If this really matters at all, besides being slightly cool, it will just lead to more bad db design.
Of course not! They clearly state the importance of "creating so many columns that they are nearly unlimited" in the article:
The ability to create so many columns is valuable because it allows systems to create a nearly unlimited number of columns on the fly, Ellis explained in a follow-up e-mail.
What sorta applications need so many columns? Curious.
From the article:
An open source database capable of holding such lengthy rows could be most useful to big data cloud computing projects and large-scale Web applications, the developers behind the Apache Software Foundation project assert.
So, basically, they don't know either but think (probably rightly so) that this a pretty cool feature. So cool that they made this the heading of their article.
The good thing about Android is that it's open and anyone can add features, customizations, etc. to it.
The bad thing about Android is that the manufacturers and the carriers usually end up raping it and making it a worse experience.
The ugly part is that Google doesn't seem to care all that much and is perfectly willing to put up with this kind of crap.
The ugly part is not actually as ugly as it sounds.
It is that ugly part which allows me to brew a super-awesome homemade tablet, install Android on it, and then beg people to buy it without getting into the legal mess.
Translation: That Google is willing to put up with it is same as saying that the consumers can choose what is best for them instead of Google deciding it for them. This is a lot more than which can be said for the other platforms out there.
... is something where DRM (or something similar) ironically might actually help.
"If you mess this chance up 3 times, your Game will be irrevocably made unplayable and you'll have to pay us more money to restart."
Though it can probably will be worked around, but then as the article itself says, most things can be anyway and it'll probably be a better shot than the Flash game.
Though I admit it is cool and innovative use of technology, I think there is something fundamentally wrong in trying to catch cheating by throwing everything except the kitchen sink at it. It seems to be the no-you-are-doing-it-wrong kind of a way.
Plug-ins make it possible to do other things. Consider something like "chatzilla" which extends firefox's capabilities to that of a functioning IRC client. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine uses firefox solely for its chatzilla functionality because she turned to the "faster" Chrome browser for day-to-day web surfing
Yeah except for the fact that it offers nothing that the average user of Facebook wants or cares about.
Looking at it another way, perhaps it does not do what the average user of Facebook does not want.
Apart from privacy issues, one of the problems I see with Facebook is the bloat (or crud) factor. Diaspora does not have that, at least not now.
I have my fingers crossed.
How about books? I know it's not the latest high tech doodad but I would of loved to have gotten more books as a child.
Better still, I remember one of the best gifts I got was a monthly subscription of a magazine. The fad of those days was Reader's Digest, and I am not sure which PopScience subscription would be the easiest to get in your area.
Anything which gets delivered to your door-step still has an old-school charm, for me at least. Also, it is something which will be remembered for a long-long time.
I still have the ones I got in a little red box of memories back at home.
Nobody invented graphene. It was discovered, rendering it basically unpatentable, so I'm not sure why not sure what that has to do with small patent holders. However with regards to your second point, inventing a clever way of creating it was worth the Nobel Prize.
I would not say that Grephene was not patentable. The Nobel prize winners were on the verge of doing it, but they did not as they said in their interview.
I don't think a perfect comprehension is what one is looking for here.
I see it as being extremely useful in scripting, and it will work wonders for me if the program can only remember the last line I wrote:
p = plot(something)
p.add_title(title)
p.add_legend(x,y,z)
p.remove_grid()
p.add_grid()
p.make_grid_minor()
p.make_x_axis(0,100)
p.make_x_axis(0,500)
p.make_y_axis_log() ...
to:
plot(something)
make the title 'title'
make the legend x,y,z
remove the grid
undo
make the grid minor
set range of x axis to [0,100]
increase x axis by 400
make y axis logscale ...
Sounds much better to me and I can only see one line deep context dependence.
This already is going a long way in helping the programmer.
Yes, it would need
syntactical understanding of the Free-form language, but not deep comprehension.
Yes, it would be nice if the computer could ask me back 'which of the two plots
you wanted to alter the title of?' and may seem frustrating, but I do not think
such ambiguities will be a big hurdle, esp. for seasoned programmer who can keep
what they are doing in mind.
If it has to exploit the hardware, the malware will need to have platform independent vector (!?!) which can get executed and, in turn, can run the hardware specific code on the systems. If it can get as far as executing machine code, then, umm.. I think it is still a software malware first.
Besides, which hardware platform is likely to bring in a divide bigger than the software divide we have?
Spread and large scale adoption of Hardware presumably is more difficult than software adoption.
Isn't it still far easier to specialize malware for specific softwares rather than trying to heuristically determining the hardware being used and then trying to exploit that?
Also, how protected is the type of the processor and the other hardware used in a machine? I would imagine that exposing this information (such that your PC has a GPGPU) to software might help the software work better. To me, it seems that this gain easily outweigh the risks involved.
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If this really matters at all, besides being slightly cool, it will just lead to more bad db design.
Of course not! They clearly state the importance of "creating so many columns that they are nearly unlimited" in the article:
The ability to create so many columns is valuable because it allows systems to create a nearly unlimited number of columns on the fly, Ellis explained in a follow-up e-mail.
So that's that.
What sorta applications need so many columns? Curious.
From the article:
An open source database capable of holding such lengthy rows could be most useful to big data cloud computing projects and large-scale Web applications, the developers behind the Apache Software Foundation project assert.
So, basically, they don't know either but think (probably rightly so) that this a pretty cool feature. So cool that they made this the heading of their article.
The good thing about Android is that it's open and anyone can add features, customizations, etc. to it. The bad thing about Android is that the manufacturers and the carriers usually end up raping it and making it a worse experience. The ugly part is that Google doesn't seem to care all that much and is perfectly willing to put up with this kind of crap.
The ugly part is not actually as ugly as it sounds.
It is that ugly part which allows me to brew a super-awesome homemade tablet, install Android on it, and then beg people to buy it without getting into the legal mess.
Translation: That Google is willing to put up with it is same as saying that the consumers can choose what is best for them instead of Google deciding it for them. This is a lot more than which can be said for the other platforms out there.
"If you mess this chance up 3 times, your Game will be irrevocably made unplayable and you'll have to pay us more money to restart."
Though it can probably will be worked around, but then as the article itself says, most things can be anyway and it'll probably be a better shot than the Flash game.
After all, some other ways work too.
With Vimperator, the only good way to use it. Is that what you meant?
+1
Plug-ins make it possible to do other things. Consider something like "chatzilla" which extends firefox's capabilities to that of a functioning IRC client. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine uses firefox solely for its chatzilla functionality because she turned to the "faster" Chrome browser for day-to-day web surfing
Though that is anecdotal evidence, but a little digging of this same survey data (by Firefox 4 beta testers) suggests that a surprisingly large fraction of non-Firefox users who are beta testing Firefox 4 are Chrome users.
That's kind of silly question isn't it? It's a Web browser. People use it browse the Web, obviously. Duh.
How they use it, not what they use it for.
They might be using it to heat the room or power pacemakers, by the stats we see.
Disclaimer: Was one of the participants.
'Cause leaking is always double-plus good.
Indeed. There are arguments for as well as against.
... , I'd tell them (in legal speak of course) to fuck off.
I think you want to refer them to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
The article too says just that.
If you are curious about the slightly deeper and murkier details, this will tell you why handling DDoS attacks is still difficult.
The official way to change channels would be by throwing punches.
Sorry, I modded you Redundant by accident and can't change it.
No problem and acknowledgement appreciated.
Yeah except for the fact that it offers nothing that the average user of Facebook wants or cares about.
Looking at it another way, perhaps it does not do what the average user of Facebook does not want.
Apart from privacy issues, one of the problems I see with Facebook is the bloat (or crud) factor. Diaspora does not have that, at least not now.
I have my fingers crossed.
How about books? I know it's not the latest high tech doodad but I would of loved to have gotten more books as a child.
Better still, I remember one of the best gifts I got was a monthly subscription of a magazine. The fad of those days was Reader's Digest, and I am not sure which PopScience subscription would be the easiest to get in your area.
Anything which gets delivered to your door-step still has an old-school charm, for me at least. Also, it is something which will be remembered for a long-long time. I still have the ones I got in a little red box of memories back at home.
Nobody invented graphene. It was discovered, rendering it basically unpatentable, so I'm not sure why not sure what that has to do with small patent holders. However with regards to your second point, inventing a clever way of creating it was worth the Nobel Prize.
I would not say that Grephene was not patentable. The Nobel prize winners were on the verge of doing it, but they did not as they said in their interview.
And it seems they did so with good reason.
I see it as being extremely useful in scripting, and it will work wonders for me if the program can only remember the last line I wrote:
p = plot(something)
...
p.add_title(title)
p.add_legend(x,y,z)
p.remove_grid()
p.add_grid()
p.make_grid_minor()
p.make_x_axis(0,100)
p.make_x_axis(0,500)
p.make_y_axis_log()
to:
plot(something)
...
make the title 'title'
make the legend x,y,z
remove the grid
undo
make the grid minor
set range of x axis to [0,100]
increase x axis by 400
make y axis logscale
Sounds much better to me and I can only see one line deep context dependence. This already is going a long way in helping the programmer.
Yes, it would need syntactical understanding of the Free-form language, but not deep comprehension.
Yes, it would be nice if the computer could ask me back 'which of the two plots you wanted to alter the title of?' and may seem frustrating, but I do not think such ambiguities will be a big hurdle, esp. for seasoned programmer who can keep what they are doing in mind.
Besides, which hardware platform is likely to bring in a divide bigger than the software divide we have?
Spread and large scale adoption of Hardware presumably is more difficult than software adoption.
Also, how protected is the type of the processor and the other hardware used in a machine? I would imagine that exposing this information (such that your PC has a GPGPU) to software might help the software work better. To me, it seems that this gain easily outweigh the risks involved.
Period (No pun intended)
... when a malware tried to initiate a Skype call from my iPhone but misspelt the skype_id ^^
That will qualify as at least one fair use of the 'Fair use' laws.
Now I am off to make some religious offerings to my Roach killer.
Google Map is correct, give or take 3000 meters.