Comment Re:NoSQL is just a vague term (Score 3, Funny) 103
NoSQL means the same thing it always means, "ACID is hard, so we don't do it."
By that definition, MySQL is the original NoSQL database.
NoSQL means the same thing it always means, "ACID is hard, so we don't do it."
By that definition, MySQL is the original NoSQL database.
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You enter a room. There is a large, blue contraption that looks like a large rectangle with legs, but the top is rounded across one plane.
Also, my description of a US Post Box sucks.
But how would you get such a rule installed? Steam is not using the standard package format of the underlying distribution and I don't even think it run as root*. So it can't just disable a SELinux rule.
*I may be wrong. But there should be no reason for Steam to run as root.
Have you tried downloading Steam for Linux? It's shipped as a deb file.
Unless they are targeting some ancient (read: probably not still supported by the kernel or loader and therefore moot) ABI which uses text-segment relocations, I really don't get what they could possibly be doing to require this.
Source uses text relocation. We already ran into this problem with the Linux srcds (Source Dedicated Server) where you'd have to chcon -t texrel_shlib_t bin/libtier0_srv.so (or libtier0.so depending on the game).
Actually, you can likely chcon -t texrel_shlib_t bin/libtier0.so to fix Portal 2, too, but I can't guarantee it.
Two things that are being glosses over here:
The first is that PNG is a superior image format to GIF... GIF is a 256-color image format, which made sense in the late 80s when it was created due to VGA being the standard back then.
When PNG came out in 1995, SVGA was the current video standard and GIF was already looking obsolete.
The second thing that needs to be mentioned is that H.264 (which is the real loser in Wikimedia's vote here) is controlled by a consortium and not just a single entity. So unlike Unisys, which could arbitrarily change royalty prices, the MPEG LA doesn't have nearly the freedom to do that.
You're running ~340 web browser tabs and you think it's the web sites that are the problem?
2) I use the Classic Discussion system, and not the one that was reworked the last time the site had a modernization.
Actually, I'm glad my account wasn't one of those forced into the new beta to see what horrible new discussion system they introduced in the beta seeing as how the last change to the discussion system made it an unreadable mess.
Pro-tip to Slashdot UI designers: I don't want to have to click on the title of every discussion post to read it.
I don't know, it sounds a bit like this one, too, except with businesses instead of government.
The MSX is of particular note, as it's the platform (MSX2) where the Metal Gear videogame franchise started. Unfortunately, most people are more familiar with the later NES port. It was a pretty terrible port with much more primitive graphics and lots of important stuff removed, like, say, the actual metal gear the game is named after.
Incidentally, you can get the English versions of the two MSX games with Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (it's on Disc 2), the Metal Gear HD Collection, or the Metal Gear Legacy Collection. I know they're in the MGS3 game menus in the HD Collection, I'm not sure about the Legacy Collection.
I think the fact that English-speaking audiences didn't get to play the real Metal Gear or play its sequel at all is why those games were included.
Right now, there is NO advantage to WebM or VP8 over h.264. The only reason to choose it is purely philosophical, especially since it's inferiority.
Sure there is. One has had hardware decoding in nearly all graphics processors released in the last decade and the other hasn't.
In fact, considering h.264 has been the de facto accelerated video codec in graphics processors since 2005ish, why are we even having this debate in 2014?
LOTS of companies license JavaEE from Oracle, in the form of OAS and Weblogic licenses.
That would be why I said "in their right mind."
Since JavaEE is a server application standard, cutting old stuff means that you can no longer run apps that still use said older features on a newer JavaEE server. So, expect everyone to continue using the crusty, old versions of JBoss (for example) or to have the server manufacturers outright ignore Oracle's changes to JavaEE 8.
I know this is a parody, but...
1. budget performance: by reducing expenditures on support contracts and Oracle licensing fees my budget has stopped looking like a Syrian casualty report.
That sounds suspiciously like a complaint about Oracle's database product, not Java. No one in their right mind actually licenses Java stuff from Oracle, which is why Oracle constantly has shit-fits about it.
The creation of ASP to disrupt PHP.
You do know ASP was introduced in 1996, before PHP became popular? That was during the PHP/FI 1.0 days, which were followed by PHP/FI 2.0 before it became PHP 3 and started resembling the PHP we know today.
No, ASP was introduced to unseat Perl, which was the defacto language for CGI scripts at the time.
I think you should do a bit of reading yourself. Your local laws set the rules. But any "local" laws that I know give you very, very little actual rights. Most of the rights that you get come from a license that you receive. The only rights that the law gives you for example in the USA: "If the seller gives you the right to install software on your computer, then you also have the right to copy it into memory to run it". Note the _if_. You may not have the right to install on your computer. And "if you have the right to install the software on your computer, then you have the right to make a backup". Again, the "if".
I'm so glad you decided to use the US as an example here.
Title 17 section 117 (part (a)(1) specifically) is worded quite broadly and gives you the right to make any copies as long as it's "an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine". Not anywhere in the text is a limit of one copy mentioned. Software requires installation to a hard drive or it won't run? Then that's an essential step and would be covered. Software needs to copy itself into RAM to run? Also an essential step. As much as I sometimes think Congress is stupid, by wording it vaguely and not specifying that it only applies to copies in RAM, they made it so it could be applied in this manner.
And excuse me, but I haven't run into any DRM that attempts to prevent backups. Take an eBook with DRM, copy it onto a CD, delete the original, copy the backup back to your computer, and it works. You mention broadcasts: No DRM. You mention copying music onto an iPod: Today, no DRM. Before: DRM allowed it.
You mean other than the DRM on DVDs/Blu-Ray which was explicitly introduced to prevent copying?
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