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A truly competent programmer could do this with butterflies.
Isn't there an EMACS command to do this?
Wrapping this up, for those who haven't see it: Real Programmers
[ C-x M-c M-butterfly ]
We have only been able to demonstrate this in a test tube, and we don't know if it will work in humans and in animals
Thanks, I wasn't aware of Oracle Express or their NoSQL alternatives. Though, in the case of their free (or is that "free") alternatives, competition for dollars (which is all Larry cares about) probably doesn't really exist. Also, I think when people think about "Oracle" in the general sense of databases, they are thinking of the traditional, large, non-free versions...
In what sense?
Uh, in the sense that many people who, years ago, might have stumped up the cash for Oracle because there was no viable free competition now use MySQL or Postgres because they're good enough to live without that mosquito-killing sledgehammer?
True, but that would be a *long* time ago. MySQL ad Postgres have been around since 1995. Even still, I would argue that there are many, many applications for which using Oracle over MySQL/Postgres (or no DB at all) would be overkill.
Dear Moderator,
My previous post quotes TFS directly and asks a direct question w/examples.
My questions to you are:
A) How the fuck is that post "off topic"?
B) Are you retarded?
Sincerely,
- Rick
Free-and-open MySQL competes with Oracle's proprietary and extremely competitive tools.
In what sense? Sure MySQL is free, but - and IANADBA - I would think the appropriate usage areas for MySQL and Oracle DBs overlap marginally, if at all. For example, my MythTV system uses MySQL on the back end, but I think using Oracle would be like killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer (no disrespect to sledgehammers). Conversely, Oracle is probably more appropriate for a large distributed / fail-over capable payroll/accounting systems.
MySQL is simple and small, while Oracle more complex and large - it might actually come with a kitchen sink.
Hurd has been in "development" for thirty years without ever coming close to moving to production. Aside from that and Minix (which was never intended to be a production system), name me a microkernel that can number its user base in five figures.
Good points all, but also all irrelevant to the question. Success/failure are not measured simply by the size of the user base. Adoption, acceptance and usage - sure, but just those.
I don't know to what extent micro-kernels are used for production in the real world, but Tandem Non-Stop systems used a message-based OS and Cray had UNICOS variants based on Mach and Chorus for use on their YMP and other systems. According to Wikipedia, Symbian (used on Nokia and Vertu smart phones) is a real-time micro-kernel OS. It would be difficult to argue that all those were/are failures.
From the perspective of design, Hurd has some good ideas
From the perspective of design, Hurd, has some interesting ideas. Unfortunately, they have for the most part, not turned out to be good ones. Microkernels have failed.
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Sorry, but this war has been fought, and your side lost. I'm not using GNU/Linux/x.org/XFCE
Listing every single component of the system is stupid. Linux is the kernel, Linux is what gets recognized as the OS. There are a lot of programs that go into making the system usable - each one need not be referenced in the name.
Although, there is a LOT more GNU in a "Linux" system than Linux - which was also built using GNU utilities...
Apple did.
Make cool stuff that people want to use. It's not rocket science, it's just that there's so much dead weight in most companies living inside the company bubble with wrongheaded ideas about what the public wants and overvalued MBA degrees that it's rare.
A bit of hard data, a bit of freedom for forward-thinking designers and developers, including the realization that they need to be aggressive, not conservative, update/relaunch products at 2013 speeds (as opposed to 1994 speeds), and embrace things like the mobile ecosystem and social media, a bit of marketing, and Yahoo! could be at the top of the game again.
I have nothing against Yahoo!, just against shitty, decade-outdated products, which is what they've been making/maintaining for some time. Fix the products, make cool stuff, and I'll be happy to use it.
It's the non gun owning liberals who propose this legislation.
For the record, I'm a non-gun owning liberal (though I've fired a few handguns, rifles and shotguns and have some minimal training) and I think this kind of legislation is dumb.
Firearms are tools with a specific function and purpose. They need to work when they're suppose to work and it's the owner's responsibility to ensure they're safe otherwise. If you have children in your house, lock up your guns/ammunition and teach your children firearm safety when they're able to understand. If you can't do these things and/or you cannot operate your own weapon safely, don't own/carry firearms or come to terms that you and or your child may become Darwin Award winners.
One of the big changes is increased support for voice and and gesture input.
Do not install Xbox One in the bedroom and/or avoid having sex in the same room as your Xbox One.
I suffer from short term memory loss and this is exactly the kind of tool that would help.
Squirrels.
Just FYI for those who didn't see the History Channel show "Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe" that some of the engineering scenes were shot at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Here an article about it (link also on NIF home page): ‘Star Trek’ Boldly Goes to Unlikely Real-Life Locations
...even if her job was just to repeat everything the computer says...
Perhaps you were simply being funny but, for those unfamiliar, Uhura was the senior communications officer on the Enterprise. The comment quoted above is more appropriate for Sigourney Weaver's role as Gwen DeMarco on Galaxy Quest - which is obviously a parody of Uhura.
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.