We use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... which is a clustered Postgres implementation. It has its problems (Postgres 8.2? seriously?) But it is very fast for ETL and batch queries on large data sets. We house 100+TB and get excellent performance. Its commercial and you pay by the TB.
Then there is also AWS Redshift. We have found it to be quicker at some things and possibly cheaper but immature in its feature set (no UDF, etc). The thinking here is that if you have a separate system for ETL, Redshift would make an excellent data warehouse/ data market SELECT server. Pay by usage/ hour.
I remember the old Prisoner 2 video game for the Apple II. They gave you a secret number and all you had to do was not give it to them when they asked. Sounds easy. Just don't type the number.
Well, they got me! Applesoft programs would sometimes crash into prompt with an error and line. One would almost instinctually list out the line to see what the error was. So when the video game seemed to crash I listed out the line..... You lose!
On a recent trip to Jamaica, we had some tiny little ants in a nest in the bathroom wall. I discovered that they wouldn't cross invisible Vaseline lines rubbed on the wall.
Well, after a few days, I had created complex Vaseline mazes for the ants with food smudges at strategic locations. Got them to spell out my name with their ant trails. Wife wasn't as impressed as you might imagine.
The eagles didn't do their deus ex machina until after the ring was destroyed and mordor made (relatively) safe. Presumably Sauron would have noticed a flock of giant eagles heading over..
I don't believe most roads change color because of tire rubber- excepting a few high traffic areas. Most change color to match the aggregate (read: rock) that's in in the asphalt- usually some sort of plain greyish rock.
When I drove through AK/CD the roads are green or red or other colors that match the color of the local rock they used.
Perhaps all they need to do is use a bright white rock in the aggregate?
Actually, according to the article, AT&T was sending him repeated SMS warnings but he did not get them because it was a data card, not a phone. That means to me that they did know what was going on and a cap could be implemented.
Perhaps if every slashdot reader contributed $10, we could get one. The highest rated comment ideas would be placed into a slashdot poll to decide what to do with it.
At first blush, to any programmer at least, this sounds crazy. That is because we presume that the robots of the future(tm) would be built like we build them now: they would be machines with minds written in C++, or whatever. Under those circumstances, its completely true that the article (which naturally, i never read) would be meaningless.
However, what if the robots brains were developed different. For instance, what if we built a machine that we could simulate all the connections of a persons brain which we read via some scan? Then we hook up the appropriate sensors. Sort of like VMBrain(TM). Not easy but the brain has some 100B Neurons with a few thousand connections each (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain). This is a few orders of magnitude over the storage we have now but in 50 years, perhaps we would have the 100 TB RAM Pentium X 64k core CPU. Would such a brain even realize that its a machine? I could see someone arguing that it is deserving of some rights.
Or perhaps we build a robot mind by Genetic Programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Programming) in which we would not be directly controlling its behavior, just its output via the evolution towards some fitness function. Perhaps it would evolve self awareness as a side effect. I could see a sufficiently complicated, genetically evolved mind program being different then something you hack out specifically. (It would be kind of neat to have your program do something that you didn't anticipate... I played with GP in college trying to evolve GP creatures that would solve some problems and was delighted to see them evolve simple collaborative behaviors.)
Things 50/100/200 years from now will probably not be anything like we anticipate. I don't agree with the timeline, but I think someone is going to create some machine at some point in the next few hundred years that is going to demand suffrage.
-- That was not directed at the Germans. We all know you guys work your buns off.
Common misconception. Germans actually work some of the fewest hours in Europe. Italians, for example, work far more hours and approximately the same (economic) productivity. Italians work more hours than the Japanese, though not as many as us Americans. Source: recent Economist article.
I think you are confusing "lied to" with "wasn't (exactly) correct". People read facts and make predictions. They are sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but often somewhere in between. I don't believe there is the huge, evil environmentalist conspiracy that I see in your post.
I don't know about the specific Al Gore canoe trip you are talking about but I do know that dams are frequently and regularly opened for mysterious dam operational reasons that I am not privy too. Canoe and raft people know about these openings and take advantage of them. I have many times.
My low-flow toilette works fine. Try eating more fibre
Actually, I spoke with someone researching caloric restrictions and she had a great point (example theory) as to why it might not work with people: the rats that they restricted the diets of lived in relatively clean environments where they were not exposed to disease. Seriously reducing calories can have the effect of reducing your ability to fight disease. These rats did not have to deal with as much disease so a weakened immune system would not have hurt them so much and the benefits the low calorie diet had on oxidative stress could take place.
So a "normal" diet may be a trade off between reduced oxidative stress and strong immune response.
Its not a complete cure for errors but find an editor with completion (emacs...) and just tab complete long variables. I rarely have to enter a variable more than once or twice.
A good sized corporations has quite a few (10s to thousands, depending) different servers/ mainframes, etc and a good portion of them are there for no other reason than the lack of willpower to migrate. Some simply contain customer lists, transaction histories, etc that don't require porting algorithms so much as moving data.
If these systems are so old, couldn't they be replaced with new system pretty cheaply? Hell, replace it with two for reduncancy.
I understand the cost of data conversion, whatever. but a lot of these old systems have just a few hundred gigs of data. Give the data set to a few good guys with an oracle/etc setup and 6 months. I've done stuff like that for some major corporations so its impossible.
I am not even talking about speed improvements or changing the structure of the data. Just move the platform to something you can administer. The million or so it would cost would be saved in a few years by being able to admin it more cheaply.
Clearly its time for an Open source based desktop UI and the name is clear: Pyro! with the flaming red color scheme or Terro!: the earth tone goddess desktop
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We use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... which is a clustered Postgres implementation. It has its problems (Postgres 8.2? seriously?) But it is very fast for ETL and batch queries on large data sets. We house 100+TB and get excellent performance. Its commercial and you pay by the TB.
Then there is also AWS Redshift. We have found it to be quicker at some things and possibly cheaper but immature in its feature set (no UDF, etc). The thinking here is that if you have a separate system for ETL, Redshift would make an excellent data warehouse/ data market SELECT server. Pay by usage/ hour.
The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum shadow and flame.
— Saruman, The Lord of the Rings
I remember the old Prisoner 2 video game for the Apple II. They gave you a secret number and all you had to do was not give it to them when they asked. Sounds easy. Just don't type the number.
Well, they got me! Applesoft programs would sometimes crash into prompt with an error and line. One would almost instinctually list out the line to see what the error was. So when the video game seemed to crash I listed out the line..... You lose!
I have never enjoyed losing a game so much.
On a recent trip to Jamaica, we had some tiny little ants in a nest in the bathroom wall. I discovered that they wouldn't cross invisible Vaseline lines rubbed on the wall.
Well, after a few days, I had created complex Vaseline mazes for the ants with food smudges at strategic locations. Got them to spell out my name with their ant trails. Wife wasn't as impressed as you might imagine.
Beaches were nice too.
The eagles didn't do their deus ex machina until after the ring was destroyed and mordor made (relatively) safe. Presumably Sauron would have noticed a flock of giant eagles heading over..
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20227117.000/mg20227117.000-3_600.jpg
I don't believe most roads change color because of tire rubber- excepting a few high traffic areas. Most change color to match the aggregate (read: rock) that's in in the asphalt- usually some sort of plain greyish rock.
When I drove through AK/CD the roads are green or red or other colors that match the color of the local rock they used.
Perhaps all they need to do is use a bright white rock in the aggregate?
Actually, according to the article, AT&T was sending him repeated SMS warnings but he did not get them because it was a data card, not a phone. That means to me that they did know what was going on and a cap could be implemented.
Perhaps if every slashdot reader contributed $10, we could get one. The highest rated comment ideas would be placed into a slashdot poll to decide what to do with it.
How about Dr. Jack Barnes who exposed himself and his son to the venom of the Irukandji jellyfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain
At first blush, to any programmer at least, this sounds crazy. That is because we presume that the robots of the future(tm) would be built like we build them now: they would be machines with minds written in C++, or whatever. Under those circumstances, its completely true that the article (which naturally, i never read) would be meaningless.
) in which we would not be directly controlling its behavior, just its output via the evolution towards some fitness function. Perhaps it would evolve self awareness as a side effect. I could see a sufficiently complicated, genetically evolved mind program being different then something you hack out specifically. (It would be kind of neat to have your program do something that you didn't anticipate... I played with GP in college trying to evolve GP creatures that would solve some problems and was delighted to see them evolve simple collaborative behaviors.)
However, what if the robots brains were developed different. For instance, what if we built a machine that we could simulate all the connections of a persons brain which we read via some scan? Then we hook up the appropriate sensors. Sort of like VMBrain(TM). Not easy but the brain has some 100B Neurons with a few thousand connections each (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain). This is a few orders of magnitude over the storage we have now but in 50 years, perhaps we would have the 100 TB RAM Pentium X 64k core CPU. Would such a brain even realize that its a machine? I could see someone arguing that it is deserving of some rights.
Or perhaps we build a robot mind by Genetic Programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Programming
Things 50/100/200 years from now will probably not be anything like we anticipate. I don't agree with the timeline, but I think someone is going to create some machine at some point in the next few hundred years that is going to demand suffrage.
-- That was not directed at the Germans. We all know you guys work your buns off.
Common misconception. Germans actually work some of the fewest hours in Europe. Italians, for example, work far more hours and approximately the same (economic) productivity. Italians work more hours than the Japanese, though not as many as us Americans. Source: recent Economist article.
I think you are confusing "lied to" with "wasn't (exactly) correct". People read facts and make predictions. They are sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but often somewhere in between. I don't believe there is the huge, evil environmentalist conspiracy that I see in your post.
I don't know about the specific Al Gore canoe trip you are talking about but I do know that dams are frequently and regularly opened for mysterious dam operational reasons that I am not privy too. Canoe and raft people know about these openings and take advantage of them. I have many times.
My low-flow toilette works fine. Try eating more fibre
>> You may be interested to note the correct spelling of the....
I was in agreement with you til about here. When you start commenting on silly grammer and spelling it looks to me that your grasping desperately.
Not everyone speaks English as a first language and, IMO, its the ideas that are more important. Stick with commenting on those.
Frank
Actually, I spoke with someone researching caloric restrictions and she had a great point (example theory) as to why it might not work with people: the rats that they restricted the diets of lived in relatively clean environments where they were not exposed to disease. Seriously reducing calories can have the effect of reducing your ability to fight disease. These rats did not have to deal with as much disease so a weakened immune system would not have hurt them so much and the benefits the low calorie diet had on oxidative stress could take place.
So a "normal" diet may be a trade off between reduced oxidative stress and strong immune response.
Its not a complete cure for errors but find an editor with completion (emacs...) and just tab complete long variables. I rarely have to enter a variable more than once or twice.
If its not the same thing, it was something similar. It was a lot of fun and I highly recommend attending.
Your right, its not valid for all situations.
A good sized corporations has quite a few (10s to thousands, depending) different servers/ mainframes, etc and a good portion of them are there for no other reason than the lack of willpower to migrate. Some simply contain customer lists, transaction histories, etc that don't require porting algorithms so much as moving data.
If these systems are so old, couldn't they be replaced with new system pretty cheaply? Hell, replace it with two for reduncancy.
I understand the cost of data conversion, whatever. but a lot of these old systems have just a few hundred gigs of data. Give the data set to a few good guys with an oracle/etc setup and 6 months. I've done stuff like that for some major corporations so its impossible.
I am not even talking about speed improvements or changing the structure of the data. Just move the platform to something you can administer. The million or so it would cost would be saved in a few years by being able to admin it more cheaply.
I don't know if you intentionally missed it, but I have been wanting that 'auto' syntax for years now. That would save me from a bunch of headache.
I thought SOI was IBM's patent which it shared with AMD-- if so, its not AMD's to license.
Wired has some photos attached to their article article. Apparently, this all happened a month ago...
May not be work appropriate.
The AI Peter Norvig? He works for Google? Ok, I'm impressed.
I need to get a job there. Where is the math problem that gets me a job?
Clearly its time for an Open source based desktop UI and the name is clear: Pyro! with the flaming red color scheme or Terro!: the earth tone goddess desktop