Somehow Macs do this and manage to be sexy at the same time.
...and manage to retain a miniscule fraction of the personal computer market!
Don't get me wrong, I love Macs, but while Windows does have its flaws, the fact that it has the overwhelming majority of the marketplace and that Microsoft doesn't control the hardware platform can not be ignored.
The hotness of MyISAM all depends on your requirements. Sure, MyISAM has no foreign key or transaction support, but it's FAST for read-heavy workloads due to no foreign key or transaction support! I'm betting a large majority of applications that use MySQL don't need the transactions or foreign keys (though chances are the majority of these people can switch to an embeddable databases such as SQLite and BerkleyDB which are even faster but minimalist in features)
So ignoring the sexual urges and attempting to push them deep, deep down until you get married and not having them come out in other ways which may result in getting caught with a prostitute behind the local 7-11 is a satisfactory solution?
I'm being comical to reinforce my point, but remaining a virgin until your wedding night is a terrible idea logically, and only still exists because of religion. What if you and your spouse are not compatible sexually, ie she has an extremely low sex drive and you do not, or vice-versa? That can make for a very unhealthy and/or ended marriage. You can claim marriage is about love and sex will follow, but sex is a big part of it. It has been repeatedly shown that a healthy sex life results in a happier marriage and that a bad sex life results in a more stressful marriage.
Sex is natural, a part of life and a beautiful thing if done safely and among consenting adults. Or barring that, a consenting adult and a horny badger.
Oh, and there is NO way you will make it to marriage without lusting after another woman unless you are:
It doesn't, other than the FS block size should be a multiple of the disk sector size to avoid wasting extra read/writes to access/store a FS block, as well as to avoid wasting space storing an FS block.
YOU made the motherfucking claim, it is up to YOU to provide evidence to back it up! Otherwise, you could just fucking say "The core of jupiter is made of broken dreams and also unicorns" and it would be truth by default because we can't prove otherwise. If you're going to make an outrageous claim, you have to back it up. It's like a fucking natural law, or something. Fuck." - Unknown Poster on the SA Forums
"# They work full time. In terms of sheer man-hours the tech companies can throw at the problem, Joe Randoms in their bedrooms will always lose."
Simply because someone is simply sitting in a cube for 8->12 hours a day doesn't mean they are any more effective than someone who is putting in ~4->6 hours a day in his off-work hours (and lets not forget weekends). You will also find that someone works far more effectively when the work is fun.
"# They work together. The internet is great but a mailing list and IRC channel for people in 12 different timezones is no substitute for a well equipped set of offices and labs where everybody works together every day."
Umm, Linux versus Windows?
Linux came out of nowhere, built nearly entirely by people who are in different timezones in their basements/home offices/etc. Microsoft had rooms full of hired talent working on their OS. Look at how well Linux has done compared to Microsoft in many areas (servers, embedded systems, etc).
You also forget that you can have many more people working together via The Internet than you can cram into an office building/park/etc.
I know that in the past couple of years corporations have been responsible for a lot of Linux progress, but an amazing amount of work had been done prior to this which resulted in a surprisingly usable and stable system. If your argument were true, Linux should be no more than a gleam in Torvald's eye.
"# They have (almost) unlimited financial resources, so they can buy the work and brainpower of other smart people"
See above.
I recommend you read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond.
I don't see why not, though VMWare's performance isn't exactly stellar. Throw it on a beefy-enough box and it should be adequate. I assume you will only be running the code part of the application (ie: application server), with the database/webservers being located somewhere else?
I've got to say, TheTechZone is one of the poorest excuses for a hardware site that I have come across. The writing is terrible and their "reviews" are a joke. In their review of the Acer Travelmate 290E, the reviewer claimed he couldn't get any benchmarks for a laptop because his daughter took it. Talk about a professional review!
"Students with the 4.0GPAs with CS degrees might come out of school and not know jack about shit..."
Please tell me where you have encountered this and what school they were from. I cannot imagine anyone who graduated with a 4.0 and a CS degree not knowing his material. If this was the case, that school's program is REALLY shitty. At my school, you can NOT get through the program solely on good test-taking skills alone.
I know several of the top students in the CS program at my college (UC Santa Cruz). Many of them do not even have 4.0s (~3.0->3.75s) and they are brilliant. The two people who DO Have 4.0s are fucking amazing, and they both got into the Stanford CS graduate program for 2006.
I think college can be a very valuable experience. I'm nearly done with my BS in computer science from a UC and it was worth leaving my job as a Unix Sysadmin (albeit a Junior level one) to attend.
I learned a ton about the fundamentals of computer science that would have been a lot harder to learn on my own from books, plus it was invaluable to have a knowledgable professor and great TAs on hand that could answer my questions right away and give me guidance.
I think even more valuable than the computer science knowledge was that I learned how to study more efficiently and how my brain works. I also learned how to be disciplined and study material I really, really didn't want to be studying, as well as how to attack problems.
I think too many people mistake the purpose of college with that of a trade school; it's supposed to teach you the hot languages or skills of the moment. Once you are done, you should be able to pick up new languages and technologies on your own.
However, college is just like everything else. You get out what you put into it. I could have easily slacked off and gotten a BS with a ~2->2.5 average and not retained jack. There are many people like that. But I think there are a far greater deal of people with certs that simply memorize answers and still don't know anything. I know several of those as well.
Hot dog down a hallway my friend, hot dog down a hallway.
I certainly hope you aren't speaking from experience because that would mean you are hung like an elephant.
Yes, gay marriage, abortion, and premarital sex are all destroying this country (all issues that Christian politicians cite as major moral issues). Exactly how is this country getting destroyed? What guidelines/figures are you basing this generalization on? I feel the ability to NOT get an abortion, to NOT marry the one you love (as long as they are a human being), and to NOT be able to get contraception when you choose to have sex despite your marital status would be huge blows to this country and cause me to hightail my ass out of here. It's been getting absurd (intelligent design creeping its way into public schools and being taught in a science context, funding being cut for sex-education programs and being instead put into abstinence programs, funding being cut towards African nations unless abstinence is taught, etc) and those things would be the straws that break the camels back.
Agreed, it has been said that the US has been at the crossroads in the past, but now the technology exists for other nations to surpass us in intellectual property and research and development. The trend in outsourcing technical workers can now be applied to other non-technical positions such as doctors assistants and accountants. I think we should be very wary of whats going on because if it continues (and I'm sure it will) the results will not be pretty.
The really interesting part is why Nintendo did this. The Japanese Super Mario Brothers 2 was considered too hard for Americans, hence the Doki Doki Panic re-working.
Xen, while faster than VMWare, implements paravirtualization instead of full virtualization. Operating systems must be ported to Xen to run on Xen (though apparently the ports aren't too complicated). The ported OSs will run unmodified binaries though.
And how does that detract from the quality of IBM's products?
I'm sure IBM may have given them discounts for some free advertising in the form of that logo, but I don't feel that Ebay would have gone with an inferior product which would cost them money through downtime or the inability to handle a higher number of users.
To say that IBM hasn't out-innovated Microsoft is ludicrous. To say they haven't out-innovated them in the software market is an entirely different matter (and one that I don't know enough about to delve into).
What notebook did she have, what were it's hardware stats, and did everything work? I installed Mandrake 10 (then upgraded to 10.1 and 10.2) on my Acer Travelmate 290E and the lack of suspend (software suspend scripts are buggy), working wireless drivers (my broadcom BCM4306 doesn't have any drivers out and ndiswrapper wasn't working with the Windows ones), and simple power management kept me frustrated. I'm now thinking of running Windows XP with Linux in a VM.
It's funny you should mention that, I recently uncovered my old NES and SNES and have been playing Mario 1, 2, 3 and Super Mario World. I'm amazed at how great these games still are despite their age. I just purchase Super Mario Kart on Ebay..
The logic is exactly the same, true, but having triggers supported by the database system allows for less traffic having to be sent across the network to your DB server.
Also, having the database system keep track of your triggers for you seems a bit more convenient than having to manually document where your trigger functions are in your (potentially very many) code files.
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Don't get me wrong, I love Macs, but while Windows does have its flaws, the fact that it has the overwhelming majority of the marketplace and that Microsoft doesn't control the hardware platform can not be ignored.
Isn't that why there's a NOC team at the data center that you can call?
The hotness of MyISAM all depends on your requirements. Sure, MyISAM has no foreign key or transaction support, but it's FAST for read-heavy workloads due to no foreign key or transaction support! I'm betting a large majority of applications that use MySQL don't need the transactions or foreign keys (though chances are the majority of these people can switch to an embeddable databases such as SQLite and BerkleyDB which are even faster but minimalist in features)
I'm being comical to reinforce my point, but remaining a virgin until your wedding night is a terrible idea logically, and only still exists because of religion. What if you and your spouse are not compatible sexually, ie she has an extremely low sex drive and you do not, or vice-versa? That can make for a very unhealthy and/or ended marriage. You can claim marriage is about love and sex will follow, but sex is a big part of it. It has been repeatedly shown that a healthy sex life results in a happier marriage and that a bad sex life results in a more stressful marriage.
Sex is natural, a part of life and a beautiful thing if done safely and among consenting adults. Or barring that, a consenting adult and a horny badger.
Oh, and there is NO way you will make it to marriage without lusting after another woman unless you are:
a) young. VERY young. Like 9->10
or
b) gay
or
c) insane
It doesn't, other than the FS block size should be a multiple of the disk sector size to avoid wasting extra read/writes to access/store a FS block, as well as to avoid wasting space storing an FS block.
"Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"
YOU made the motherfucking claim, it is up to YOU to provide evidence to back it up! Otherwise, you could just fucking say "The core of jupiter is made of broken dreams and also unicorns" and it would be truth by default because we can't prove otherwise. If you're going to make an outrageous claim, you have to back it up. It's like a fucking natural law, or something. Fuck." - Unknown Poster on the SA Forums
Simply because someone is simply sitting in a cube for 8->12 hours a day doesn't mean they are any more effective than someone who is putting in ~4->6 hours a day in his off-work hours (and lets not forget weekends). You will also find that someone works far more effectively when the work is fun.
"# They work together. The internet is great but a mailing list and IRC channel for people in 12 different timezones is no substitute for a well equipped set of offices and labs where everybody works together every day."
Umm, Linux versus Windows?
Linux came out of nowhere, built nearly entirely by people who are in different timezones in their basements/home offices/etc. Microsoft had rooms full of hired talent working on their OS. Look at how well Linux has done compared to Microsoft in many areas (servers, embedded systems, etc).
You also forget that you can have many more people working together via The Internet than you can cram into an office building/park/etc.
I know that in the past couple of years corporations have been responsible for a lot of Linux progress, but an amazing amount of work had been done prior to this which resulted in a surprisingly usable and stable system. If your argument were true, Linux should be no more than a gleam in Torvald's eye.
"# They have (almost) unlimited financial resources, so they can buy the work and brainpower of other smart people"
See above.
I recommend you read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond.
I don't see why not, though VMWare's performance isn't exactly stellar. Throw it on a beefy-enough box and it should be adequate. I assume you will only be running the code part of the application (ie: application server), with the database/webservers being located somewhere else?
I've got to say, TheTechZone is one of the poorest excuses for a hardware site that I have come across. The writing is terrible and their "reviews" are a joke. In their review of the Acer Travelmate 290E, the reviewer claimed he couldn't get any benchmarks for a laptop because his daughter took it. Talk about a professional review!
I know several of the top students in the CS program at my college (UC Santa Cruz). Many of them do not even have 4.0s (~3.0->3.75s) and they are brilliant. The two people who DO Have 4.0s are fucking amazing, and they both got into the Stanford CS graduate program for 2006.
Sounds like your CS program isn't too hot if kids like that are allowed to get through. I wouldn't bash CS degrees as a whole because of that.
I think college can be a very valuable experience. I'm nearly done with my BS in computer science from a UC and it was worth leaving my job as a Unix Sysadmin (albeit a Junior level one) to attend. I learned a ton about the fundamentals of computer science that would have been a lot harder to learn on my own from books, plus it was invaluable to have a knowledgable professor and great TAs on hand that could answer my questions right away and give me guidance. I think even more valuable than the computer science knowledge was that I learned how to study more efficiently and how my brain works. I also learned how to be disciplined and study material I really, really didn't want to be studying, as well as how to attack problems. I think too many people mistake the purpose of college with that of a trade school; it's supposed to teach you the hot languages or skills of the moment. Once you are done, you should be able to pick up new languages and technologies on your own. However, college is just like everything else. You get out what you put into it. I could have easily slacked off and gotten a BS with a ~2->2.5 average and not retained jack. There are many people like that. But I think there are a far greater deal of people with certs that simply memorize answers and still don't know anything. I know several of those as well.
Hot dog down a hallway my friend, hot dog down a hallway. I certainly hope you aren't speaking from experience because that would mean you are hung like an elephant.
Yes, gay marriage, abortion, and premarital sex are all destroying this country (all issues that Christian politicians cite as major moral issues). Exactly how is this country getting destroyed? What guidelines/figures are you basing this generalization on? I feel the ability to NOT get an abortion, to NOT marry the one you love (as long as they are a human being), and to NOT be able to get contraception when you choose to have sex despite your marital status would be huge blows to this country and cause me to hightail my ass out of here. It's been getting absurd (intelligent design creeping its way into public schools and being taught in a science context, funding being cut for sex-education programs and being instead put into abstinence programs, funding being cut towards African nations unless abstinence is taught, etc) and those things would be the straws that break the camels back. Agreed, it has been said that the US has been at the crossroads in the past, but now the technology exists for other nations to surpass us in intellectual property and research and development. The trend in outsourcing technical workers can now be applied to other non-technical positions such as doctors assistants and accountants. I think we should be very wary of whats going on because if it continues (and I'm sure it will) the results will not be pretty.
The really interesting part is why Nintendo did this. The Japanese Super Mario Brothers 2 was considered too hard for Americans, hence the Doki Doki Panic re-working.
Xen, while faster than VMWare, implements paravirtualization instead of full virtualization. Operating systems must be ported to Xen to run on Xen (though apparently the ports aren't too complicated). The ported OSs will run unmodified binaries though.
And how does that detract from the quality of IBM's products? I'm sure IBM may have given them discounts for some free advertising in the form of that logo, but I don't feel that Ebay would have gone with an inferior product which would cost them money through downtime or the inability to handle a higher number of users.
Is that why powerhouses such as Ebay use it as well as other IBM products such as Websphere?
Back during the worst of the Microsoft suckary (95->98->ME) Mac was pretty bad as well. Cooperative multitasking anyone?
The concept of relational databases definitely came from IBM (http://www.acm.org/classics/nov95/toc.html). They were also the creators of the first disk drive (http://www.duxcw.com/digest/guides/hd/hd2.htm). Those are the only two that I can verify off of the top of my head.
To say that IBM hasn't out-innovated Microsoft is ludicrous. To say they haven't out-innovated them in the software market is an entirely different matter (and one that I don't know enough about to delve into).
What notebook did she have, what were it's hardware stats, and did everything work? I installed Mandrake 10 (then upgraded to 10.1 and 10.2) on my Acer Travelmate 290E and the lack of suspend (software suspend scripts are buggy), working wireless drivers (my broadcom BCM4306 doesn't have any drivers out and ndiswrapper wasn't working with the Windows ones), and simple power management kept me frustrated. I'm now thinking of running Windows XP with Linux in a VM.
It's funny you should mention that, I recently uncovered my old NES and SNES and have been playing Mario 1, 2, 3 and Super Mario World. I'm amazed at how great these games still are despite their age. I just purchase Super Mario Kart on Ebay..
The logic is exactly the same, true, but having triggers supported by the database system allows for less traffic having to be sent across the network to your DB server. Also, having the database system keep track of your triggers for you seems a bit more convenient than having to manually document where your trigger functions are in your (potentially very many) code files.