Forum: Weblog comments

Well, I wouldn’t say that relational databases are ‘more modern’ than RDF. You could say that they are ‘more mature’ though, which is a direct effect of the long time that relational databases have been in use.

In essence, RDF is like a database without all the restrictions that relational databases have.

But I guess by saying ‘more modern backends’, you are talking about the actual implementations, so maybe my comment does not really apply to the post :). A shame no-one attempted to re-write the RDF backend.

mork should definitely die. Some storage formats were never meant to exist.

I never liked that show. Mindy was a total cocktease.

PS: modern
adj 1: belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern
art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem
poles are modern rather than prehistoric" [ant: nonmodern]

RDF might be more modern than prehistoric, but even totem poles went out of fashion eventually.

PPS: Personally I just like the idea of being able to manipulate my own data without too much effort involved, because it's being stored in a format popular enough for people to make nice tools I can use.

PPPPS: Finally, it would just be nice to see The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science breathing a sigh of relief once they got their acronym back. I mean, the irony!

Errata: I don't agree with the policy of Home of KaiRo, but I'm clicking it anyway. Am I now a criminal? The specific point was

"Only single, natural, real persons are allowed to register with the system. Only 1 (one) account is allowed per person and website (excluding administrative purposes)."

I find it unfair that you exclude people lucky enough to have found a partner with whom to share their life. Boo!