Re:Why is MySQL more popular than PostgreSQL?
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Why Not MySQL?
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Well, our company used PostgreSQL for some web applications. The worst thing about PosgreSQL is its poor stability. When you use it at home it works fine but when you try to load it any more it starts crashing and crashing...
Funny, but when we abandoned PosgreSQL and switched to MySQL our web server become even slower despite the fact that MySQL faster than PosgreSQL. Why? Because MySQL didn't crash that often and there were lots of connections to MySQL server, far more than to PostgreSQL, slowing it down.
Re:Cats can't see food...
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The Cat Cam
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So you prove opposite point than you want:-) You say that cat can't find food if it can't see it So cats do rely on their vision. Ever wondered why the cats have so big glowing eyes?
Re:This could be trouble....for someone
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The Cat Cam
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Too much worries. You see, we already have technology to implant a good old electronic camera into cat's head instead of an eye. Too bad for cat to stay with only one eye, but no worse for spies. And I think such a camera in cat's skull would be much cheaper that hacking into cat's brain to wire some neurons. Heck, there are already cameras small enough to place on cocroaches, not cats!
I think this invention could lead to organic cameras growing in spawning vats for cheap.
Uhhh... Man, we've got completely natural and biodegradable stuff, that we even use to build our homes. This is wood, of course. Wooden buildings stand for centuries all right. But as soon as you bury wood into the soil, it starts to rot pretty fast. See the point?
You see, the problem with any personal IDs is not that you lack privacy. The problem is that IDs become more important than the person. The IDs were invented for convenience to make your life easier. It's a pleasure to shop with a credit card, isn't it? But when ID take over the person - the passport system is a good example - it's a disaster. Without a passport you can't marry, can't get a job, can't get medical help etc. Like the state serves not people but the IDs. That's real problem
Well, one really may want to send encrypted messages. One may really want to make purchases anonymously. That's what the cash is for. But I can't make up a situation when one might want to deny his face (implying he/she is not a criminal, of course)
Scared of that pesky paper flyers? Oh, I just throw them away. You see, the worst thing about spam is that you can not tell at first glance whenever a message is a meaningful message or a spam. When you got paper flyers, you don't have even read then in order to know it's just an ad.
Scared of evil police robo-cameras looking through the crowd at you? Then what about simple human cops?
Seems like you guys are scared of technology. And you dare call yourself geeks?:-)
First off, see the subject. Anyone can receive snail-mail (I've got examples of strange addresses like "Third river bend, second lefthand hut", which owners successfully got their mail), for using e-mail you've to have at least a computer and internet connection. That's why telegraph didn't kill snail mail, for example.
Second, with snail mail we've got real guarantee that your letter is delivered. That's because with buying postage stamp, placing it on the envelope and then putting the whole package into a postbox you kinda sign contract with that post service, which you can in turn, sue for not delivering the mail (if you happen to know it of course) On the other hand, sending email doesn't sign such a contract. If you complain to your ISP that your e-mail hasn't been delivired, he can just say there are some hackers or servers down or lightning stroke Microsoft office (not that 97, of course) or whatever.
And last but not least, you just can't send your friend a real souvenir which any postcard is.
I work as a programmer at some software company. When I get job done I'm being paid. One job - one payment. That seems to be fair because it is just like if I was assembling engines or anything - one thing, one... er... payment.
Ok, and then after my boss paid me (once, I repeat again) he goes and sells that stuff I've done multiple times! See? I don't work, boss doesn't work either, since copying software is so easy, but he still gets money!
What does it lead to? Let's see, work's not done, but that "activity" still costs money. So, we got money losing their cost!
So, software pirates really make your dollar heavier. So does free software, which by the way, is completely legal. Copyrights SUCK They are slowing progress down. Piracy sucks too, cause it discourages the real producer.
As to the topic, it seems to me that Canadian government just found another way for getting money for itself. It's so widely used practice to tax something that one can't live without - they'll pay anyway. Oh, yes, I mean, you won't die without writing a CD, but everyone uses it and got used to it:-)
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Well, our company used PostgreSQL for some web applications. The worst thing about PosgreSQL is its poor stability. When you use it at home it works fine but when you try to load it any more it starts crashing and crashing...
Funny, but when we abandoned PosgreSQL and switched to MySQL our web server become even slower despite the fact that MySQL faster than PosgreSQL. Why? Because MySQL didn't crash that often and there were lots of connections to MySQL server, far more than to PostgreSQL, slowing it down.
So you prove opposite point than you want :-) You say that cat can't find food if it can't see it So cats do rely on their vision. Ever wondered why the cats have so big glowing eyes?
I think this invention could lead to organic cameras growing in spawning vats for cheap.
Uhhh... Man, we've got completely natural and biodegradable stuff, that we even use to build our homes. This is wood, of course. Wooden buildings stand for centuries all right. But as soon as you bury wood into the soil, it starts to rot pretty fast. See the point?
You see, the problem with any personal IDs is not that you lack privacy. The problem is that IDs become more important than the person. The IDs were invented for convenience to make your life easier. It's a pleasure to shop with a credit card, isn't it? But when ID take over the person - the passport system is a good example - it's a disaster. Without a passport you can't marry, can't get a job, can't get medical help etc. Like the state serves not people but the IDs. That's real problem
Well, one really may want to send encrypted messages. One may really want to make purchases anonymously. That's what the cash is for. But I can't make up a situation when one might want to deny his face (implying he/she is not a criminal, of course)
Scared of that pesky paper flyers? Oh, I just throw them away. You see, the worst thing about spam is that you can not tell at first glance whenever a message is a meaningful message or a spam. When you got paper flyers, you don't have even read then in order to know it's just an ad.
Scared of evil police robo-cameras looking through the crowd at you? Then what about simple human cops?
Seems like you guys are scared of technology. And you dare call yourself geeks? :-)
Second, with snail mail we've got real guarantee that your letter is delivered. That's because with buying postage stamp, placing it on the envelope and then putting the whole package into a postbox you kinda sign contract with that post service, which you can in turn, sue for not delivering the mail (if you happen to know it of course) On the other hand, sending email doesn't sign such a contract. If you complain to your ISP that your e-mail hasn't been delivired, he can just say there are some hackers or servers down or lightning stroke Microsoft office (not that 97, of course) or whatever.
And last but not least, you just can't send your friend a real souvenir which any postcard is.
Ok, and then after my boss paid me (once, I repeat again) he goes and sells that stuff I've done multiple times! See? I don't work, boss doesn't work either, since copying software is so easy, but he still gets money!
What does it lead to? Let's see, work's not done, but that "activity" still costs money. So, we got money losing their cost!
So, software pirates really make your dollar heavier. So does free software, which by the way, is completely legal. Copyrights SUCK They are slowing progress down. Piracy sucks too, cause it discourages the real producer.
As to the topic, it seems to me that Canadian government just found another way for getting money for itself. It's so widely used practice to tax something that one can't live without - they'll pay anyway. Oh, yes, I mean, you won't die without writing a CD, but everyone uses it and got used to it :-)