Every ops group should support 2 db's: a free one and a non-free one. You use the free one where you can, where it makes sense. You use the non-free one everywhere else.
And please do not ask your ops group to support more than 2 db's.
It is strategically imperative to add a free db to the mix if only to give you some leverage over the non-free vendors. Otherwise Oracle will bleed you. So OK they're going to bleed you anyway but maybe not so badly.
I say let them copy us. Copy us all you like. The more they become like us the less we have to fear from each other. Assimilation American Style.
They copy us because we have the best stuff. The best stuff they can come up with on their own is total crap.
Our stuff is better because we are more creative. We are more creative because we are more expressive. We are more expressive because we enjoy freedom. They do not. Ergo their stuff will always suck.
I never really worry about China. Unless they get their act together politically they will never be a serious threat to American hegemony.
So what if they make a few trillion exploiting a billion impoverished souls? It doesn't mean they have any real influence in the modern world. The best they can do is prop up North Korea to distract and annoy us.
Bash us all you will but the world still looks to America for leadership in all the ways that matter. China can only make believe.
The Second Iraq War is all about 9/11. Afghanistan is all about 9/11. 9/11 is why we are there now and why so many of our finest soldiers have suffered and died over there. And we'll stay there until we have fully vented our spleen.
Please do not try to tell me that any other American President, past or future, would not have done roughly the same thing that Bush did. We had to invade someone. We wouldn't be America if we just sat back and let anyone fuck with us like that. Exactly who the hell do they think they attacked? Spain? Fuck that!
And once and for all, all of you self-righteous Euro-liberals criticizing us while sitting in your 300-year-old cafes sipping your cappuccinos paid for with your generous pension money: there is not a damn thing we have done in the Middle East to protect our interests that you wouldn't have done if you had any balls. As a matter of fact you did do the same things way back when you used to sport a pair.
It is no coincidence that our administration suddenly drummed up an excuse to invade the middle east two weeks after 9/11. Bush knew that given the public's mood immediately following 9/11, we would accept any excuse no matter how half-baked to invade someone in the Middle East. Several past administrations have been looking for just such an opening. Clinton thought he had his back in '91, but it wasn't quite what he was looking for.
9/11 was the catalyst. It was President George W. Bush's opportunity to do what many American Presidents wanted so badly to do for so long: place a U.S. Army base smack dab in the middle of all that oil. And now we have one in Afghanistan, and another in Baghdad, both with nice big airports that can land our massive troop transports. With these new air bases we can now distribute boots on the ground anywhere significant in the middle east, and do so within hours.
Yes I am sure that ultimately we will be forced to wean ourselves off oil. But in the meantime we cannot sit idly by while our oil suppliers threaten and attack us. There are plenty of other countries that are more than glad to kiss any sheik's ass for a discount on crude. Well, we're one of them too, but we eventually get pissed off when the sheik backstabs us by taking our money and spending it on terrorists who then attack us. Fuck them, fuck the Middle East, and fuck anyone who fucks with the United States of America! God Bless.
I borrowed my nickname "blooba" from my late dog. I lost him to cancer last year. I spent $10,000 trying to treat his mast cell tumors, and I think I gave him a few extra months of comfortable living before the fucking cancer metastisized like a fucking wildfire. Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that it wasn't until after I put him down that his team of highly trained veterinarian oncologists at Manhattan's most prestigous Animal Cancer Treatment Center told me that canine cancer has a 100% mortality rate.
I sure wish I had known that before I shelled out $10,000. Don't get me wrong. My dog was worth every penny. But it sure would have been better to know beforehand that there was absolutely zero chance of him surviving cancer.
The main problem is the lack of animal cancer research. The good doctors who treated my dog (and he had an entire team of surgeons and specialists) tried very hard, but they just don't have enough information. Doggies don't respond to chemo like humans do, and they don't respond to radiation like we do. The doctors have to play extreme guessing games with each patient. It's all trial-and-error.
Before he passed, dear old Blooba donated a sample of his blood for research purposes. He always was a generous soul.
This is nothing new. Other smaller companies have been doing the same thing for a while now. It's actually quite a lucrative business, just not as fast-growing as pay-per-click.
The "other" pool to which you refer is a process known as yield optimization. All the P4P companies do it. They all have algorithms that determine which ads get served where, based on click-through rates and revenue. I imagine that most companies use the good old greedy algorithm.
Fraud detection is actually much easier with actions than with clicks. Sure, there will be some credit card fraud, but no more so than any other retail transaction.
Womens advocacy groups want DNA databases because it is the only really reliable way to identify a rapist. I can see their arguments. However we should not so easily compare DNA to fingerprints.
There is a huge world of difference between DNA and fingerprint samples. You leave fingerprint evidence behind when you commit a crime with your bare hands. On the knife or the gun or the doorknob, what have you. But with DNA, you may have simply walked by a crime scene coincidentally, DNA samples sloughing naturally from your body as you go.
DNA is much, much more easily abused than fingerprints. There are vulnerabilites with DNA samples that people do not anticipate when they try to say the two are the same.
So they're using SIP. It should be no problem for someone to package an extremely competetive open source solution.
Only thing that concerns me concerning competetiveness, are the new fcc telco rules and related pending legislation, the stuff that will make it easy for monsters like IBM and 3com to pay premiums for better ISP service.
The ads placed on pages unrelated to the advertisements' message actually attracted 17% more looks.
This means that contextual advertising, whether by topic or keyword, actually has the reverse affect that it is intended to have. Contextual advertising is supposed to attract attention and therefore clicks, but according to TFA, contextual advertising is doing the exact opposite.
How on earth could such a list exist without the name Peter F. Hamilton at or near its top? I am outraged! If you've not read his Reality Dysfunction and Neutronium Alchemist series, drop everything you're doing and read them now.
It's quite simple really. Microsoft writes crap software, while Google writes excellent software. Microsoft: crap, Google: excellent. Microsoft will therefore never, ever come anywhere close to being able to even dream about killing Google. To think otherwise is a joke of the highest order, a farce, a sophomoric folly.
I find it interesting that IBM is making it easier for Oracle's IAS to work with IBM's WebSphere, since that will by extension make it easier for Oracle to sell their own db into the whole package. Won't this ultimately hurt sales of IBM's DB2, or is IBM finally capitulating to the Oracle Overlord?
I actually RTFA'd (go figure), and it only contains the following one sentence describing the content of the new legislation:
The new law, SB 416, would restrict the dissemination of video games containing certain violent content.
What exactly are the restrictions? Does it mean that, under the new law, video game stores cannot sell violent video games to kids, or that video game stores cannot sell violent games to anyone? And does it cover internet sales as well? Is it illegal for an eBay seller in North Dakota to sell a violent video game to an eBay buyer in Michigan? Has anyone actually read the bill?
Does anyone really take the Gartner Group seriously any more? Linux is already mainstream. Has been for at least a year, probably more. Who did they survey, a bunch of HP or MS engineers? Does IBM's zLinux count as mainstream? Are the SuSE databases I run in production count as mainstream?
Aren't Gartner Group the ones who did a study that claims MS is cheaper to run than Linux? How can they make such a comparison if Linux is not mainstream? Please stop paying attention to Gartner Group. They have zero credibility.
I happen to work for a much smaller player in the paid-search industry, and I must say that we are doing well so far. Google hasn't gobbled us up yet, but this news about M$ entering our market makes me feel a little worried about my stock options.
Come to think of it, it could be good for my little company to watch two 600-lb. gorillas duke it out for primacy, while we sneak up from behind and nibble at their market share.
I tried a search for "nanotechnology", and got a bunch of links that all required either a paid subscription or a login for which I was not allowed to register. Bogus.
What are the odds of being killed by a terrorist? What are the odds of being wrongly imprisoned by the FBI due to an overzealous wiretap? In 2001 the U.S. suffered the loss of 3,000 of its citizens from a single terrorist attack. How many people last year had their lives wrongfully ruined by a loss of privacy? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller...?
The FBI can have all my personal data and tap all my communications and I don't care. Can someone please explain to me why I should care about protecting my electronic privacy from the FBI?
Slashdot Mirror
And please do not ask your ops group to support more than 2 db's.
It is strategically imperative to add a free db to the mix if only to give you some leverage over the non-free vendors. Otherwise Oracle will bleed you. So OK they're going to bleed you anyway but maybe not so badly.
I say let them copy us. Copy us all you like. The more they become like us the less we have to fear from each other. Assimilation American Style.
They copy us because we have the best stuff. The best stuff they can come up with on their own is total crap.
Our stuff is better because we are more creative. We are more creative because we are more expressive. We are more expressive because we enjoy freedom. They do not. Ergo their stuff will always suck.
I never really worry about China. Unless they get their act together politically they will never be a serious threat to American hegemony.
So what if they make a few trillion exploiting a billion impoverished souls? It doesn't mean they have any real influence in the modern world. The best they can do is prop up North Korea to distract and annoy us.
Bash us all you will but the world still looks to America for leadership in all the ways that matter. China can only make believe.
dude that's funny as hell i wish i had mod points
They had an easy remedy with the referrer and they failed to use it. The judge should have taken that into account.
Please do not try to tell me that any other American President, past or future, would not have done roughly the same thing that Bush did. We had to invade someone. We wouldn't be America if we just sat back and let anyone fuck with us like that. Exactly who the hell do they think they attacked? Spain? Fuck that!
And once and for all, all of you self-righteous Euro-liberals criticizing us while sitting in your 300-year-old cafes sipping your cappuccinos paid for with your generous pension money: there is not a damn thing we have done in the Middle East to protect our interests that you wouldn't have done if you had any balls. As a matter of fact you did do the same things way back when you used to sport a pair.
It is no coincidence that our administration suddenly drummed up an excuse to invade the middle east two weeks after 9/11. Bush knew that given the public's mood immediately following 9/11, we would accept any excuse no matter how half-baked to invade someone in the Middle East. Several past administrations have been looking for just such an opening. Clinton thought he had his back in '91, but it wasn't quite what he was looking for.
9/11 was the catalyst. It was President George W. Bush's opportunity to do what many American Presidents wanted so badly to do for so long: place a U.S. Army base smack dab in the middle of all that oil. And now we have one in Afghanistan, and another in Baghdad, both with nice big airports that can land our massive troop transports. With these new air bases we can now distribute boots on the ground anywhere significant in the middle east, and do so within hours.
Yes I am sure that ultimately we will be forced to wean ourselves off oil. But in the meantime we cannot sit idly by while our oil suppliers threaten and attack us. There are plenty of other countries that are more than glad to kiss any sheik's ass for a discount on crude. Well, we're one of them too, but we eventually get pissed off when the sheik backstabs us by taking our money and spending it on terrorists who then attack us. Fuck them, fuck the Middle East, and fuck anyone who fucks with the United States of America! God Bless.
I sure wish I had known that before I shelled out $10,000. Don't get me wrong. My dog was worth every penny. But it sure would have been better to know beforehand that there was absolutely zero chance of him surviving cancer.
The main problem is the lack of animal cancer research. The good doctors who treated my dog (and he had an entire team of surgeons and specialists) tried very hard, but they just don't have enough information. Doggies don't respond to chemo like humans do, and they don't respond to radiation like we do. The doctors have to play extreme guessing games with each patient. It's all trial-and-error.
Before he passed, dear old Blooba donated a sample of his blood for research purposes. He always was a generous soul.
This is nothing new. Other smaller companies have been doing the same thing for a while now. It's actually quite a lucrative business, just not as fast-growing as pay-per-click.
Fraud detection is actually much easier with actions than with clicks. Sure, there will be some credit card fraud, but no more so than any other retail transaction.
There is a huge world of difference between DNA and fingerprint samples. You leave fingerprint evidence behind when you commit a crime with your bare hands. On the knife or the gun or the doorknob, what have you. But with DNA, you may have simply walked by a crime scene coincidentally, DNA samples sloughing naturally from your body as you go.
DNA is much, much more easily abused than fingerprints. There are vulnerabilites with DNA samples that people do not anticipate when they try to say the two are the same.
Only thing that concerns me concerning competetiveness, are the new fcc telco rules and related pending legislation, the stuff that will make it easy for monsters like IBM and 3com to pay premiums for better ISP service.
The ads placed on pages unrelated to the advertisements' message actually attracted 17% more looks.
This means that contextual advertising, whether by topic or keyword, actually has the reverse affect that it is intended to have. Contextual advertising is supposed to attract attention and therefore clicks, but according to TFA, contextual advertising is doing the exact opposite.
How on earth could such a list exist without the name Peter F. Hamilton at or near its top? I am outraged! If you've not read his Reality Dysfunction and Neutronium Alchemist series, drop everything you're doing and read them now.
Dude, if I had mod points, I'd give them all to you.
It's quite simple really. Microsoft writes crap software, while Google writes excellent software. Microsoft: crap, Google: excellent. Microsoft will therefore never, ever come anywhere close to being able to even dream about killing Google. To think otherwise is a joke of the highest order, a farce, a sophomoric folly.
I find it interesting that IBM is making it easier for Oracle's IAS to work with IBM's WebSphere, since that will by extension make it easier for Oracle to sell their own db into the whole package. Won't this ultimately hurt sales of IBM's DB2, or is IBM finally capitulating to the Oracle Overlord?
The new law, SB 416, would restrict the dissemination of video games containing certain violent content.
What exactly are the restrictions? Does it mean that, under the new law, video game stores cannot sell violent video games to kids, or that video game stores cannot sell violent games to anyone? And does it cover internet sales as well? Is it illegal for an eBay seller in North Dakota to sell a violent video game to an eBay buyer in Michigan? Has anyone actually read the bill?
If you're going to tell me about a massive flying reptile, show me some freaking pictures for Pete's sake!
Aren't Gartner Group the ones who did a study that claims MS is cheaper to run than Linux? How can they make such a comparison if Linux is not mainstream? Please stop paying attention to Gartner Group. They have zero credibility.
Come to think of it, it could be good for my little company to watch two 600-lb. gorillas duke it out for primacy, while we sneak up from behind and nibble at their market share.
Why does it suck for you? I'm over 15, play mostly during the weekends, and my experience rocks.
Exsqueeze me, but the new KDE desktop looks zack same as old one.
I tried a search for "nanotechnology", and got a bunch of links that all required either a paid subscription or a login for which I was not allowed to register. Bogus.
The FBI can have all my personal data and tap all my communications and I don't care. Can someone please explain to me why I should care about protecting my electronic privacy from the FBI?
This has to be the dumbest idea I have ever seen on /.
I know I'm just a noob, but could someone please explain to me who enforces the GPL, and why so many companies shamelessly violate it?