Can someone explain to me how, for a project like setting up exchanges for Obamacare, NoSQL database systems is a rational choice? There are SQL-based systems like Oracle and MSSQL that can certainly handle recordsets of that size,and with that level of activity, and give you dialects of SQL sufficiently close to the norm that anybody with a reasonable level of RDBMS experience should be able work with it.
This thing is NOT mongodb. It actually works really well and allows for complex data modeling with the ability to do joins and have transactional isolation in making changes to the data as well as a really solid content processing framework with pipelining and all that jazz.
So is SQL attached to any reasonably good content management framework.
No fucking kidding. K-rust, I can only imagine how gawdawful slow such a database would be in every possible operation. Even if the XML itself is merely a wrapper for binary blobs, it's still an entire extra layer an engine is going to have to push through.
Why would anyone design such a product? Why would anyone buy such a product?
Quick MBA books probably cut to the chase and tell you how you can dismember, cook and eat competing managers, creatively shit on subordinates from great heights, and how to fool semi-conscious boards into letting you set up your stock dumping scheme.
That's the first chapter. The rest of the books is phone numbers and email addresses of lawyers who can help you bury the bodies and elude indictment on RICO charges.
Start brushing up your resume, and if you own stock, start looking at getting rid of it now and be prepared for the day when you and anyone else with any skills is given the boot. You really don't want to be on this airplane when it crashes. You can be sure the MBAs won't be.
And then the MBAs will take over, fire the physicists, hire a bunch of equally vile and sociopathic marketing types, and will find ways to cut corners, move all manufacturing to low-tax cheap-labor cess pools, hire equally vile and sociopathic IP lawyers to sue anyone who ever had an idea that even vaguely resembled the company's, rob the company of every dime it has, drive it into the ground.
In my organization, the initial answer would probably have been "No, we don't need it." Decent open source LDAP and calendar servers with discrete apps would have been fine. But Exchange was installed because it had been paid for as part of the Backoffice/Outlook suite, and it's like a drug. Once you've got it, you can't get rid of it, even if 75% of its features never really get utilized. I once raised the possibility of going back to discrete scheduling and email solutions, and the response was pretty negative. "You mean we wouldn't use Outlook, or Outlook wouldn't quite function like it does now?" And that was that.
But I'm done. I'm one of the managing directors of the company now, and I've put my foot down. This is the last version of Exchange we'll install. We'll either go with something like Gmail or with a managed Exchange service when we look at the next upgrade cycle in five years. This is the last time I build and manage any kind of in-house email system.
Exchange may, to the end user, do what it does well, but i can tell you right now the Exchange 2010 server I just installed is likely to be the last one. What a fucking nightmare. I'm so tired of installing groupware that is nothing more than a badly stitched together bunch of spare parts where every solution to a problem seems to involve uninstalling and reinstalling IIS, and praying to the Web Server Gods that your partially malfunctioning mail server doesn't completely crap out. Everything about Exchange is fucking awful, and if there are any Redmond engineers or programmers reading this, all I can say to you is that I hope you die of awful awful diseases.
It's fucking ludicrous how bad Exchange is, how resource hungry it can be, and how simple fucking things like setting up a fucking mailing list or putting in some decent anti-spam tech (which doesn't amount to a rolled up version of SpamAssassin with some proprietary web pages and costs a bazillion dollars a seat) turns into a fucking nightmare. Fuck I hate Exchange. Hate it... hate it... hate it... hate it.
Cleese was always a bit of an asshole. Watch interviews with him from any period from when they first made it big until now, and he was came off as abrasive, arrogant and argumentative. Even he, on occasion, has admitted it. And he's been bitching about ex-wives as long as he had ex-wives, so that's nothing new. The only thing new is he asking you to fork over the money for a ticket to hear him bitch about his ex-wives instead of showing up on talk shows and doing it for free.
Another major prick is Eric Idle, who has also come off as abrasive, arrogant, argumentative and at times just outright mean. He's treatment of Neil Innes is unforgivable, particular when you consider that The Ruttles wouldn't have existed without Innes. Idle has also been the most willing to simultaneously spurn previous plans to reunite whilst simultaneously ripping off chunks of the Python corpse for mediocre musicals.
I'm actually amazed they've actually been able to get into a room long enough to plot out a reunion. I would imagine money is a big part of it. Cleese's marital problems are well known, but I'd hazard a guess Gilliam has pissed off enough investors that he wouldn't mind getting some new seed money. Let's face it, a Python reunion tour would be as big and profitable as a Led Zeppelin reunion tour.
I've watched a fair chunk of the first couple of Q series, and while there are some insanely funny bits, all in all, I find Milligan, on his own, could get a little tiresome. Perhaps, in part, it was because there was six Pythons who would sit down, hear the sketches the others had come up with and would be able to throw it out the trash, or perhaps reuse it in inventive and unforeseen ways, whereas Milligan didn't have the benefit of a large group of equals to clean up material. Milligan was also far more willing to go for a cheap laugh, and even by late 1960s and early 1970s standards some of his skits were astonishingly racist.
I look at this way; Monty Python without the Fish Slapping Dance would not have been Monty Python. Monty Python that was a large part Fish Slapping Dances would have been unbearable.
Still, Milligan was a comedic genius of the first order, who, when he was in his head, was probably one of the funniest men who ever lived. Every time I watch the skit with the domestic Daleks blowing up everyone and everything in the flat, I fall off my chair.
I just can't believe Gilliam would get involved simply for them to go on a tour redoing forty year old skits. Palin and Jones have continued to be writing partners, Cleese still dabbles in it, Idle is constantly writing annoying music and Gilliam, well, he's pretty much my favorite filmmaker, who has, in his way, kept the spirit of Python going while the others have gone in other directions, coasted, or in the case of Idle, ravaged the corpse for Broadway revues.
Well, to be fair, I'd say Peter Cook and the Goons were pretty major influences, and the Pythons regularly cite them. Certainly Spike Milligan's anarchic humor is a straight line between the comedic revolution of the 1950s and early 1960s and Python. The chief difference between the Q series and Python was that Milligan was pretty deranged and more inconsistent than the Pythons, but still that fundamental absurdism is something the Pythons built on.
If Terry Gilliam is involved, I doubt it will just be a rehash. Besides, I have a fairly good feeling Terry Jones has likely been sitting on some damned good material for the last quarter century.
Most panspermia proponents I've seen (of the Hoyle variety) seem to be a little shy on any specific details other than a sort of a Battlestar Galacta-esque "life here began out there" kind of line. There's no real substance to their "theory" beyond a "golly, it sure seems unlikely abiogenesis happened here, but somehow, someway, it's more likely somewhere else in the Local Group."
Most of the what I woudl consider legitimate "xenobiologists" don't really look beyond the solar system. There are some that think Mars might have been more hospitable early on, so maybe life began there and then caught a ride after some sort of a meteor impact with Mars that reached Earth. But really, as sparse as the evidence for abiogenesis on Earth is, thus far we have no evidence that in any way approaches conclusiveness that there was life on Mars. And even if we do find it, you still have to show some sort of a genetic relationship between life on both worlds (or indeed, on any other body in the solar system) and life on Earth.
In other words, yes, it's likely that the major meteor strikes on Earth over the last 3.5 billion years have shot life-bearing rocks out into space, but while it seems likely that some may have made it to other bodies in the solar system, it's a helluva a leap from that to "hey look, Earth life flourished on Mars or Europa."
A nice example of how panspermia might happen. It's a helluva leap between having life-bearing rocks blasted off of earth by a massive meteor collision, and quite another to suggest that the rest of the solar system could have been seeded.
I pretty much avoid apps with any kind of in-app purchasing. If you think your app is worth the price of all the extra bits, well then allow me to buy the whole thing. I'm not interested in being nickeled and dimed to death for extra levels, abilities or features.
Reminds me of a story. Many years ago (okay, about 20 years ago) I worked for a very small company that set up networks for point of sale systems; so small it was just my boss and me.
One evening we were heading back to town after being onsite since about 6am. Needless to say, we were both tired, so my boss was gunning it. Then comes the flashing lights. Cop stops us, and asks my boss "Do you know why I stopped you?" My boss replies "I suppose I was speeding." The cop nods. "Yes you were, sir. And did you happen to glance at your speedometer to see how much over the speed limit you were driving?" At that point, I caught a mischievous look in my boss's eye.
"God no!" my boss exclaimed. "Traveling that fast, I didn't dare look down at my dash!"
Fortunately the cop had a good sense of humor, we all had a laugh, and my boss got a ticket.
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Becaus closed source products never cease development and no one using closed source software has ever found it abandoned.
Can someone explain to me how, for a project like setting up exchanges for Obamacare, NoSQL database systems is a rational choice? There are SQL-based systems like Oracle and MSSQL that can certainly handle recordsets of that size,and with that level of activity, and give you dialects of SQL sufficiently close to the norm that anybody with a reasonable level of RDBMS experience should be able work with it.
This thing is NOT mongodb. It actually works really well and allows for complex data modeling with the ability to do joins and have transactional isolation in making changes to the data as well as a really solid content processing framework with pipelining and all that jazz.
So is SQL attached to any reasonably good content management framework.
No fucking kidding. K-rust, I can only imagine how gawdawful slow such a database would be in every possible operation. Even if the XML itself is merely a wrapper for binary blobs, it's still an entire extra layer an engine is going to have to push through.
Why would anyone design such a product? Why would anyone buy such a product?
Quick MBA books probably cut to the chase and tell you how you can dismember, cook and eat competing managers, creatively shit on subordinates from great heights, and how to fool semi-conscious boards into letting you set up your stock dumping scheme.
That's the first chapter. The rest of the books is phone numbers and email addresses of lawyers who can help you bury the bodies and elude indictment on RICO charges.
Start brushing up your resume, and if you own stock, start looking at getting rid of it now and be prepared for the day when you and anyone else with any skills is given the boot. You really don't want to be on this airplane when it crashes. You can be sure the MBAs won't be.
And then the MBAs will take over, fire the physicists, hire a bunch of equally vile and sociopathic marketing types, and will find ways to cut corners, move all manufacturing to low-tax cheap-labor cess pools, hire equally vile and sociopathic IP lawyers to sue anyone who ever had an idea that even vaguely resembled the company's, rob the company of every dime it has, drive it into the ground.
Rinse and repeat.
I got modded +5 because I'm not a sociopathic Redmond shill, shill.
In my organization, the initial answer would probably have been "No, we don't need it." Decent open source LDAP and calendar servers with discrete apps would have been fine. But Exchange was installed because it had been paid for as part of the Backoffice/Outlook suite, and it's like a drug. Once you've got it, you can't get rid of it, even if 75% of its features never really get utilized. I once raised the possibility of going back to discrete scheduling and email solutions, and the response was pretty negative. "You mean we wouldn't use Outlook, or Outlook wouldn't quite function like it does now?" And that was that.
But I'm done. I'm one of the managing directors of the company now, and I've put my foot down. This is the last version of Exchange we'll install. We'll either go with something like Gmail or with a managed Exchange service when we look at the next upgrade cycle in five years. This is the last time I build and manage any kind of in-house email system.
You've got the wrong map here. That's Stalingrad.
Exchange may, to the end user, do what it does well, but i can tell you right now the Exchange 2010 server I just installed is likely to be the last one. What a fucking nightmare. I'm so tired of installing groupware that is nothing more than a badly stitched together bunch of spare parts where every solution to a problem seems to involve uninstalling and reinstalling IIS, and praying to the Web Server Gods that your partially malfunctioning mail server doesn't completely crap out. Everything about Exchange is fucking awful, and if there are any Redmond engineers or programmers reading this, all I can say to you is that I hope you die of awful awful diseases.
It's fucking ludicrous how bad Exchange is, how resource hungry it can be, and how simple fucking things like setting up a fucking mailing list or putting in some decent anti-spam tech (which doesn't amount to a rolled up version of SpamAssassin with some proprietary web pages and costs a bazillion dollars a seat) turns into a fucking nightmare. Fuck I hate Exchange. Hate it... hate it... hate it... hate it.
Cleese was always a bit of an asshole. Watch interviews with him from any period from when they first made it big until now, and he was came off as abrasive, arrogant and argumentative. Even he, on occasion, has admitted it. And he's been bitching about ex-wives as long as he had ex-wives, so that's nothing new. The only thing new is he asking you to fork over the money for a ticket to hear him bitch about his ex-wives instead of showing up on talk shows and doing it for free.
Another major prick is Eric Idle, who has also come off as abrasive, arrogant, argumentative and at times just outright mean. He's treatment of Neil Innes is unforgivable, particular when you consider that The Ruttles wouldn't have existed without Innes. Idle has also been the most willing to simultaneously spurn previous plans to reunite whilst simultaneously ripping off chunks of the Python corpse for mediocre musicals.
I'm actually amazed they've actually been able to get into a room long enough to plot out a reunion. I would imagine money is a big part of it. Cleese's marital problems are well known, but I'd hazard a guess Gilliam has pissed off enough investors that he wouldn't mind getting some new seed money. Let's face it, a Python reunion tour would be as big and profitable as a Led Zeppelin reunion tour.
I've watched a fair chunk of the first couple of Q series, and while there are some insanely funny bits, all in all, I find Milligan, on his own, could get a little tiresome. Perhaps, in part, it was because there was six Pythons who would sit down, hear the sketches the others had come up with and would be able to throw it out the trash, or perhaps reuse it in inventive and unforeseen ways, whereas Milligan didn't have the benefit of a large group of equals to clean up material. Milligan was also far more willing to go for a cheap laugh, and even by late 1960s and early 1970s standards some of his skits were astonishingly racist.
I look at this way; Monty Python without the Fish Slapping Dance would not have been Monty Python. Monty Python that was a large part Fish Slapping Dances would have been unbearable.
Still, Milligan was a comedic genius of the first order, who, when he was in his head, was probably one of the funniest men who ever lived. Every time I watch the skit with the domestic Daleks blowing up everyone and everything in the flat, I fall off my chair.
I just can't believe Gilliam would get involved simply for them to go on a tour redoing forty year old skits. Palin and Jones have continued to be writing partners, Cleese still dabbles in it, Idle is constantly writing annoying music and Gilliam, well, he's pretty much my favorite filmmaker, who has, in his way, kept the spirit of Python going while the others have gone in other directions, coasted, or in the case of Idle, ravaged the corpse for Broadway revues.
Well, to be fair, I'd say Peter Cook and the Goons were pretty major influences, and the Pythons regularly cite them. Certainly Spike Milligan's anarchic humor is a straight line between the comedic revolution of the 1950s and early 1960s and Python. The chief difference between the Q series and Python was that Milligan was pretty deranged and more inconsistent than the Pythons, but still that fundamental absurdism is something the Pythons built on.
Don't be a baby. Now come at me with a banana.
Well yes, but Gay Hitler Sings The Hits is better than Nickelback.
If Terry Gilliam is involved, I doubt it will just be a rehash. Besides, I have a fairly good feeling Terry Jones has likely been sitting on some damned good material for the last quarter century.
For a definition of "computer" that hasn't been relevant for five or six years now.
Most panspermia proponents I've seen (of the Hoyle variety) seem to be a little shy on any specific details other than a sort of a Battlestar Galacta-esque "life here began out there" kind of line. There's no real substance to their "theory" beyond a "golly, it sure seems unlikely abiogenesis happened here, but somehow, someway, it's more likely somewhere else in the Local Group."
Most of the what I woudl consider legitimate "xenobiologists" don't really look beyond the solar system. There are some that think Mars might have been more hospitable early on, so maybe life began there and then caught a ride after some sort of a meteor impact with Mars that reached Earth. But really, as sparse as the evidence for abiogenesis on Earth is, thus far we have no evidence that in any way approaches conclusiveness that there was life on Mars. And even if we do find it, you still have to show some sort of a genetic relationship between life on both worlds (or indeed, on any other body in the solar system) and life on Earth.
In other words, yes, it's likely that the major meteor strikes on Earth over the last 3.5 billion years have shot life-bearing rocks out into space, but while it seems likely that some may have made it to other bodies in the solar system, it's a helluva a leap from that to "hey look, Earth life flourished on Mars or Europa."
A nice example of how panspermia might happen. It's a helluva leap between having life-bearing rocks blasted off of earth by a massive meteor collision, and quite another to suggest that the rest of the solar system could have been seeded.
I pretty much avoid apps with any kind of in-app purchasing. If you think your app is worth the price of all the extra bits, well then allow me to buy the whole thing. I'm not interested in being nickeled and dimed to death for extra levels, abilities or features.
I'm confused. Are you talking about apps or girlfriends?
Reminds me of a story. Many years ago (okay, about 20 years ago) I worked for a very small company that set up networks for point of sale systems; so small it was just my boss and me.
One evening we were heading back to town after being onsite since about 6am. Needless to say, we were both tired, so my boss was gunning it. Then comes the flashing lights. Cop stops us, and asks my boss "Do you know why I stopped you?" My boss replies "I suppose I was speeding." The cop nods. "Yes you were, sir. And did you happen to glance at your speedometer to see how much over the speed limit you were driving?" At that point, I caught a mischievous look in my boss's eye.
"God no!" my boss exclaimed. "Traveling that fast, I didn't dare look down at my dash!"
Fortunately the cop had a good sense of humor, we all had a laugh, and my boss got a ticket.