AtlasLion

Domestic abuse is made worse with alcohol, car accidents, work accidents... There are many way the whole society pays for allowing people access to a drug such as alcohol.

Has always been.

true, but at this point, they are ubiquitous. so mentioning things that they are doing wrong is still valuable.

reminds me a lot of IBM OS400.

not the same but "je m'en bas les couilles" works too.

The main question I have for DB is, how good is their query optimiser/compiler? It's fun that you can run some predefined set of queries fast. More important is, how good you can run queries in the real world, with suboptimal data models, layers upon layers of badly written views, CTEs, UDFs... That is what matters in the end. Not some synthetic benchmark based on known queries you can optimise specifically for.

Their cofounder was behind vectorwise, which kicked ass in benchmarks, but died as no one even heard of it. You can run the benchmark queries fast, that's great, but can you handle code migrated from vertica? Will you optimiser come up with a good plan for queries built on 15 layers of views? That's what companies in the real world have, not some synthetic benchmark that you can make sure you can run for marketing purposes.

The benchmark itself is kinda useless, so I don't see why they should. If you look at tpc-h for years, you had exasol as a top dog, but in the real world that meant nothing for them.

That doesn't allow end users any configuration, but this doesn't apply to the company itself which can apply settings from the background on behalf of end users.

I live in the Netherlands and I have secured an office on "temporary" basis 10 minutes by bike from home. I have 3 huge rooms, internet, water and electricity for a total sum of 250 Euros a month. I'm really enjoying this and I'm not looking forward to commuting 3 hours a day past Vivid.

Re colour accuracy, checkout thinkpads, they even come with a colour calibration sensor so you can have them autocalibrate daily/weekly or whatever suits you.

I use inkjet printers and I am very satisfied. I am using an Epson printer with what they call EcoTank. Just tanks with different color inks that you can refill yourself.