"Sorry, but benchmarks are pretty much useless."
When it comes to most benchmarks, I agree with your statement. But even you say "pretty much useless" not "completely uesless." TPC.ORG database benchmarks are accurate and sufficient to model real-world database behavior. Take a careful look at their benchmarks. You might learn something about databases.
"The fact is, we're living longer and healthier with all of this "processed crap" than we ever did with "good old food". We should take health issues seriously, and Sodium Benzoate needs to be further tested."
Could be coincidental. There are reasonably strong indications the modern US diet is unhealthy.
"One fourth of young American Muslims think suicide bombings are justified, 40% condemn the invasion of Afghanistan, and 60% believe that 911 was not done by Arab terrorists."
So? 25% of Christian Americans think genocide of all Muslims is justified. It's the action, not the thought, that makes the crime.
"You cannot justly prefer what you do not know so well."
I defintely prefer a Ferrari to a Sienna mini-van, but I know the mini-van so well...
You talk about feel, but you don't talk about comparing Oracle and MSSQL and (DB2) with serious benchmarks (competitor reviewed even). When they're benchmarked and submitted to TPC, MSSQL doesn't win on most tpmC per system. Oracle does. With 4 million to 1.2 million from MSSQL. However on cost per tpmC MSSQL's most cost effective configuration is twice as efficient as Oracle's most cost efficient configuration. So, if you're setting up an $11 million system for your corporation, you're probably better off with Oracle.
So, MSSQL might seem expensive compared to MySQL, but it's certainly inexpensive compared to Oracle, and for at least some corporate purposes, it will provide enough performance to do the job.
My point, that developers/DBAs who want to make a product perform do better with that product than developers/DBAs who feel saddled with the product is still a valid point, even inside Corporate IT shops. Even if it doesn't apply to you personally.
Oracle's vaunted B-Tree indexes? How are Oracle's indexes any better than MSSQLs? As I understand it, most RDBMS indexing is based on some kind of tree structure. I hear the WatCOM SQL team finds Red-Green trees particularly handy in Canada.
As for some other erudite fool's suggestion that DB2 is a terrific tool for scanning a billion rows...when I find myself faced with the task of scanning a billion rows, I have to ask myself, how did I get here?
A tree (index) will get me through a billion rows with 32, maybe 33 comparisons.
The real deal on RDBMs...there are 3 serious products. Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. A programmer/DBA will be able to do pretty much anything with any of these three. Differences in performance will be largely attributed to the programmer/DBA's personal preferences. A programmer who loves Oracle and hates DB2 will, when confronted with a requirement to make a DB2 database, make a crappy one.
So, when you talk about how much you gained going from MSSQL to Oracle, I'm pretty sure most of that's because of your preference for Oracle, not the actual differences between MSSQL and Oracle 9i.
When they are no longer fun, stop playing. A quasi-darwinian process will cause boring games to largely die. Like EvE and EQ2.
Even the hardcore players, the "raiders" or whatever they're called, will quit because without the population base of casual players paying their subscription fees, the developers cannot afford to keep enough staff to turn out new content at a rate that keeps the hardcore interested. It's happening now in EQ2, it'll happen in EvE.
are digital slave collars. Like cell phones and pagers.
A couple of weeks ago, I was at dinner with a co-worker and a couple of his friends. One of his friends is a first-year attorney at a big law firm. He got demanding messages from work about every 10 minutes during dinner. I could see the stress on his face when he got the messages. That Blackberry surely did not improve the quality of his life.
And most of the global e-mail is pushing Viagra or pumping penny stocks. The 3rd large category is someone sending a picture or link to a picture of a cute kid or cat to everyone in their address book and someone else responding to everyone in the address list. So, 99% of it is trash, just like all other areas of human endeavor.
Investment banking is not about math. It's about Andover, Exeter, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, yachting, golfing, playing squash and knowing which years were good in Graves vs. Medoc. It's a salesman's game. Same with law. If you want to be one of the rich lawyers, you must be a salesman. The lawyers who are not salesmen do not make partner and see the 7-figure annual distribution checks.
If you enjoy math for the sake of doing math, you're going to want to look into physics, cosmology, astronomy etc...and you're going to be looking at PhD to get employment. There's only so many jobs in these fields and there are more PhD's than jobs, so why hire anyone without a PhD? Don't go there unless you really love math and you're more talented than 90% of the math majors.
If you want to work in science, you've got chemistry which is revived as nano-this and nano-that, biology which is really genetics or molecular biology for big pharma, and you've got computer science, robotics, and the various engineering disciplines. If you want to get somewhere with a BS, you'll probably do better in engineering and CS.
If you like talking to people, solving puzzles, or cutting meat, go to medical school.
If you want to really make money, start a business. No college required. Just a good idea, ability to sell, ability to execute, courage and persistence. The good idea is the easiest part.
My brother majored in mathematics at a top school. He minored in philosophy. He had a 3.75 GPA. After getting his BA, he could have gone the teacher route, the professor route or into defense contracting. Instead, he chose to work in housekeeping at the lodge on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. 15 years later, he manages a $15 million unit of a billion dollar business with a couple of hundred employees reporting to him. The most direct route isn't always the most rewarding.
For command control of a system where we need both hands free. It's pretty good, much better than stopping and typing, clicking or pressing buttons during a repetitive manual process.
We're using an older version of Microsoft's product and it seems the microphone quality is important.
Why would anyone be surprised that a 59-year-old man is not comfortable with computers or the Web? Sure, there's plenty of AARP members who know what a Web-site is, but certainly not such a solid majority that this guy is at all notable.
I'm only 44 and personal computers were just rolling out to the general US population as I finished High School in 1981. So, this guy, 15 years older, he grew up in a pre-PC world.
Nevermind the fact that the insanely ridiculous kludge...
Check our DNA. We are, essentially, insanely ridiculous kludges. Nothing but organically accreted fixes to a long series of problems. Why should anyone be surprised that our technology mirrors this fundamental aspect of our selves?
buy music. Most of it is bought by people between...15 and 25? It's the kids that are the main market for the RIAA and they're the main target for the copyright enforcement PR effort.
Is the finger print thing for real? Do you need to get ink on your digits in any state in the USA to buy a gun? If you have to fingerprint for CD's but not for gun purchase, well, that's just too hilarious.
Slashdot Mirror
"Sorry, but benchmarks are pretty much useless." When it comes to most benchmarks, I agree with your statement. But even you say "pretty much useless" not "completely uesless." TPC.ORG database benchmarks are accurate and sufficient to model real-world database behavior. Take a careful look at their benchmarks. You might learn something about databases.
Sumdumass: "I first heard it on Paul Harvy and then it was talked about on a local talk show. "
Abe Lincoln: "You can fool some of the people all of the time..."
I think Sumdumass is deliberately trolling.
will the spammers pay in in-game currency?
From "fuel+fire+food+fat&juices+charcoal+smoke=flavour+ cancer" we can derive the following...
propane+fire+food+fat&juices+charcoal+smoke=NO FLAVOR+cancer
"The fact is, we're living longer and healthier with all of this "processed crap" than we ever did with "good old food". We should take health issues seriously, and Sodium Benzoate needs to be further tested."
Could be coincidental. There are reasonably strong indications the modern US diet is unhealthy.
Obesity to Lower U.S. Life Span
Changes in USDA food composition data for 43 garden crops, 1950 to 1999.
"One fourth of young American Muslims think suicide bombings are justified, 40% condemn the invasion of Afghanistan, and 60% believe that 911 was not done by Arab terrorists."
So? 25% of Christian Americans think genocide of all Muslims is justified. It's the action, not the thought, that makes the crime.
"You cannot justly prefer what you do not know so well."
I defintely prefer a Ferrari to a Sienna mini-van, but I know the mini-van so well...
You talk about feel, but you don't talk about comparing Oracle and MSSQL and (DB2) with serious benchmarks (competitor reviewed even). When they're benchmarked and submitted to TPC, MSSQL doesn't win on most tpmC per system. Oracle does. With 4 million to 1.2 million from MSSQL. However on cost per tpmC MSSQL's most cost effective configuration is twice as efficient as Oracle's most cost efficient configuration. So, if you're setting up an $11 million system for your corporation, you're probably better off with Oracle.
http://www.tpc.org/
So, MSSQL might seem expensive compared to MySQL, but it's certainly inexpensive compared to Oracle, and for at least some corporate purposes, it will provide enough performance to do the job.
My point, that developers/DBAs who want to make a product perform do better with that product than developers/DBAs who feel saddled with the product is still a valid point, even inside Corporate IT shops. Even if it doesn't apply to you personally.
Postgres isn't making the list. Neither is MySQL.
Oracle's vaunted B-Tree indexes? How are Oracle's indexes any better than MSSQLs? As I understand it, most RDBMS indexing is based on some kind of tree structure. I hear the WatCOM SQL team finds Red-Green trees particularly handy in Canada.
As for some other erudite fool's suggestion that DB2 is a terrific tool for scanning a billion rows...when I find myself faced with the task of scanning a billion rows, I have to ask myself, how did I get here?
A tree (index) will get me through a billion rows with 32, maybe 33 comparisons.
The real deal on RDBMs...there are 3 serious products. Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. A programmer/DBA will be able to do pretty much anything with any of these three. Differences in performance will be largely attributed to the programmer/DBA's personal preferences. A programmer who loves Oracle and hates DB2 will, when confronted with a requirement to make a DB2 database, make a crappy one.
So, when you talk about how much you gained going from MSSQL to Oracle, I'm pretty sure most of that's because of your preference for Oracle, not the actual differences between MSSQL and Oracle 9i.
Granted, most of Google's efforts are extension of search, but some of their efforts are branching out of search.
i um=et&utm_source=bizsols&utm_campaign=checkout
See google checkout.
http://checkout.google.com/sell?promo=sbs&utm_med
When they are no longer fun, stop playing. A quasi-darwinian process will cause boring games to largely die. Like EvE and EQ2.
Even the hardcore players, the "raiders" or whatever they're called, will quit because without the population base of casual players paying their subscription fees, the developers cannot afford to keep enough staff to turn out new content at a rate that keeps the hardcore interested. It's happening now in EQ2, it'll happen in EvE.
are digital slave collars. Like cell phones and pagers.
A couple of weeks ago, I was at dinner with a co-worker and a couple of his friends. One of his friends is a first-year attorney at a big law firm. He got demanding messages from work about every 10 minutes during dinner. I could see the stress on his face when he got the messages. That Blackberry surely did not improve the quality of his life.
And most of the global e-mail is pushing Viagra or pumping penny stocks. The 3rd large category is someone sending a picture or link to a picture of a cute kid or cat to everyone in their address book and someone else responding to everyone in the address list. So, 99% of it is trash, just like all other areas of human endeavor.
is Turbo Pascal.
my daughters' iPods. Right now!
we'll just tax the 1's and leave the 0's free?
If it's an out-bound tax, could it be used to make SPAM economically unrewarding?
...can write code. It takes an obsessive-compulsive disorder and a pair of thick glasses to read code.
...has a master's degree in Science!
Investment banking is not about math. It's about Andover, Exeter, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, yachting, golfing, playing squash and knowing which years were good in Graves vs. Medoc. It's a salesman's game. Same with law. If you want to be one of the rich lawyers, you must be a salesman. The lawyers who are not salesmen do not make partner and see the 7-figure annual distribution checks.
If you enjoy math for the sake of doing math, you're going to want to look into physics, cosmology, astronomy etc...and you're going to be looking at PhD to get employment. There's only so many jobs in these fields and there are more PhD's than jobs, so why hire anyone without a PhD? Don't go there unless you really love math and you're more talented than 90% of the math majors.
If you want to work in science, you've got chemistry which is revived as nano-this and nano-that, biology which is really genetics or molecular biology for big pharma, and you've got computer science, robotics, and the various engineering disciplines. If you want to get somewhere with a BS, you'll probably do better in engineering and CS.
If you like talking to people, solving puzzles, or cutting meat, go to medical school.
If you want to really make money, start a business. No college required. Just a good idea, ability to sell, ability to execute, courage and persistence. The good idea is the easiest part.
My brother majored in mathematics at a top school. He minored in philosophy. He had a 3.75 GPA. After getting his BA, he could have gone the teacher route, the professor route or into defense contracting. Instead, he chose to work in housekeeping at the lodge on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. 15 years later, he manages a $15 million unit of a billion dollar business with a couple of hundred employees reporting to him. The most direct route isn't always the most rewarding.
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Google Analytics has been re-designed to help you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site.
Microsoft's doing us a favor by not letting us watch TV on our PCs. 4-8 hours a day of watching video will make any of us stupid.
_ Death/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to
For command control of a system where we need both hands free. It's pretty good, much better than stopping and typing, clicking or pressing buttons during a repetitive manual process.
We're using an older version of Microsoft's product and it seems the microphone quality is important.
Sigil = Ion Storm
Vanguard = Daikatana
McQuaid = Romero
EQ1 = DOOM
Details here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana
Same as it ever was.
Why would anyone be surprised that a 59-year-old man is not comfortable with computers or the Web? Sure, there's plenty of AARP members who know what a Web-site is, but certainly not such a solid majority that this guy is at all notable.
I'm only 44 and personal computers were just rolling out to the general US population as I finished High School in 1981. So, this guy, 15 years older, he grew up in a pre-PC world.
they announced a hybrid light truck based on their new gasoline/enriched uranium powertrain.
Check our DNA. We are, essentially, insanely ridiculous kludges. Nothing but organically accreted fixes to a long series of problems. Why should anyone be surprised that our technology mirrors this fundamental aspect of our selves?
buy music. Most of it is bought by people between...15 and 25? It's the kids that are the main market for the RIAA and they're the main target for the copyright enforcement PR effort.
Is the finger print thing for real? Do you need to get ink on your digits in any state in the USA to buy a gun? If you have to fingerprint for CD's but not for gun purchase, well, that's just too hilarious.
People like you, experienced EVE players, assume newbies do not know the difference between .2 and .4 and .6 and .8.
.6 and above space. And then I gave up and canceled my account because it was boring.
I got jumped about 10 times in the course of 6 weeks of play in