As long as someone else pays the bill...like the government (ie forest ranger)
I don't mean to pick, and basically agree with you... but, presumably, forest rangers work in a forest. Forget cell, it doesn't go through trees... and if you have a view of the southern sky, you're probably in a desert not a forest. Forest rangers need good RF, not cell or satellite. I speak, of course, without knowing anything about which I speak.
One of the personality traits that is so common in most other disciplines, and especially in things like sports, never fits well in IT: ego. The best administrators don't give a crap, and rightly so... they are disinterested... they don't ever even have the curiosity to read even an email that might have been left open on a users desktop, don't ever stand around talking about so and so's freak out under the pressure, or who got laid, nor play with or even notice the cubicle toys and pictures with which other workers surround themselves. They may nod polightly at stories others tell, but they rarely, if ever, bring their personal lives into their work, and certainly seem to avoid becoming "a character," in an office, other than donning that loose garb of "social misfit," which is really a beard.
With the work in IT, it is always and should always be about the work, the puzzles, their interest, and never about creating what others see them as, or high-fiving each other after completing some impossible task that the rest of the company can't even fathom the importance of... this A-Team idea is really a bad idea, at it's heart. Loyalty to other workers is a trap, and the political game of the office is not one that should ever be engaged in if you work in IT. Can you imagine it? "The Face-man has been captured by legal. Murdoch, You create a distraction while BA and I empty their bank accounts and destroy their credit!"
An A-Team will fail miserably in IT because of ego. What is needed, of course, are Jedi, i.e. integrity without ego. And we already have that.
The only reason Flash is everywhere is Adobe leveraged it successfully as a wrapper for video. It's not necessary. Video lives on fine without the Flash wrapper. Soon enough, site developers will line up behind Google to eliminate it. With html5 and Ajax, there is precious little that can't be duplicated, and function and form is duplicated without massively coopting the users' processor the way Flash does, and without introducing yet another insecure platform to their machines.
WHY IS FLASH NECESSARY? Oh, it is not.
Then play Microsoft's amd Apple's game. Petition Adobe for a dedicated Flash device, a tablet or netbook that only does Flash, and forbids ObjC and the like, and prevent Flash from appearing on any other makers device. Problem solved.
Apple isn't forcing the whole web to use ObjC, yet Adobe and and Flashophiles think that just because they love Flash, it has to be allowed everywhere. Subsequent poster is in the next thread is right... how do you mod a summary -1 Flamebait ?
Oh, it is far simpler than something so heady as "culture," my foreign friend. What it comes down to —ignoring for the moment that our 2nd Amendment has been completely misunderstood for at least a century (even by the U.S. Supreme Court) — is that some people like guns.
In civilized countries all cables are put undergrownd, no squirrels, no birds, no drunks hitting the poles causing dozens of houses to freeze to death and so on.
In civilized countries, they don't kill 1000 lb. alligators just for the fun of it, and they don't needlessly kill stringy, gamey animals because there is better, more economical meat at the local grocery. And the search for civilization continues...
I only repeat what I've been told. Frankly, I think all databases are painfully slow. I'd like to see LDAP expanded into a fullblown DB implementation, and become to working DB what firefox was once to browsers, a long time ago, or what Chrome was... idk, a couple months ago: the regression of the Swiss Army knife, not with every tool imaginable, but it's super thin and light, and ffffast, but a one trick pony (so to speak).
We like beef too. The USDA makes sure of that. Can't you see my point? We didn't like fish as much before it was shoved down our throats. Put another way, the radio plays what they want you to hear. The suppliers weren't scrambling to meet the demand, the demand was created and nurtured synthetically because they had, at one time, so much of it available to sell. If they could have in one go, catch and sell every single fish in the ocean, they would have. It's like what happened to the Walnut tree... it used to be the most common hardwood... now it's all but gone because of greed, not demand. If it was less available, but the demand was still there, it would merely be more expensive (which is what will now happen). But someone decided that money now was more important than an ocean with fish still in it later... or maybe they just didn't believe or realize that it was a limited resource. It has so little to do with how much we like fish, and so much to do with how much we like money.
It's not a question of features. It's a question of scale. 300,000 queries per second? That would be a major milestone for MySQL. How about a billion? 50 billion? Will it ever get there? MySQL is probably the right application for your 30,000 member forum site, probably be better than Postgres in that instance (maybe). But for the big stuff, the really big stuff, where you need more than a screwdriver and a hand truck, you need literally need a forklift and a crane, you don't even bother trying to use a screwdriver and a hand truck. Either you get a crane, or it doesn't move.
The documentation (just links to web pages) has gotten out-dated and inconsistent, and hard to use over the years. Does the new release come with a clean up so that it is actually easy to use and understand?
No. But there is the Postgres Primer at O'Reilly, and Amazon has Postgres for Dummiez.
I've looked from time to time for good documentation... most DBA's I've asked tell me not to bother; it's 30 years they'll never get back, and they want to save me the trouble, at least that's what they say.
That's not why. They created the demand. You'd be sicked to learn how much swordfish never gets sold and just rots and must be discarded. And... you can farm tuna??
Trust no one. I'm skeptical about the whole thing... maybe the leak was just covering up something else... it's distraction and diversion. Maybe. Yes, hard to doubt those horrendous images of birds suffocating... but... it could have been Hollywood fiction for all I know. I really wish we could trust the Oversight, but everyone has a price, I guess. Where are our Madisons and Monroes? Where are the incorruptables of our age? Where are all the citizen militia gun owners (self-defense is for paranoids and pussies!)? It's time they marched on something and re-solidified our Founders' literal intention. Rome is burning, and our politicians, if not impotently roasting marshmallows, just keep adding fuel.
Is BP paying those fishermen for the next 40 years of lost work?
Not speaking for BP, but for myself... and not speaking to family owned and operated fishing enterprises, but to the commercial fisheries: FUCK THEM. Their greed pretty much destroyed the Gulf and the Atlantic stocks of the best fish. Man, I am really going to miss tuna. FUCK THEM TWICE, damn greedy savages.
Is it paying the hotels for the next 20 years of lost business?
Not speaking for BP, but for myself... and not speaking to family owned and operated hotels, but the large commercial developers and big corporate resorts: FUCK THEM. They somehow skirted federal wetland laws (DO NOT TOUCH) to destroy miles of coastline so rednecks could have a vacation spot closer to home, instead of traveling to already established resort islands along the coast NC, SC, GA, and FL, like civilized people do. FUCK THEM TWICE, greedy fucking savages.
It sure seems like dumping a few gallons of oil can get you arrested, dumping millions though is ok so long as you pretend to do something about it.
Agreed. Trouble is, everyone only cares about their bank accounts, at the expense of the things we need to live, like a habitable environment.
We're glad you could join us in blindly walking into lamp posts while stumbling and texting down the street.
There will likely be correlated, corresponding data with the increase of txting to an increase of auto accidents among teenagers, also, fatal auto accidents, and a direct correlation to an increase in the cost of auto insurance and infrastructure taxes. Why can't they just play AD&D and smoke pot like we did?
And we don't recycle y's, either, you can just throw those away.
I'd hang on to them, they're collectable as hell to those that collect them. You never know when you'll run into a phiosopher or some y's guys, and then you can pick up a few bucks.
NAT routers are nice... like a honey trap, but functional. Unless it's wireless, too... that's sort of like having a house with a decent heavy front door... but no roof.
Exactly! I, for one, welcome our new genetically altered, intellectually and cerebrally superior mousy overlords! (The answer is 42?! What was the question? What do you get when you multiply six by nine?? How does that help? This computer has bugs...)
I'm going with Plato on this one... easier to swallow: we already knew everything, we just forgot, and we 'learn' by being reminded of what we already know (knew).
Without those you have an incomplete implementation of Flash, because Flash uses those (well, technically a variation of ECMAScript, but it's very similar anyway).
As long as it's in the flash wrapper... don't care. Point is it's a thing that does nothing without the flash wrapper. Get it? Adobe would like nothing more than to wrap the whole of the internet in flash. So let them, in their own machine. Just keep it the hell away from my browser.
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I agree completely. Why somebody felt compelled to invent a bastardized version of email in the first place is beyond me.
Yes, God forbid the rich get richer at the expense of the not so rich. But how do we stop it?
As long as someone else pays the bill...like the government (ie forest ranger)
I don't mean to pick, and basically agree with you... but, presumably, forest rangers work in a forest. Forget cell, it doesn't go through trees... and if you have a view of the southern sky, you're probably in a desert not a forest. Forest rangers need good RF, not cell or satellite. I speak, of course, without knowing anything about which I speak.
One of the personality traits that is so common in most other disciplines, and especially in things like sports, never fits well in IT: ego. The best administrators don't give a crap, and rightly so... they are disinterested... they don't ever even have the curiosity to read even an email that might have been left open on a users desktop, don't ever stand around talking about so and so's freak out under the pressure, or who got laid, nor play with or even notice the cubicle toys and pictures with which other workers surround themselves. They may nod polightly at stories others tell, but they rarely, if ever, bring their personal lives into their work, and certainly seem to avoid becoming "a character," in an office, other than donning that loose garb of "social misfit," which is really a beard.
With the work in IT, it is always and should always be about the work, the puzzles, their interest, and never about creating what others see them as, or high-fiving each other after completing some impossible task that the rest of the company can't even fathom the importance of... this A-Team idea is really a bad idea, at it's heart. Loyalty to other workers is a trap, and the political game of the office is not one that should ever be engaged in if you work in IT. Can you imagine it? "The Face-man has been captured by legal. Murdoch, You create a distraction while BA and I empty their bank accounts and destroy their credit!"
An A-Team will fail miserably in IT because of ego. What is needed, of course, are Jedi, i.e. integrity without ego. And we already have that.
The only reason Flash is everywhere is Adobe leveraged it successfully as a wrapper for video. It's not necessary. Video lives on fine without the Flash wrapper. Soon enough, site developers will line up behind Google to eliminate it. With html5 and Ajax, there is precious little that can't be duplicated, and function and form is duplicated without massively coopting the users' processor the way Flash does, and without introducing yet another insecure platform to their machines. WHY IS FLASH NECESSARY? Oh, it is not.
Then play Microsoft's amd Apple's game. Petition Adobe for a dedicated Flash device, a tablet or netbook that only does Flash, and forbids ObjC and the like, and prevent Flash from appearing on any other makers device. Problem solved.
Apple isn't forcing the whole web to use ObjC, yet Adobe and and Flashophiles think that just because they love Flash, it has to be allowed everywhere. Subsequent poster is in the next thread is right... how do you mod a summary -1 Flamebait ?
Oh, it is far simpler than something so heady as "culture," my foreign friend. What it comes down to —ignoring for the moment that our 2nd Amendment has been completely misunderstood for at least a century (even by the U.S. Supreme Court) — is that some people like guns.
In civilized countries all cables are put undergrownd, no squirrels, no birds, no drunks hitting the poles causing dozens of houses to freeze to death and so on.
In civilized countries, they don't kill 1000 lb. alligators just for the fun of it, and they don't needlessly kill stringy, gamey animals because there is better, more economical meat at the local grocery. And the search for civilization continues...
I only repeat what I've been told. Frankly, I think all databases are painfully slow. I'd like to see LDAP expanded into a fullblown DB implementation, and become to working DB what firefox was once to browsers, a long time ago, or what Chrome was... idk, a couple months ago: the regression of the Swiss Army knife, not with every tool imaginable, but it's super thin and light, and ffffast, but a one trick pony (so to speak).
We like beef too. The USDA makes sure of that. Can't you see my point? We didn't like fish as much before it was shoved down our throats. Put another way, the radio plays what they want you to hear. The suppliers weren't scrambling to meet the demand, the demand was created and nurtured synthetically because they had, at one time, so much of it available to sell. If they could have in one go, catch and sell every single fish in the ocean, they would have. It's like what happened to the Walnut tree... it used to be the most common hardwood... now it's all but gone because of greed, not demand. If it was less available, but the demand was still there, it would merely be more expensive (which is what will now happen). But someone decided that money now was more important than an ocean with fish still in it later... or maybe they just didn't believe or realize that it was a limited resource. It has so little to do with how much we like fish, and so much to do with how much we like money.
Stop treating MySQL as if it's some toy
It's not a question of features. It's a question of scale. 300,000 queries per second? That would be a major milestone for MySQL. How about a billion? 50 billion? Will it ever get there? MySQL is probably the right application for your 30,000 member forum site, probably be better than Postgres in that instance (maybe). But for the big stuff, the really big stuff, where you need more than a screwdriver and a hand truck, you need literally need a forklift and a crane, you don't even bother trying to use a screwdriver and a hand truck. Either you get a crane, or it doesn't move.
The documentation (just links to web pages) has gotten out-dated and inconsistent, and hard to use over the years. Does the new release come with a clean up so that it is actually easy to use and understand?
No. But there is the Postgres Primer at O'Reilly, and Amazon has Postgres for Dummiez.
I've looked from time to time for good documentation... most DBA's I've asked tell me not to bother; it's 30 years they'll never get back, and they want to save me the trouble, at least that's what they say.
LMAO... unless my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning, comparing Postgres to MySQL is extraordinarily absurd... like comparing megaliths to legos.
And... forgetting where you parked
That's not why. They created the demand. You'd be sicked to learn how much swordfish never gets sold and just rots and must be discarded. And... you can farm tuna??
Trust no one. I'm skeptical about the whole thing... maybe the leak was just covering up something else... it's distraction and diversion. Maybe. Yes, hard to doubt those horrendous images of birds suffocating... but... it could have been Hollywood fiction for all I know. I really wish we could trust the Oversight, but everyone has a price, I guess. Where are our Madisons and Monroes? Where are the incorruptables of our age? Where are all the citizen militia gun owners (self-defense is for paranoids and pussies!)? It's time they marched on something and re-solidified our Founders' literal intention. Rome is burning, and our politicians, if not impotently roasting marshmallows, just keep adding fuel.
Is BP paying those fishermen for the next 40 years of lost work?
Not speaking for BP, but for myself... and not speaking to family owned and operated fishing enterprises, but to the commercial fisheries: FUCK THEM. Their greed pretty much destroyed the Gulf and the Atlantic stocks of the best fish. Man, I am really going to miss tuna. FUCK THEM TWICE, damn greedy savages.
Is it paying the hotels for the next 20 years of lost business?
Not speaking for BP, but for myself... and not speaking to family owned and operated hotels, but the large commercial developers and big corporate resorts: FUCK THEM. They somehow skirted federal wetland laws (DO NOT TOUCH) to destroy miles of coastline so rednecks could have a vacation spot closer to home, instead of traveling to already established resort islands along the coast NC, SC, GA, and FL, like civilized people do. FUCK THEM TWICE, greedy fucking savages.
It sure seems like dumping a few gallons of oil can get you arrested, dumping millions though is ok so long as you pretend to do something about it.
Agreed. Trouble is, everyone only cares about their bank accounts, at the expense of the things we need to live, like a habitable environment.
We're glad you could join us in blindly walking into lamp posts while stumbling and texting down the street.
There will likely be correlated, corresponding data with the increase of txting to an increase of auto accidents among teenagers, also, fatal auto accidents, and a direct correlation to an increase in the cost of auto insurance and infrastructure taxes. Why can't they just play AD&D and smoke pot like we did?
And we don't recycle y's, either, you can just throw those away.
I'd hang on to them, they're collectable as hell to those that collect them. You never know when you'll run into a phiosopher or some y's guys, and then you can pick up a few bucks.
Dude...you need to get out more.
Don't bother... I've been there. Way overrated IMO.
uh... no argument here, but how do I get back in?
NAT routers are nice... like a honey trap, but functional. Unless it's wireless, too... that's sort of like having a house with a decent heavy front door... but no roof.
Exactly! I, for one, welcome our new genetically altered, intellectually and cerebrally superior mousy overlords! (The answer is 42?! What was the question? What do you get when you multiply six by nine?? How does that help? This computer has bugs...)
A person is smart. People are stupid
ah, a student of Kierkegaard! The crowd is untrue!
I'm going with Plato on this one... easier to swallow: we already knew everything, we just forgot, and we 'learn' by being reminded of what we already know (knew).
no JavaScript, no H.264
Without those you have an incomplete implementation of Flash, because Flash uses those (well, technically a variation of ECMAScript, but it's very similar anyway).
As long as it's in the flash wrapper... don't care. Point is it's a thing that does nothing without the flash wrapper. Get it? Adobe would like nothing more than to wrap the whole of the internet in flash. So let them, in their own machine. Just keep it the hell away from my browser.
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