The number of servers most certainly is relevant. The configuration file spread itself across Google's network, but how can you tell from a single data point if the average downtime was longer than claimed by Google? It could be that a few servers unluckily were down for hours, but the vast majority only for a few minutes. It could be that a few servers recovered really quickly and Google looked at just that before concluding it was fixed. We don't know without the actual data.
If however Google only had five servers and one of them took hours, then that's already 20% of the userbase being affected for much longer than claimed.
Europeans spend weeks learning about every country in Europe, yet they don't seem to be doing all that badly. You seem to dislike learning about other people and their cultures and how this can influence and inspire you, and well that's your loss, but removing history and geography to put more time in science is NOT the solution. The much greater problems are teachers, methods and parents. Pay teachers a correct wage (which can easily be done by just reducing salaries for administrative leeches and shutting down the hilarious iPad programs), use good methods for teaching and evaluation (as opposed to Texas textbooks and horrible standard tests) and inform the parents that their job is to help their children learn (instead of just protesting loudly whenever they get a bad grade) and things would already work out much better.
Ironically enough, you're trying to get the US to stop looking at other cultures (or dramatically cut down their importance) when the biggest flaw in US education is wholly a cultural problem.
Comcast (and every other ISP out there) has had years to upgrade their infrastructure while getting massive profits each year. I have absolutely zero pity or understanding for them. They took taxpayers' money in the form of basic infrastructure and sat on it while overcharging their "customers".
If Comcast can't provide the same sort of package in another area, they should be forced to upgrade. Make them actually be worth something.
... Which would pit the cost of 1gbps at less than $50/mo, assuming density is a good linear indicator. I'd even give you $100/mo. Right now you'll get 100mbps/mo for that if you're lucky and it's going to be heavily metered.
Not quite. If you use GPL code for anything you do, you have to redistribute the code. That can quickly cause issues where whole chunks of proprietary code you'd rather keep for yourself ends up GPL'ed against your wishes. You'd have to distribute it or rip the GPL code out.
The lawyers are playing it safe by just not allowing any GPL code in. That's what I'd do too. Your counterargument is entirely orthogonal (and not necessarily applicable, you don't even know what those contributions are or the context they were made in) to the primary issue that's stopping GPL adoption in many software shops.
LLVM are only getting funding because Apple wants to undermine GCC.
You need a reality check badly. Apple doesn't give a shit about GCC, regardless of what your self-centered mind might think. They want a compiler that's good for their platform and lets them package it into Xcode. GCC would make this impossible. LLVM makes this possible. That's it. Perhaps if people like you didn't always have this absurd notion that corporations are specifically out to get you (instead of merely focusing on growing their business), you wouldn't be stuck as you are with many GPL projects withering or changing licenses.
And right below, you have this: "[..]from the perspective of the physics, you might call Darwinian evolution a special case of a more general phenomenon."
In other words, Venus might see this phenomenon arise, but just not the particular specific case where life gets involved (ie. the wrong atoms are present or the wrong process is started or whatever else can affect the outcome).
Or, perhaps, modelling a university's attendance after a virus (using likes of all things) isn't anywhere near as logical as modelling a social website's traffic? I've not heard of much of a correlation between likes and university popularity, but there's a pretty good link between the number of Google searches and a website's traffic.
To me this sounds a lot more of a tit-for-tat response than anything that'd "weaken" the original paper. I'm not saying the original paper's conclusions are that great, but facebook's "rebuttal" is just a mocking joke at best.
100% agreed. Open source advocates don't want to acknowledge it much, but FLOSS has one Achilles' heel: usability. They just can't seem to get it right and I'm not even sure why. When they don't try, you get horrendous messy interfaces which are only usable with a 1000 pages manual, spread across man pages because yay. When they do try, you get GNOME 3 and Unity.
Compare with Google's superb UI design and it's really just two worlds apart. Apple is in the same boat there and Microsoft usually is (outside of the misguided Metro pushing). There's a lot of work to making a functional, elegant and discoverable UI, and open source just doesn't get it.
The thing is, what I don't see is what those people want to see happen. Google still needs those employees, and moving them to basically any other neighborhood will cause the same problem. The only way this wouldn't happen is if the buses only went to neighborhoods where the average family earned as much or more than Google employees, and that's not necessarily fair for those employees now is it? Plus, there aren't that many ways to make a neighborhood richer than to attract richer people in, and I think a richer neighborhood is ultimately a good thing - the standard of living is higher, there's less crime, more education, less pollution and littering, etc. You can deny it all you want but there's a heavy corellation between the two.
I don't have an answer to what to do with those people getting eventually kicked out from their own neighborhoods, but I do think that protesting against the Google employees using the buses is the wrong way to get an answer.
The amount of silver in this is likely to be extremely small. They're nanoparticles for a reason. I doubt this'd stop adoption; a problem with scaling production is much more likely.
RDBMSes are going to die the same way tablets will replace personal computers, ie. not really. Different tools for different purposes. Maybe they'll become rarer, but there are situations where they can't be beat. This is like people saying that Java will replace C++ or that Python will replace Java or whatever other bullshit you get when something new and fancy appears.
That list is for if you want to make money and have close to no morals. If you don't fit with that narrow definition, then it's even more useless than the other comments. The real answer is: learn whatever interests you. You can't replace enjoyment of your work with money. Plenty have tried and they all look utterly miserable.
Don't put us all in the same basket please. There's the Harper government and the idiots who elected them, and then there's the rest of us who just want them to fuck off and leave the country alone before we turn into the US but worse. There was a time where Canada was a leader in diplomacy, environment, science, copyright, social policies and much more. Now we're slaves to whatever industry Harper is licking the butt of at the time, any other consideration (such as the well-being of the citizens under his charge or the reputation of Canada outside of his cabinet) be damned.
I'd rather have lawmakers understand the field they're making laws in. You can always get lawyers to help you write legal documents, that's their job, but good luck getting a lawyer turned politician to understand medicine, physics, environment, psychology or economics.
The problem with that criterion is when your code depends on an API which would never ever be understood by a regular human being. Sometimes you just can't avoid it.
It's not just that. They made this rather unique hardware but don't seem to know what to do with it. Asymmetrical play and remote play are all nice and well, but they're not system sellers and they're not the primary use of the console. The Wii could be played alone, in a group, with newbies or advanced users. The WiiU's touch pad needs a certain learning period, it's heavy and cumbersome, and all of that for what? Usually to show a map. It's the new waggle, except with even less interaction.
Nintendo chased the fickle casual market, thinking that they'd behave like their previous market (the more hardcore Nintendo veterans) and would follow their brand wherever they went. They didn't.
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The number of servers most certainly is relevant. The configuration file spread itself across Google's network, but how can you tell from a single data point if the average downtime was longer than claimed by Google? It could be that a few servers unluckily were down for hours, but the vast majority only for a few minutes. It could be that a few servers recovered really quickly and Google looked at just that before concluding it was fixed. We don't know without the actual data.
If however Google only had five servers and one of them took hours, then that's already 20% of the userbase being affected for much longer than claimed.
Europeans spend weeks learning about every country in Europe, yet they don't seem to be doing all that badly. You seem to dislike learning about other people and their cultures and how this can influence and inspire you, and well that's your loss, but removing history and geography to put more time in science is NOT the solution. The much greater problems are teachers, methods and parents. Pay teachers a correct wage (which can easily be done by just reducing salaries for administrative leeches and shutting down the hilarious iPad programs), use good methods for teaching and evaluation (as opposed to Texas textbooks and horrible standard tests) and inform the parents that their job is to help their children learn (instead of just protesting loudly whenever they get a bad grade) and things would already work out much better.
Ironically enough, you're trying to get the US to stop looking at other cultures (or dramatically cut down their importance) when the biggest flaw in US education is wholly a cultural problem.
Comcast (and every other ISP out there) has had years to upgrade their infrastructure while getting massive profits each year. I have absolutely zero pity or understanding for them. They took taxpayers' money in the form of basic infrastructure and sat on it while overcharging their "customers".
If Comcast can't provide the same sort of package in another area, they should be forced to upgrade. Make them actually be worth something.
... Which would pit the cost of 1gbps at less than $50/mo, assuming density is a good linear indicator. I'd even give you $100/mo. Right now you'll get 100mbps/mo for that if you're lucky and it's going to be heavily metered.
Not quite. If you use GPL code for anything you do, you have to redistribute the code. That can quickly cause issues where whole chunks of proprietary code you'd rather keep for yourself ends up GPL'ed against your wishes. You'd have to distribute it or rip the GPL code out.
The lawyers are playing it safe by just not allowing any GPL code in. That's what I'd do too. Your counterargument is entirely orthogonal (and not necessarily applicable, you don't even know what those contributions are or the context they were made in) to the primary issue that's stopping GPL adoption in many software shops.
LLVM are only getting funding because Apple wants to undermine GCC.
You need a reality check badly. Apple doesn't give a shit about GCC, regardless of what your self-centered mind might think. They want a compiler that's good for their platform and lets them package it into Xcode. GCC would make this impossible. LLVM makes this possible. That's it. Perhaps if people like you didn't always have this absurd notion that corporations are specifically out to get you (instead of merely focusing on growing their business), you wouldn't be stuck as you are with many GPL projects withering or changing licenses.
And right below, you have this: "[..]from the perspective of the physics, you might call Darwinian evolution a special case of a more general phenomenon."
In other words, Venus might see this phenomenon arise, but just not the particular specific case where life gets involved (ie. the wrong atoms are present or the wrong process is started or whatever else can affect the outcome).
Or, perhaps, modelling a university's attendance after a virus (using likes of all things) isn't anywhere near as logical as modelling a social website's traffic? I've not heard of much of a correlation between likes and university popularity, but there's a pretty good link between the number of Google searches and a website's traffic.
To me this sounds a lot more of a tit-for-tat response than anything that'd "weaken" the original paper. I'm not saying the original paper's conclusions are that great, but facebook's "rebuttal" is just a mocking joke at best.
100% agreed. Open source advocates don't want to acknowledge it much, but FLOSS has one Achilles' heel: usability. They just can't seem to get it right and I'm not even sure why. When they don't try, you get horrendous messy interfaces which are only usable with a 1000 pages manual, spread across man pages because yay. When they do try, you get GNOME 3 and Unity.
Compare with Google's superb UI design and it's really just two worlds apart. Apple is in the same boat there and Microsoft usually is (outside of the misguided Metro pushing). There's a lot of work to making a functional, elegant and discoverable UI, and open source just doesn't get it.
Seriously, a health department makes a project with the acronym RIP? I hope they weren't dead serious about it.
My password was hunter2, which means all the hackers ever see is *******. It's the ultimate safe password.
The thing is, what I don't see is what those people want to see happen. Google still needs those employees, and moving them to basically any other neighborhood will cause the same problem. The only way this wouldn't happen is if the buses only went to neighborhoods where the average family earned as much or more than Google employees, and that's not necessarily fair for those employees now is it? Plus, there aren't that many ways to make a neighborhood richer than to attract richer people in, and I think a richer neighborhood is ultimately a good thing - the standard of living is higher, there's less crime, more education, less pollution and littering, etc. You can deny it all you want but there's a heavy corellation between the two.
I don't have an answer to what to do with those people getting eventually kicked out from their own neighborhoods, but I do think that protesting against the Google employees using the buses is the wrong way to get an answer.
I like how what's effectively a blog site layout cannot work without Javascript. Like, they won't even let you load the site.
Yes, but the "high quality" button is back-order. And every button but the "don't even bother copying it right" button too.
Still not as bad as SlashBI, so there's that at least.
The amount of silver in this is likely to be extremely small. They're nanoparticles for a reason. I doubt this'd stop adoption; a problem with scaling production is much more likely.
Nah, but they didn't manage to get a tax on internet connections too so they're pissed.
RDBMSes are going to die the same way tablets will replace personal computers, ie. not really. Different tools for different purposes. Maybe they'll become rarer, but there are situations where they can't be beat. This is like people saying that Java will replace C++ or that Python will replace Java or whatever other bullshit you get when something new and fancy appears.
That list is for if you want to make money and have close to no morals. If you don't fit with that narrow definition, then it's even more useless than the other comments. The real answer is: learn whatever interests you. You can't replace enjoyment of your work with money. Plenty have tried and they all look utterly miserable.
Wait, is this programming or some sort of weird cooking recipe?
Don't put us all in the same basket please. There's the Harper government and the idiots who elected them, and then there's the rest of us who just want them to fuck off and leave the country alone before we turn into the US but worse. There was a time where Canada was a leader in diplomacy, environment, science, copyright, social policies and much more. Now we're slaves to whatever industry Harper is licking the butt of at the time, any other consideration (such as the well-being of the citizens under his charge or the reputation of Canada outside of his cabinet) be damned.
I'd rather have lawmakers understand the field they're making laws in. You can always get lawyers to help you write legal documents, that's their job, but good luck getting a lawyer turned politician to understand medicine, physics, environment, psychology or economics.
The problem with that criterion is when your code depends on an API which would never ever be understood by a regular human being. Sometimes you just can't avoid it.
It's not just that. They made this rather unique hardware but don't seem to know what to do with it. Asymmetrical play and remote play are all nice and well, but they're not system sellers and they're not the primary use of the console. The Wii could be played alone, in a group, with newbies or advanced users. The WiiU's touch pad needs a certain learning period, it's heavy and cumbersome, and all of that for what? Usually to show a map. It's the new waggle, except with even less interaction.
Nintendo chased the fickle casual market, thinking that they'd behave like their previous market (the more hardcore Nintendo veterans) and would follow their brand wherever they went. They didn't.
Yeah, next time the heating blows up they'll be able to advertise all sorts of relevant things... Like hotel ads.