It made total sense and has little to do with being left-wing. Wal-Mart is a shit company. They treat their employees like crap. I have a friend who worked for them for 8 years and got fired for something really freaking stupid. Wal-Mart is cheap because of the reasons the parent poster listed. Pull your head out and do some reading.
Look at the 9iR2 docs on otn.oracle.com (dunno if this requires registration but its free). Look at the new features of 10g database.
Oracle has made huge changes since 8.0x. I started being a DBA on release 8.0.5 but that was over 4 years ago. Its almost a completely different database these days and to be honest, especially on 9iR2 which is what we're using now, I don't have to do much.
Because Oracle offers a huge featureset above and beyond what SQL Server offers and runs very well on NT;) It also costs a hell of a lot more (well...can cost more as you can get lower spec versions of the main db product). Really....with locally-managed tablespaces (available for most tablespace types in 8i R3 (8.1.7) and all AFAIK in 9i) you don't have to worry about this stuff anymore.
Might not need the grid stuff in 10g but they always add stuff that is handy for lots of other things.
That being said I read your other posting. I know (and was aggravated by in the past) the goofy space management issues with Oracle but if you delete records that space becomes available for more data. Sure it's not reclaimed by the OS but it's not like you delete data and can never use that space again.
Actually thats not true anymore. Lots of automated stuff in 8i (which has been around for a long time) and even more in 9i. Presumably even more in 10g but 9i takes care of all the major stuff.
No, its about branding and image in the business world. The appearence of what is going on is often more important that what reality is b/c the ones with the purse strings are usually NOT the CTO/CIO's.
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Unfortantely most in the technology world frankly don't have fucking clue about marketing and appearence.
Unfortunately the marketing/sales folk don't have a fucking clue about reality. This is why we have so many shitty software products out there. The problems with business are exactly the things you point out above. The reality of the situation is *less* important than the shit the sales people can make up. That makes for lots of trouble. Considering the situation it always makes me laugh when people bitch about the quality of software.
"it's just stupid to use a CSS sheet when it's not needed." Bullshit. There is no reason these days *not* to use CSS unless you dont care about layout and look. HTML was never intended to do layout. It is structural. Use it that way and use CSS for the layout and look. Not only are the pages smaller but it is far easier to change the look-and-feel via a stylesheet then having to completely recode the page using table layouts, spacer gifs, and all the other crap.
Cool coder at work would be better off throwing out "HTML 3.0" and going with XHTML and CSS. Want smaller pages that load faster? CSS is the way to do it. There is absolutely no reason to code to the HTML 3.2 spec these days.
1:) Flash doesnt have the goofiness you have to work around in different browsers using HTML/DOM/ECMAScript. 2:) See #1 plus databound controls and a small plugin.
Why is this comment marked as "insightful"? It is shortsighted and written by someone with some ridiculous chip on their shoulder. You might hate Flash animations. Fine and dandy. That doesn't make Flash useless. In fact Macromedia is pushing Flash *hard* as a tool to build user interfaces for web apps which is a fantastic idea. Given the penetration of the Flash player in the market and the fact that its superior to HTML for building UI's its a definite plus.
You might want to think out of the box just a bit (dont strain yourself now) and maybe explore where Flash is useful.
People will put animations on their websites. I'd rather have the Flash version than a GIF. Generally they are smaller and provide a better experience.
I used to think that show was creative and compelling. But after listening for a long time I stopped because it wasn't creative nor compelling. It was the same stuff over and over and over again. Depressing story week after week for the most part.
On my athlon 850 with 512mb RAM iTunes resizes slowly and pegs the CPU at 100% until you let go of the drag area (even if youre not moving anything). Scrolling is also really freaking slow. It feels about the same performance-wise as itunes on my 333g3 imac. I love it and plan on using it but its a resource hog.
if anything, C# provides for the most part a subset of VB functionality, although technically the two provide somewhat intersecting but not fully overlapping sets of functionality - there are some things you can do in VB that you can't do in C#, and there are some you can do in C# that you can't do in VB. And the same goes for all languages on the.NET platform.
And this is part of the problem isn't it? First off: I don't use.NET. I am only talking about what I've read about it. But in the C# books I've read there are limitations on just how "interfunctional" languages on.NET can be. There are definitely limitations you have to work around when using/developing objects in different languages in.NET if you want them available by all others. This seems to be missing from the.NET spin I see from MS or others (big surprise right?). I don't necessarily think its a problem...just that its not mentioned much.
The days of having to "slave away" over Oracle are long gone. 9i has so many things automated now it is pretty hands off (or at least can be). As to your complaint about the support line I have no clue what you're referring to. I have not had a bad experience yet with Oracle DB tech support and I've been a DBA for several years. I don't know how they used to be but in the 4 years I've been using Oracle their DB tech support is the finest I've ever been involved with bar none.
I agree SQL*Plus is a POS. Thats why I use DBArtisan;) Or if youre on Linux TOra is free.
Oracle licensing is pretty straightfoward now. Look on their website.
Actually it was a hysterical thing to say and regardless of your situation the humor bit has to do with the stupid 9-11 conspiracy theories...not the attacks themselves.
I'd suggest reading the court document which talks about just what they found at the guy's house - none of which he mentions in his little tirade on the website.
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It made total sense and has little to do with being left-wing. Wal-Mart is a shit company. They treat their employees like crap. I have a friend who worked for them for 8 years and got fired for something really freaking stupid. Wal-Mart is cheap because of the reasons the parent poster listed. Pull your head out and do some reading.
Look at the 9iR2 docs on otn.oracle.com (dunno if this requires registration but its free). Look at the new features of 10g database.
Oracle has made huge changes since 8.0x. I started being a DBA on release 8.0.5 but that was over 4 years ago. Its almost a completely different database these days and to be honest, especially on 9iR2 which is what we're using now, I don't have to do much.
Because Oracle offers a huge featureset above and beyond what SQL Server offers and runs very well on NT ;) It also costs a hell of a lot more (well...can cost more as you can get lower spec versions of the main db product). Really....with locally-managed tablespaces (available for most tablespace types in 8i R3 (8.1.7) and all AFAIK in 9i) you don't have to worry about this stuff anymore.
Just a nit to pick: Hibernate != EJB. Hibernate is only a replacement for CMP.
Might not need the grid stuff in 10g but they always add stuff that is handy for lots of other things.
That being said I read your other posting. I know (and was aggravated by in the past) the goofy space management issues with Oracle but if you delete records that space becomes available for more data. Sure it's not reclaimed by the OS but it's not like you delete data and can never use that space again.
A kid is generally accompanied by something called a diaper which is used until they can be taught to go to the bathroom on their own.
It's not rocket science.
Actually thats not true anymore. Lots of automated stuff in 8i (which has been around for a long time) and even more in 9i. Presumably even more in 10g but 9i takes care of all the major stuff.
and
Unfortantely most in the technology world frankly don't have fucking clue about marketing and appearence.
Unfortunately the marketing/sales folk don't have a fucking clue about reality. This is why we have so many shitty software products out there. The problems with business are exactly the things you point out above. The reality of the situation is *less* important than the shit the sales people can make up. That makes for lots of trouble. Considering the situation it always makes me laugh when people bitch about the quality of software.
"it's just stupid to use a CSS sheet when it's not needed." Bullshit. There is no reason these days *not* to use CSS unless you dont care about layout and look. HTML was never intended to do layout. It is structural. Use it that way and use CSS for the layout and look. Not only are the pages smaller but it is far easier to change the look-and-feel via a stylesheet then having to completely recode the page using table layouts, spacer gifs, and all the other crap.
Cool coder at work would be better off throwing out "HTML 3.0" and going with XHTML and CSS. Want smaller pages that load faster? CSS is the way to do it. There is absolutely no reason to code to the HTML 3.2 spec these days.
1:) Flash doesnt have the goofiness you have to work around in different browsers using HTML/DOM/ECMAScript.
2:) See #1 plus databound controls and a small plugin.
Why is this comment marked as "insightful"? It is shortsighted and written by someone with some ridiculous chip on their shoulder. You might hate Flash animations. Fine and dandy. That doesn't make Flash useless. In fact Macromedia is pushing Flash *hard* as a tool to build user interfaces for web apps which is a fantastic idea. Given the penetration of the Flash player in the market and the fact that its superior to HTML for building UI's its a definite plus.
You might want to think out of the box just a bit (dont strain yourself now) and maybe explore where Flash is useful.
People will put animations on their websites. I'd rather have the Flash version than a GIF. Generally they are smaller and provide a better experience.
Thats why you pay $200 more and get Studio 2004 with Flash and Freehand. :)
I used to think that show was creative and compelling. But after listening for a long time I stopped because it wasn't creative nor compelling. It was the same stuff over and over and over again. Depressing story week after week for the most part.
On my athlon 850 with 512mb RAM iTunes resizes slowly and pegs the CPU at 100% until you let go of the drag area (even if youre not moving anything). Scrolling is also really freaking slow. It feels about the same performance-wise as itunes on my 333g3 imac. I love it and plan on using it but its a resource hog.
Since when is Resin free? Its free for development use. Last time I checked they charged (only $500 per server) for it for commercial use.
And this is part of the problem isn't it? First off: I don't use .NET. I am only talking about what I've read about it. But in the C# books I've read there are limitations on just how "interfunctional" languages on .NET can be. There are definitely limitations you have to work around when using/developing objects in different languages in .NET if you want them available by all others. This seems to be missing from the .NET spin I see from MS or others (big surprise right?). I don't necessarily think its a problem...just that its not mentioned much.
I suspect the law would disagree with you. The server is the property of the New York Times as is the data.
IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse both touch VS.NET pretty hard actually. Let me know when VS.NET comes with refactoring out of the box.
The only thing they don't do (that I dont like anyway) is visual designing. There are plugins for Eclipse for visual designers.
Screw free JBuilder. Use Eclipse. Or try JDeveloper from Oracle. Its free for dev. use.
The days of having to "slave away" over Oracle are long gone. 9i has so many things automated now it is pretty hands off (or at least can be). As to your complaint about the support line I have no clue what you're referring to. I have not had a bad experience yet with Oracle DB tech support and I've been a DBA for several years. I don't know how they used to be but in the 4 years I've been using Oracle their DB tech support is the finest I've ever been involved with bar none.
;) Or if youre on Linux TOra is free.
I agree SQL*Plus is a POS. Thats why I use DBArtisan
Oracle licensing is pretty straightfoward now. Look on their website.
Actually it was a hysterical thing to say and regardless of your situation the humor bit has to do with the stupid 9-11 conspiracy theories...not the attacks themselves.
Lighten up.
Its funny that this was marked insightful as the poster seems to have completely missed the joke of the parent post. Hint: outsourcing.
I'd suggest reading the court document which talks about just what they found at the guy's house - none of which he mentions in his little tirade on the website.
Being used less and less? Surely you jest. Java is a huge sucess and its use continues to grow.