Comment Re:How to treat a loyal customer (Score 1) 571
Oracle is definitely a cheaper more open option to float out there...
Comment Re:Little boxes (Score 5, Informative) 320
You do realize that everyone who watched weeds will be humming along right?
Comment Re:As much as I like Jared, I differ here (Score 1) 303
Apple keeps suing everyone around Google. I'm sure that really encourages Google to want to do anything for Apple for free.
Comment Re:Flawed assumptions. (Score 1) 686
Can any excess heat be concentrated and sent back into the central star, rendering it indistinguishable from natural fusion energy release? Apologies in advance if that's a hopelessly noob question.
Comment Re:When's the dupe? (Score 1) 178
With a link to goatse in the body text.
Comment Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh? (Score 1) 49
I regularly feel like the power of almighty Oracle is slightly overstated. SQL Server has a bad rap from around SQL Server 2000 and under but today it's pretty powerful right out of the box. With that said, I don't have any hard data to back it up, but my guess is its a lot of misconceptions and design flaws. Throw a giant team of people and a boatload of hardware at each solution and I bet you could get similar results, its just that people expect to spend a stupid amount of money on Oracle, not so much on SQL Server.
Comment Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh? (Score 2) 49
Scope is important, however there is a common misconception that SQL Server can't handle anything bigger than a few Gigabytes. The largest single SQL Server database I've ever heard of is about 70TB. I'm sure 200TB would find it cramped but it also depends on how you're defining a database.
Comment Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh? (Score 1) 49
Microsoft SQL Server definitely isn't designed for smaller databases... maybe you're thinking of Access?
Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? 474
b1tbkt writes "I live at the corner of one of the busiest intersections in my city (pop. 350k). Although I've replaced all windows, insulated, and caulked every square inch of the place, the fire trucks and cars with obnoxious stereos still regularly intrude on my home office. Most of the noise comes in through the windows. I'm considering mounting an oblong parabolic reflector in the ceiling above the windows with a steady feed of white or brownian noise directed into it (e.g., via a small speaker placed within the reflector) to create a 'wall' of sound that would act as a buffer to the outside world. Active noise cancellation would be nice, too, but that's probably more than I want to take on. I don't see any products on the market for this sort of thing. Does anyone have any experiences to share with similar homebrew noise remediation efforts?"
Comment Re:The budget isn't $82,000 (Score 1) 67
I'll add in Born in Hope, a LOTR masterpiece about the birth of Aragorn and the life & death of his father. If PJ claimed he filmed this, no one would blink, it's that good.
http://www.bornofhope.com/
No, I wasn't connected in any way other than being a fan....
Comment Re:The real downside. (Score 1) 362
Wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah.
Comment Re:Paid for (Score 1) 398
>>>you could hit the start button and stat typing what you wanted
Typing??? What is this? The time before mouse inputs? You shouldn't need to ever use the keyboard just to open programs.
Don't worry, you can still do your click navigation.
Comment Re:Paid for (Score 5, Interesting) 398
Everybody keeps complaining about the interface. Really it's like it just opens the start menu on bootup. From there you can hang around the desktop all you want. I didn't like it at first but then once I realized that you could hit the start button and stat typing what you wanted, similar to the current start menu, who cares? PLEASE keep bitching about the same thing thinking it'll change. Thanks for your valuable input.
Comment Re:Cloud services are for idiots. (Score 2) 157
Actually, when I logged on last night, I had a checkbox to have my uploaded files modified or not.... Granted it was all or none but still, an option is an option.
Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same 576
whoever57 writes "A study of music from the '50 to the present using the Million Song Dataset has concluded that modern music has less variation than older music and songs today are, on average, 9dB louder than 50 years ago. Almost all music uses just 10 chords, but the way these are used together has changed, leading to fewer types of transitions being used. Variation in timbre has also reduced over the past decades."
