I think an important distinction is being missed here. The author is calling out the ISPs, not the end user. I'd prefer my ISP not inject their own ad blocking into the stream (or worse...their own substitute ads) and leave the blocking up to the user.
Now, if the author extends that moral judgement to the end user, that's another story.
Yup, SSMS is far, far better than pgAdmin. SSIS is years ahead of any postgres ETL tool. There's a bunch of other awesome features in SQL Server too - from memory merge doesn't work in Postgres, procedures/functions are harder to use and
I wasn't trying to say Postgres is all-round better than SQL Server. But there are a few things including R integration and spatial queries where Postgres is so far ahead that you are probably better to put up with the weaknesses.
Yeah exactly.
MS SQL has a lot of good things going for it - but what you're asking for is one area where Postgres just runs rings around it. You can achieve similar benefits in MS using a CLR but it will be faster and easier in Postgres. Unless you have some compelling reason to stay MS, I suggest you take the hit and learn a new platform.
I'm guessing they'll slowly phase out OLAP.
OLAP got its stellar retrieval speed through lots of precomputation and that just isn't compatible with where the whole big data stuff is going. I'd guess instead they will bring in a NoSQL database as a per-table query engine and use that as the OLAP replacement.
No - MS will only need to release any changes they make to R.
This sort of thing comes up quite often and largely comes down to coupling. If Microsoft included R code in the binary of SQL Server then they would run into complications. However as long as they keep R on its own and arrange interprocess communication sensibly, they will not be affected by the GPL.
It's quite likely MS will modify R, e.g. writing low level routines for getting data out of SQL without needing to go via ODBC and those sort of changes will need to be released. It's also possible MS will want things like
Incidentially, this has been done before. The PgR project gives Postgres (BSD) has tight coupling with R (GPL) without requiring Postgres to be relicenced. Tableau also released similar features, though they don't add much value at this stage.
I was thinking the same thing. To really see what it does, you have to get the original text and apply the bill to it. Otherwise, yes, it's just a bunch of patches. I'd like to see more bills written in a form that replaces the entire section so the change can be seen in context.
I still use a "solar" powered calculator, although most of the time the light comes from an electric lamp.
Yes, I have several smartphone calculator apps. But only physical keys are suitable for fast, repeated, accurate calculations.
People tend to react poorly when they think they're being offended.
Yes, well people tend to react even worse when they think they're being screwed by secret deals made in back rooms by people who they feel have screwed them before.
So the question becomes, whose reactions are more important? Up to this point, it's clear no one involved has given half a nanofuck about average citizens or workers.
The way this treaty is being negotiated and ratified just does not pass the smell test. It stinks from two kilometers away.
In other words, if you want people to trust you not to screw them, then you have to stop acting like Milburn fucking Drysdale and Thurston goddamn Howell the Third.
Because it's just like new for a tidy little discount. Why pay full price when you don't have to?
The $79k car you picked out had a couple options that put it to $91k new, so you're getting a one year old car for 15% off. I think that's about right.
The bit you're apparently not grasping is something called a spatial light modulator.
You've probably encountered one as a digital cinema projector, or possibly even own one for PowerPoint presentations.
Couple it with a microwave radar or ultrasound sonar, and you can track individual raindrops and then cast shadows on them.
Sounds unnecessarily expensive for consumer automotive, but might be nice for buses/locomotives, emergency vehicles or passenger aircraft.
I need more coffee. I read this title as "Google Launches a Marketplace To Buy Parents... " and was in the act of clicking on it before realizing my error.
As my grandpa would say, when he gave me a quarter:
"Try not to spend it all in one place."
He thought it was hilarious.
(This was circa 1975, admittedly. Back when a quarter could still buy something of value.)
That's how the internet was started and visualized.
Yeah. I know. I was there.
That has nothing to do with a moral right.
Try explaining that to some of my contemporaries...
I need control over what comes down the pipe.
I don't need a court ruling to justify that. It's my browser, my computer, my request. You're not *entitled* to send me extra shit I don't want. And I'm not *obligated* to load anything you might put on your page.
Sorry. Deal with it advertisers and click sellers. As long as I pay for an ISP subscription, that's my right: Flat rate or metered; capped or unlimited; dial-up trickle or Tier 3 deluge. It's *my* option and I'm going to exercise it.
If you want to make money or defer your costs, charge a fee or request a donation. That's your option.
Or, it could be that some people were lazy and decided to use a crappy library? If you choose to use security by obscurity library 'x', is it Apple's fault when that security hole is discovered in your App?
AFNetworking is MIT-licensed, FYI. You can look it up on Github.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
