as a programmer I often that I've solved problems during sleep.
Thank you. I really thought there was something wrong with me finding bugs during the sleep. Now that I know that I'm not the only one, I feel a lot better:)
Going with AMD would be unwise as they don't have the capacity to produce enough chips to satisfy Apple's demands and their current PC customers.
I also don't think that Apple chose Intel over AMD based on the current merits of their processors. They plan to switch their entire product line by the end of the year, and by then the situation would be probably a lot better for Intel.
3. Programmers are asked to do the impossible. [...] If a customer dares to ask a civil engineer to add 2 more stories between the 3rd and 4th floor after the custom-built building is finished, guess what would the civil engineer say? Programmers are asked to do this all the time (I know I have been asked to), so are customers to blame? You can't get the system done properly if requirements are shifting all the time.
Extreme Programming and other agile methods were designed with exactly these changing requirements in mind. What stops your company from using them ?
Now you can add IBM support and see that Open Document can become a huge success.
IBM's support was there right from the start (making the standard). If you go here you will see that the participants in the Open Document TC are:
Adobe Systems
IBM
Intel
Novell
Sun Microsystems
IBM is also selling Workplace Documents, based on source forked from OpenOffice.org about two years ago. Since this summer Sun droped SISSL for OpenOffice.org (which is from 2.0 LGPL only) IBM cannot just fork OpenOffice 2 and get Open Document support for free. However, this doesn't mean that seeing IBM promote Open Document is new or surprising in some way.
You say they use pen and paper like it is something something really old-fashioned. I don't know about you but I still use pen and paper every day for my assignments. And what is so wrong about doing spreadsheets with pen and paper anyway ?
You really got me thinking about this. Is there any movie that would make my family understand what I am doing... but without teaching them to use a computer first... and then teaching them to program... and then teaching them to slashdot ?:))
line 53256 "Hey pretty lady, are you an astronaut because your ass looks out of this world"
Knowing that there are not so many women writing (or *sigh* reading) open source I think it is very unlikely that adding such line to your source code will get you anywhere. You could try though, and of course tell us what happend:)
May I add this?
* If you don't need a relational database but need to store data use a text file
* If you don't need a relational database but need transactions use Berkeley-DB
The BDB handler could be updated, and I don't think that would be that much of a problem. As for Berkeley-DB itself it is (very) actively developed (http://www.sleepycat.com/) and it is surely more widely deployed and more stable than InnoDB (Berkeley-DB has 200 million deployments compared to only 5 million MySQL deployments). As for the "huge performance cost", I really doubt there is such a thing.
On this thought I'll remind so many of you what happened in Romania. The goverment forced it's people to give up child care to the state. Now, most of those children are HIV positive and or dead.
Sorry, but you have your fact very very wrong. First, most of the "institutionalized" children are 18+ years now, and there is little anybody can do to help them without their consent. Faith was very unfair with them and very few of them managed to get a normal life. However seems that the leaders have learned from their previous mistakes, and abandoned children are now either addopted or given to families for care, together with a monthly sum of money.
However this has nothing to do with yet another problem: that of children with AIDS or HIV positive. They usually have families that are caring for them (until their situation becomes very bad, at least). Their problem is usualy caused by the prejudice of the other people. It is hard for them to study in public schools because the parents of the other children will react.
There is almost no relation between the two problems, and I don't see how this could be given as an example of a goverment that forced it's people to give up child care to the state. Maybe you could explain more. (Yes, I was born in Romania)
Click here to download plugin. No way I am installing the Flash plugin again (it caouses a memory leak in Firefox, you know... not to mention the ugly and slow loading banners).
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as a programmer I often that I've solved problems during sleep.
:)
Thank you. I really thought there was something wrong with me finding bugs during the sleep. Now that I know that I'm not the only one, I feel a lot better
I just want to welcome our new open source security overlord...! Wait? What? Symantec you say? Welcome our new ... mu ha ha ha ... mu ha ha ha ...
Going with AMD would be unwise as they don't have the capacity to produce enough chips to satisfy Apple's demands and their current PC customers.
I also don't think that Apple chose Intel over AMD based on the current merits of their processors. They plan to switch their entire product line by the end of the year, and by then the situation would be probably a lot better for Intel.
3. Programmers are asked to do the impossible. [...] If a customer dares to ask a civil engineer to add 2 more stories between the 3rd and 4th floor after the custom-built building is finished, guess what would the civil engineer say? Programmers are asked to do this all the time (I know I have been asked to), so are customers to blame? You can't get the system done properly if requirements are shifting all the time.
Extreme Programming and other agile methods were designed with exactly these changing requirements in mind. What stops your company from using them ?
IBM's support was there right from the start (making the standard). If you go here you will see that the participants in the Open Document TC are:
- Adobe Systems
- IBM
- Intel
- Novell
- Sun Microsystems
IBM is also selling Workplace Documents, based on source forked from OpenOffice.org about two years ago. Since this summer Sun droped SISSL for OpenOffice.org (which is from 2.0 LGPL only) IBM cannot just fork OpenOffice 2 and get Open Document support for free. However, this doesn't mean that seeing IBM promote Open Document is new or surprising in some way.You say they use pen and paper like it is something something really old-fashioned. I don't know about you but I still use pen and paper every day for my assignments. And what is so wrong about doing spreadsheets with pen and paper anyway ?
You really got me thinking about this. Is there any movie that would make my family understand what I am doing ... but without teaching them to use a computer first ... and then teaching them to program ... and then teaching them to slashdot ? :))
Wanted to ask you something ... ;)
Did you know the book won a Pulitzer prize?
line 53256 "Hey pretty lady, are you an astronaut because your ass looks out of this world"
:)
Knowing that there are not so many women writing (or *sigh* reading) open source I think it is very unlikely that adding such line to your source code will get you anywhere. You could try though, and of course tell us what happend
Why would anybody care about them?
Do you mean someting like this?
Thanks for the explanations. So, from know on, just PostgreSQL for me, right? :)
BDB has performance issues
Could you explain what these issues are and why are they not fixed/fixable?
May I add this? * If you don't need a relational database but need to store data use a text file * If you don't need a relational database but need transactions use Berkeley-DB
The BDB handler could be updated, and I don't think that would be that much of a problem. As for Berkeley-DB itself it is (very) actively developed (http://www.sleepycat.com/) and it is surely more widely deployed and more stable than InnoDB (Berkeley-DB has 200 million deployments compared to only 5 million MySQL deployments). As for the "huge performance cost", I really doubt there is such a thing.
Why would someone mod me Troll for asking a relevant question?
ZFS - the best filesystem ever devised.
Is ZFS better then Reiser4?
2.6 ? You are probably not using Slackware then :))
IBM buys Sun.
What if I swallow it whole ? :D
Yup, this is very uggly.
On this thought I'll remind so many of you what happened in Romania. The goverment forced it's people to give up child care to the state. Now, most of those children are HIV positive and or dead.
Sorry, but you have your fact very very wrong. First, most of the "institutionalized" children are 18+ years now, and there is little anybody can do to help them without their consent. Faith was very unfair with them and very few of them managed to get a normal life. However seems that the leaders have learned from their previous mistakes, and abandoned children are now either addopted or given to families for care, together with a monthly sum of money.
However this has nothing to do with yet another problem: that of children with AIDS or HIV positive. They usually have families that are caring for them (until their situation becomes very bad, at least). Their problem is usualy caused by the prejudice of the other people. It is hard for them to study in public schools because the parents of the other children will react.
There is almost no relation between the two problems, and I don't see how this could be given as an example of a goverment that forced it's people to give up child care to the state. Maybe you could explain more. (Yes, I was born in Romania)
I can't believe you want no one to have Google local because you don't have it.
... we would like it too someday though.
Did i actually write that? You can have your Google Maps
Don't install Flash in the first place (Firefox does not come with it, does it?). Does that solve your problem?
Click here to download plugin. No way I am installing the Flash plugin again (it caouses a memory leak in Firefox, you know ... not to mention the ugly and slow loading banners).