>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

$2500 per QUARTER vs $2600 per MONTH

We use the paid version because of Mobile Sync and Outlook Connector. Now we're using the Zimbra open source version with Funambol to achieve the same thing. At $2500/quarter, it was worth the price for the occasional support request and not having to run and maintain Funambol along side Zimbra....triple my price and suddenly the hassle isn't that big of a deal.

VMWare licensing practices are horrible. I have used Zimbra (paid version) for 6+ years. VMWare buys them from Yahoo and my bill triples. From $2500k/quarter to $2600/month.

Well, you can always do ad-hoc materialized views ... I'm coding some now.

However, better matview management is currently under development. We had a Google Summer Of Code project to write code to manage the updating of materialized views. In a couple of releases, we might have matviews as good as Oracle's.

Of course, if you're a PostgreSQL user and you want better matview support, then we could really use your help developing it.

--Josh Berkus
      PostgreSQL Project

JD,

You're absolutely correct that such a comparison would be a real asset to users. However, it would also be a Herculean task. Several people have tried to do similar things, but the number of indexes you need to compare (features, reliability, performance, etc.) is too large. And some things are so different it's hard to compare them meaning fully. Imagine trying to do a head-to-head comparison of all OSes in every way.

Here's a few comparison links, but they just scratch the surface:
http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SQL_database_management_systems

PostgreSQL *must* be the leading open source SQL database, now. People are bashing us on Slashdot. That's always a sign of success.

Thanks, guys!

--Josh Berkus
    PostgreSQL contributor

Why not just use .NET with PostgreSQL? You can put whatever you want on the back end.

Or you could use Once:Radix or Servoy, both of which integrate with PostgreSQL.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/onceradix/
http://www.servoy.com/

Have you seen the movie Whiteout ? While I like the idea of Kate Beckinsale being trapped there with me, the killing is a real turn off. Oh, and the snow. Just fuck that.