Global Climate change is a serious issue, but 'science' like this only strengthens the opposition to any real change. Once again, climate 'science' is now just fear mongering. Way to go!

Fucking fuck, grow a pair of balls. Despite what your mother's left tit convinced you of, the world isn't here to kiss your ass. If you are 'talented' as your egotisical writing claims, but you are unwilling to help those who hate you, you are worthless. YOU need to contribute something meaningful to the 7 billion people that outrank you, not the other way around. You are LAST. Just because you were born into privilege and opportunity to earn a college degree doesn't mean the starving kid in Africa deserves less. Stop thinking of your own butthole and contribute something and expect NOTHING in return. In the man time, enjoy a life of depression and anxiety while you rot away trying to make yourself happy through masturbatory comments about how 'good' you would have if been if you only could have maybe had of sort of maybe contributed to something way bigger than yourself.

http://news.yahoo.com/singapore-malaysia-face-economic-hit-prolonged-smog-093307319.html

Really it doesn't matter what we do in the USA if Asia and the middle east are 1000x worse with a larger population.

I know Oracle is a supposed to be super evil lawyer driven blah blah blah... but just so we get the story straight, Monty sells MySql to Sun, Oracle buys Sun, Monty wants MySql back as MariaDb. At this point, Monty and the MySql community have cried wolf one to many fucking times. I really just don't care anymore.

Because having a laser shot at my balls is more desirable than anything I can think of.

SmartOS is pretty amazing. You can create virtual environments that share a kernel space, meaning that YOUR os is running directly on the hardware, making it _extremely_ fast with almost no overhead. The file system (ZFS) is also 'shared' using zones and pools so there's almost no cost there either. Migration a vm between SmartOS hosts is also a pretty amazing thing. You can also create virtual NICs and route/bond/segment/tapdance. SmartOS has it's roots in Solaris, so it's a little different than Linux, but for the most part anyone with Unix experience can figure it out.

For a minute, I thought PETA was poking the hacker group Anonymous with a stick. Now THAT would be an interesting battle... I'm a little disappointed.

SmartOS is pretty amazing. You can create virtual environments that share a kernel space, meaning that YOUR os is running directly on the hardware, making it _extremely_ fast with almost no overhead. The file system (ZFS) is also 'shared' using zones and pools so there's almost no cost there either. Migration a vm between SmartOS hosts is also a pretty amazing thing. And finally, DTrace allows you to figure out exactly why something is slow... There's a huge library of DTrace scripts available on the internet too.

SmartOS has it's roots in Solaris, so it's a little different than Linux, but for the most part anyone with Unix experience can figure it out.

My my... how times have changed. See back in my day, the vendor walked uphill, both ways, to tell us about the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt of the security using some filthy open source project strung together by a rag tag team of hippies.

COBOL is basically assembly... very easy to compile to efficient code.


However I disagree that COBOL scales cheaply or efficiently. You could practically build a datacenter for the price of IBM's mainframes.

You know what would really make our roads safe? If we had a way to measure and issue citations for following distance. All other problems, speeding, cornering too fast, switching lanes without blinkers, intoxication, blah blah all come down to that you could injure someone else while performing a driving maneuver.

Lets say all cars had a system that prevented you from driving within 100 yards of other cars. It wouldn't matter if the car in front/behind of you was intoxicated, speeding, stopping, swerving or all the above, you could just AVOID them and the only person injured would be the violator. Such a device is impractical/impossible, but beating it into people that they need to leaving space between cars might make a small difference.

Oh and .05? Revenue stream. Don't stand for this crap.

You are a terrible terrible programmer and you deserve to be caned by a band of angry Thai policemen.

Ok honestly, what has Oracle done with MySQL that has been so bad? They've been pretty good stewards. MySQL 5.6 came out and even included full text search for InnoDB. I'm pleased with the product and it's progress.

This smells like the Jenkins/Hudson gayness... All these projects are forking because of big bad Oracle, before Oracle has even done anything. Good god, the open source community is LUCKY to have a corporation that is willing to sink dollars into an open source project. If that means giving up a little control, I'm cool with that. If they try some bullshit, we can fork it. Stop the friggen whining until then. You cry wolf enough times and the community isn't going to be there when you really do need them.

So I have a brilliant friggen plan. How about the circle jerk of founders in the SkySQL project go to Oracle and offer and olive branch? There would be rainbows and unicorns and one code base. Wouldn't that be best for the community?

Yes and no. XHTML removes the "how to parse" question. It only leaves the "how to render" question.

How then do you propose enhancement of markdown then to produce visually appealing designs?