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You're probably right, but that's not what this release is referring to. The NDBCLUSTER engine separates "API" nodes from Data nodes. A server running MySQL with NDBCLUSTER enabled is considered an API node, but you can also have a C++ or Java or whatever API node that isn't MySQL. Data nodes are provisioned in one or more "node groups" with one or more data nodes in each group, though it would be dumb to have a single node group or a single node in a node group. Each node group splits the data somehow. You can force tables to exist on just one group, but by default if you have three node groups you would have approximately a third of your data in each group.

Anyway -- prior to NDBCLUSTER 7.2 if you performed any join whatsoever the API node had to pull the complete tables from all data node groups prior to doing the join on itself and returning the result. This made join performance, simply put -- terrible. I've tested the same query on a standalone out of the box mysql server against a 7.1 cluster and had an 8 second query come back from the cluster in several minutes due to the join performance.

NDBCLUSTER 7.2 adds what was called "push down joins" in development -- basically the data nodes now do the joins within their own sub-sets of the data for certain joins resulting in a dramatic improvement in performance, since now the API nodes just get the result from the network instead of the entire dataset.

It really is an amazing improvement and is a result of the dynamic capabilities of MySQL. NDBCLUSTER was never designed for the type of data people are throwing at it, and with the recent improvements it might actually be viable for use on production web sites for more common usage scenarios.

What I do not see addressed yet with 7.2 is the reload time -- if you have a cluster loaded with several GB of data it can take upwards of 20 minutes to reload the data and indices across the cluster. While the cluster is designed to be up 24x7 (even through upgrades), a single bug or memory error that takes it down can result in a prolonged outage. There are several of these open in the bug tracker.

The case when the data set is bigger than RAM amount has not been investigated (link here, see the comments). The hard drive I/O speed would slow it dramatically, unless it's an expensive array of SSDs.

You can get 100% efficiency from city based solar because it can be easy to use the waste heat. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2008/03/lux-lucis-tepida.html

It's a trial balloon. If the shareholders say "yes" then the government can point to shareholder support for their talking points. If the shareholders say "no" then the government can pull out the standard anti-business talking points.

Either way, it polarizes the issue and gives the politicians another opportunity for a self-serving speech.

Its pretty clear that the Telco's can word it in such a way that Tim Berners-Lee would vote the wrong way 8 times out of ten. I've seen many such proposals forced onto shareholders ballots which were worded in such a way that the reader was certain only Satan himself would vote for the proposal.

Besides that, given the hijacking of the term "net neutrality" over the last couple years its not safe to say you support Net Neutrality without a clarifying definition, because some companies have managed to twist the definition to the point that it means exactly the opposite of what you think.

Even Google fell off the bandwagon when they said this in the space of two sentences:

There is widespread agreement among all parties that outright blocking, impairing, or degrading Internet traffic should not be tolerated. Beyond that, we also believe that broadband carriers should have the flexibility to engage in a whole host of activities, including:

...

Prioritizing all applications of a certain general type, such as streaming video;

Tell that joke to astronauts dispersing anti-shark dye in water, they might find it decidedly not funny.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?1365-Some-new-Pararescue-photos/page26#378

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I had a go at this once - within the realistic boundaries of human hearing and western musical composition, and using Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" as the benchmark for the longest son allowed, we have approximately 10^1643 times the current age of the universe before it runs out. (Wildly hand wavy figure, it's just a Fermi problem)
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Coming from the swiss, that is just hilarious

Bitcoin is as anonymous as an advertiser clickstream. It's quite possible to correlate individuals from their transactions, and the transactions are out in the open for all to see.

...people spending 6.5 million to defend science, while a handful of warmist organizations have budgets of nearly 500 million?

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/02/with-tiny-budgets-like-310-million-100.html

C'mon, guys, if you're going to say that money is a corrupting influence here, *follow the money*.

I assume your $15k 2-seater looks something like this?

That's gonna take a lot of time and fuel stops to get where you're going, and you can forget any ocean crossings.

It's no different than when they "accidentally" (note the word) flagged chrome as a virus before.

Expect these accidents to become more frequent as microsoft panics about google competition.

Apparently this has to happen more than 50 times before people accept that it's not just some magic "mistake".

see http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/09/problems-with-microsoft-security.html

, The National Parliament passed the bill part of Dhaka City Corporation http://ansaribd.blogspot.com/2011/11/national-parliament-passed-bill-part-of.html

Since everyone knows Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results - and denies it this means users of their own "search engine" are hit too. Spock: "Fascinating".

Well, there is his mistress. http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/2010/07/oh-oh-vic-toews-caught-cheating-again.html

While there is wide opposition to the bill in Canada, including every province's privacy commissioner, the federal government's privacy commissioner, and many people across party lines, with a majority in parliament the conservatives will ram this law through faster than Justice Minister Vic Toews (pronounced taze... like tazer) ramming a mistress.

This really is disappointing. I always thought of Canada as the refuge you could go to if you were running away from the draft or slavery or if the Republicans took over.

In this country, any conservative politician who was caught with a mistress like that would have to resign for at least one election cycle.

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While there is wide opposition to the bill in Canada, including every province's privacy commissioner, the federal government's privacy commissioner, and many people across party lines, with a majority in parliament the conservatives will ram this law through faster than Justice Minister Vic Toews (pronounced taze... like tazer) ramming a mistress. They have a track record of cutting off debate they don't like. Meanwhile, the government currently has the ability to get access to this information, as long as they first obtain a warrant from a judge.

This is the government that shut down the federal gun registry and eliminated the long form census based on privacy concerns. The hypocrisy is not surprising considering it is well known the publicly 'devout' Christian justice minister (and unofficial "Minister of Family Values") introducing the bill is divorced as a result of keeping a decades younger mistress with whom he fathered a child and at least one documented case of conflict of interest. Needless to say, the various privacy commissioners and opposition Members of Parliament are not amused at being classified as pedophiles (since they are against the government on this one), and several have stated this: ' "Apparently, if you care about civil liberties in this country you obviously side with child pornographers, murderers," she (Green party Leader Elizabeth May) said.'

So non-Canadians understand, in the Canadian system of government, the leader of a party has final say on who can run for the party in each riding (district in American vernacular). And he/she has the ability to kick elected members out of the party. If you aren't in a party the rules allow you almost no right to speak in the house in order to give your opinion, or ask questions of the government in question period. In other words, you have little ability to represent your riding. You must vote as you are told or be ostracized. And any party member who works with you will face the same penalty. This means that since the conservatives have a majority in the house and the senate, this law will be passed regardless on how Canadians feel about it. Personally I think the Canadian system is flawed and only avoided these kinds of issues by luck in the past. Now that parties are exploiting these democratic inadequacies, the whole thing is going downhill fast.

I agree with Johnny Chung Lee, who pointed out in his blog, http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/11/technology-as-story.html that everything is a story. In the case of movies, you consume the stories but in other cases you are actually a part of the story. I believe this applies to business software, games of all types, hardware and software.

The trick is understanding the story and what to do with it. The games I enjoy are escapist first person action where I am the center of the story. As such, I don't really care about cut scenes or any of what I consider fluff.

The Dutch judge concluded that the Neonode N1m already implemented the entirety of Apple's claimed invention with only one difference remaining: Apple's slide-to-unlock patent also claims an unlock image that moves along with the finger as the sliding gesture is performed. But that difference didn't convince the judge that Apple was entitled to a patent. He said that the use of an unlock image was "obvious" (in Dutch he said it was "lying on the hand" in terms of "not far to seek").

(...)

Looking at what was already there before Apple's December 2005 patent application, the judge concluded that what Apple's patent claims is "not inventive", in other words, too trivial to be worthy of patent protection.

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/dutch-judge-considers-apples-slide-to.html

Absolutely. this image immediately came to mind.

I think Larry Flint had it right with his satire of this politician years ago in Hustler. Away from ability to google the following "hustler santorum" but I'm sure it will index the proper links.

If I'm not mistaken, you'd need to search more specifically than that. You might need "Asshole of the month" in your search as well as the terms "Rick Santorum" and "Larry Flynt".

BTW, the link above for Rick Santorum contains material which would appall any normal human, but which Santorum himself is probably proud of, in his own morally-twisted way. The other links are to material he would be less enthusiastic about. The Asshole of the month page is from 2007, but Santorum was behaving like an asshole long before that.

The disclaimer they were talking about is mentioned near the end of the original article.

Why these results? These results may seem politically slanted. Here's what happened.

So you can see (after reading the Blogger entry) that they're not talking about merely stating that the voice of the people is political, but that the search results are "slanted" by persons gaming the system. Presumably they think their results are now game-proof enough to no longer merit such disclaimers, and that the idea that

"Santorum means the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that's occasionally the byproduct of anal sex."

is just a popular enough idea to rank highly in search results (i.e., is the "voice of the people" as you put it). Otherwise, except for nits, I agree with your comment.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/apple-launching-sidelong-attacks-against-google-with-new-lawsuits-in-us.ars

Including a breakdown on FOSS Patents blog:

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012/02/apple-requests-us-preliminary.html

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In fact, the ancient Chinese medical treatment is a good choice

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I don't know when Estate taxes get out of hand, but 100% Estate Taxes made me think of Communism --> http://undeadmusings.blogspot.com/2012/02/speculating-what-would-happen-if-estate.html

The job of a tester is to put together a meaningful plan...

...and then not use it.

http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2011/09/10-minute-test-plan.html

Oh, that's ironic. Not a very effective protest of corporate greed, paying royalties, buying something made in China. Stopping fascism is in large part done by people being aware of their participation in the system and opting out of it. Someone needs to make a free version. Maybe base it off the original. Not the movie version.

Something nicer than some DIY versions.

I suppose you could illegally copy the design...

Are these originals? mask1 mask 2

Ah, here are some more. And another kind.

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Or you could base it on a portrait of Guy himself.

what can a drone do that a well placed spy satellite can't?

Get a low-angle view in your windows, doors, under your hat, into your car. Change its viewing angle and position on command. Be dedicated to one task: watching you. Deliver payloads locally. Follow you. Acquire imagery of you that is of vastly greater resolution than a satellite can, in visible, illuminated or emissive IR, or even at terahertz (naked) wavelengths. Be used as a ballistic weapon. Carry chemical sensors (for instance, looking for Cannabis smoke or other vapors of interest.) Carry extremely sensitive directional microphones. Carry equipment that can read your LCD monitor's screen from behind opaque walls and etc. Cost very little by comparison to a satellite. Much more easily available to task to you by comparison to a satellite.

Any of those, or combinations of those, of concern?

who doesn't want pizza delivered by a small helicopter hovering out your apartment window.

I want this instead, only staffed by Hooters.

If anyone's interested, the iPhone 4 schematics are available online (unrelated to this incident): http://insidetronics.blogspot.com/2011/11/iphone-4-schematics.html

Oh Please...

Yes this stuff exists, but plenty of audiophiles realize it's baloney and don't purchase it. Basically audiophiles are divided into subjectivist and objectivist camps.

I'm an objectivist audiophile, and generally make my own cables from zip cord and $5 ebay connectors. I believe in measurement and double blind testing, and buy my components from companies who engage in scientific methods when they design their stuff.

Here's a good blog touching on these ideas.

http://seanolive.blogspot.com/

What Alan Parsons is talking about is something completely different, which is the neglect of the room, which is pretty important. You can spend a lot of money on good objectively designed gear and still get crummy sound if you have a bad room. Room correction like ARC and Trinnov can help a lot but it won't cure all ills and at some level spending money on the room acoustics is needed.

Just like the "US Cybercommand".

http://burka.blogspot.com/bushcodpiece1.jpg

Audiophiles are not known for using controlled, double-blind testing. That's a problem, because you can actually control a lot about how you hear things. In short, if you expect something to sound different, you can actually hear a difference; not imagine you hear a difference, actually hear a difference.

JJ Johnston gave a presentation, Why Do We Hear What We Hear?. (PowerPoint, but LibreOffice should open it just fine.) If you look at slides 14 and 16 you will see him explaining the above points.

With double-blind testing, the audiophile will not be able to tell the difference between a $2 cable from monoprice.com and a $1000 cable from some audiophile scam web site. Without the double-blind, a confident audiophile will hear differences that favor the expensive cable.

The crazy thing, and I'm not making this up, is that some audiophiles claim that double-blind testing "doesn't work". They claim that you introduce errors that mask the superiority of the expensive equipment.

P.S. If you would like to have quality audio gear, and you would like to see the gear tested scientifically, you have to check out the NorthWest AV Guy blog. He bought a $1000+ DAC/amplifier that audiophiles like and that tests well objectively, and then he designed a very inexpensive headphone amp that in double-blind testing cannot be distinguised from the expensive one... and he open-sourced the design; you can build one if you like, or buy one pre-built. He uses professional test gear, and for example he showed that the Sansa Clip really is a good-sounding media player (which plays Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, by the way). Check it out. (And NWAudioGuy, if I ever meet you in person, I'll buy you lunch or something.)

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and put my child in an inner city school because they have an immersion program for a foreign language. This gives him a chance to learn while his brain is still primed to acquire language. Sure, I pay a price - they sent him home once with pages xeroxed from a book because they didn't have enough money for books for all of the kids (with a note asking me not to let him color on the pages because they couldn't really afford copies either) but he is ahead of where either of his two older brothers were at the same age (in an affluent suburban district). There is more about my choice here: http://moderatelyliberal.blogspot.com/2011/12/school-choice.html In general the education establishment pays little attention to what they know works. There is plenty of evidence that later starts for high school, teaching language earlier, abolishing DARE, and feeding kids healthy, less processed foods would help and be inexpensive. Unfortunately the schools are aught in culture wars and battles over union rights.

You are completely correct.

"Capitol Records Motion To Enjoin ReDigi Denied" is the title which one of the lawyers for Redigi used in the /. article earlier today.

Slashdot had an article submitted by Ray Beckerman this morning about the denial of this preliminary injunction, along with links to the oral arguments and the briefs proffered, along with the 66-page pdf transcript of the hearing and the judge's ruling. I also commented about "hot bench" and about my favorite lines in the hearings.

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2659829&cid=38965481

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2659829&cid=38965299

Beckerman also included links to pdf copies of

Transcript of oral argument in Capitol Records v ReDigi

Transcript of oral argument in Capitol Records v ReDigi

February 6, 2012, Order Denying Preliminary Injunction Motion

All of these can also be found as links on http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/

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As many of you have pointed out, the linked article -- and hence the Slashdot summary -- are inaccurate. The judge denied the record company's motion for a preliminary injunction... no more, no less. Here is the court's decision, along with "commentary and discussion" from other news media, including the accurate Slashdot post on this case.

This is one of the coolest and scariest things I've seen in a while.

I can just imagine the Terminator riding one of those things into battle. Or mating with it ...

http://that-figures.blogspot.com/2011/02/vintage-view-micronauts-baron-karza-and.html

http://rtpscrolls.blogspot.com/2006/11/angry-monkeys-and-cargo-cults.html

Hi Ray. You may be right, but when you back up your assertion with a link that says 'please log in to view this page' then I am forced to disagree citing this source.

Sorry my friend :) Here is the link to which I meant to refer (he said sheepishly).

Fortunately, GWT will be around for a while, and is not competing in some way with dart, which is intended to be a javascript replacement.

http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2011/11/gwt-and-dart.html

They said that the GWT team is working on dart, which doesn't seem like a contradiction or a condemnation of GWT (although it might take time away from improving GWT). But since GWT's been around since at least 2008, there's starting to be some aftermarket widgets and improvements floating around out there.

I'm using GWT now and I find it to be a vast improvement over perl/CGI/javascript which is how I prototyped a recent Ajax app. The perl version is fast and simple, to be sure, but I'm in a Java shop, so GWT is a better fit, and deploys nicely to Weblogic as well.

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