I do not have the necessary hardware to verify, but my mobile operator claims 20Mbps cell service in the area. The best the wired ISPs offer here is 5Mbps. Bandwidth caps hamper any notion of going all wireless, unfortunately.
It is not so much oil itself as much America is quite dependant on oil to grow and deliver food. The entire population is very addicted to that stuff. Several hours without and the withdrawal pangs will set in. Go several days without a fix and you will die.
I would bet that the versions have diverged to the point that it is getting impractical to support the older architecture, without patching larger and larger swaths of OS code.
My only complaint is that they did not wait until the next generation iPhone was released. The iPhone 5, or whatever it will be named, should be released in a few months. It seems pointless to think about getting an iPhone 4 this late in the release cycle.
I'm not sure why you replied to me, I wouldn't touch PHP to build a web application with a ten foot pole for a long list of reasons.
With that said, why shouldn't '5,000' + '5,000' equal 10? Most PHP functions are thin wrappers around C functions. strtoi() stops when it hits a non-numeric character, thus '5,000' is 5. 5 + 5 is 10. In that case, the result is fairly logical assuming you understand where PHP came from. There are much bigger problems with the language than that.
By the way, the "." is used for string concatenation in PHP, if that is what you were really trying to do.
Why do you say that? Depending on what you are doing, even low traffic websites sometimes need message queues. RabbitMQ is a nice implementation of that. The fact that it is good at handling higher loads is only an added benefit.
Python and PHP play the same role. MongoDB and PostgreSQL play the same role. SOLR is for full text searching, which you might also use in your PHP app.
I have only had a quick look through he code, but it looks like RabbitMQ is used so that mail can be queued and delivered without reliance on the web application. You might consider doing the same in PHP if you have the same requirements.
GPS is about more than just finding your way. The John Deere DB120 seed planter, for example, requires GPS to operate. There are still plenty of conventional planters around today, but as farms continue to expand the technology will be adopted by more and more farmers. What happens if GPS goes down in the spring and large acres of land are not able to be put into crops? That will have a profound affect on your life.
It's not real GPS, as in, it doesn't receive and act on signals from the GPS satellites.
Sure it does. Where else would it get the information from?
The first generation iPhone used cell triangulation because it didn't have a GPS chip on-board. The iPods use WiFi geo-location because they don't have cell or GPS chips on-board.
But neither have the accuracy of the GPS-enabled devices.
There are many vendors who sell styluses for the iPad already. They don't have the ability to sense pressure like, say, a Waccom tablet, but they are fine for things like general note taking. I agree that it would be a really nice feature for Apple to add, but I can see why it is not their top priority – there is only so many hours in the year.
A-GPS is real GPS. The difference is that it can use cellular information to find the GPS signal faster than a regular GPS device. While it is true that the bundled Maps app does need an internet connection, there are lots of different mapping apps in the store that work just fine while offline.
Thunderbolt is apparently a copper interconnect, as opposed to Fibre, which the name Light Peak seems to imply. For that reason, I feel they made the right decision not making reference to light and the ties between thunderbolts and lightning does make some sense in this case.
Now the iPad update will probably have some feature that should have been released with the first generation but for whatever reason *cough* BUT TO MAKE PEOPLE BUY IT AGAIN *cough* was not included.
There is only so much time in the day to bring a product to market. I get what you are saying, but I fully understand why lots of companies, Apple included, leave out features that seem like they should be there from day one. If they had delayed the iPad 1 until every last obvious feature was complete, we would just be hearing about it for the first time come March.
You have to pay the OpenGroup to be Unix. BSD is only Unix-like. It's a silly point, but I was being fair to the parent since he obviously recognizes the distinction but wasn't clear on what made Unix, Unix.
You have to pay the OpenGroup to be considered Unix. OS X qualifies because Apple has ponied up the cash. That is why they call BSD and Linux Unix-like operating systems.
He is quite correct in his assertion that Linux and BSD are not Unix. Without experience with real Unix systems, it would be impossible for him to verify that they exhibit the same behaviour. However, Mac OS X is Unix. I find it hard to believe that someone posting on Slashdot has not at least spent some time evaluating OS X, even if they ultimately decided it was not for them.
Something doesn't add up. Gene Simmons has his own record label. Why would he turn down the opportunity to sign, by his own admission, the best person he can possibly work with?
It is well known that Google will hand edit search results so that particular content comes first or otherwise make the result more prominent. Google has no more copyright claim to the websites it links to than IsoHunt does to the torrents it links to. If IsoHunt is breaking the law, Google most certainly is as well.
The amount of ideas popping out of your mind doesn't increase if you can make one innovation or magnum opus and then live happily on it for the rest of your life.
It could, however, take years to perfect the idea to the point that it actually works. There has to be some incentive to forego receiving an income for that extended period of labour.
I read recently that it takes agricultural combine manufacturers 10 years to bring a new threshing design to market. What methods can a company use to recoup the cost of expensive engineers for 10 years of work if the competition is able to have the exact same design available in their product the next model year?
I agree that things need to change, but patents often require more work than just jotting down every idea that pops into your head. There needs to be some kind of balance. It is a very complicated problem.
I distinctly remember having to hold my iPhone 3G in a way that did not cover the bottom portion of the phone when I first purchased it. My carrier has done some network upgrades since and it is no longer a problem, but why weren't people freaking out about "antennagate" way back then?
CouchDB, for one, is ACID compliant. NoSQL has nothing to do with lack of ACID compliance or performance. It is a catchall term to refer to a whole range of databases that are designed to solve different problems without using SQL as the query language.
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I do not have the necessary hardware to verify, but my mobile operator claims 20Mbps cell service in the area. The best the wired ISPs offer here is 5Mbps. Bandwidth caps hamper any notion of going all wireless, unfortunately.
It is not so much oil itself as much America is quite dependant on oil to grow and deliver food. The entire population is very addicted to that stuff. Several hours without and the withdrawal pangs will set in. Go several days without a fix and you will die.
My only complaint is that they did not wait until the next generation iPhone was released. The iPhone 5, or whatever it will be named, should be released in a few months. It seems pointless to think about getting an iPhone 4 this late in the release cycle.
I'm not sure why you replied to me, I wouldn't touch PHP to build a web application with a ten foot pole for a long list of reasons.
With that said, why shouldn't '5,000' + '5,000' equal 10? Most PHP functions are thin wrappers around C functions. strtoi() stops when it hits a non-numeric character, thus '5,000' is 5. 5 + 5 is 10. In that case, the result is fairly logical assuming you understand where PHP came from. There are much bigger problems with the language than that.
By the way, the "." is used for string concatenation in PHP, if that is what you were really trying to do.
Why do you say that? Depending on what you are doing, even low traffic websites sometimes need message queues. RabbitMQ is a nice implementation of that. The fact that it is good at handling higher loads is only an added benefit.
Which parts are you finding needlessly complex?
Python and PHP play the same role.
MongoDB and PostgreSQL play the same role.
SOLR is for full text searching, which you might also use in your PHP app.
I have only had a quick look through he code, but it looks like RabbitMQ is used so that mail can be queued and delivered without reliance on the web application. You might consider doing the same in PHP if you have the same requirements.
GPS is about more than just finding your way. The John Deere DB120 seed planter, for example, requires GPS to operate. There are still plenty of conventional planters around today, but as farms continue to expand the technology will be adopted by more and more farmers. What happens if GPS goes down in the spring and large acres of land are not able to be put into crops? That will have a profound affect on your life.
Sure it does. Where else would it get the information from?
The first generation iPhone used cell triangulation because it didn't have a GPS chip on-board.
The iPods use WiFi geo-location because they don't have cell or GPS chips on-board.
But neither have the accuracy of the GPS-enabled devices.
There are many vendors who sell styluses for the iPad already. They don't have the ability to sense pressure like, say, a Waccom tablet, but they are fine for things like general note taking. I agree that it would be a really nice feature for Apple to add, but I can see why it is not their top priority – there is only so many hours in the year.
A-GPS is real GPS. The difference is that it can use cellular information to find the GPS signal faster than a regular GPS device. While it is true that the bundled Maps app does need an internet connection, there are lots of different mapping apps in the store that work just fine while offline.
Thunderbolt is apparently a copper interconnect, as opposed to Fibre, which the name Light Peak seems to imply. For that reason, I feel they made the right decision not making reference to light and the ties between thunderbolts and lightning does make some sense in this case.
There is only so much time in the day to bring a product to market. I get what you are saying, but I fully understand why lots of companies, Apple included, leave out features that seem like they should be there from day one. If they had delayed the iPad 1 until every last obvious feature was complete, we would just be hearing about it for the first time come March.
Ruby only scored so high because of David Heinemeier Hansson. Source: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/127984254_ddd4363d6a.jpg
You have to pay the OpenGroup to be Unix. BSD is only Unix-like. It's a silly point, but I was being fair to the parent since he obviously recognizes the distinction but wasn't clear on what made Unix, Unix.
You have to pay the OpenGroup to be considered Unix. OS X qualifies because Apple has ponied up the cash. That is why they call BSD and Linux Unix-like operating systems.
Unix is something you pay to be. Apple has paid, BSD and Linux have not.
He is quite correct in his assertion that Linux and BSD are not Unix. Without experience with real Unix systems, it would be impossible for him to verify that they exhibit the same behaviour. However, Mac OS X is Unix. I find it hard to believe that someone posting on Slashdot has not at least spent some time evaluating OS X, even if they ultimately decided it was not for them.
Something doesn't add up. Gene Simmons has his own record label. Why would he turn down the opportunity to sign, by his own admission, the best person he can possibly work with?
It is well known that Google will hand edit search results so that particular content comes first or otherwise make the result more prominent. Google has no more copyright claim to the websites it links to than IsoHunt does to the torrents it links to. If IsoHunt is breaking the law, Google most certainly is as well.
It could, however, take years to perfect the idea to the point that it actually works. There has to be some incentive to forego receiving an income for that extended period of labour.
I read recently that it takes agricultural combine manufacturers 10 years to bring a new threshing design to market. What methods can a company use to recoup the cost of expensive engineers for 10 years of work if the competition is able to have the exact same design available in their product the next model year?
I agree that things need to change, but patents often require more work than just jotting down every idea that pops into your head. There needs to be some kind of balance. It is a very complicated problem.
Membase is the NoSQL database. The same people are responsible for Memcache, and thus it was part of this merger.
I distinctly remember having to hold my iPhone 3G in a way that did not cover the bottom portion of the phone when I first purchased it. My carrier has done some network upgrades since and it is no longer a problem, but why weren't people freaking out about "antennagate" way back then?
If only Slashdot would have covered them before...
Amazon (Dynamo)
Twitter, Digg (Cassandra)
Yahoo (HBase)
Netflix (SimpleDB)
BBC (CouchDB)
The Lotus Domino database is also NoSQL and is used in many enterprises.
CouchDB, for one, is ACID compliant. NoSQL has nothing to do with lack of ACID compliance or performance. It is a catchall term to refer to a whole range of databases that are designed to solve different problems without using SQL as the query language.