I think Starbucks uses slow consumer-grade DSL connections, because that's what it feels like. Upstream capacity is severely limited, and downstream is only slightly less so. I remember attempting a Facetime call and getting less than one frame per second in both directions and constant reconnecting...turned off Wi-Fi and it was smooth as silk.
You, sir, are correct (source: I used to work for Wayport/AT&T).
God forbid the someone was to pull a Bobby tables [xkcd.com] because we didn't have someone qualified creating and maintaining the databases at all times.
Wouldn't preventing a "Bobby tables" incident be more on the application developers plate than the DBA's?
the most surprising thing about OS X Mavericks is that it's not named after a cat
Yea, it's named after a Meerkat...how original.
but "not worth my time" attitude is kinda strange since it takes no time at all to use it?
What I'd imagine he's saying is it's "not worth my time" to develop and test an application against a database that's ultimately not going to be used when pushed into the production environment (ie, cheap hosting providers that only offer MySQL). I can't say I really blame him.
There is no web based tool comparable to phpMyAdmin...
What's wrong with phppgadmin?
...what can be done to turn things around?
Get rid of Ballmer and either bring in or promote somebody internally to CEO who knows wtf they're doing.
- Another new back-end is providing RDP support, Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol. While this isn't the proper remote Wayland implementation previously talked about with experimental code, RDP clients can now connect to this Weston back-end that is compliant with FreeRDP.
Steve Jobs is never an "entertaining" kind of guy. In fact, Mr. Jobs can be the worst kind of SOB when he was in his mood.
I dunno...I'd kinda find seeing some of his tantrums entertaining. I thought they were in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.