I agree completely. There is no reason that a program cannot read UTF-8 and store as UTF-32 internally. There is a trade-off between time and memory. Note that UTF-16 is also a variable length encoding scheme so you still need to start at the start of string to find the nth character.
Unicode and how it is represented in a file are two different things. Unicode is a good idea, it solves many problems and contains all the (to me) strange characters used by: Greeks, Chinese, etc.
How to represent it in a file is different. UTF-8 is the obvious answer today, but other encodings were tried by different organisations first. The big win of UTF-8 is that you can have characters from very different regions on the same web page (or in the same file) - something that you cannot do you you adopt a purely 8 bit code like iso-8859-1.
We are still in transition: there are files encoded in various ways out there; however I think that UTF-8 will eventually become the encoding mechanism that everyone uses - so files encoded in other ways will become increasingly rare. So: a bit of patience please.
FTFA
They are challenging old ideas that myopia is the domain of the bookish child and are instead coalescing around a new notion: that spending too long indoors is placing children at risk.
Doesn't that amount to the same thing? Not spending much time on distance focussing?
Yeah, I laughed when I saw that. Someone's pretty clueless.
Those are the current limits. So do you build your business round the database that is free today and hope that: a) your business does not grow so that it needs more, and b) that MS does not reduce the limits and catch you. Either way you run the risk of ending up having to pay the license fees. Why not pick a database that will always be free - and keep that cash for something else ?
And I'm probably going to step on a lot of toes here, but people like me strongly prefer Postgres to MySQL. And by "people like me" I mean folks for whom their first real rdbms experience was theoretical or "commercial". I did both.
I used ingres in college to a small extent and then the Ingres commercial product for years after that. I have also used Sybase and Oracle professionally. PostgreSQL easily walks among the giants of that industry.
Every time this discussion comes up the MySQL side has to say "yeah, but..." about a thousand times. MySQL doesn't do ______ properly? "Yeah, but if you just install this other piece of software and change a couple of config files it *can* do it.' Well, con-fucking-gratulations!
The point is that PostgreSQL does exactly what it should do out of the box. I don't have to change a configuration file to make it ACID compliant, fast, correct, whatever. It just works and works correctly out of the box.
Every time someone tells me how easy MySQL is to set up they've betrayed their experience level in this realm.
I know a lot of you are going to mod me down - I don't care. But why not reply instead?
I lived 35 years in Jersey and my family is still mostly there. I had a few years when all I did was drive from one dealership to another doing auto insurance claims. The place is full of car dealerships. They tend to be in clusters along old highways, though sometimes embedded in urban neighborhoods too. The last thing Jersey needs is more car dealerships and lots. So I can see the numerical limits as having some merit. It's a crowded place, and more lots competing for the same number of buyers is not really an improvement, however much Elon Musk doesn't want to use existing dealer networks. Or how much people want Tesla electric vehicles out on the road.
Yeah, if only there were a way for everybody together to decide how many auto dealerships are needed. We could call it a "market".
But, yeah, silly stuff. We should centrally plan how many dealerships there should be. It'll work out much better.
So if someone makes a complaint about corporate GPL violation - will the violating company's web site be blocked as well ? If so it could be useful. However I suspect that this law is aimed at protecting corporate profits and not controlling corporate robbers.
You're missing anti-GMO, anti-economic-reality, anti-free-markets, and other lunacy of the left. I'm a libertarian - neither right nor left. From my view up here (yes, take that as condescending) it's pretty obvious that they're two sides of the same coin.
Explain anti vaxxers
Anti-vaxxers are spread pretty evenly across the political spectrum. In fact a study published in December 2014 found that conservative Republicans are very slightly more likely to hold anti-vax views than liberal Democrats.
Uh, yeah, but only one side is yelling "anti-science" at the other. There should be *no* liberal Democrats on the anti-vax side if I were to believe the bullshit coming from that side.
Both sides are anti-science, just in different ways. But it's only the Democrats who try to use this as a political point.
the EPA can worry about the environment, leave NASA to what NASA is supposed to do.
The EPA is a regulatory agency, not a science agency. It's not the EPA's job to conduct the research on earth.
Tell you what, I'll pass their phone number along to you so you can set them straight.
It is not how they are doing it, but why -- what have they got to hide? If they are not doing anything wrong then they have nothing to fear by us knowing!
I am not a sheep.
There's a video on liveleak of someone being *killed* by one of those. I'm very familiar with them. See my other screed above explaining why the FAA is pushing the "drone" language.
We had toy helicopters for years before we had drones. There's a huge difference as "drones" fly autonomously or semi-autonomously. If you've ever watched liveleak videos of drone use you'll note the thing flies itself, the operator works on targeting and killing people. The interface is extremely high level. The operator marks an area as the target and the software alters the flight path and camera angle to make that area available for attack.
A toy helicopter, on the other hand, is directly flown by the operator and generally has a rolling camera that simply aims straight ahead or is simply movable by the operator.
You can turn a toy helicopter into a drone with the right software, but they are otherwise *very* different things. Calling it a drone is done simply to invoke images of people flying actual drones over the middle east and therefore make it scary.
Hobbyists have been flying toy helicopters far longer than that without incident. Don't let the FAA shit in this punchbowl any more than they already have.
Can we just call it what it is? It's a "toy helicopter", not a "drone". That helps get the conversation on the right track.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
