its interesting. Were not simply learning existing methods, we're learning how to analyze a problem and understand what's the best method to solve it even if that method doesn't exist.
The only people who make it through the CSE program are people who are interested in engineering and especially computer science. People who are just interested in getting a degree to get a job usually dont make it, and end up in MIS.
www.gbook.org
boy, this program would've flagged me down in a second. i must have fit the profile of a killer to a T when i was in school.. let's see.... i came from a less than stable home.. i stared at the floor when people talked to me. i had a 2.1 GPA. i hung out with the 'less-desirable' people in school and didn't talk, only smiled. yup, i would've been red-flagged the second i left the guidance counselors office...
of course, i didn't kill anybody, plant any bombs, deface any property. and never even went to detention. so now, low and behold, i go to college, for computer engineering. i even work at Travelers. and haven't gone besurk yet... but i forgot, that's a completely different profiling program. just because i never liked any of those very very rich people i went to school with, and showed it, doesn't mean i was going to kill anyone. for god sakes!, a computer program isn't going to help. and if little jonny appears to be polishing his machine gun a little too much at recess, then talk to his parents!
People are doing a lot of this stuff right now; anyone else wonder where it will end up?
I think microsoft will get involved early in this development, as they have already funded research on 'how to make Excel better thru darwinism'. i think their next logical step is to create self-conscious programs... that they can enslave. don't be surprised if they do..
that was quite an atricle.. opinion peice. it was inevitable that linux become commercial, but linux has sustained being free and open-source for so long, and gained such a name for itself, without intervention from companies. now companies see it as a way to make money. that's what companies do.
the reality is that microsoft's products aren't great, but no one had a choice not to use them. actually there was no alternative, until linux came along. free, stable, and had a good story behind it. these companies can only make linux better. linux has such a community behind it that it will survive and improve.
KDE has come a long way since i started using it in march. only 5 months... and KDE is better than windows98. and it's even easier to set up too. the screen shots look great, i can't wait for it come out. hopefully with KOffice, and the corel version of linux, even large non-technology companies will see the advantage of linux over windows.
microsoft seems to be taking the next step in bad software design... letting evolution make their products. and this is pretty much what they have done so far; not controlling the development unless it interferes with comptetion.
microsoft will release microsoft evolution 99, where not even they know what it's supposed to do: maybe they'll say "It takes up cpu cycles... aren't all Good programs supposed to that, this is nothing more than an extension of what we've always done... there's just less cost with this."
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When searching for an opensource alternative for Oracle, I came across a frequently asked questions page on MySQL. One question asked "Is it stable?" and the answer was "MySQL has been tested under the numerous conditions.. blablabla" but the effective answer was they could not be sure it was stable in all conditions. The moment stability and therefor data integrity became an issue, my searching for an open source database was over. A DBMS should have 100% reliability, anything less and the system may as well be free. If you are unsure whether any of your data is incorrect, then you can consider the whole database corrupt. You pay for a system such as Oracle to ensure your database is stable.
it certainly does. and they're paid to do it.
its beautiful, but aren't you missing the return value? since main is an int...
This seems to be the kind of question my mom would ask "Can we put linux in the car? its running rough, i thought linux might be able to fix it. linux works for everything, right?"
Seriously, what is wrong with Windows for children to use? These 486s probably already have an OS on them now. there are probably many abandonware programs available for it. My neice is only three years old and she knows how to use her mom's computer. She likes the Dragon Naturally Speaking software and the Magic school bus and Barney programs that are available for Windows. I'm not sure what programs would be available for linux that she would be interested in using. Maybe there are some platform independent websites that use Flash or Java that the kids could use to play games or for learning.
I found DOS tough to use when i was 6 or 7 years old, but back then the computer booted right up into IBM Basic 1.0 and my dad taught me how to program basic. I would've been lost without that help... I could only see how 4-7 year olds would fair with an unsupervised Linux box.
yeah, but MIS people only know how to use Microsoft Access and the help desk.
heres something an MIS major might say
"SQL Server crashed again! What, you mean you have to recompile a stored procedure or else it returns the wrong data than what's actually in the database? What kind of crap is that. My data is corrupt! Why can't Microsoft put my company's money to good use to fix these bugs?"
and when they become managment
"Yes, we've been having problems with that database application. But I think its an advantage to be able to return two different sets of data from same database, isn't it? I mean you as the programmer should know the advantage of parallel computing."
In my University we now have three degrees concentrated on computer science: Computer Science& Engineering, Computer Science, and Management Information Systems. The difference between the CSE and CS degrees is electrical engineering courses and hardware design. In the CSE program, you learn to engineer computer hardware as well as software. You are also expected to apply the stuff learned in physics and calculus to computer science courses.
Both CS and CSE require six or so calculus classes. But the big difference between the degrees is that the CSE degree requires 8 more credits. I wont even count MIS students as being 'in' computer science, they're in information processing which is much different than engineering. You dont need to know probabilistic analysis methods of computer systems to shovel data for an Insurance company.
There is also a lot of joking from the CSE majors that we should change to CS because it would be easier.. we may even have time to date or something. We stay in the program because its interesting. Were not simply learning existing methods, we're learning how to analyze a problem and understand what's the best method to solve it even if that method doesn't exist.
The only people who make it through the CSE program are people who are interested in engineering and especially computer science. People who are just interested in getting a degree to get a job usually dont make it, and end up in MIS. www.gbook.org
From the final episode of seinfeld (George's parents)...
Estelle: "I wonder if it was something we did. Were we bad parents??"
Frank: "Maybe it was your fault! It certainly wasn't my fault, I can tell you that."
Estelle: "What's that supposed to mean??"
Frank: "You were smothering him! He couldn't get any air. He couldn't breath! He was suff-o-cating!"
Estelle: "And you were always in Korea with your religious chachki...!"
Frank "I had to make a Living!!"
Maybe he was selling fast cellular connectivity..
yup, i would've been red-flagged the second i left the guidance counselors office...
of course, i didn't kill anybody, plant any bombs, deface any property. and never even went to detention. so now, low and behold, i go to college, for computer engineering. i even work at Travelers. and haven't gone besurk yet... but i forgot, that's a completely different profiling program.
just because i never liked any of those very very rich people i went to school with, and showed it, doesn't mean i was going to kill anyone.
for god sakes!, a computer program isn't going to help. and if little jonny appears to be polishing his machine gun a little too much at recess, then talk to his parents!
yeah! you could watch the paperclip freak out and strangle the dog.
I think microsoft will get involved early in this development, as they have already funded research on 'how to make Excel better thru darwinism'. i think their next logical step is to create self-conscious programs... that they can enslave. don't be surprised if they do..
the reality is that microsoft's products aren't great, but no one had a choice not to use them. actually there was no alternative, until linux came along. free, stable, and had a good story behind it. these companies can only make linux better. linux has such a community behind it that it will survive and improve.
if microsoft knows what's good for them, they'll keep their trap(lawyers) shut and remember when apple sued them over copyright infringments.
KDE has come a long way since i started using it in march. only 5 months... and KDE is better than windows98. and it's even easier to set up too. the screen shots look great, i can't wait for it come out. hopefully with KOffice, and the corel version of linux, even large non-technology companies will see the advantage of linux over windows.
microsoft will release microsoft evolution 99, where not even they know what it's supposed to do: maybe they'll say "It takes up cpu cycles... aren't all Good programs supposed to that, this is nothing more than an extension of what we've always done... there's just less cost with this."