It only shows that are tools are not specialized enough to keep up with the demands of business. Everyone is trying to write to be the platform for everything, and I think there is the case for trying to be the platform for a specific industrial space.
How about: "You don't want to deal with a sniper like me!" In reply to:
The infamous RIAA "Dentist": "You don't want to have another visit with a dentist like me" -- Matt Oppenheim, RIAA senior vice president of business and legal affairs
I'm a Republican of the pre-religious right wing school, and I'm going to donate as much dough as I can to Orin Hatches opposition. I encourage everyone to donate money to whoever runs against Orin Hatch. Look at it this way, Bush is going to win re-election in a landslide, and if we put a Dem into Hatch's slot, we restore some balance of power, get rid of a right winger so kooky that he sold out to hollywood, and maybe save the constitution.
First off, I know a lot more about databases than you might think. First I did a stint in a class action lawfirm. Our document management databases would index every document produced in discovery. This would be millions upon millions of rows, for a single litigation, and we would have dozens of those going on. After that, I decided to get into the simpler business of real time energy capture. That's just a few hundred million rows a year...
Transactions are not a panacea and their automatic use needs to be considered and considered carefully and for every application. A sweeping rule of transactions everywhere is madness.
Why?
There are two popular ways of dealing with transactions, multiversion concurrency control, as used by PostGres and Oracle, or, the locking protocols used by Sybase and SQL Server. With MVCC, readers do not block writers, and writers do not block readers, but, sometimes, a rollback in one transaction MUST force a cascading rollback in downstream transactions. The database stalls as do all of your users. On the other side, SQL Server locking, you avoid the potential rollback, but then, writers block readers. So, the database stalls, and users are still screwed! In both cases, in fact, in any concurrency scenario involving transactions, the system is going to tend to wait for the longest running transaction, when their is contention.
Of course I assume a serializable isolation level. If you are going to have that, then, what's the point of having ACID? You can't have ACID without that I for Isolated!
So, where could there be contention? Let's see, in Windows, we have the Registry and its relational replacement, we have the amount of disk space on a volume, we have the contents of a particular file folder. What happens to applications that look for disk free in the middle of a copy of a file folder with 50 files? What happens when you are copying a DVD into a folder? Do you lock the folder query while the DVD is writing?
You guys that admire SQL Server because of a few dozen tables and some little data sets (by little I mean less than 100,000,000 rows), have no idea what you are talking about. Database based file systems with transactions are madness.
Putting transactions into a file system is retarded.
An ACID file system would mean that images would probably take 10 days to write, and that, if someone was writing a long file, and a short file, all users of the short file would have to wait until the long file write was complete.
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Just wondering that if, since, so many people evidently have to ritalin, if, it's not that these people are diseased, its that society is just messed up?
Maybe a lot of people get easily distracted in their jobs, because they are in fact boring.
Maybe a lot of people get depressed because, well, their lives really do suck.
I was a bit miffed when I wrote the above, largely because once again the employees feel the sting of the stupidity of American business managers and investors.
For all of the ballyhooed triumphs of American capitalism, our investment and management class seems to have come to the conclusion that the people of the country whose flag they so bravenly wave are not capable of anything.
We need to learn to say to ourselves, over and over and over again, our leadership is the problem, not the competitiveness of our workers.
Since, mergers of companies into ever larger institutions is the rage, it stands to reason that all of the benefits of the mega merger would accrue if all of America's companies were merged into a national institution!
Every US Citizen (and citizens of other countries that wanted join- Europe perhaps!), would be issued an internet based voting device to indicate the things they want. An end to end automated system would allocate the entire national gross national product by a democratic process. Citizens would band together electronically to work on different projects, and these bands could propose their own work. The whole thing would be electronically managed.
Some pundits may call this socialism, but, it's really not, because:
a) we retain a consumer society.
b) we gain more rights because we link ownership of national assets to democratic values.
c) we gain in efficiency by eliminating an unproductive investment class.
d) we gain in efficiency because things like NDAs and patents would be completely unneccessary.
e) we gain in efficiency for the same reasons that companies gain in efficiency. Consumer voting drives production forecasts, which in turn efficiently drives production allocation.
If we can have an efficient automated value chain for a $300 billion dollar a year Walmart, why not have an even more efficient automated value chain for the entire 20 trillion dollar United States and Europe?
Manufacturing is not just about national pride, it is about involving citizens and craft together in a process which improves their own sense of destiny.
America does not make anything any more, because our lazy and stupid CEOs are more worry wart busy bodies than they are the dynamic and visionary leaders they project themselves to be. They send projects overseas, to anyone but their own companies, solely because they do not want to take any risks themselves.
The cure is very simple:
a) Shoot everyone who is a senior level manager or above. If they wanted to really lead, or were really good at it, they would have their own business.
b) Bar sales people and lawyers from becoming CEOs and politicians, respectively.
c) Educate people to realize that buying foreign products is a kind of treason. Really, half the reason the Japanese and Europeans do so well is that they are culturally disinclined to buy foreign stuff. They don't view trade as an equal exchange, they view it as an opportunity to screw America and get rich doing it. So, fuck them and free trade.
It takes SQL Server a Quad Xeon Machine to stuff slightly less than 10,000 inserts a second into a table. Yet, writing raw records into a file can happen hundreds of times faster than that.
1) Hydrogen power is a storage mechanism, not an energy source, because of the energy it takes to produce.
2) Hydrogen power means a much greater demand in electricity. Building that much more coal capacity defeats the purpose, and natural gas is only suitable for mid merit plants (onpeak only)
3) Nuclear power is safer than fossil fuels. Not withstanding the obvious global warming issue, buring fossil fuels releases known carcinogens, loads up small particulates, causes acid rain, and in general probably contributes to the deaths of 10,000 people a year, world wide.
4) nuclear radiation from maine yankee was lower than natural nuclear radiation from living in colorado.
Intel developed the 80386 architecture to make it easy to write operating systems for and Linus Torvalds did exactly that. I have the book myself, but I was, sigh, never so ambitious. It's by Morse, I believe, one of the seniors on the Intel team at the time. He goes on in great length to explain how to do task switching, interrupts, virtual memory, all using the Intel part.
Really, any multitasking OS is just an implementation of an Intel design, so, does SCO plan on including Intel in its lawsuit.
Everyone will have to give kickbacks to block wardens to keep their good solid union jobs, as the labor bosses blow their pension money on Vegas and hookers.
Soon, everyone will want to leave the super city, and get a little place of their own away from all the prying corruption of big city administration.
Oh, wait, this already happened.
Never mind. Utopia worlds always fail because they are predicated on governments telling you are supposed to be happy. America is superior, because our government tells us we are crazy, and we should buy our own prozac.
The entire commodities sector could greatly benefit from 64 bit computing because the data sets are so large. 64 bit integers mean you get much quicker date arithmetic.
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Caching is a pattern that is hardly without prior art. I don't know how well that patent would stand up against a wealthy holder.
It only shows that are tools are not specialized enough to keep up with the demands of business. Everyone is trying to write to be the platform for everything, and I think there is the case for trying to be the platform for a specific industrial space.
Domain specific databases are the answer to this problem. We have to unlink data models from user interfaces and package just the model.
It's 64 bit, It's unix. What more do you need?
How about: "You don't want to deal with a sniper like me!" In reply to:
The infamous RIAA "Dentist":
"You don't want to have another visit with a dentist like me"
-- Matt Oppenheim, RIAA senior vice president of business and legal affairs
1) Closed Source is owned by the people, via the shareholders.
2) Closed Source is controlled by a central planning committee, for the people's good.
OTH
1) Open source is owned by no one
2) Anyone can make whatever they want with it
Anyone who works for DMCA would have to pay triple licensing fees.
Do you really want a guy who wires up 20 computers to make a virtual view to actually fly a real airplane?
I gave $1000 to Republicans, they still sell you out. Unless your checks are for $100,000, you have no vote.
past the end of contract expiration in order to agree to license LZW?
I'm a Republican of the pre-religious right wing school, and I'm going to donate as much dough as I can to Orin Hatches opposition. I encourage everyone to donate money to whoever runs against Orin Hatch. Look at it this way, Bush is going to win re-election in a landslide, and if we put a Dem into Hatch's slot, we restore some balance of power, get rid of a right winger so kooky that he sold out to hollywood, and maybe save the constitution.
Maybe default Apache configurations should disallow MS bots, so that MSN can't find anything?
Turnabout is fair play? No?
First off, I know a lot more about databases than you might think. First I did a stint in a class action lawfirm. Our document management databases would index every document produced in discovery. This would be millions upon millions of rows, for a single litigation, and we would have dozens of those going on. After that, I decided to get into the simpler business of real time energy capture. That's just a few hundred million rows a year...
Transactions are not a panacea and their automatic use needs to be considered and considered carefully and for every application. A sweeping rule of transactions everywhere is madness.
Why?
There are two popular ways of dealing with transactions, multiversion concurrency control, as used by PostGres and Oracle, or, the locking protocols used by Sybase and SQL Server. With MVCC, readers do not block writers, and writers do not block readers, but, sometimes, a rollback in one transaction MUST force a cascading rollback in downstream transactions. The database stalls as do all of your users. On the other side, SQL Server locking, you avoid the potential rollback, but then, writers block readers. So, the database stalls, and users are still screwed! In both cases, in fact, in any concurrency scenario involving transactions, the system is going to tend to wait for the longest running transaction, when their is contention.
Of course I assume a serializable isolation level. If you are going to have that, then, what's the point of having ACID? You can't have ACID without that I for Isolated!
So, where could there be contention? Let's see, in Windows, we have the Registry and its relational replacement, we have the amount of disk space on a volume, we have the contents of a particular file folder. What happens to applications that look for disk free in the middle of a copy of a file folder with 50 files? What happens when you are copying a DVD into a folder? Do you lock the folder query while the DVD is writing?
You guys that admire SQL Server because of a few dozen tables and some little data sets (by little I mean less than 100,000,000 rows), have no idea what you are talking about. Database based file systems with transactions are madness.
I mean really. Kids are now supposed to speak when spoken to, be quiet, be not be curious.
WTF.
This isn't so much about kids being ill, as their parents being demented.
Putting transactions into a file system is retarded.
An ACID file system would mean that images would probably take 10 days to write, and that, if someone was writing a long file, and a short file, all users of the short file would have to wait until the long file write was complete.
Just wondering that if, since, so many people evidently have to ritalin, if, it's not that these people are diseased, its that society is just messed up?
Maybe a lot of people get easily distracted in their jobs, because they are in fact boring.
Maybe a lot of people get depressed because, well, their lives really do suck.
I was a bit miffed when I wrote the above, largely because once again the employees feel the sting of the stupidity of American business managers and investors.
For all of the ballyhooed triumphs of American capitalism, our investment and management class seems to have come to the conclusion that the people of the country whose flag they so bravenly wave are not capable of anything.
We need to learn to say to ourselves, over and over and over again, our leadership is the problem, not the competitiveness of our workers.
Since, mergers of companies into ever larger institutions is the rage, it stands to reason that all of the benefits of the mega merger would accrue if all of America's companies were merged into a national institution!
Every US Citizen (and citizens of other countries that wanted join- Europe perhaps!), would be issued an internet based voting device to indicate the things they want. An end to end automated system would allocate the entire national gross national product by a democratic process. Citizens would band together electronically to work on different projects, and these bands could propose their own work. The whole thing would be electronically managed.
Some pundits may call this socialism, but, it's really not, because:
a) we retain a consumer society.
b) we gain more rights because we link ownership of national assets to democratic values.
c) we gain in efficiency by eliminating an unproductive investment class.
d) we gain in efficiency because things like NDAs and patents would be completely unneccessary.
e) we gain in efficiency for the same reasons that companies gain in efficiency. Consumer voting drives production forecasts, which in turn efficiently drives production allocation.
If we can have an efficient automated value chain for a $300 billion dollar a year Walmart, why not have an even more efficient automated value chain for the entire 20 trillion dollar United States and Europe?
Manufacturing is not just about national pride, it is about involving citizens and craft together in a process which improves their own sense of destiny.
America does not make anything any more, because our lazy and stupid CEOs are more worry wart busy bodies than they are the dynamic and visionary leaders they project themselves to be. They send projects overseas, to anyone but their own companies, solely because they do not want to take any risks themselves.
The cure is very simple:
a) Shoot everyone who is a senior level manager or above. If they wanted to really lead, or were really good at it, they would have their own business.
b) Bar sales people and lawyers from becoming CEOs and politicians, respectively.
c) Educate people to realize that buying foreign products is a kind of treason. Really, half the reason the Japanese and Europeans do so well is that they are culturally disinclined to buy foreign stuff. They don't view trade as an equal exchange, they view it as an opportunity to screw America and get rich doing it. So, fuck them and free trade.
It takes SQL Server a Quad Xeon Machine to stuff slightly less than 10,000 inserts a second into a table. Yet, writing raw records into a file can happen hundreds of times faster than that.
1) Hydrogen power is a storage mechanism, not an energy source, because of the energy it takes to produce.
2) Hydrogen power means a much greater demand in electricity. Building that much more coal capacity defeats the purpose, and natural gas is only suitable for mid merit plants (onpeak only)
3) Nuclear power is safer than fossil fuels. Not withstanding the obvious global warming issue, buring fossil fuels releases known carcinogens, loads up small particulates, causes acid rain, and in general probably contributes to the deaths of 10,000 people a year, world wide.
4) nuclear radiation from maine yankee was lower than natural nuclear radiation from living in colorado.
Intel developed the 80386 architecture to make it easy to write operating systems for and Linus Torvalds did exactly that. I have the book myself, but I was, sigh, never so ambitious. It's by Morse, I believe, one of the seniors on the Intel team at the time. He goes on in great length to explain how to do task switching, interrupts, virtual memory, all using the Intel part.
Really, any multitasking OS is just an implementation of an Intel design, so, does SCO plan on including Intel in its lawsuit.
Everyone will have to give kickbacks to block wardens to keep their good solid union jobs, as the labor bosses blow their pension money on Vegas and hookers.
Soon, everyone will want to leave the super city, and get a little place of their own away from all the prying corruption of big city administration.
Oh, wait, this already happened.
Never mind. Utopia worlds always fail because they are predicated on governments telling you are supposed to be happy. America is superior, because our government tells us we are crazy, and we should buy our own prozac.
I think we should build a pyramid.
The entire commodities sector could greatly benefit from 64 bit computing because the data sets are so large. 64 bit integers mean you get much quicker date arithmetic.
It's really stupid, but Sun should provide a hosting system for small third party Java developers to ply their wares on line.