Yet, it still doesn't. The book centers around the Lexus -- globalization -- and the olive tree -- tradition. I don't see how the Internet as it is today has anything to do with the collision of the Lexus and the olive tree. In my mind, the Internet is a $70,000 4.7L V8-powered 4WD Lexus LX SUV mowing down the entire olive tree orchard, while the trees scream in protest. Either that it's just a bunch of tubes, I haven't figured out which...
I'm aware of xfce and blackbox and the likes, they are nice, but if you want to run mainstream software that require KDE libraries, you're still hosed.
There's nothing stopping you from running KDE applications under XFCE or blackbox, for instance, as long as you have all of the necessary libraries installed. Of course, you still end up loading parts of KDE when you start the KDE application, but TANSTAAFL.
But in the case of FF for Windows, the problem is that Win9x users (and there are many left) will find themselves in the same situation they were with IE: they'll have to keep running the latest older version of the browser that works with their OS, which will quickly become out of date. I'm sure the FF/Gecko guys have perfectly good technical reasons to leave the old platform behind, but in a sense I hope someone will fork off a Win9x tree of FF and keep developing it, otherwise it would mean OSS is no better than Microsoft with regard to software obsolescence.
I disagree with that last statement. You may not be able to run Firefox 3 on Win 9x, but Firefox 2 will be around and updated for at least a while after Firefox 3 is released. Beyond that, with OSS you have options: You could switch to ReactOS, which runs nicely on older hardware and retains a relatively high degree of Windows compatibility. If you decide you don't need a high degree of Windows compatibility, you could run Firefox 3 on a lightweight Linux distro like Xubuntu.
Ok, so Asclepius predates the Pentatuch by a few hundred years, "Asclepius was most probably a skilled physician who practised in Greece around 1200BC (and described in Homer's Iliad). Eventually through myth and legend he came to be worshipped as Asclepius, the (Greek) god of Healing." (reference). As far as the use of the Rod of Asclepius, it's been known to be used well before Homer wrote about Asclepius in the Iliad in ca. 8th century BCE (though possibly as late as the 6th century BCE, as argued by some)
The parent's point, which is completely ignorant of the facts you point out, is that he doesn't believe in global warming because Fox News puts out stories about how cows produce more greenhouse gases than cars, which is a true statement, but it ignores the fact that cows are actually just recycling the carbon, as you point out, not adding new carbon to the air (unlike cars). This is a little bit like saying that you believe there are all of these WMDs in Iraq because Fox News puts out stories about long-since-dead chemical factories and decaying, left-over missile components that are so degraded that putting them to any use at all (other than as a paper weight) is impossible.
Not for the reason you would think. I think you would be looking for the Rod of Asclepius, which predates the Nehushtan by a few thousand years. It is possible, however, that the Nehushtan was inspired by the Rod of Asclepius.
On the other hand, if it turns out to be true, it has far-reaching implications
Sure! It means that the smeller has an effect on the smelled! It also explains why Schroedinger never took into account the SMELL of that both dead and alive cat...
But pray that not many users will follow your advice or you will get the attention of the spammers and the situation will be the same with your "perfectly secure OS". So enjoy your minority while you can.
Yes, there's a large assumption by a bunch of people that Linux (or Mac OS X or FreeBSD or NetBSD) is 'perfectly secure', and yes, I agree with you that they are dead flat wrong.
However, there's a large assumption by a bunch of people that if Linux were more popular, we'd see a lot more spyware, trojans, and viruses (oh my!) for Linux.
While this is a true in a relative way, it doesn't take much to be 'a lot more' for Linux. Even with just half a dozen, you'd have 'a lot more'.
However, it's important to note that no matter the popularity of Linux, there is no way it would ever have the depth or prervasiveness of malware problems present on the Windows platform. If anyone who actually knows anything about the operating system architecture and security of both the Linux and Windows platforms in depth wants to debate this point with me seriously, I welcome them. Assuming that spammers would have just as much luck with Linux or ther UNIXes as with Windows is just sheer lunacy.
Sure. Oracle runs on Solaris, Windows, AIX, and HP-UX, I think. It's just that if you want to run Oracle on Linux, despite Oracle's words to the contrary, I think in the not-so-distant future you will most likely be running it on Unbreakable Linux.
But even if you consider the remote possibility that Oracle might shut off every other platform, even then, you still wouldn't have anti-trust issues. Oracle has nothing near a monopoly in relational database management software. And nothing prevents Microsoft from writing SQL Server for UNIX or Mac OS X or Linux, other than the fact that Microsoft wants companies to use its server platform rather than UNIX, the current market leader.
No, but HDDs are amongst the most reliable storage media. A good, well-built SCSI drive can last for much, much longer than 3-4 years. I've personally seen hard drives as old 10 years functioning without a hitch. RAID can very much mitigate the risks associated with keeping drives around that long, too.
Of course, as always with storage technology, the chief concern will always be cost. Why is RAID so popular? Bang for the buck! You get performance-enhanced, fault-tolerant storage at a reasonable price per megabyte.
Other technologies have come and gone claiming to compete with hard drives for speed and reliability. But the fact is that hard drives are a very mature technology with a low cost per megabyte, with performance and reliability characteristics that have long been considered good enough. The number one factor that continues -- and will continue -- to keep hard drives at the top of the storage technology pile is cost. Every other random access storage technology is more expensive and less reliable, even ones that are higher performing.
Not a lawyer, not even a pompous Slashdot-Talk-Like-A-Yale-Grad-But-Have-No-Real-Cl ue-Lawyer... But... Are there anti-trust issues with this idea of Oracle only on Oracle Linux?
Are there anti-trust issues with SQL Server only on Windows Server?
I can dream though that perhaps the more Oracle limits the options available for using their systems, more people/organizations will consider alternatives to their products (i.e. Postgres or MySQL). My personal philosophy is that I choose not to use products that limit how/where I can use them.
That's a good philosophy to have, but unfortunately, the sad reality is that your average PHB has heard of Oracle and knows that it has the reputation of being a rock-solid reliable product. Postgres and MySQL are unknown by many PHBs, and even worse, MySQL has the reputation of not being so reliable and not so high-performing, despite the best efforts of MySQL AB, which has put a ton of effort into MySQL to improve in areas of performance, availability, and reliability. Postgres is nice, and I think for all but high-end clustered databases, it can give Oracle a run for its money, but for now Oracle has carved itself out a nice niche being a premiere database player, along with IBM's DB2.
I'll stick with Cent OS thanks... BTW first post for me???
And I'll be sticking with Ubuntu. But that seems hardly relevant to the question at hand, unless you're on Oracle admin. Why would you run Oracle on Cent OS? This would be a configuration that's not supported by Oracle, so you're on your own if you have serious technical difficulties that you don't have immediate answers for and cannot be solved by googling for answers.
"They are delivering no innovation, delayed patches, delayed releases, no real knowledge of open source and no involvement with the community, so where is the value?" he asked.
Oracle's typical answer is that Oracle will only be supported by platforms blessed by Oracle. See this FAQ from Oracle, particular the part on p.4 about the 'Transition Path for Red Hat and Novell customers' In particular, this means that Oracle in the future will probably only be supported on Unbreakable Linux. Have problems? Not running on Unbreakable Linux? You won't get support. It's that simple. Most shops simply cannot afford to run an unsupported configuration, so they will likely migrate their existing SuSE and Red Hat installations to Unbreakable Linux.
But the OLPC has a trackpad, and we all know they're not so good for flinging the cursor into the corner.
Actually, it depends on the touchpad's drivers and how they handle acceleration, etc. I've found that the some drivers work very well in this regard, in particular the Synaptics Windows drivers. The drivers that come with X.org (at least on Xubuntu) aren't bad, either, but they're not nearly as configurable.
Now, personally, I see this as a minor evolutionary improvement on the 'tool palette' interface made popular by Adobe Systems' Photoshop and Illustrator appliations, but that's just me.
If you have a terabyte of data to store I'm guessing you have plenty of disk space already. Maybe you don't have an empty file system with a terabyte of free space to do disc to disc copies but eventually disk space cost will come down to something reasonable for that amount of data.
Seriously. They might have a number of Microsoft products involved in running their VPN, but I'll bet it's mixed in with offerings from Cisco or Juniper. They could still claim it was an "all MS solution" since a Cisco ASA, for instance, is a "hardware appliance" and doesn't involve the use of software at all! (Damn, I can't say that with a straight face...)
This isn't anything critical like fixing a problem with their DRM. This only hurts the end users, not anybody they are beholden to RIGHT NOW in order to attempt to become the supreme overlords of the livingroom, like they so desperately want to be.
Exactly. Who cares about existing users in markets they already control, who are addicted to you and will stay with you forever? After all, when you have to spend all of this time throwing chairs about, f**king killing Google, figuring out ways to steal Apple's successful online music business out from under them, and scheming to keep those Linux guys from getting anywhere, you can't be focused on such silly things as customer support. No siree! Win, win, win! That's what I always say!
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Yet, it still doesn't. The book centers around the Lexus -- globalization -- and the olive tree -- tradition. I don't see how the Internet as it is today has anything to do with the collision of the Lexus and the olive tree. In my mind, the Internet is a $70,000 4.7L V8-powered 4WD Lexus LX SUV mowing down the entire olive tree orchard, while the trees scream in protest. Either that it's just a bunch of tubes, I haven't figured out which...
Canonical, Ltd. offers support contracts for Ubuntu, but MySQL won't support anything but Red Hat or SuSE.
Insightful, because funny mods don't count against karma.
There's nothing stopping you from running KDE applications under XFCE or blackbox, for instance, as long as you have all of the necessary libraries installed. Of course, you still end up loading parts of KDE when you start the KDE application, but TANSTAAFL.
I disagree with that last statement. You may not be able to run Firefox 3 on Win 9x, but Firefox 2 will be around and updated for at least a while after Firefox 3 is released. Beyond that, with OSS you have options: You could switch to ReactOS, which runs nicely on older hardware and retains a relatively high degree of Windows compatibility. If you decide you don't need a high degree of Windows compatibility, you could run Firefox 3 on a lightweight Linux distro like Xubuntu.
Ok, so Asclepius predates the Pentatuch by a few hundred years, "Asclepius was most probably a skilled physician who practised in Greece around 1200BC (and described in Homer's Iliad). Eventually through myth and legend he came to be worshipped as Asclepius, the (Greek) god of Healing." (reference). As far as the use of the Rod of Asclepius, it's been known to be used well before Homer wrote about Asclepius in the Iliad in ca. 8th century BCE (though possibly as late as the 6th century BCE, as argued by some)
Now that was funny! I wish I had some mod points...
The parent's point, which is completely ignorant of the facts you point out, is that he doesn't believe in global warming because Fox News puts out stories about how cows produce more greenhouse gases than cars, which is a true statement, but it ignores the fact that cows are actually just recycling the carbon, as you point out, not adding new carbon to the air (unlike cars). This is a little bit like saying that you believe there are all of these WMDs in Iraq because Fox News puts out stories about long-since-dead chemical factories and decaying, left-over missile components that are so degraded that putting them to any use at all (other than as a paper weight) is impossible.
Not for the reason you would think. I think you would be looking for the Rod of Asclepius, which predates the Nehushtan by a few thousand years. It is possible, however, that the Nehushtan was inspired by the Rod of Asclepius.
D) Ask CowboyNeal!
Sure! It means that the smeller has an effect on the smelled! It also explains why Schroedinger never took into account the SMELL of that both dead and alive cat...
Yes.
Yes, there's a large assumption by a bunch of people that Linux (or Mac OS X or FreeBSD or NetBSD) is 'perfectly secure', and yes, I agree with you that they are dead flat wrong.
However, there's a large assumption by a bunch of people that if Linux were more popular, we'd see a lot more spyware, trojans, and viruses (oh my!) for Linux.
While this is a true in a relative way, it doesn't take much to be 'a lot more' for Linux. Even with just half a dozen, you'd have 'a lot more'.
However, it's important to note that no matter the popularity of Linux, there is no way it would ever have the depth or prervasiveness of malware problems present on the Windows platform. If anyone who actually knows anything about the operating system architecture and security of both the Linux and Windows platforms in depth wants to debate this point with me seriously, I welcome them. Assuming that spammers would have just as much luck with Linux or ther UNIXes as with Windows is just sheer lunacy.
For now that is Oracle's official stance. But don't bet on it being their stance forever.
Sure. Oracle runs on Solaris, Windows, AIX, and HP-UX, I think. It's just that if you want to run Oracle on Linux, despite Oracle's words to the contrary, I think in the not-so-distant future you will most likely be running it on Unbreakable Linux.
But even if you consider the remote possibility that Oracle might shut off every other platform, even then, you still wouldn't have anti-trust issues. Oracle has nothing near a monopoly in relational database management software. And nothing prevents Microsoft from writing SQL Server for UNIX or Mac OS X or Linux, other than the fact that Microsoft wants companies to use its server platform rather than UNIX, the current market leader.
No, but HDDs are amongst the most reliable storage media. A good, well-built SCSI drive can last for much, much longer than 3-4 years. I've personally seen hard drives as old 10 years functioning without a hitch. RAID can very much mitigate the risks associated with keeping drives around that long, too.
Of course, as always with storage technology, the chief concern will always be cost. Why is RAID so popular? Bang for the buck! You get performance-enhanced, fault-tolerant storage at a reasonable price per megabyte.
Other technologies have come and gone claiming to compete with hard drives for speed and reliability. But the fact is that hard drives are a very mature technology with a low cost per megabyte, with performance and reliability characteristics that have long been considered good enough. The number one factor that continues -- and will continue -- to keep hard drives at the top of the storage technology pile is cost. Every other random access storage technology is more expensive and less reliable, even ones that are higher performing.
Are there anti-trust issues with SQL Server only on Windows Server?
That's a good philosophy to have, but unfortunately, the sad reality is that your average PHB has heard of Oracle and knows that it has the reputation of being a rock-solid reliable product. Postgres and MySQL are unknown by many PHBs, and even worse, MySQL has the reputation of not being so reliable and not so high-performing, despite the best efforts of MySQL AB, which has put a ton of effort into MySQL to improve in areas of performance, availability, and reliability. Postgres is nice, and I think for all but high-end clustered databases, it can give Oracle a run for its money, but for now Oracle has carved itself out a nice niche being a premiere database player, along with IBM's DB2.
And I'll be sticking with Ubuntu. But that seems hardly relevant to the question at hand, unless you're on Oracle admin. Why would you run Oracle on Cent OS? This would be a configuration that's not supported by Oracle, so you're on your own if you have serious technical difficulties that you don't have immediate answers for and cannot be solved by googling for answers.
Oracle's typical answer is that Oracle will only be supported by platforms blessed by Oracle. See this FAQ from Oracle, particular the part on p.4 about the 'Transition Path for Red Hat and Novell customers' In particular, this means that Oracle in the future will probably only be supported on Unbreakable Linux. Have problems? Not running on Unbreakable Linux? You won't get support. It's that simple. Most shops simply cannot afford to run an unsupported configuration, so they will likely migrate their existing SuSE and Red Hat installations to Unbreakable Linux.
Actually, it depends on the touchpad's drivers and how they handle acceleration, etc. I've found that the some drivers work very well in this regard, in particular the Synaptics Windows drivers. The drivers that come with X.org (at least on Xubuntu) aren't bad, either, but they're not nearly as configurable.
Microsoft would agree with you. That's one reason why they've adopted the "ribbons" interface for Office 2007
Now, personally, I see this as a minor evolutionary improvement on the 'tool palette' interface made popular by Adobe Systems' Photoshop and Illustrator appliations, but that's just me.
Okay, here you go, 2 TB of NAS space for $850.
Seriously. They might have a number of Microsoft products involved in running their VPN, but I'll bet it's mixed in with offerings from Cisco or Juniper. They could still claim it was an "all MS solution" since a Cisco ASA, for instance, is a "hardware appliance" and doesn't involve the use of software at all! (Damn, I can't say that with a straight face...)
Exactly. Who cares about existing users in markets they already control, who are addicted to you and will stay with you forever? After all, when you have to spend all of this time throwing chairs about, f**king killing Google, figuring out ways to steal Apple's successful online music business out from under them, and scheming to keep those Linux guys from getting anywhere, you can't be focused on such silly things as customer support. No siree! Win, win, win! That's what I always say!