Thanks for the advice. I was not aware that PostressSQL was available for Windows. So, what are the differences in how you install/configure/setup PostgressSQL vs MySQL? I really haven't worked with either. I downloaded MySQL a while back having never used it before and spent about two hours and it didn't seem anywhere near as easy to get going as MS SQL Server so I just gave up. But I'd really love to use one of the two. Could you briefly educate me on the main tradeoffs for each?
Honestly it seems to me that PostresSQL would be a better choice but I'm just wondering why more people don't see that.
Yep, this is just one real-life example of why Open Source can only work for some situations but simply does not make sense for others. At the end of the day developers have to eat and have shelter (and provide such for their spouse/children) too.
Most people understand this principle. But the OSS activists seem to believe that smart developers can donate forever and should be totally selfless. Why is it only the developers? Developers who spent many years of their lives learning to be experts at their complex trade (programming) are expected to donate. Yet the typical help-desk types are "allowed" to charge for their consulting services when they pop a CD in a drive and install the OSS software for a client.
I'll admit, I'm a software developer. But, I know OSS activist guys who charge companies $100/hr consulting fees to implement OSS solutions that they don't pay a dime for. These guys are walking in to a firm, spending a day setting up a PHP server (or whatever) and walking out with a fat-ass paycheck.
But when a developer wants to charge for the software he writes the OSS community of activists starts hissing at him and brand him with some sort of corporate greed type crap.
Can somebody please explain this OSS-mentality inconsistency????
That's what I see happening here. The problem is that it's just plain awkward to have to open a browser window do type a term paper. I don't know. I just think most people will sum it all up by saying, "Well it's definately annoying sometimes but I guess it's better than paying $500 for MS Office." But they won't have much good to say other than that. MS Office is a premium product. People who switch for whatever reason will miss many things about MS Office.
It's not going to be an overnight thing. But hopefully with many many more users OO will get much better providing a solution to 99% of what a normal home user needs an office product for.
The risk is that it won't be a smash hit. People will try it out and will not see much benefit over the MS Office that they already use for free at college/work or have already have paid for at home.
But seriously I really doubt that this GOOffice product (or what ever they're gonna call it) will require an internet connection. I think that google will simply be offering Goofice as a download along with the toolbar. Has anybody heard anything to suggest that it will be something that only works over the web?
The typical 4% or so raise that a company "gives" it's employees each year is no more than an inflation adjustment. For instance, after working for 3 years getting a 2-4% raise each year you have no more spending power than you did the first year because the cost of goods and services also went up by roughly the same amount. It is typical to get a 10% pay raise when you move to a new job at a different company.
I totally agree with the parent. There's no shame in being a "job hopper" in the current day and age. The fact is you are being proactive when you hop. One of the best selling points during an interview is that you are currently employed. This gives you great negotiating leverage in that you do not need the new job. You want it for a specific reason. And they better come to your terms or you'll just keep your current job.
Another factor for switching jobs is that you must have a strategy. Getting to the next rung on the pay scale is a strategy. But it'll bite you later if your expertise is not also further focused and narrowed. Each job switch should make you more of an expert in your specific field. Don't be a software developer and then take a job as a network admin then a mainframe maintenance person then implementing a document managment system. You're all over the map. You'll hit a point when you can't get higher pay because you're not an expert in anything.
Right, yea. Here's the problem. You are saying that Americans who are characterized as "Conservatives" don't believe in that. And they do. Your terminology is a bit unusual and confusing.
Maybe I'm crazy. But it's the "Liberal" judges that just voted to screw the private citizen who owns private property by kicking them off their property to allow big greedy tax-generating business to have it (right to own property). It's the "Liberals" who like the fact that it is legal to terminate unborn human life (right to life). It's the "Liberals" that want liberal supreme court judges so they can make law by the rulings of those judges instead of the consent of the governed. And it's the "liberals" who are responsible for affirmative action which unbalances opportunity against the white male and in favor of any "minority" (that all citizens have equal rights under the law).
Now I KNOW you're gonna flame me for this interpretation of what the stereotypical American Liberal movement has done to destroy the true Liberalism that you say this country was founded upon.
Really, where are you getting this "Conservative == Monarchy" stuff? I keep up with politics on an almost hourly basis and I'm still under the impression you are talking about Monarchy like the Kings and serfs and patronages and such. Could you point me to a web link where this is explained (not monarchy, but where political American Conservatives are supposed to believe in monarchy).
Or are you trying to take some awkward jab at conservative christians like they are thinking that God should be the one ruler over america? Where in the world are you pulling this "Conservatives want Monarchy" stuff from? If anybody else is still watching this thread please chime in with your input on this also.
Will they be using open standards? I want to be able to play this thing on my own custom hardware.
Are they going to provide the raw editable video source for free download? Heck, if I don't like something in the storyline I want to be able to edit it and recomplie my own version. Or if there's a glitch in the playback I can debug it myself.
It's a movie about Microsoft software!!! I'm going to boycott this evil movie.
. . . truly conservative stances such as the divine right of kings or the fundamental superiority of the nobility over peasantry . . .
Do you live in America? I don't think a single conservative in America would think that any of this "kings and nobility" stuff has anything to do with the western (American) notion of "conservative politics". You must be from another country.
You are right, I should have posted my comment under one of the other replies (sorry). You are also right that "indepenxdent" != "liberal". Personally I would consider myself a Libertarian. I'd say that only about 5% of the time is government the answer to a problem. However modern day D & R disagree with that. Dems would say 99.9% and Republicans would prefer 60%.
My "independent" == "liberal" comment is mainly for those cowards who don't want to take a stand. They know that if they claim that they will be voting for a R or D they automatically have half the country against them. A lot of them try to act like they get along with everybody and always "vote their conscience". They tend to know who they will vote for deep down the entire time; but don't tell anybody till after they voted. They do this because they can't stick up for their choice. They can't handle the fact that people will stereotype them as a R or D just because of who they happen to vote for this time. To those people I say - Get a backbone! Stick up for your choice, be vocal about it, and don't be afraid of being stereotyped by people who disagree with you!!
I think everybody ought to agree with that statement regardless of their political persuasion.
So you don't call yourself a "liberal". Would you at least comment on how often you choose to vote for a Democrat against a Republican?
From your post I bet your mantra is not just "Anybody but Bush" but also "Anything but stereotypical Conservative". Correct? Conservative is logically the opposite of Liberal. Hence my point. "Independents" don't like being called "liberal" because of all the wackos that have dragged the name down to unpopularity. But in the end "independents" vote the same way liberals do.
I'm sure the poster is hoping that this article enlightens the/. reader somehow. The fact is that probably 70% of/. patrons are MS hating liberals ("independent" & "moderate" == liberal). So this article is just more fuel for the flames and really does nothing else.
I guess it's pretty nifty how one article can be such a home-run with both Bush haters and MS haters at the same time!!
Yeah, we tried the whole "one worldwide agency" thing with the ISS and what do we have to show for it? Are you more into making NASA primarily an organization that furthers world-wide peace or a science organization?
It doesn't have anything to do with country's "playing nice". It's just a matter of national pride to use your own equipment to put your people into space. Rather, it has to do with the fact that we aren't just ordering another space vehicle from the humming production line. We are building from scratch with all new materials/designs/engineers. I mean it even takes months to get another space shuttle ready for orbit again; much less build the whole thing. I'm all in favor of a total overhaul.
The real problem is that we should have built this new CXV 10 years ago. But NASA was spending every penny the government gave them just keeping the shuttles and the IIS going. No vision for the future. So I hope the CXV will last for another 20 years!
This doesn't mean that the "feature" is pointless or bothersome. It just means that you need a little more practice with your mouse! Drag and drop!!!!! Not that hard, now is it? After all isn't this a Mac "innovation"?
. . . encourage their children to enjoy music responsibly on the Internet
"What are you doing, Dad?"
"I'm teaching you how to enjoy your music responsibly."
"What?"
"Well actually son, I don't really care about how responsible you are or your music. I'm just making sure I don't get sued by the RIAA."
TFA article had nothing to do with Linux. It was about Google marginalizing Microsoft's core business (desktop OS) with Google's web offerings. Frankly any desktop OS (including Mac and Linux) will be marginalized by what Google does. It's just that it hit's MS where it counts ($$$). And any change to the way MS does business will affect the entire world. That's the news item here.
But in the end Google is an advertizing company. It's clients are the companies who advertize with them. The users are the mere bait to draw the advertizers. MS can steal the users (with better alternatives) or the advertizers (with better bang-for-the-buck ads). Google's problem is that it has no installed base. There's no part of Google that people are forced to use. Even now there is an alternative for every single Google "product". MS will have no problem cutting into Google's business. Give MS a year or two and you'll be seeing more and more headlines about Google trouble.
It simply helps someone get a bigger slice of the pie.
When an economy grows the pie gets bigger. I hate it when people think that when somebody (Gates, Ellison, Jobs, etc.) gets richer that means somebody else is getting poorer. That is not necessarily true!!!
I totally agree with that. Documentation is good. It's just a running joke where I work that when the boss asks you to document your code he is considering replacing you. But the second half of my post indicated what you said about how it makes training easier. You've got to keep the docs updated though; and that seems like a full-time job sometimes.
My preferred methodology for documentation is to write very legible code using consistent naming conventions and coding patterns followed by a complete code review/documentation after a main version is past the ever-changing design/prototyping/development stage.
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Thanks for the advice. I was not aware that PostressSQL was available for Windows. So, what are the differences in how you install/configure/setup PostgressSQL vs MySQL? I really haven't worked with either. I downloaded MySQL a while back having never used it before and spent about two hours and it didn't seem anywhere near as easy to get going as MS SQL Server so I just gave up. But I'd really love to use one of the two. Could you briefly educate me on the main tradeoffs for each?
Honestly it seems to me that PostresSQL would be a better choice but I'm just wondering why more people don't see that.
Thanks in advance.
Yep, this is just one real-life example of why Open Source can only work for some situations but simply does not make sense for others. At the end of the day developers have to eat and have shelter (and provide such for their spouse/children) too.
Most people understand this principle. But the OSS activists seem to believe that smart developers can donate forever and should be totally selfless. Why is it only the developers? Developers who spent many years of their lives learning to be experts at their complex trade (programming) are expected to donate. Yet the typical help-desk types are "allowed" to charge for their consulting services when they pop a CD in a drive and install the OSS software for a client.
I'll admit, I'm a software developer. But, I know OSS activist guys who charge companies $100/hr consulting fees to implement OSS solutions that they don't pay a dime for. These guys are walking in to a firm, spending a day setting up a PHP server (or whatever) and walking out with a fat-ass paycheck.
But when a developer wants to charge for the software he writes the OSS community of activists starts hissing at him and brand him with some sort of corporate greed type crap.
Can somebody please explain this OSS-mentality inconsistency????
That's what I see happening here. The problem is that it's just plain awkward to have to open a browser window do type a term paper. I don't know. I just think most people will sum it all up by saying, "Well it's definately annoying sometimes but I guess it's better than paying $500 for MS Office." But they won't have much good to say other than that. MS Office is a premium product. People who switch for whatever reason will miss many things about MS Office.
It's not going to be an overnight thing. But hopefully with many many more users OO will get much better providing a solution to 99% of what a normal home user needs an office product for.
The risk is that it won't be a smash hit. People will try it out and will not see much benefit over the MS Office that they already use for free at college/work or have already have paid for at home.
I hope it works but I'm doubtful.
Ever heard of a UPS? Or a battery powered Laptop?
No such thing as a UPS for the entire Internet.
But seriously I really doubt that this GOOffice product (or what ever they're gonna call it) will require an internet connection. I think that google will simply be offering Goofice as a download along with the toolbar. Has anybody heard anything to suggest that it will be something that only works over the web?
The typical 4% or so raise that a company "gives" it's employees each year is no more than an inflation adjustment. For instance, after working for 3 years getting a 2-4% raise each year you have no more spending power than you did the first year because the cost of goods and services also went up by roughly the same amount. It is typical to get a 10% pay raise when you move to a new job at a different company.
I totally agree with the parent. There's no shame in being a "job hopper" in the current day and age. The fact is you are being proactive when you hop. One of the best selling points during an interview is that you are currently employed. This gives you great negotiating leverage in that you do not need the new job. You want it for a specific reason. And they better come to your terms or you'll just keep your current job.
Another factor for switching jobs is that you must have a strategy. Getting to the next rung on the pay scale is a strategy. But it'll bite you later if your expertise is not also further focused and narrowed. Each job switch should make you more of an expert in your specific field. Don't be a software developer and then take a job as a network admin then a mainframe maintenance person then implementing a document managment system. You're all over the map. You'll hit a point when you can't get higher pay because you're not an expert in anything.
Be proactive and have a strategy.
Right, yea. Here's the problem. You are saying that Americans who are characterized as "Conservatives" don't believe in that. And they do. Your terminology is a bit unusual and confusing.
Maybe I'm crazy. But it's the "Liberal" judges that just voted to screw the private citizen who owns private property by kicking them off their property to allow big greedy tax-generating business to have it (right to own property). It's the "Liberals" who like the fact that it is legal to terminate unborn human life (right to life). It's the "Liberals" that want liberal supreme court judges so they can make law by the rulings of those judges instead of the consent of the governed. And it's the "liberals" who are responsible for affirmative action which unbalances opportunity against the white male and in favor of any "minority" (that all citizens have equal rights under the law).
Now I KNOW you're gonna flame me for this interpretation of what the stereotypical American Liberal movement has done to destroy the true Liberalism that you say this country was founded upon.
Put in your last word. I'm done here.
Really, where are you getting this "Conservative == Monarchy" stuff? I keep up with politics on an almost hourly basis and I'm still under the impression you are talking about Monarchy like the Kings and serfs and patronages and such. Could you point me to a web link where this is explained (not monarchy, but where political American Conservatives are supposed to believe in monarchy).
Or are you trying to take some awkward jab at conservative christians like they are thinking that God should be the one ruler over america? Where in the world are you pulling this "Conservatives want Monarchy" stuff from? If anybody else is still watching this thread please chime in with your input on this also.
Thanks.
Will they be using open standards? I want to be able to play this thing on my own custom hardware.
Are they going to provide the raw editable video source for free download? Heck, if I don't like something in the storyline I want to be able to edit it and recomplie my own version. Or if there's a glitch in the playback I can debug it myself.
It's a movie about Microsoft software!!! I'm going to boycott this evil movie.
. . . truly conservative stances such as the divine right of kings or the fundamental superiority of the nobility over peasantry . . .
Do you live in America? I don't think a single conservative in America would think that any of this "kings and nobility" stuff has anything to do with the western (American) notion of "conservative politics". You must be from another country.
You are right, I should have posted my comment under one of the other replies (sorry). You are also right that "indepenxdent" != "liberal". Personally I would consider myself a Libertarian. I'd say that only about 5% of the time is government the answer to a problem. However modern day D & R disagree with that. Dems would say 99.9% and Republicans would prefer 60%.
My "independent" == "liberal" comment is mainly for those cowards who don't want to take a stand. They know that if they claim that they will be voting for a R or D they automatically have half the country against them. A lot of them try to act like they get along with everybody and always "vote their conscience". They tend to know who they will vote for deep down the entire time; but don't tell anybody till after they voted. They do this because they can't stick up for their choice. They can't handle the fact that people will stereotype them as a R or D just because of who they happen to vote for this time. To those people I say - Get a backbone! Stick up for your choice, be vocal about it, and don't be afraid of being stereotyped by people who disagree with you!!
I think everybody ought to agree with that statement regardless of their political persuasion.
So you don't call yourself a "liberal". Would you at least comment on how often you choose to vote for a Democrat against a Republican?
From your post I bet your mantra is not just "Anybody but Bush" but also "Anything but stereotypical Conservative". Correct? Conservative is logically the opposite of Liberal. Hence my point. "Independents" don't like being called "liberal" because of all the wackos that have dragged the name down to unpopularity. But in the end "independents" vote the same way liberals do.
I'm sure the poster is hoping that this article enlightens the /. reader somehow. The fact is that probably 70% of /. patrons are MS hating liberals ("independent" & "moderate" == liberal). So this article is just more fuel for the flames and really does nothing else.
I guess it's pretty nifty how one article can be such a home-run with both Bush haters and MS haters at the same time!!
Just makes me wonder why nobody even suspects that Google will ever get hacked someday allowing the attacker access to all passworded info/data files.
Probably offtopic. But oh well.
"Yea, but it hasn't even been exploited yet! It doesn't count unless it's been exploited, right?"
"I bet there will be a fix out within 24 hours! Exploits don't count if they are fixed quickly, right?"
"I don't care if they find a thousand exploits; I still won't use IE!"
Oh, wait . . . I thought the article was about another Firefox exploit. Nevermind.
Yeah, we tried the whole "one worldwide agency" thing with the ISS and what do we have to show for it? Are you more into making NASA primarily an organization that furthers world-wide peace or a science organization?
It doesn't have anything to do with country's "playing nice". It's just a matter of national pride to use your own equipment to put your people into space. Rather, it has to do with the fact that we aren't just ordering another space vehicle from the humming production line. We are building from scratch with all new materials/designs/engineers. I mean it even takes months to get another space shuttle ready for orbit again; much less build the whole thing. I'm all in favor of a total overhaul.
The real problem is that we should have built this new CXV 10 years ago. But NASA was spending every penny the government gave them just keeping the shuttles and the IIS going. No vision for the future. So I hope the CXV will last for another 20 years!
I can't wait till they put this software out!!! I can finally stop making excuses for why we don't have something that works like Outlook.
Google has released Firefox search toolbar after two months in beta.
So from that I guess we can conclude that Gmail hasn't been released yet.
This doesn't mean that the "feature" is pointless or bothersome. It just means that you need a little more practice with your mouse! Drag and drop!!!!! Not that hard, now is it? After all isn't this a Mac "innovation"?
. . . encourage their children to enjoy music responsibly on the Internet
"What are you doing, Dad?"
"I'm teaching you how to enjoy your music responsibly."
"What?"
"Well actually son, I don't really care about how responsible you are or your music. I'm just making sure I don't get sued by the RIAA."
TFA article had nothing to do with Linux. It was about Google marginalizing Microsoft's core business (desktop OS) with Google's web offerings. Frankly any desktop OS (including Mac and Linux) will be marginalized by what Google does. It's just that it hit's MS where it counts ($$$). And any change to the way MS does business will affect the entire world. That's the news item here.
But in the end Google is an advertizing company. It's clients are the companies who advertize with them. The users are the mere bait to draw the advertizers. MS can steal the users (with better alternatives) or the advertizers (with better bang-for-the-buck ads). Google's problem is that it has no installed base. There's no part of Google that people are forced to use. Even now there is an alternative for every single Google "product". MS will have no problem cutting into Google's business. Give MS a year or two and you'll be seeing more and more headlines about Google trouble.
It simply helps someone get a bigger slice of the pie.
When an economy grows the pie gets bigger. I hate it when people think that when somebody (Gates, Ellison, Jobs, etc.) gets richer that means somebody else is getting poorer. That is not necessarily true!!!
I see. That company needs to be put out of business. Has the Linux community ever taken somebody to court over such a thing?
I totally agree with that. Documentation is good. It's just a running joke where I work that when the boss asks you to document your code he is considering replacing you. But the second half of my post indicated what you said about how it makes training easier. You've got to keep the docs updated though; and that seems like a full-time job sometimes.
My preferred methodology for documentation is to write very legible code using consistent naming conventions and coding patterns followed by a complete code review/documentation after a main version is past the ever-changing design/prototyping/development stage.
Q: "How do I get the smart slashdot folks to help me with my class project?"
A: "Tell them that I'm gonna make it Open Source!"