It's too bad you feel that way, although quite frankly I couldn't give a crap what you think about me and my evil plans to silence all the wonderful things twitter and his sockpuppets have to say.
This is really not about twitter's opinion of Microsoft, but since you brought it up, you actually have the credibility of a door nail as far as anything related to them goes. More specifically you have no credibility on anything that's not related to your bizarre fetish of Apple Corp. I forget if it's a fetish or a sponsored crusade, so you'll have to forgive me here.
So why don't you foe me, and get on with your life. I'd recommend foe'ing twitter as well, but who knows how many accounts he has by now, so you will read all those wonderful things whether you like it or not, I guess.
You're right, I wasn't implying that it is the only backend that MySQL can use, or that its use in MySQL is by any means the most important or visible use of BDB in other software.
I'd recommend SQLite or Berkley DB. I've used BDB on a couple of projects where I needed to basically store an enormous hashtable that could be read quickly by key, and I don't think anything else comes close to the speed of that thing.
BDB is *not* a relational database though, it's just a storage/indexing engine, which is used most notably by MySQL as a backend. SQLite on the other hand is a full file-based RDBMS with a small runtime, so it might be a bit of overkill for you in this particular scenario.
But both of them run on Windows, Linux and the BSDs, so you won't have portability problems. And most languages have bindings for them.
I was replying to someone that asked if "inTheLoo" was a sockpuppet. Hardly "fourteen times in the last day and a half", read my posting history and stop making shit up.
Seriously, foe me and stop complaining. What exactly is the Slashdot regulation that allows you to bitch about what I do but punishes people for even mentioning that some fucktard is running around replying to himself with ten different accounts?
you are a worse blight on Slashdot than the plague of twitter posts which you go on about.
If you have a problem with me, mark me as foe and ignore me. Of course if you wanted to do the same to twitter, you'd be screwed, since he just keeps creating new accounts.
you repeat just about the entire post over and over, it seems in response to any post by twitter.
That's funny, it seems that's exactly what he does to his own posts. At least I take responsibility for what I say without simply switching to another personality when things don't work out.
I'm sure not many of you will read this, but I'd like to thank everyone who posted a suggestion or link. I haven't finished reading everything but I think I have enough to get me on my way.
Yes. Erris, gnutoo, inTheLoo and Mactrope (who are having a conversation on this thread) are all the same person.
If you need to mark them as foe, the other ones are westbake, willeyhill and Odder. He has one more that he seems to have stopped using after two posts.
I don't know if he's created more in the past two weeks, I haven't been paying much attention to the whole drama.
I agree, FWIW. As long as he doesn't start devolving into things like these and he doesn't shill his own posts, then he should be moderated up if the post merits it.
I suspect that won't last long... but fair's fair.
Don't worry twitter, when free software becomes popular enough that a few hundred million people like these are using it, crapware peddlers will create keyloggers for it too, and your argument will be seen as just another one of your karma-for-the-win "free software is perfect" flamebait, since having the source to the OS or any other application is completely irrelevent in cases like these. Your "Winblows" quippy falls flat, as usual.
Should we now expect one or two of your sockpuppets to appear on this thread to agree with you?
Turns out The Largest Cross-Referenced Repository Of Pop Culture On The Internet Sprinkled With A Few Actually Accurate Encyclopedic Topics was too long for the title bar, so they ended up calling it Wikipedia instead.
Maybe WP is redefining what an encyclopedia is, which is valid I suppose. But it's not an encyclopedia.
I'm not going to add to the actual discussion at hand, but at the risk of dating myself, I have to mention that Pretty Baby was a huge controversy even before it was released. Theaters refused to run even the post-censorship sanitized version, various Defenders Of Decency Organizations panned it, it was all over the news, etc.
I saw the cut version a few years later and quite frankly I couldn't see what the problem was, but what do I know.
Compare Pretty Baby to Blue Lagoon, another prepubescent skin flick featuring Brooke Shields (this woman sure knew what she was doing I guess). Same controversy, pretty much. Even more so in the early 80s because the prude movement was starting to grow exponentially by then in response to the perceived excesses of the 60s and 70s.
But Pretty Baby was a huge deal back in the day.
OK, now I'll go back to playing Pong on my PDP-10.
Many of the movies we consider "classics" of the 80s and 90s were panned by critics. Aliens? Check. The second and third Indy flicks? Check. Episode IV and V? Check.
I stopped listening to movie critics a long time ago. I prefer to make up my own mind. And if I have ny doubt whatsoever about a film, I'll just wait for it to come out on DVD and see it for free (basically) by exchanging it at Blockbuster for one of the ones I get in the mail from my eclectic-but-steady movie list (takes time to go through 350 movies...)
I very much doubt "the vast majority" are. I'm sure the ones that live in the large cities and have well-paying jobs are, but the actual vast majority of Chinese still live at or below subsistence levels. I'm also pretty sure that the members of Falun Gong and all those people that got nailed during the Tiannamen square protests would not agree with you. And let's not forget the millions who are victims of widespread corruption, the families of criminals that are executed for petty crimes, the ones that are sick because of rampant environmental problems caused by unchecked industrial growth, etc.
The images of pretty affluent Chinese living in modern-looking cities we've come to enjoy in the Western media are not exactly indicative of what actually goes on over there. It's a big country with a billion people.
In any case, it's illegal to express negative feelings about the glorious Communist Party or its leaders, so I'm not sure who you've been talking to over there. Just about every Chinese I've ever met here in the US love their country, but they've rarely had anything but negative things to say about their government, regardless of the era they happened to leave.
This guy is all over this article. Check his posting history, he's one of those Chinese nationalist fanboys that like to deny the Tibet thing and so on. Very obvious.
I remember the reports of "a few hundred" fatalities when the story about the tsunami of 2005 broke. I think this is going to get worse before it gets better.
Fortunately the Chinese government seems to be forthcoming as to what's happening over there, in contrast to past disasters. And I wonder what this will do to the olympics?
I suppose that's OK, since if I follow your logic here all I need to do is just create four or five accounts, complain about your moderation and paste in a few links. You wouldn't mind if I did that, would you?
Then, the next time I see you posting something I disagree with, I'll jump in with all my sockpuppets and create the illusion of a discussion between many people, most of which happen to agree with me. Then someone else who thinks they're using their moderator points in for a righteous cause will mod you down, and you will lose karma. Eventually you'll lose your posting bonus, and who knows, maybe even descend into negative karma territory.
But you wouldn't mind that at all, would you? As long as I paste a few "informative" links into my comments and repeat the obvious in slightly different ways. Right?
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This is really not about twitter's opinion of Microsoft, but since you brought it up, you actually have the credibility of a door nail as far as anything related to them goes. More specifically you have no credibility on anything that's not related to your bizarre fetish of Apple Corp. I forget if it's a fetish or a sponsored crusade, so you'll have to forgive me here.
So why don't you foe me, and get on with your life. I'd recommend foe'ing twitter as well, but who knows how many accounts he has by now, so you will read all those wonderful things whether you like it or not, I guess.
Have fun.
You're right, I wasn't implying that it is the only backend that MySQL can use, or that its use in MySQL is by any means the most important or visible use of BDB in other software.
BDB is *not* a relational database though, it's just a storage/indexing engine, which is used most notably by MySQL as a backend. SQLite on the other hand is a full file-based RDBMS with a small runtime, so it might be a bit of overkill for you in this particular scenario.
But both of them run on Windows, Linux and the BSDs, so you won't have portability problems. And most languages have bindings for them.
Seriously, foe me and stop complaining. What exactly is the Slashdot regulation that allows you to bitch about what I do but punishes people for even mentioning that some fucktard is running around replying to himself with ten different accounts?
If you have a problem with me, mark me as foe and ignore me. Of course if you wanted to do the same to twitter, you'd be screwed, since he just keeps creating new accounts.
you repeat just about the entire post over and over, it seems in response to any post by twitter.
That's funny, it seems that's exactly what he does to his own posts. At least I take responsibility for what I say without simply switching to another personality when things don't work out.
This is why I like Slashdot so much :)
Cheers.
If you need to mark them as foe, the other ones are westbake, willeyhill and Odder. He has one more that he seems to have stopped using after two posts.
I don't know if he's created more in the past two weeks, I haven't been paying much attention to the whole drama.
I suspect that won't last long... but fair's fair.
Should we now expect one or two of your sockpuppets to appear on this thread to agree with you?
Maybe WP is redefining what an encyclopedia is, which is valid I suppose. But it's not an encyclopedia.
I saw the cut version a few years later and quite frankly I couldn't see what the problem was, but what do I know.
Compare Pretty Baby to Blue Lagoon, another prepubescent skin flick featuring Brooke Shields (this woman sure knew what she was doing I guess). Same controversy, pretty much. Even more so in the early 80s because the prude movement was starting to grow exponentially by then in response to the perceived excesses of the 60s and 70s.
But Pretty Baby was a huge deal back in the day.
OK, now I'll go back to playing Pong on my PDP-10.
You mean you're going to WP:HURL.
Laser-wielding sharks cannot be far behind now.
Doesn't it run Python? Then it should run the .NET CLR just fine, as long as the application(s) don't overdo it.
In my experience wxPython apps consume as much (if not more) memory than a comparable Windows Form application written against the 2.0 framework.
Still, there's the memory the runtime/framework consume and the memory gobbled up by the application itself.
I stopped listening to movie critics a long time ago. I prefer to make up my own mind. And if I have ny doubt whatsoever about a film, I'll just wait for it to come out on DVD and see it for free (basically) by exchanging it at Blockbuster for one of the ones I get in the mail from my eclectic-but-steady movie list (takes time to go through 350 movies...)
The images of pretty affluent Chinese living in modern-looking cities we've come to enjoy in the Western media are not exactly indicative of what actually goes on over there. It's a big country with a billion people.
In any case, it's illegal to express negative feelings about the glorious Communist Party or its leaders, so I'm not sure who you've been talking to over there. Just about every Chinese I've ever met here in the US love their country, but they've rarely had anything but negative things to say about their government, regardless of the era they happened to leave.
Once they finished slaughtering the objectors it sure got quiet over there for a while, didn't it?
and completely ignore the US occupation of Iraq
You're right, I wonder what became of that whole thing? I haven't seen that come up in the media lately... oh wait.
If the unique prose isn't, misspelling 'disaster' is one of the usual giveaways.
This guy is all over this article. Check his posting history, he's one of those Chinese nationalist fanboys that like to deny the Tibet thing and so on. Very obvious.
Except that "from the twist-and-shout dept" thing is rather tasteless.
Fortunately the Chinese government seems to be forthcoming as to what's happening over there, in contrast to past disasters. And I wonder what this will do to the olympics?
With the size of the Windows desktop market I'm surprised that this gets so much press.
But we all know why these stories are run here, don't we.
Hmm, I didn't know I was posting at zero now. Weird.
Of course "he" did, it's one of your sockpuppet accounts.
Then, the next time I see you posting something I disagree with, I'll jump in with all my sockpuppets and create the illusion of a discussion between many people, most of which happen to agree with me. Then someone else who thinks they're using their moderator points in for a righteous cause will mod you down, and you will lose karma. Eventually you'll lose your posting bonus, and who knows, maybe even descend into negative karma territory.
But you wouldn't mind that at all, would you? As long as I paste a few "informative" links into my comments and repeat the obvious in slightly different ways. Right?