I have a book that proves it, and if your book has a different age in it, it means you have the wrong book. Way more believable than all that "scientific" evidence!
I have to say, I am really enjoying this game. I'm not getting the grind feel form other games, and playing it way more casually, but still having a blast because of the RVR. Having a free expansion is nothing but gravy. Sweet wonderful gravy....
The LHC black holes are not new. Physicists have seen super-heavy particles hitting the upper atmosphere for some time. These particles are huge (something like half the plank mass, but memory is a bit fuzzy ), and moving very fast. It is not known where these particles originate from, but the idea of the black holes in the LHC is based on the same mechanism. The LHC black holes would get generated very similarly to the mechanism that these super heavy particles possibly generate black holes in the upper atmosphere.
See http://www.college.ucla.edu/news/07/ultra-high-energy-particles.html and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7598996.stm for more info
I totally saw the same use! I shoot service rifle matches in the Civilian Marksmanship Program, and this would be a dream to have for practice. I reload for competition, so the ability to create your own datasets is great. Uses for hunting are also fairly obvious, especially when used with a incline compensating range finder.
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No offense, but it does not sound like you have SOA - it sounds like like you just use webservices. Your ESB should translate your messages - if you are doing point to point webservice calls, then your architect has seriously made a mistake. REST vs SOAP has almost nothing to do with SOA other than WS are a commonly used technical implementation in SOA. WS, REST, SOAP are NOT synonymous with SOA.
ALso, I'm not sure that getting rid of XML solves anything - now each webservice has it's own interface or data structure. This is something that would be common in a point to point webservice call, but using an ESB, you should be using a normalized message (whether it is XML or something else is immaterial).
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While I agree that it is a bit like the way that UNIX tools were built, SOA deals with heterogeneous and distributed environments that are built around business function. The largest misconception I run across about SOA is that it is a technical architecture built around webservices, so in that respect the UNIX comparison holds. However, any SOA approached in this manner will fail, 100%. SOA deals not just with technical processes but also business. In that respect, there is nothing that holds the promise that SOA currently does for a large, flexible system that allows business to decide what they want to do vs being constrained by their existing technical solutions.
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I'm not sure that the number of data providers is necessarily that much of an indicator of the benefits of SOA. The are many ways to skin the SOA cat, but the overarching theme is the componentization of business processes into services and the orchestration between them. It is a significant shift in how the enterprise functions. For sure, small organizations will see little, if any, cost savings in moving toward SOA. However, medium and larger organizations, that find value in the reuse of components via biz services, can see large returns, even with the complexity of SOA governance and implementation. So, whether their is a single or multiple data providers may not be the overriding question.
Here you go - a whole slew of tests (that you can run to prove for yourself), that Java is indeed faster than C++. And these benchmarks are with a slower JVM version. Please become educated about what you talk about. http://kano.net/javabench/
No offense, but your knowledge is dated. This old Java applet bugaboo has been hanging around just as long as the "Java is slow" urban myth. The truth is that applets arrived in a period of time when there were NO rich internet application and were far head of their time. There are tons of applets out there today that are fast, robust and useful. Also I'm not sure why you think Java has not been adopted by industry - it is the #1 language used in corporate environments, hands down. No language has ever had a more popular usage in industry.
Java is cranky and fragile? I guess that is why it is used for backend trading applications and banks across the world. 100's of trillions of dollars is just fine to be handled by a cranky and fragile language. Thank god for perl and their fans for such a robust language that it can be used sometimes for partially stable webpages.
I love this book. Many times I run into developers that program the exact same way they learned in school, without ever really knowing why they do things a certain way or question if something can be done better. Effective Java is basically the knowledge that a mid-level and higher developer should have learned codified into book form. The organization is great (broken into topics - you do not need to read from front to back), and has clear and easy to understand examples. It is a great book to move a junior Java developer up to a mid-level Java developer very quickly. It is now available in a second edition that is even better and with more content than the first edition. It is also a Jolt award winner.
.... with the opinion that bad employees need unions more than good employees.
I TOTALLY agree. I have worked at very large and somewhat small companies. In all of these jobs, I have seen good and bad techies. But the absolute worst I ever saw was when I worked for a large telco equipment manufacturer doing Solaris admin work. A good number of the "original" admins used to be in a union before outsourcing and reorganization. To a person, these were the dumbest, laziest, least educated admins around. One of these, crowned with the title of "Senior UNIX Administrator" did not know what a SHELL was. He had a user that would log in and just get a blank screen and could execute no commands. I told him, "Check/etc/passwd and see if he has a shell". This "Senior UNIX Administrator" had no idea what a shell was. I had to explain ksh, csh, etc. He also did not know what the kernel was (if you know that, then you can understand how shell's got that shell name).
After I kind of read him the riot act on this total cluelessness, I asked how he got the Senior title. Turns out he dropped out of high school, got a job as tape operator on the old mainframes, and got promoted along the way because of the union contracts. He had seniority over the next closest person by at least a decade, and was easily pulling down $100k (in 1998). Thankfully, after outsourcing, he was the absolute first person to be laid off. I left that job in 2004, and from people that knew him, he had not yet been able to get a unix admin job and was working the counter at a golf pro shop for $8/hr.
The lesson? If there had not been a union, this dead weight oxygen waster would never had gotten anywhere.
Maybe all the criminals can just meta-tag all the data so the cops have an easier time. Finally the semantic web would come alive, all for helping kiddy porn criminals bust themselves. Seriously though, law enforcement needs more tech in their ranks. Just the idea of a simple turn key plugin to pull all illegal data because of the cops lack of tech knowledge shows just how badly they misunderstand tech in the first place. If it was this easy to pull data form a mass of disorganized crap, which is probably encrypted, then scientists would already be doing it on complex data sets and no one would encrypt anything because it would be easy to decrypt. This is just the kind of junk politicians vote for, because they know even less.
A friend's parents had passed away, and the house was up for sale. She went over to just do a checkup and noticed it was very cold in the house, however the thermostat was set to 50 (house has radiators). She also noticed no water coming form the faucet. She went into the basement - someone had broken in through a window well and cut out every single pipe in the basement. All the plumbing for the radiators and water supply were all gone.
I'm sorry, but lifting a 400 pound fatass into the sky takes twice as much fuel as lifting a 200 pound fatass into the sky. Just like freight shipping is based on weight. That 400 pound tub of lard is not only getting their healthcare subsidized by people who are healthy, but they are also getting their airfare subsidized. Maybe they should just be banned from airlines altogether - they could use the exercise walking to their destination.
In my CS undergrad, about 30% of my class were women. They were CS majors too, not CIS or MIS, so there used to be a decent amount of interest in a very technical, traditionally male, field. After my first job out of school, I still saw plenty of women, although mainly in IT opts. Plenty of server admins were women. Then they all seemed to disappear! I went back for a Masters in Software Engineering and I had 1 (ONE) woman in all the classes I took. In my new job though, about 30% or the programmers are women, but NONE are native born int he US - almost all the women are from India. All the native born women in my company are either BSAs, PMs, some IT Opts, or managers (My VP is a woman). So, at least for native born US woman, they seem to be leaving the more "hard core" tech jobs into affiliated jobs, but still in the industry, according to what I have seen.
Law needs more humor, and this guy has produced dozens, if not hundreds of these wonderful lawsuits. Maybe he is trying to atone for his crimes by trying to improve society by making judges laugh?
Backpacker magazine had some of these devices a few months ago. They are widely used for remote trips and mountaineering. The devices work, but they can't power your PC all day long. You can get just enough power to do some quick stuff, and that is it - the solar cells in the portable units simply don't have enough collection power to run the device all day long. You would be better off if your electricity supplier has green credits you can buy and recharge off that, rather than using the solar cells - unless you are going somewhere where there is no electrical grid.
There is a big difference between what that guy did and me finding an intruder in my house. I don't see the connection. Not sure what makes you think I shoot at people on my lawn.
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I have a book that proves it, and if your book has a different age in it, it means you have the wrong book. Way more believable than all that "scientific" evidence!
Scientific American just had an article on fast neutron reactors that get around the waste issue and don't create any weapons grade material: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=smarter-use-of-nuclear-waste&page=1
I have to say, I am really enjoying this game. I'm not getting the grind feel form other games, and playing it way more casually, but still having a blast because of the RVR. Having a free expansion is nothing but gravy. Sweet wonderful gravy....
The LHC black holes are not new. Physicists have seen super-heavy particles hitting the upper atmosphere for some time. These particles are huge (something like half the plank mass, but memory is a bit fuzzy ), and moving very fast. It is not known where these particles originate from, but the idea of the black holes in the LHC is based on the same mechanism. The LHC black holes would get generated very similarly to the mechanism that these super heavy particles possibly generate black holes in the upper atmosphere. See http://www.college.ucla.edu/news/07/ultra-high-energy-particles.html and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7598996.stm for more info
I totally saw the same use! I shoot service rifle matches in the Civilian Marksmanship Program, and this would be a dream to have for practice. I reload for competition, so the ability to create your own datasets is great. Uses for hunting are also fairly obvious, especially when used with a incline compensating range finder.
No offense, but it does not sound like you have SOA - it sounds like like you just use webservices. Your ESB should translate your messages - if you are doing point to point webservice calls, then your architect has seriously made a mistake. REST vs SOAP has almost nothing to do with SOA other than WS are a commonly used technical implementation in SOA. WS, REST, SOAP are NOT synonymous with SOA. ALso, I'm not sure that getting rid of XML solves anything - now each webservice has it's own interface or data structure. This is something that would be common in a point to point webservice call, but using an ESB, you should be using a normalized message (whether it is XML or something else is immaterial).
While I agree that it is a bit like the way that UNIX tools were built, SOA deals with heterogeneous and distributed environments that are built around business function. The largest misconception I run across about SOA is that it is a technical architecture built around webservices, so in that respect the UNIX comparison holds. However, any SOA approached in this manner will fail, 100%. SOA deals not just with technical processes but also business. In that respect, there is nothing that holds the promise that SOA currently does for a large, flexible system that allows business to decide what they want to do vs being constrained by their existing technical solutions.
I'm not sure that the number of data providers is necessarily that much of an indicator of the benefits of SOA. The are many ways to skin the SOA cat, but the overarching theme is the componentization of business processes into services and the orchestration between them. It is a significant shift in how the enterprise functions. For sure, small organizations will see little, if any, cost savings in moving toward SOA. However, medium and larger organizations, that find value in the reuse of components via biz services, can see large returns, even with the complexity of SOA governance and implementation. So, whether their is a single or multiple data providers may not be the overriding question.
And even a Slashdot article talking about c++ losign to Java http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/217239 Please let us know what crow tastes like.
Here you go - a whole slew of tests (that you can run to prove for yourself), that Java is indeed faster than C++. And these benchmarks are with a slower JVM version. Please become educated about what you talk about. http://kano.net/javabench/
Its just easier to blame the language than their own lack of development knowledge.
No offense, but your knowledge is dated. This old Java applet bugaboo has been hanging around just as long as the "Java is slow" urban myth. The truth is that applets arrived in a period of time when there were NO rich internet application and were far head of their time. There are tons of applets out there today that are fast, robust and useful. Also I'm not sure why you think Java has not been adopted by industry - it is the #1 language used in corporate environments, hands down. No language has ever had a more popular usage in industry.
Java is cranky and fragile? I guess that is why it is used for backend trading applications and banks across the world. 100's of trillions of dollars is just fine to be handled by a cranky and fragile language. Thank god for perl and their fans for such a robust language that it can be used sometimes for partially stable webpages.
Hook that sucker up to Hudson (https://hudson.dev.java.net/) and use it to display build/job status.
I love this book. Many times I run into developers that program the exact same way they learned in school, without ever really knowing why they do things a certain way or question if something can be done better. Effective Java is basically the knowledge that a mid-level and higher developer should have learned codified into book form. The organization is great (broken into topics - you do not need to read from front to back), and has clear and easy to understand examples. It is a great book to move a junior Java developer up to a mid-level Java developer very quickly. It is now available in a second edition that is even better and with more content than the first edition. It is also a Jolt award winner.
I live in Chicago. To be a police officer here, you must be a thug.
.... with the opinion that bad employees need unions more than good employees.
I TOTALLY agree. I have worked at very large and somewhat small companies. In all of these jobs, I have seen good and bad techies. But the absolute worst I ever saw was when I worked for a large telco equipment manufacturer doing Solaris admin work. A good number of the "original" admins used to be in a union before outsourcing and reorganization. To a person, these were the dumbest, laziest, least educated admins around. One of these, crowned with the title of "Senior UNIX Administrator" did not know what a SHELL was. He had a user that would log in and just get a blank screen and could execute no commands. I told him, "Check /etc/passwd and see if he has a shell". This "Senior UNIX Administrator" had no idea what a shell was. I had to explain ksh, csh, etc. He also did not know what the kernel was (if you know that, then you can understand how shell's got that shell name).
After I kind of read him the riot act on this total cluelessness, I asked how he got the Senior title. Turns out he dropped out of high school, got a job as tape operator on the old mainframes, and got promoted along the way because of the union contracts. He had seniority over the next closest person by at least a decade, and was easily pulling down $100k (in 1998). Thankfully, after outsourcing, he was the absolute first person to be laid off. I left that job in 2004, and from people that knew him, he had not yet been able to get a unix admin job and was working the counter at a golf pro shop for $8/hr.
The lesson? If there had not been a union, this dead weight oxygen waster would never had gotten anywhere.
Maybe all the criminals can just meta-tag all the data so the cops have an easier time. Finally the semantic web would come alive, all for helping kiddy porn criminals bust themselves.
Seriously though, law enforcement needs more tech in their ranks. Just the idea of a simple turn key plugin to pull all illegal data because of the cops lack of tech knowledge shows just how badly they misunderstand tech in the first place. If it was this easy to pull data form a mass of disorganized crap, which is probably encrypted, then scientists would already be doing it on complex data sets and no one would encrypt anything because it would be easy to decrypt. This is just the kind of junk politicians vote for, because they know even less.
LOL, that story is a good one.
A friend's parents had passed away, and the house was up for sale. She went over to just do a checkup and noticed it was very cold in the house, however the thermostat was set to 50 (house has radiators). She also noticed no water coming form the faucet. She went into the basement - someone had broken in through a window well and cut out every single pipe in the basement. All the plumbing for the radiators and water supply were all gone.
I'm sorry, but lifting a 400 pound fatass into the sky takes twice as much fuel as lifting a 200 pound fatass into the sky. Just like freight shipping is based on weight. That 400 pound tub of lard is not only getting their healthcare subsidized by people who are healthy, but they are also getting their airfare subsidized. Maybe they should just be banned from airlines altogether - they could use the exercise walking to their destination.
In my CS undergrad, about 30% of my class were women. They were CS majors too, not CIS or MIS, so there used to be a decent amount of interest in a very technical, traditionally male, field. After my first job out of school, I still saw plenty of women, although mainly in IT opts. Plenty of server admins were women. Then they all seemed to disappear! I went back for a Masters in Software Engineering and I had 1 (ONE) woman in all the classes I took. In my new job though, about 30% or the programmers are women, but NONE are native born int he US - almost all the women are from India. All the native born women in my company are either BSAs, PMs, some IT Opts, or managers (My VP is a woman). So, at least for native born US woman, they seem to be leaving the more "hard core" tech jobs into affiliated jobs, but still in the industry, according to what I have seen.
Law needs more humor, and this guy has produced dozens, if not hundreds of these wonderful lawsuits. Maybe he is trying to atone for his crimes by trying to improve society by making judges laugh?
Backpacker magazine had some of these devices a few months ago. They are widely used for remote trips and mountaineering. The devices work, but they can't power your PC all day long. You can get just enough power to do some quick stuff, and that is it - the solar cells in the portable units simply don't have enough collection power to run the device all day long. You would be better off if your electricity supplier has green credits you can buy and recharge off that, rather than using the solar cells - unless you are going somewhere where there is no electrical grid.
There is a big difference between what that guy did and me finding an intruder in my house. I don't see the connection. Not sure what makes you think I shoot at people on my lawn.