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Comment Re:No he doesn't (Score 1) 371

Maybe, just maybe, they are interested by MySQL, would it be to kill it.

1) You can't kill GPL code.
2) If he was this worried about it he shouldn't have sold MySQL in the first place.

He's just butthurt because he can't make a closed-source fork of MySQL. Sorry, if I don't feel any sympathy at all for him and his billion dollars.

Comment Re:Own fault (Score 2, Insightful) 371

How can Oracle "kill" MySQL? Aren't we told over and over by GNU zealots that the GPL ensures that these projects will live on forever since the source code is always available? Isn't this why they rally against the BSD-like licenses?

Comment Re:Maybe for dementia patients... (Score 1) 403

I've taken similar herbals expecting the same or better results and not realized any.

I take a 90mg gelcap and the effect lasts for about 3 hours every time.

It's pretty predictable to be placebo.

This does nothing to dispute the obvious placebo effect. In fact it does nothing but reinforce it. If you start telling patients who you are giving placebo pills that they are getting something other than what they expect the placebo effect is ruined. This is why things are done in blind manner (double-blind is best because then the people dispensing the medication don't know which is which) in drug studies. The proper way to eliminate the placebo effect is for you to not know you aren't still taking ginko pills but are given something else.

Comment Re:Maybe for dementia patients... (Score 1) 403

More study is needed, and presenting a study which focuses exclusively on the elderly as saying "gingko doesn't work for anybody" is just as intellectually dishonest as "gingko seems to work for me, so it must be great for everybody!"

Yes, if I was doing what you say it would be dishonest, but this isn't the only study showing that the supposed benefits Ginko are hogwash. The only ones showing otherwise are funded by Ginko marketing firms.

Comment Re:Proper Planning (Score 1) 414

Or perhaps roblarky could be more vague. Perhaps you could divine what he means by, "many".

By many he probably meant the standard definition as used by the English language. You apparently appear to be even more functionally illiterate than your first post let on.

You seem to imply that some preternaturally clever IT dept could make the right decision at every stage, and never be forced to do the dumb things the non-technical managers (business owners) always insist upon and never have to deal with ancient, legacy crap.

No, in fact that wasn't what I or anyone else was saying at all. He was clearly saying that depending on how your infrastructure is set up you may need only a few admins or you might need many.

Comment Re:Maybe for dementia patients... (Score 1) 403

I take it regularly throughout the day, every day, and it makes a huge difference for me in memory and calmness of thought. I get so worked up sometimes trying to multitask everything.. it really helps focus. I can definitely tell when I've taken it and when I haven't.

Yes, they have a term for this. It's called the placebo effect.

Comment Re:Huh... (Score 1) 203

2.) Liberals love the idea of government control. It's the solution to absolutely everything.

As opposed to conservatives who want the government and the police to patrol what two consenting adults are doing in their own bedrooms?

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