Competing with pretty good products
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Why Not MySQL?
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Isn't part of the problem that Oracle, DB/2, Interbase, etc. actually work pretty good for people? By which I mean, if you have the money, there is NO reason to choose MySQL over them. This is not Apache vs. buggy bloated IIS or Linux vs. buggy bloated Win2000. This is like a Dodge Neon vs. a Miata. Most of the other open source products can say "we're cheap AND we're better". But not MySQL.
Another point is that an RDBMS is not like a webserver or an OS. You can't just tack extra feature onto the side of it to make it better/more competitive. Implementing something like rollbacks or transactions or subqueries (all important things lacking in MySQL) is going to touch every part of the code. And I don't think those kind of changes get done very well in a Bazaar environment.
For those who want the precise number. Using a 2-decimal precision number and a 1 decimal conversion factor isn't going to give you a real greate number.
So, hypocrisy is normally something along the lines of "do as I say, not as I do". But I interpret your situations as more like: "I don't care if you screw someone else, just don't screw me". And honestly, who the hell doesn't act like that? Oh yes, that's right, the small proportion of "mature" Slashdotters.
It's not like this is going to affect that many people. You figure only the more technically savvy users would bother to use a downloadable client anyway, and what's the chance they're on this system anyway? Isn't that the whole concept of plugins/java, that most people aren't knowledgeable enough to download something manually liek this?
Seems like people getting worked up over nothing. It's not like TC have to provide any IRC access at all. That's their choice, and to bitch about it isn't going to get you anywhere.
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Rack An iMac
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Given that he has decided to go with a Mac in the first place, it's not like he has that many choices. Apple only makes 2 kinds of systems, iMacs and G3/4s. A G3 is gonna cost at least double what the iMac will. Even if you throw away the monitor, if the iMac meets your needs, it's the best choice.
Recording MPG streams is the hard part of the whole thing, and I presume they use a dedicated encoder. Unfortunately that's not the kind of thing that scales well.
...and since they're geeks, they gravitate to the scientific errors. But it was a deeply flawed movie, no matter what you thought the reason was. A few scenes with good special effects don't make it a good movie. Even getting every bit of science right wouldn't have made it a good movie. It was bad for ARTISTIC reasons. Bad acting, bad script, bad dialogue, bad score. Gee, can good sfx make up for that crap?
But the movie wasn't BAD! The Matrix succeeded despite it's rip-off theme and it's logical problems. Mission to Mars fails, in part because of those things, but also because, as a whole, it does not work. At all. It is hideous. To even mention the Matrix in the same breath makes me think that indeed, you missed something major. Like the lack of acting, or dialogue, or good camerawork. There is more to a movie than special FX. Or at least there should be.
Is there ANY chance we would go to Mars and not have a couple of imaging satellites in orbit around it? In fact, don't we actually have one circling the damn planet right now? Is there any conceivable reason we would need to have a SATURN probe that just happened to be flying by Mars at the moment to take pictures of the surface? And wouldn't we maybe notice that the face on Mars had turned into a real stone sculpted face? I mean isn't that why we use satellites in the first place? Arrrghhhh!
I reallllly hated this movie. I had hopes that it might be fun/crappy in an Armageddon kind of way, but it didn't even reach that level. And one of the worst parts was the score! Did anyone else notice how bad it was?
For instance, during the suspenseful where an astronaut almost died from oxygen deprivation because he preferred floating around to actually putting on his helmet. The score consisted of a stupid organ player pounding his hands down on the keyboard. "Thunk" (two second pause) "thunk". Repeat for five minutes. I wanted to scream. Really...
And how about the awful camera pans? The director's favorite shot seemed to be to put the camera 2 feet away from a bulkhead and move it slowly over random dials and crap until it finally rested on something interesting. All this time the insipid dialog was the only thing of interest. Or at least of interest to SOMEBODY.
Geez. What a waste of time. Hope the other one is better.
The difference between a cell phone that can surf the web and one that doesn't is probably a $0.50 computer chip. If there's any difference at all. Sure it might not be the BEST idea. Sure there are probably better solutions down the road. But what's the problem if the carriers want to give you MORE capability with your existing hardware? Isn't that classic geek?
How many applications these days are really processor bound? Sure this'll speed up your SETI rate, but is that a good reason to buy a $500 processor? I just went from a 300 Mhz to a 466 Mhz chip. You'd think that would be a noticeable difference in the everyday user experience. Nope. Feels just about the same -- even on Win 2K. Now what would a 1 Ghz do for me?
I know there are some people who can appreciate this. But it's getting to the point where most people have no reason to upgrade.
What's even worse is when they combine half-assed knowledge w/ windowing.
So you end up with code like:
If (2-digit-year) mod 4 = 0 AND (2-digit-year) != 0 then it's a leap year
This code works from 1900 to 1999. But fails in 2000. Considering it was written in the 1980's, isn't that remarkably short-sighted? And these aren't historical dates... they're current rundates!
I know that a port of telnet exists, but do you realize what a pain in the ass it is to use a CLI with a pen-based input system? simple commands lines take FOREVER to write.
Internic doesn't have any restrictions on these. So it's not even like these candidates are "breaking the rules".
The fact is, a majority of the electorate gets confused when they see an address that ISN'T.com. And the last thing the candidates need is to add more confusion.
I could SWEAR it sounds really familiar. Not the space shutle of course, but some kind of interplanetary mission. It's in the middle of a 2 year journey or something and surprise, a big solar flare. So the whole crew has to hide out in a special little area surrounded by all the water tanks (for the fusion engine of course).
One of the most important political web sites at the moment conciously choose to switch from Windows to Linux. Yet, none of the comments is slapping this guy on the back. Instead it's just bitch, bitch, bitch. i.e. "He didn't answer the questions in a brutally honest way." "He ignored the questions we didn't ask." If you're always going to be critical of people, even when they're on your side, people are just going to start ignoring you.
they are making some effort.
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A New DeCSS
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not suing people tho. just sending out cease-and-desist letters citing the preliminary injunctions given in the CA and NY cases. I'd say most mirrors will get one sooner or later.
OK, so this is completely OT. But I hate it when you see documents like this that are written in 2 column style. Sure that might work well on paper, but it really sucks in the Acrobat reader unless you've got a monitor with high enough rez to easily read the whole page at once. A single column layout is MUCH MUCH easier to read
First off, links with no commentary are boring and soulless.
"Let ME be the judge of whether it's new and insightful (or inciteful) or not."
This implies that when the authors add commentary, they AREN'T letting you be the judge of wether it's new and insightful. But they aren't doing anything of the sort. They're only providing their view of it, and you are free to ignore it.
But I don't think you're actually saying that YOU personally would be be misguided by their comments. I mean, you clearly saw through it on this story. Rather, I think you're looking down at the the other slashdot readers and thinking that they might not be as smart as you, and might not be able to think for themselves, and WILL be misguided. Which is really degrading... you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Isn't part of the problem that Oracle, DB/2, Interbase, etc. actually work pretty good for people? By which I mean, if you have the money, there is NO reason to choose MySQL over them. This is not Apache vs. buggy bloated IIS or Linux vs. buggy bloated Win2000. This is like a Dodge Neon vs. a Miata. Most of the other open source products can say "we're cheap AND we're better". But not MySQL.
Another point is that an RDBMS is not like a webserver or an OS. You can't just tack extra feature onto the side of it to make it better/more competitive. Implementing something like rollbacks or transactions or subqueries (all important things lacking in MySQL) is going to touch every part of the code. And I don't think those kind of changes get done very well in a Bazaar environment.
For those who want the precise number. Using a 2-decimal precision number and a 1 decimal conversion factor isn't going to give you a real greate number.
So, hypocrisy is normally something along the lines of "do as I say, not as I do". But I interpret your situations as more like: "I don't care if you screw someone else, just don't screw me". And honestly, who the hell doesn't act like that? Oh yes, that's right, the small proportion of "mature" Slashdotters.
It's not like this is going to affect that many people. You figure only the more technically savvy users would bother to use a downloadable client anyway, and what's the chance they're on this system anyway? Isn't that the whole concept of plugins/java, that most people aren't knowledgeable enough to download something manually liek this?
Seems like people getting worked up over nothing. It's not like TC have to provide any IRC access at all. That's their choice, and to bitch about it isn't going to get you anywhere.
Given that he has decided to go with a Mac in the first place, it's not like he has that many choices. Apple only makes 2 kinds of systems, iMacs and G3/4s. A G3 is gonna cost at least double what the iMac will. Even if you throw away the monitor, if the iMac meets your needs, it's the best choice.
Recording MPG streams is the hard part of the whole thing, and I presume they use a dedicated encoder. Unfortunately that's not the kind of thing that scales well.
Do these things work with cable boxes? I can't get DSS in my apartment, and I'm stuck with the box for HBO.
Here's a link to one of their projects on handwritten address recognition.
...and since they're geeks, they gravitate to the scientific errors. But it was a deeply flawed movie, no matter what you thought the reason was. A few scenes with good special effects don't make it a good movie. Even getting every bit of science right wouldn't have made it a good movie. It was bad for ARTISTIC reasons. Bad acting, bad script, bad dialogue, bad score. Gee, can good sfx make up for that crap?
But the movie wasn't BAD! The Matrix succeeded despite it's rip-off theme and it's logical problems. Mission to Mars fails, in part because of those things, but also because, as a whole, it does not work. At all. It is hideous. To even mention the Matrix in the same breath makes me think that indeed, you missed something major. Like the lack of acting, or dialogue, or good camerawork. There is more to a movie than special FX. Or at least there should be.
Is there ANY chance we would go to Mars and not have a couple of imaging satellites in orbit around it? In fact, don't we actually have one circling the damn planet right now? Is there any conceivable reason we would need to have a SATURN probe that just happened to be flying by Mars at the moment to take pictures of the surface? And wouldn't we maybe notice that the face on Mars had turned into a real stone sculpted face? I mean isn't that why we use satellites in the first place? Arrrghhhh!
I reallllly hated this movie. I had hopes that it might be fun/crappy in an Armageddon kind of way, but it didn't even reach that level. And one of the worst parts was the score! Did anyone else notice how bad it was?
For instance, during the suspenseful where an astronaut almost died from oxygen deprivation because he preferred floating around to actually putting on his helmet. The score consisted of a stupid organ player pounding his hands down on the keyboard. "Thunk" (two second pause) "thunk". Repeat for five minutes. I wanted to scream. Really...
And how about the awful camera pans? The director's favorite shot seemed to be to put the camera 2 feet away from a bulkhead and move it slowly over random dials and crap until it finally rested on something interesting. All this time the insipid dialog was the only thing of interest. Or at least of interest to SOMEBODY.
Geez. What a waste of time. Hope the other one is better.
The difference between a cell phone that can surf the web and one that doesn't is probably a $0.50 computer chip. If there's any difference at all. Sure it might not be the BEST idea. Sure there are probably better solutions down the road. But what's the problem if the carriers want to give you MORE capability with your existing hardware? Isn't that classic geek?
How many applications these days are really processor bound? Sure this'll speed up your SETI rate, but is that a good reason to buy a $500 processor? I just went from a 300 Mhz to a 466 Mhz chip. You'd think that would be a noticeable difference in the everyday user experience. Nope. Feels just about the same -- even on Win 2K. Now what would a 1 Ghz do for me?
I know there are some people who can appreciate this. But it's getting to the point where most people have no reason to upgrade.
What's even worse is when they combine half-assed knowledge w/ windowing.
So you end up with code like:
If (2-digit-year) mod 4 = 0 AND (2-digit-year) != 0
then it's a leap year
This code works from 1900 to 1999. But fails in 2000. Considering it was written in the 1980's, isn't that remarkably short-sighted? And these aren't historical dates... they're current rundates!
Well, I suppose that they're still 10 times better than a 1mbps wireless Ethernet card.
"Mastroid": have discovered a truly marvellous solution to this problem, which however this textbox is not large enough to contain.
Now that's a classic.
I know that a port of telnet exists, but do you realize what a pain in the ass it is to use a CLI with a pen-based input system? simple commands lines take FOREVER to write.
Internic doesn't have any restrictions on these. So it's not even like these candidates are "breaking the rules".
.com. And the last thing the candidates need is to add more confusion.
The fact is, a majority of the electorate gets confused when they see an address that ISN'T
Thank you. That must have been it, since I have read that one once or twice.
I could SWEAR it sounds really familiar. Not the space shutle of course, but some kind of interplanetary mission. It's in the middle of a 2 year journey or something and surprise, a big solar flare. So the whole crew has to hide out in a special little area surrounded by all the water tanks (for the fusion engine of course).
Anyone remember this?
One of the most important political web sites at the moment conciously choose to switch from Windows to Linux. Yet, none of the comments is slapping this guy on the back. Instead it's just bitch, bitch, bitch. i.e. "He didn't answer the questions in a brutally honest way." "He ignored the questions we didn't ask." If you're always going to be critical of people, even when they're on your side, people are just going to start ignoring you.
not suing people tho. just sending out cease-and-desist letters citing the preliminary injunctions given in the CA and NY cases. I'd say most mirrors will get one sooner or later.
OK, so this is completely OT. But I hate it when you see documents like this that are written in 2 column style. Sure that might work well on paper, but it really sucks in the Acrobat reader unless you've got a monitor with high enough rez to easily read the whole page at once. A single column layout is MUCH MUCH easier to read
First off, links with no commentary are boring and soulless.
"Let ME be the judge of whether it's new and insightful (or inciteful) or not."
This implies that when the authors add commentary, they AREN'T letting you be the judge of wether it's new and insightful. But they aren't doing anything of the sort. They're only providing their view of it, and you are free to ignore it.
But I don't think you're actually saying that YOU personally would be be misguided by their comments. I mean, you clearly saw through it on this story. Rather, I think you're looking down at the the other slashdot readers and thinking that they might not be as smart as you, and might not be able to think for themselves, and WILL be misguided. Which is really degrading... you should be ashamed of yourself.