Those features and more are available in vim, if you care to learn how to use it and maybe install a plugin or two. I assume emacs can provide them as well. Linux also lets me have 10 code windows and a larger compiling window simultaneously visible on a dual 1920x1080 monitor setup.
Look into computerized stock trading, where software is making all the decisions. They spend all day long making billions of trades of hundreds or thousands of shares of stock at a time on their own markets, and prices are negotiated to 1/1000 of a cent for less than a rounding error of profit per trade.
What do you think the real reason is for Google Fiber? They don't want to pay, and this mess has come up before. Google seems to be making an excelent run at undermining telecom monopoly practices with minimal government regulation. I think if Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Wikipedia and Microsoft would just tell Verizon, "No! We will firewall Verizon before paying," then Verizon would have to back down or they will be thrown out of business.
It's MY bandwidth!!! I bought it from them with my money! It is mine to waste how I want, as long as I comply with the laws and TOS. Bandwidth is not returned like a leased car, so you cannot say I'm merely leasing it. The lines, hardware and other equipment may be leased, but once the month is over, the bandwidth allocated for my use is gone whether I used it or not. Any purposful attempt to take away my bandwidth to the full Internet will be considered theft by me.
It's normal for 2008 patents to be enforced on 80's touchscreen technology? Just because you were the first to mass-market an idea doesn't mean you deserve a patent. Apple's touch screen patent covers any type of screen technology or touch technology yet to be invented and "other devices, such as personal computers and laptop computers." Basically they have a patent on moving things with their fingers. Is that normal? (I'll be fair and admit it's a patent on using a touchscreen to move digital things and concede some of the included tech might be as recent as 1990)
I don't know as much about the headphone jack detection, but my 2001 phone could tell when I plugged in my headset. Is adding stereo (featured in my 2005 phone) really such a revolution that they need a patent in 2007? It doesn't appear to detail any new method of detection, other than maybe individual channels, but I think my Pocket PC's did that.
I find it infuriating that the US government is just handing rights, an unfair market position, and a lot of business over to Apple with the touch patent, and so many people are defending Apple. Meanwhile, the government is setting a precedent that with enough lawyers, patents, political connections, and stupid jurors you can claim ownership of what you didn't invent and kick competition to the curb. As a small, inventive company, it makes work look like a game of waiting to get squashed.
What kind of ill intentioned group is both smart enough to pull off an attack, and stupid enough to think the government isn't spying on everything? My Venn diagram the two circles in different zip codes.
Personally, I think we would be better off if we weren't antagonizing everyone. Instead, we're spending a fortune to make enemies, and we publicly mock politicians for having a foreign policy as "unamerican" as George Washington's.
There are about 1 billion phone calls per day in the US and they average around 2 minutes each. The population is about 314 million people. It works out to only a little more than 6 minutes of phone calls per person, per day.
It may sound low, but those hour-long conference calls w/ 15 people are only 4 minutes per person to record and normal calls are split between 2 people. This also averages in infants, young children, and others who never use the telephone.
Bing image search gave me nude pictures of children when trying to find a picture of young Anakin Skywalker. I wouldn't recommend the service to anyone.
You can cash a check at a branch from the account holder's bank. Until fairly recently there weren't any fees to cash it, but now a some banks (notably Bank of America) are charging. These fees are a small part of everything dishonest the banks have done. The United States has given illegal amounts of power to the banks.
Off the top of my head: Hadoop, HBase, PHP, jQuery, JAVA, the Linux Kernel (e.g. make menuconfig), and MySQL all have better documentation than Oracle. I have trouble thinking of something that slashdot readers would know about with worse documentation.
No one but Oracle writes documentation in numbered pages anymore. It's a horrible format for getting around data in this newfangled age of hypertext links, which Oracle uses painfully sparingly. Their docs are extremely wordy, not extremely detailed. The details are disorganized and horribly lacking (e.g. set some variable to some value, with no explanation of how or what it's affecting). If you're so sure of the level of detail, then show me the guide on deciphering ORA-0600 errors without going through paid support (who always asked for tons of info, then started by telling me to recover from a backup and see if that fails). While installing from the Oracle guides does work, installing a single-node HBase server in 2010 was easier (and ran not just circles, but knitted-doilies around Oracle in terms of performance).
Thanks, I already have a multi-terabyte MySQL install with better uptime than Oracle than the last Oracle cluster I dealt with.
Facebook scales each node to multi-terabyte, and runs so many database servers that it would probably be cheaper to buy the company that licensing (~2 million cpu licenses aren't cheap). A year ago, Facebook was dealing with 2.5 billion content items shared, 2.7 billion likes, and 500+ TB new data ingested every day on their primary database (estimate about 15% higher now). Something else to add: Facebook's workload is 90% read and quite interlinked.
You're probably thinking of the rules against murder, which doesn't include all killing. For example, the Old Testament Law gave parents explicit permission to kill their perpetually disobedient children, and God often told them to kill all the women and children when they conquered a city. Jesus took the stance against murder even further by denouncing all hatred for others, and requiring his followers to love everyone.
Are you insinuating that someone antagonizing me (and the general public) and flagrantly attacking the government rule (US Constitution) isn't my enemy?
$2 trillion? What about handing a private banking cartel the ability to create new money without oversight, then standing idly by as they hand out $16 trillion in new loans to banks worldwide at near-zero rates.
This summer a fairly talented stringed trio (cello, violin and guitar or 2nd violin) would play for an hour on Saturday mornings at the city farmers market and leave with a 2-3 gallon jar full of money, with some large bills in there. If they would play two separate hours on 2 days, it would be decent money, especially considering how little they work.
You have to give 64-bit x86 some credit. Intel decided it couldn't be done successfully, and developed IA-64. If Intel said it couldn't be done, I would consider it a breakthrough. Next up is helium filled hard drives, for lower drag, less power, more platters and more storage. The idea has been around for some time, but helium is notoriously hard to contain (e.g. balloons deflating). To compound the problem, hard drives are made on razor thin margins, severely limiting the price of any solution. There's supposed to be some product announcements this year, if not actual drives.
By comparison, Edison's light bulb "invention" just used a different filament material and better vacuum than competitors, with the basic device demonstrated more than 40 years before Edison. The "fundamental invention" of the transistor was based on a combination of advances in radar semiconductors and knowledge of crystal radios. It was built to be a better replacement for the vacuum tube, not anything fundamentally new, and vacuum tubes were used to replace the function of mechanical relays in early computers.
Slashdot has high quality video (at least VCR quality) and connection to off site resources. The fundamental change is being interconnected connected (open many web sites at once) vs the single connection (dial 1 BBS at a time). What manner of BBS's were you on that could scale to 621180 users or more? Do you think any could have scaled to Facebook's billion users with 500 million daily visitors and an insane amount of data flying around? Am I just too cheap with my processor and hard drive to process and store 500+TB of new, extremely-interconnected data every day, or do I need to run a beowulf cluster?
Too late, Obama has already taken aim at US citizens (Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan), holding them guilty and assassinating w/o trial. It just hasn't happened to a US citizen on US soil. Keep taking your blue pills if you want, but it doesn't change the truth.
For starters, internation aid by governments creates terrible, horrific corruption. Secondly, some countries are starving because armed thugs tear up farms for fun, but giving them a couple months of food will cause even more damage to the local farming because you can't price compete against free. Third, taking away the rewards for producing jobs (how people usually get extremely rich) causes those producers to spend their efforts elsewhere. Have so many people forgotten the example of the USSR when you put the government in charge of wealth?
You think it's a great idea to ban social networking by taxing it to death. I personally appreciate companies learning I want something besides pornographic or slutty ads. I think most people like businesses to get to know their customers, but they've been scared by fearmongering media. How appropriate that you posted as an anonymous coward.
"Your ISP has blocked Google from providing you Gmail. They are demanding we pay for your use of the internet, something which you already pay for. Here's their contact info:...."
Maybe Google is just paying so they can deliver that message.
If the traffic is going to Small ISP's customers, then Small ISP has already paid Orange for the traffic. Google has a rather large network to be paying such internetworking fees, considering their customer facing network is larger than all but 1 ISP. Fees like this are probably the main reason for their fiber service starting in Kansas City. I wonder how many price gouging services Google can sidestep before governments call them a verticle monopoly, finding some way of saying they have an unfair advantage of being more efficient than the competition.
Google is changing it by coming an ISP. As soon as they offer service in a reasonable share of the market, they can refuse to pay anyone. If the ISP doesn't comply, they can't offer Google to their customers. Orange gets Internet lite. This gives me yet another reason to dislike France.
Google is probably running traffic straight from their networks to Orange, so charging the smaller, connecting network an interconnect fee isn't out of line. However, with two large netowks, they usually just call it even. Google's customer facing network is the 2nd largest in the world, without even counting the new Kansas City service, so it would actually make more sense for Google to charge them.
If I were Google, during negotiations I would have run ads to Orange customers on the main page about Orange wanting to charge Google for bandwidth customers paid for, and point out that additional fees would make it more difficult to run a free service, possibly shutting down access. It would give Google more leverage to just say no to fees, especially if Orange is getting 100,000's of complaints. Option 2 is to charge the customers for each youtube video and explain why. If running Internet search is lucrative, then why is no one else making money on it? Microsoft is losing $1 billion or so per year, and Yahoo nearly went bankrupt.
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Those features and more are available in vim, if you care to learn how to use it and maybe install a plugin or two. I assume emacs can provide them as well. Linux also lets me have 10 code windows and a larger compiling window simultaneously visible on a dual 1920x1080 monitor setup.
Look into computerized stock trading, where software is making all the decisions. They spend all day long making billions of trades of hundreds or thousands of shares of stock at a time on their own markets, and prices are negotiated to 1/1000 of a cent for less than a rounding error of profit per trade.
What do you think the real reason is for Google Fiber? They don't want to pay, and this mess has come up before. Google seems to be making an excelent run at undermining telecom monopoly practices with minimal government regulation. I think if Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Wikipedia and Microsoft would just tell Verizon, "No! We will firewall Verizon before paying," then Verizon would have to back down or they will be thrown out of business.
It's MY bandwidth!!! I bought it from them with my money! It is mine to waste how I want, as long as I comply with the laws and TOS. Bandwidth is not returned like a leased car, so you cannot say I'm merely leasing it. The lines, hardware and other equipment may be leased, but once the month is over, the bandwidth allocated for my use is gone whether I used it or not. Any purposful attempt to take away my bandwidth to the full Internet will be considered theft by me.
It's normal for 2008 patents to be enforced on 80's touchscreen technology? Just because you were the first to mass-market an idea doesn't mean you deserve a patent. Apple's touch screen patent covers any type of screen technology or touch technology yet to be invented and "other devices, such as personal computers and laptop computers." Basically they have a patent on moving things with their fingers. Is that normal? (I'll be fair and admit it's a patent on using a touchscreen to move digital things and concede some of the included tech might be as recent as 1990)
I don't know as much about the headphone jack detection, but my 2001 phone could tell when I plugged in my headset. Is adding stereo (featured in my 2005 phone) really such a revolution that they need a patent in 2007? It doesn't appear to detail any new method of detection, other than maybe individual channels, but I think my Pocket PC's did that.
I find it infuriating that the US government is just handing rights, an unfair market position, and a lot of business over to Apple with the touch patent, and so many people are defending Apple. Meanwhile, the government is setting a precedent that with enough lawyers, patents, political connections, and stupid jurors you can claim ownership of what you didn't invent and kick competition to the curb. As a small, inventive company, it makes work look like a game of waiting to get squashed.
What kind of ill intentioned group is both smart enough to pull off an attack, and stupid enough to think the government isn't spying on everything? My Venn diagram the two circles in different zip codes.
Personally, I think we would be better off if we weren't antagonizing everyone. Instead, we're spending a fortune to make enemies, and we publicly mock politicians for having a foreign policy as "unamerican" as George Washington's.
There are about 1 billion phone calls per day in the US and they average around 2 minutes each. The population is about 314 million people. It works out to only a little more than 6 minutes of phone calls per person, per day.
It may sound low, but those hour-long conference calls w/ 15 people are only 4 minutes per person to record and normal calls are split between 2 people. This also averages in infants, young children, and others who never use the telephone.
Bing image search gave me nude pictures of children when trying to find a picture of young Anakin Skywalker. I wouldn't recommend the service to anyone.
You can cash a check at a branch from the account holder's bank. Until fairly recently there weren't any fees to cash it, but now a some banks (notably Bank of America) are charging. These fees are a small part of everything dishonest the banks have done. The United States has given illegal amounts of power to the banks.
I still occasionally see software on cvs.
Off the top of my head: Hadoop, HBase, PHP, jQuery, JAVA, the Linux Kernel (e.g. make menuconfig), and MySQL all have better documentation than Oracle. I have trouble thinking of something that slashdot readers would know about with worse documentation.
No one but Oracle writes documentation in numbered pages anymore. It's a horrible format for getting around data in this newfangled age of hypertext links, which Oracle uses painfully sparingly. Their docs are extremely wordy, not extremely detailed. The details are disorganized and horribly lacking (e.g. set some variable to some value, with no explanation of how or what it's affecting). If you're so sure of the level of detail, then show me the guide on deciphering ORA-0600 errors without going through paid support (who always asked for tons of info, then started by telling me to recover from a backup and see if that fails). While installing from the Oracle guides does work, installing a single-node HBase server in 2010 was easier (and ran not just circles, but knitted-doilies around Oracle in terms of performance).
Thanks, I already have a multi-terabyte MySQL install with better uptime than Oracle than the last Oracle cluster I dealt with.
Facebook scales each node to multi-terabyte, and runs so many database servers that it would probably be cheaper to buy the company that licensing (~2 million cpu licenses aren't cheap). A year ago, Facebook was dealing with 2.5 billion content items shared, 2.7 billion likes, and 500+ TB new data ingested every day on their primary database (estimate about 15% higher now). Something else to add: Facebook's workload is 90% read and quite interlinked.
You're probably thinking of the rules against murder, which doesn't include all killing. For example, the Old Testament Law gave parents explicit permission to kill their perpetually disobedient children, and God often told them to kill all the women and children when they conquered a city. Jesus took the stance against murder even further by denouncing all hatred for others, and requiring his followers to love everyone.
Are you insinuating that someone antagonizing me (and the general public) and flagrantly attacking the government rule (US Constitution) isn't my enemy?
$2 trillion? What about handing a private banking cartel the ability to create new money without oversight, then standing idly by as they hand out $16 trillion in new loans to banks worldwide at near-zero rates.
This summer a fairly talented stringed trio (cello, violin and guitar or 2nd violin) would play for an hour on Saturday mornings at the city farmers market and leave with a 2-3 gallon jar full of money, with some large bills in there. If they would play two separate hours on 2 days, it would be decent money, especially considering how little they work.
You have to give 64-bit x86 some credit. Intel decided it couldn't be done successfully, and developed IA-64. If Intel said it couldn't be done, I would consider it a breakthrough. Next up is helium filled hard drives, for lower drag, less power, more platters and more storage. The idea has been around for some time, but helium is notoriously hard to contain (e.g. balloons deflating). To compound the problem, hard drives are made on razor thin margins, severely limiting the price of any solution. There's supposed to be some product announcements this year, if not actual drives.
By comparison, Edison's light bulb "invention" just used a different filament material and better vacuum than competitors, with the basic device demonstrated more than 40 years before Edison. The "fundamental invention" of the transistor was based on a combination of advances in radar semiconductors and knowledge of crystal radios. It was built to be a better replacement for the vacuum tube, not anything fundamentally new, and vacuum tubes were used to replace the function of mechanical relays in early computers.
Slashdot has high quality video (at least VCR quality) and connection to off site resources. The fundamental change is being interconnected connected (open many web sites at once) vs the single connection (dial 1 BBS at a time). What manner of BBS's were you on that could scale to 621180 users or more? Do you think any could have scaled to Facebook's billion users with 500 million daily visitors and an insane amount of data flying around? Am I just too cheap with my processor and hard drive to process and store 500+TB of new, extremely-interconnected data every day, or do I need to run a beowulf cluster?
Too late, Obama has already taken aim at US citizens (Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan), holding them guilty and assassinating w/o trial. It just hasn't happened to a US citizen on US soil. Keep taking your blue pills if you want, but it doesn't change the truth.
Try "how to shoot down a helicopter". Aim for the pilot or tail. The tail rotor is a weak point, but very necessary for preventing helicopter spin.
For starters, internation aid by governments creates terrible, horrific corruption. Secondly, some countries are starving because armed thugs tear up farms for fun, but giving them a couple months of food will cause even more damage to the local farming because you can't price compete against free. Third, taking away the rewards for producing jobs (how people usually get extremely rich) causes those producers to spend their efforts elsewhere. Have so many people forgotten the example of the USSR when you put the government in charge of wealth?
You think it's a great idea to ban social networking by taxing it to death. I personally appreciate companies learning I want something besides pornographic or slutty ads. I think most people like businesses to get to know their customers, but they've been scared by fearmongering media. How appropriate that you posted as an anonymous coward.
Google has cut off companies before. This market is large enough that it could cause a culture shift away from Google.
"Your ISP has blocked Google from providing you Gmail. They are demanding we pay for your use of the internet, something which you already pay for. Here's their contact info:...."
Maybe Google is just paying so they can deliver that message.
If the traffic is going to Small ISP's customers, then Small ISP has already paid Orange for the traffic. Google has a rather large network to be paying such internetworking fees, considering their customer facing network is larger than all but 1 ISP. Fees like this are probably the main reason for their fiber service starting in Kansas City. I wonder how many price gouging services Google can sidestep before governments call them a verticle monopoly, finding some way of saying they have an unfair advantage of being more efficient than the competition.
Google is changing it by coming an ISP. As soon as they offer service in a reasonable share of the market, they can refuse to pay anyone. If the ISP doesn't comply, they can't offer Google to their customers. Orange gets Internet lite. This gives me yet another reason to dislike France.
Google is probably running traffic straight from their networks to Orange, so charging the smaller, connecting network an interconnect fee isn't out of line. However, with two large netowks, they usually just call it even. Google's customer facing network is the 2nd largest in the world, without even counting the new Kansas City service, so it would actually make more sense for Google to charge them.
If I were Google, during negotiations I would have run ads to Orange customers on the main page about Orange wanting to charge Google for bandwidth customers paid for, and point out that additional fees would make it more difficult to run a free service, possibly shutting down access. It would give Google more leverage to just say no to fees, especially if Orange is getting 100,000's of complaints. Option 2 is to charge the customers for each youtube video and explain why. If running Internet search is lucrative, then why is no one else making money on it? Microsoft is losing $1 billion or so per year, and Yahoo nearly went bankrupt.