Except that if you chat to MySQL (the company) they'll tell you that they do have high performance scalability, fail-over clustering and all the other things. However, they're also keen to charge you a licence fee for that stuff, and support costs at the level you'd expect for qualified professional support staff.
So TCO pretty rapidly does become an issue.
Oracle lost a sale to us because despite having a product that would give us far better performance the TCO argument didn't work out. Frankly we'd rather just chuck another CPU and a few gig of RAM at the problem than give the money to Oracle.
I like Oracle, I want to use Oracle, but if they're 40% more expensive than the alternative (taking into account licencing, support costs, hardware, training, recruitment, maintenance overhead, etc) then I'm not doing my job properly if I recommend we pay that premium ahead of an alternative open source database that still meets our technical requirements.
Of course, the same applies the other way. I wouldn't recommend we use Postgres because we have no skillsets in-house, and recruitment would hurt, and it just doesn't give us anything our existing DBMS lack.
If TCO wasn't a concern we'd all get a pay rise...
I see police officers torturing someone, asking for their personal details is the absolute fucking least I'm going to do to distract and interfere with the law enforcement action.
Probably half of the murders and serious assaults in my town have been comitted by Muslims in the last couple years
Ah, you live in Baghdad?
probably not even 4% of the population
So now I'm curious. You live in a 26 person town with one bad Muslim? Or you're extrapolating based on biased media reporting and personal prejudice?
I suspect anti-abortionist christian idiots commit more serious assaults in the US than muslims do. But I'm just guessing. I hate all organised religion, but don't worry, atheists break the law too.
I don't want to live next door to a terrorist. I don't care what religion they are. And if the lady of the house is cute then I'm going to admire her, but I'm not going to gawk even if she's gone topless.
It can be established quite readily that Hitler held personal and professional contempt for atheism. I'm less certain you could claim he had contempt for Christianity, given his public support for it and acknowledgement that he was a christian.
Anyway, most of the dead people were Russian. Officially they were atheists. Your point doesn't hold.
Perhaps you'd like a list of the Christian rulers that have started wars and/or killed a lot of people. Lets start with Bush and work backwards. (If it's possible to go backwards from there..)
In the UK of late laws have been passed with overly broad wording and an assurance "it wont be used like that", following which the first case under the new law is almost always 'like that'.
In the UK signs tend to be positioned prior to the feature to which they refer. So a tight bend is marked early enough for you to slow down, and a dangerous bend has that marking plus another that can be seen from a distance. Similarly, if there's a blind bend with traffic lights just after, a warning sign will tell you about the lights before you go round the bend.
The simplicity of the signs themselves is very intentional. You're meant to be watching the road, not reading signs. Some people are very slow readers, it can take them 4-5 seconds to read four words. A sub-second glance at a sign, discern its general shape and colour, and for the most common signs recognise the icon, gives adequate information to guide driving decisions without overly distracting a driver from the road.
I think most UK road signs are a triumph of pragmatic design.
It'll be interesting to see what happens if this comes to court. If she's found guilty of other terrorist offences then those materials become relevant. If she isn't, then the verdict on her possession is what I'll be keeping a keen interest in.
The thing is, that's an interesting list of books. I'm a curious person, if the guy I loaned my room to left those books on the coffee table I'd pick them up and read them. If he moved out, I wouldn't throw them away.
(he's Australian. he's not a terrorist. i think)
The issue isn't whether she's a terrorist or not. The issue is that mere possession of such reading material should not be illegal. I am exceedingly fucking worried that it is deemed illegal. I don't have the books listed, but I do have other books. Shit, every child has a book telling you have to make explosives - they're called textbooks.
When mere possession, especially without intent, becomes illegal, then everybody is a criminal. This is very very wrong.
I had to go and read the text of the act. You're right. We're all fucked.
I have in my pocket right now about a bootable linux distribution on a USB key. Lets hope to hell a lawyer can convince the jury that the Infosec tools on it are designed for authorised detection of vulnerabilities and not for illicit use.
The only one of those that isn't particularly defined is Technical Specialist, and since that was at the same company at which I was a Snr Software Engineer and an E-Commerce Architect the title was obviously less important than the role/seniority.
Sure, you successfully occupied the territory. I'd say the war is continuing though, and the current betting is on a US withdrawal while the fighting continues.
I'd say Americans are pretty poor at fighting wars. Great at winning battles, I'll grant you that, but battles are not the whole war.
I'd hope you could find that on Google (although I haven't checked for it). I'm fairly sure I read it somewhere on the 'net (under a discussion of why Thread.stop() was bad) before I bought Doug Lea's book.
But yeah, it's one of those things - good people that have done that before will know it, people that always do it wrong or have never done it will either just know the API or not know at all.
Plus of course it's easy to do a lot of concurrent programming (even in Java) and never have to deal with that particular issue. Unless you're creating daemon threads you seldom need to explicitly stop a thread anyway. (in business environments - although most business environments still using java are using j2ee containers and avoiding most of the concurrency issues anyway)
Back on topic, a shortage of technical people is just fantastic;)
have voted by mail many times..in the same election?
Voting by mail is vulnerable to massive electoral fraud. Who checks that each vote is cast in full privacy, without someone stood holding a baseball bat or a handful of cash. Who makes sure that the vote isn't tampered with between voter and counter. Who ensures party officials don't go door-to-door offering assistance to people in filling in their vote. Sure, 'their' vote.
These have all been issues with postal voting in the past couple of years in the UK, and I like to think we're nowhere near as corrupt as the US.
I stroll down the aisle in my local shop, I see women between the ages of 18 and 80, men between the ages of 17 and 80, cars, computers, trains, cameras, houses and various other images.
The only children tend to be on the magazines aimed at teenage girls or babies still in nappies. Neither of which are 'hot'.
Maybe where you live things are different, but round here 12-14yo girls don't get onto magazines and certainly aren't 'hot'.
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Except that if you chat to MySQL (the company) they'll tell you that they do have high performance scalability, fail-over clustering and all the other things. However, they're also keen to charge you a licence fee for that stuff, and support costs at the level you'd expect for qualified professional support staff.
So TCO pretty rapidly does become an issue.
Oracle lost a sale to us because despite having a product that would give us far better performance the TCO argument didn't work out. Frankly we'd rather just chuck another CPU and a few gig of RAM at the problem than give the money to Oracle.
I like Oracle, I want to use Oracle, but if they're 40% more expensive than the alternative (taking into account licencing, support costs, hardware, training, recruitment, maintenance overhead, etc) then I'm not doing my job properly if I recommend we pay that premium ahead of an alternative open source database that still meets our technical requirements.
Of course, the same applies the other way. I wouldn't recommend we use Postgres because we have no skillsets in-house, and recruitment would hurt, and it just doesn't give us anything our existing DBMS lack.
If TCO wasn't a concern we'd all get a pay rise...
I see police officers torturing someone, asking for their personal details is the absolute fucking least I'm going to do to distract and interfere with the law enforcement action.
Some things are worth jail time.
I would not consider those to be "simple dodgy online games" either.
You clearly played a higher class of mud than I did then
Probably half of the murders and serious assaults in my town have been comitted by Muslims in the last couple years
Ah, you live in Baghdad?
probably not even 4% of the population
So now I'm curious. You live in a 26 person town with one bad Muslim? Or you're extrapolating based on biased media reporting and personal prejudice?
I suspect anti-abortionist christian idiots commit more serious assaults in the US than muslims do. But I'm just guessing. I hate all organised religion, but don't worry, atheists break the law too.
I don't want to live next door to a terrorist. I don't care what religion they are. And if the lady of the house is cute then I'm going to admire her, but I'm not going to gawk even if she's gone topless.
It can be established quite readily that Hitler held personal and professional contempt for atheism. I'm less certain you could claim he had contempt for Christianity, given his public support for it and acknowledgement that he was a christian.
Anyway, most of the dead people were Russian. Officially they were atheists. Your point doesn't hold.
Perhaps you'd like a list of the Christian rulers that have started wars and/or killed a lot of people. Lets start with Bush and work backwards. (If it's possible to go backwards from there..)
A simple "dodgy online game" wouldn't give its players enough control over their world to allow this sort of shennanigans to happen.
Have you even heard of MUDs?
In the UK of late laws have been passed with overly broad wording and an assurance "it wont be used like that", following which the first case under the new law is almost always 'like that'.
See also: extradition to the US without evidence
In the UK signs tend to be positioned prior to the feature to which they refer. So a tight bend is marked early enough for you to slow down, and a dangerous bend has that marking plus another that can be seen from a distance. Similarly, if there's a blind bend with traffic lights just after, a warning sign will tell you about the lights before you go round the bend.
The simplicity of the signs themselves is very intentional. You're meant to be watching the road, not reading signs. Some people are very slow readers, it can take them 4-5 seconds to read four words. A sub-second glance at a sign, discern its general shape and colour, and for the most common signs recognise the icon, gives adequate information to guide driving decisions without overly distracting a driver from the road.
I think most UK road signs are a triumph of pragmatic design.
You haven't seen the speed at which I join roundabouts..
~Cederic just bought a Vectra.
within 10 minutes
And how often is that target met?
quite often an actual doctor will be traveling with the paramedics
I've never yet seen that. Not denying it happens, but challenging its frequency.
you get a chopper to the hospital
Which is funded entirely by charity - no Government funding for the air ambulances.
And all this without a single check for medical insurance or endless calls to your HMO to get the treatemnt approved.
And all this for just £400/month! Yep, that's how much of my money goes to the NHS.
I would recommend Denmark.
Thank you for the suggestion. I've heard Cuba's pretty good too.
It'll be interesting to see what happens if this comes to court. If she's found guilty of other terrorist offences then those materials become relevant. If she isn't, then the verdict on her possession is what I'll be keeping a keen interest in.
There's a big fucking difference between taking a little bit longer look at your business practices and charging you with terrorism.
The thing is, that's an interesting list of books. I'm a curious person, if the guy I loaned my room to left those books on the coffee table I'd pick them up and read them. If he moved out, I wouldn't throw them away.
(he's Australian. he's not a terrorist. i think)
The issue isn't whether she's a terrorist or not. The issue is that mere possession of such reading material should not be illegal. I am exceedingly fucking worried that it is deemed illegal. I don't have the books listed, but I do have other books. Shit, every child has a book telling you have to make explosives - they're called textbooks.
When mere possession, especially without intent, becomes illegal, then everybody is a criminal. This is very very wrong.
I had to go and read the text of the act. You're right. We're all fucked.
I have in my pocket right now about a bootable linux distribution on a USB key. Lets hope to hell a lawyer can convince the jury that the Infosec tools on it are designed for authorised detection of vulnerabilities and not for illicit use.
we hear about every bus accident and anal rape and then we fantasize about many more
Don't you hate being misquoted
Hmm.
Programmer.
Software Engineer.
Senior Software Engineer.
Technical Specialist.
E-Commerce Architect
Application Architect
Solutions Architect
Enterprise Architect
The only one of those that isn't particularly defined is Technical Specialist, and since that was at the same company at which I was a Snr Software Engineer and an E-Commerce Architect the title was obviously less important than the role/seniority.
Americans are very good at fighting wars.
So why didn't you win it?
Sure, you successfully occupied the territory. I'd say the war is continuing though, and the current betting is on a US withdrawal while the fighting continues.
I'd say Americans are pretty poor at fighting wars. Great at winning battles, I'll grant you that, but battles are not the whole war.
Are Macquarie the guys in Sydney recruiting contract EAs? I'm contemplating a six month contract (but waiting until the Ashes are over).
I'd hope you could find that on Google (although I haven't checked for it). I'm fairly sure I read it somewhere on the 'net (under a discussion of why Thread.stop() was bad) before I bought Doug Lea's book.
But yeah, it's one of those things - good people that have done that before will know it, people that always do it wrong or have never done it will either just know the API or not know at all.
Plus of course it's easy to do a lot of concurrent programming (even in Java) and never have to deal with that particular issue. Unless you're creating daemon threads you seldom need to explicitly stop a thread anyway. (in business environments - although most business environments still using java are using j2ee containers and avoiding most of the concurrency issues anyway)
Back on topic, a shortage of technical people is just fantastic
As an employer I don't want to hire someone as a programmer that's happy working in a support role.
Different mindset, different skillset, different tolerance levels.
I also wouldn't hire a programmer as a support person - same reason. See also: testers, project managers, etc.
have voted by mail many times
Voting by mail is vulnerable to massive electoral fraud. Who checks that each vote is cast in full privacy, without someone stood holding a baseball bat or a handful of cash. Who makes sure that the vote isn't tampered with between voter and counter. Who ensures party officials don't go door-to-door offering assistance to people in filling in their vote. Sure, 'their' vote.
These have all been issues with postal voting in the past couple of years in the UK, and I like to think we're nowhere near as corrupt as the US.
None of which explains just what the problem with stem cell research is.
People seem to have this irrational superstitious reaction against it. They confuse me.
Most women on magazines here are either celebs (in which case age is approximately known) or physically mature women.
You just don't get 14yo models on magazines - or if you do, I haven't noticed them.
I can't vote, they wont let me.
Bastards.
Expect many complaints, about my Government and yours.
Which magazines?
I stroll down the aisle in my local shop, I see women between the ages of 18 and 80, men between the ages of 17 and 80, cars, computers, trains, cameras, houses and various other images.
The only children tend to be on the magazines aimed at teenage girls or babies still in nappies. Neither of which are 'hot'.
Maybe where you live things are different, but round here 12-14yo girls don't get onto magazines and certainly aren't 'hot'.