Seriously. In the past month, they've been coming up more often and just getting in the way of useful info.
Agreed. Scribd is just a useless waste of space. They come up in results, but then you can't actually use the scribd documents like you would a webpage (say, searching and copying/pasting), or even a PDF. What's the point in having pages full of information if people can't get the information out of them?
Who the fuckk do you think you _are_ to tell her that, in something that's 100% personal perception, her perception is wrong?
While I agree with most of your points, I have to mention here that many people clearly have emotional issues, and choose abusive or dysfunctional relationships as a way of trying to resolve those issues in some sort of long drawn out role play. Usually they just end up fighting more and more until they break up, damaging their kids, or even killing one another. In those (frequent) cases, I'd happily say their perception is wrong, because they haven't taken time to know themselves and face their fears before sharing themselves with others.
But yeah, in other cases, of healthier individuals, your point is a good one:)
Everyone agrees on skipping vista. It's a common propaganda trick to start with something you'll accept (vista sucks), then feed you what they want you to accept next (buy Windows 7).
Gartner is only giving advice that many IT analysts have been saying for quite some time.
Exactly. Haven't you noticed the shill-pattern yet? Most of those people started saying that stuff even before it was clear that Windows 7 booted on most of the machines around, much less after any serious long-term testing that you could possibly build a business recommendation on. These guys have been parroting the Microsoft line for months, that Windows 7 is as good as XP. Only now, others have had a chance to do real testing, it's becoming clear that they lied, as benchmarks show no difference between Windows 7 and Vista.
I hope that, someday, you have a hobby that leads you to excitedly give away for free something that you had the time of your life creating and put all your pride into.
I think, somewhere along the line there, the topic changed from his open source work to your virginity;)
They're not suggesting that. They're TELLING people to stop sticking with XP, and spend money on Windows 7. Microsoft cut its losses on Vista a long time ago, but obviously had to keep up some pretense that it was really a good product, and doing well. Their main goal for a long time has been to get Windows 7 out in some sort of more-acceptable-than-vista state (which they seem to have failed at), and to make sure people buy it this time, which they're attempting to ensure with extra PR, and the usual highly questionable tactics like this Gartner thing.
don't dare say this lawyer hasn't incurred a very real loss.
Wouldn't the losing party pay if he won the case in that jurisdiction? If so, then he either would have gotten paid (if he won), or would not have deserved to be paid (if he lost).
I'm sorry, but Slony-I is not a serious replication solution.
I believe the PostgreSQL devs themselves have said as much (officially, on their site). They've also said that the reason for this situation is that the project had previously taken the stance that it should not include its own replication, but should instead allow third-parties to implement replication as they see fit.
However, they've now said that, since this hasn't worked so well in practice, the next version of PostgreSQL WILL include direct, built-in support for basic replication, as well as making sure that heavyweight, third-party replication solutions are still supported.
Either way, I don't think these replication issues are a good enough reason to use MySQL instead. Worst case scenario, there ARE good replication options for PostgreSQL. There are even third-party products out there that can replicate from Oracle to PostgreSQL. Interestingly, that particular solution was targeted at MySQL first, as it has similar issues.
As others have pointed out, this is isn't about buffer overruns, as memcpy() takes a len argument. It's also not about safety. Type-safety makes sense, since memcpy() takes void pointers. But that makes much more sense in C# and (at a huge stretch) C++, than in C.
I'm wondering if this has more to do with limiting programmers from doing interesting things like accessing raw memory addresses, bypassing DRM, etc.
Someone needs to pull a John Stewart/Jim Cramer on Gartner.
When it comes to the Machinations of government and open source vs. corporate products, something tells me that Woodward & Bernstein would be more appropriate.
The author states that the free copies are not helping with his sales, so how would him being the source of those free copies change that?
Simple: the author is trying to fight reality, which can only lead to unhappiness. By accepting it and working with it, he'll no longer be fighting reality, and will not only win, but he'll be much happier. He should read a free philosophical book or two that've been available for thousands of years in India, and he'd know these things.
Really? Install a windows machine, setup the network, launch IE, stop it loading the page, set the home page to blank or google, and hit home. At least in IE 6, it refuses to go to any site until it's visited a particular microsoft.com page at least once.
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What? A pipemania clone?
Yes, it does:
I don't get this. How is using a parrot the only solution?
Which is probably where identity theft and money laundering come in.
Agreed. Scribd is just a useless waste of space. They come up in results, but then you can't actually use the scribd documents like you would a webpage (say, searching and copying/pasting), or even a PDF. What's the point in having pages full of information if people can't get the information out of them?
While I agree with most of your points, I have to mention here that many people clearly have emotional issues, and choose abusive or dysfunctional relationships as a way of trying to resolve those issues in some sort of long drawn out role play. Usually they just end up fighting more and more until they break up, damaging their kids, or even killing one another. In those (frequent) cases, I'd happily say their perception is wrong, because they haven't taken time to know themselves and face their fears before sharing themselves with others.
But yeah, in other cases, of healthier individuals, your point is a good one :)
You still can, if you choose a similarly small distro.
Not as long you'd think, if Shuttleworth gets his way:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/377005
Everyone agrees on skipping vista. It's a common propaganda trick to start with something you'll accept (vista sucks), then feed you what they want you to accept next (buy Windows 7).
Which is why MS forked it around there, and have been working on Windows FT (Fixed Technology) ever since ;)
Exactly. Haven't you noticed the shill-pattern yet? Most of those people started saying that stuff even before it was clear that Windows 7 booted on most of the machines around, much less after any serious long-term testing that you could possibly build a business recommendation on. These guys have been parroting the Microsoft line for months, that Windows 7 is as good as XP. Only now, others have had a chance to do real testing, it's becoming clear that they lied, as benchmarks show no difference between Windows 7 and Vista.
I think, somewhere along the line there, the topic changed from his open source work to your virginity ;)
The way Microsoft do things, it'll probably be based off Linux 1.2.1
DRM, reduced performance, and upgrade fees.
They're not suggesting that. They're TELLING people to stop sticking with XP, and spend money on Windows 7. Microsoft cut its losses on Vista a long time ago, but obviously had to keep up some pretense that it was really a good product, and doing well. Their main goal for a long time has been to get Windows 7 out in some sort of more-acceptable-than-vista state (which they seem to have failed at), and to make sure people buy it this time, which they're attempting to ensure with extra PR, and the usual highly questionable tactics like this Gartner thing.
We already do. The tags look like:
Priority: urgent
And then the receiving mail client displays it appropriately for the given locale/user.
In other words, prior art.
Wouldn't the losing party pay if he won the case in that jurisdiction? If so, then he either would have gotten paid (if he won), or would not have deserved to be paid (if he lost).
Your best bet is to download the music, invert the audio, and then burn it. That way, when anyone plays it, you can play your copy, cancelling it out.
Immature AND using outdated information. Well done.
I believe the PostgreSQL devs themselves have said as much (officially, on their site). They've also said that the reason for this situation is that the project had previously taken the stance that it should not include its own replication, but should instead allow third-parties to implement replication as they see fit.
However, they've now said that, since this hasn't worked so well in practice, the next version of PostgreSQL WILL include direct, built-in support for basic replication, as well as making sure that heavyweight, third-party replication solutions are still supported.
Either way, I don't think these replication issues are a good enough reason to use MySQL instead. Worst case scenario, there ARE good replication options for PostgreSQL. There are even third-party products out there that can replicate from Oracle to PostgreSQL. Interestingly, that particular solution was targeted at MySQL first, as it has similar issues.
As others have pointed out, this is isn't about buffer overruns, as memcpy() takes a len argument. It's also not about safety. Type-safety makes sense, since memcpy() takes void pointers. But that makes much more sense in C# and (at a huge stretch) C++, than in C.
I'm wondering if this has more to do with limiting programmers from doing interesting things like accessing raw memory addresses, bypassing DRM, etc.
When it comes to the Machinations of government and open source vs. corporate products, something tells me that Woodward & Bernstein would be more appropriate.
Simple: the author is trying to fight reality, which can only lead to unhappiness. By accepting it and working with it, he'll no longer be fighting reality, and will not only win, but he'll be much happier. He should read a free philosophical book or two that've been available for thousands of years in India, and he'd know these things.
This is the internet. You must be nu here.
Really? Install a windows machine, setup the network, launch IE, stop it loading the page, set the home page to blank or google, and hit home. At least in IE 6, it refuses to go to any site until it's visited a particular microsoft.com page at least once.