I think you're wrong. McCarthyism is taught in US public school history classes. No attempt is made to hide it. If you talk to educated Chinese at universities, you will find that many historic world events which don't jive with Chinese politics have been wiped from the media. Chinese academics who really should know better unaware of extremely common and important events known to intellectuals in every developed country.
I can picture you reaching for the nonexistant typewriter lever at the end of each line, then realizing it isn't there, then hitting the enter key to advance to the next line as a substitute.
Extent based file storage (2^64 max file size) Space efficient packing of small files Space efficient indexed directories Dynamic inode allocation Writable snapshots Subvolumes (separate internal filesystem roots) Object level mirroring and striping Checksums on data and metadata (multiple algorithms available) Compression Integrated multiple device support, with several raid algorithms Online filesystem check Very fast offline filesystem check Efficient incremental backup and FS mirroring Online filesystem defragmentation Currently the code is in an early implementation phase, and not all of these have yet been implemented. See the Development timeline for detailed release plans.
I would imagine that Philosophy grads at least have reading and writing skills honed as part of their degrees. Asking for any degree does have some meaning. But a two-year community college degree should be enough to demonstrate better-than-average language/thinking/etc. skills. A four year degree for a such subjects is a complete waste and terrible debt burden for most students.
Public university is flooded with students who don't care at all about the subjects they are studying; they are in school either because it is expected of them by society or because they want to socialize with people their age for years.
From an economic standpoint, it is absolutely wasteful for these kids to fudge their way through to a BA in Communication or whatever. I've known too many of them. It makes a mockery of academia.
Just looking at the site briefly, it seems that most of those proposed symptoms could be attributed to ageing.
But if there are questions about withdrawal symptoms from long-term drugs such as Propecia, I agree that there should be a study. Perhaps a "withdrawal" study should be mandatory for certain types of long-term drugs. Such a mandate would have to come from the FDA, as drug companies would be unlikely to undergo such expensive testing voluntarily.
Drug companies can patent just about anything, so long as they do the research and file the patent. Example: a drug called Finasteride 5mg, which treats enlarged prostates, was discovered by its maker, Merck, to stop male pattern baldness. But the patent for Finasteride is expired. Merck did some studies and found that a 1mg dose was enough to treat baldness, and got the 1mg dose (Propecia) approved by the FDA. They patented the 1mg dose and to this day, 1mg Finasteride costs $60/month ($2 per pill), whereas 5mg Finasteride pills (the same drug, different dose) is basically free from generic drug manufacturers.
The moral of the story is that he who does the research gets the patent, even if the chemical itself cannot be patented.
That sounds like the kind of bullshit story a firearms instructor would repeat (after layers and layers of embellishment) in order to get you to take his course seriously.
A catastrophe on Earth could mean the end of the human race. Only by developing off-world colonies can we ensure the survival of our species. Manned space travel is essential for the survival of the human race.
But don't take my word for it. Stephen Hawking has said essentially the same thing.
You are right that it could be misleading to look only at the average, however, the median household net-worth is still more than $100k.
So you could phrase it either way: The average American household could afford to send someone to space - OR - Most American households could afford to send someone to space.
When Steam goes bankrupt, you will never be able to take your games with you to your new PCs. When Steam has an outage, it can disable your Steam client, meaning you can't play your games even in offline mode. This happened a few months ago.
If you get your games through Steam, your are subjecting yourself to some nasty DRM that will eventually lock you out of everything (no company lasts forever).
This is not correct. Steam recently had an outage which locked you out of all your games, even in offline mode. Steam also prevents you from moving your games to a new computer without being registered online.
Growing your cluster to handle more traffic is certainly considered "scaling" by most, and this is the way most cloud-computing services do things. I refer to this sort of scaling as horizontal, whereas adding RAM or CPU power to a single machine would be horizontal scaling. Please correct me if you know of a better term...
If you cloudsource everything, you can lay off all your datacenter operations staff. You still need sysadmins, security guys, and coders; but the people who run wires, rack servers, replace faulty disks, manage the SAN, etc. etc. are no longer relevant. You must factor the cost of this staff when comparing TCO.
Linux driver support is still dodgy. The kernel that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 has broken support for rt2870 802.11N wireless cards, and even broken support for NVidia 9500GT graphics cards, though the later is fixed in an update. WiFi users will still find themselves tearing their hair out, even with the latest-and-greatest Linux distro.
The Google App Engine cloud computing offering plans to (eventually) automatically scale your application as much as you need. But that scalability comes at a cost: only key-value stores may be used. Sorry, no relational databases available. JOINs just don't scale. You can distribute data across any number of nodes, but JOINing data which lives on separate computers is not gonna happen.
If you need JOIN-like behavior, your app has to request all the data, then compute the result itself. Trying to write an app for such a system means rearchitecting the data in ways to minimize the need for such operations, even if that means having duplicate data.
It's quite an exercise to unlearn what you have learned about SQL and relational databases, but the use of object mappers can help a lot.
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I think you're wrong. McCarthyism is taught in US public school history classes. No attempt is made to hide it. If you talk to educated Chinese at universities, you will find that many historic world events which don't jive with Chinese politics have been wiped from the media. Chinese academics who really should know better unaware of extremely common and important events known to intellectuals in every developed country.
In .edu, you encounter a lot of Chinese. Chat them up about history sometime.
Sometimes it works. Most Chinese people don't know about the American landing on the moon, or about the Tienanmen Square massacre.
Censorship does not need to be perfect to be politically effective.
Someone who has successfully operated a spam business will understand spam a lot better than someone who has not.
I can picture you reaching for the nonexistant typewriter lever at the end of each line, then realizing it isn't there, then hitting the enter key to advance to the next line as a substitute.
And three of my four wifi cards still probably don't work :-(
You can keep your ugly old broad. Me, I want something young and fresh, even if she's a little loopy.
The main Btrfs features include:
Extent based file storage (2^64 max file size)
Space efficient packing of small files
Space efficient indexed directories
Dynamic inode allocation
Writable snapshots
Subvolumes (separate internal filesystem roots)
Object level mirroring and striping
Checksums on data and metadata (multiple algorithms available)
Compression
Integrated multiple device support, with several raid algorithms
Online filesystem check
Very fast offline filesystem check
Efficient incremental backup and FS mirroring
Online filesystem defragmentation
Currently the code is in an early implementation phase, and not all of these have yet been implemented. See the Development timeline for detailed release plans.
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
I would imagine that Philosophy grads at least have reading and writing skills honed as part of their degrees. Asking for any degree does have some meaning. But a two-year community college degree should be enough to demonstrate better-than-average language/thinking/etc. skills. A four year degree for a such subjects is a complete waste and terrible debt burden for most students.
Public university is flooded with students who don't care at all about the subjects they are studying; they are in school either because it is expected of them by society or because they want to socialize with people their age for years.
From an economic standpoint, it is absolutely wasteful for these kids to fudge their way through to a BA in Communication or whatever. I've known too many of them. It makes a mockery of academia.
Rails certainly streamlines web app development. But what about really asynchronous web app stuff, like comet?
Just looking at the site briefly, it seems that most of those proposed symptoms could be attributed to ageing.
But if there are questions about withdrawal symptoms from long-term drugs such as Propecia, I agree that there should be a study. Perhaps a "withdrawal" study should be mandatory for certain types of long-term drugs. Such a mandate would have to come from the FDA, as drug companies would be unlikely to undergo such expensive testing voluntarily.
Drug companies can patent just about anything, so long as they do the research and file the patent. Example: a drug called Finasteride 5mg, which treats enlarged prostates, was discovered by its maker, Merck, to stop male pattern baldness. But the patent for Finasteride is expired. Merck did some studies and found that a 1mg dose was enough to treat baldness, and got the 1mg dose (Propecia) approved by the FDA. They patented the 1mg dose and to this day, 1mg Finasteride costs $60/month ($2 per pill), whereas 5mg Finasteride pills (the same drug, different dose) is basically free from generic drug manufacturers.
The moral of the story is that he who does the research gets the patent, even if the chemical itself cannot be patented.
That sounds like the kind of bullshit story a firearms instructor would repeat (after layers and layers of embellishment) in order to get you to take his course seriously.
As far as we know, we are both the only source of life and the only source of intelligence in the universe. That's kind of a big deal.
A catastrophe on Earth could mean the end of the human race. Only by developing off-world colonies can we ensure the survival of our species. Manned space travel is essential for the survival of the human race.
But don't take my word for it. Stephen Hawking has said essentially the same thing.
You are right that it could be misleading to look only at the average, however, the median household net-worth is still more than $100k.
So you could phrase it either way: The average American household could afford to send someone to space - OR - Most American households could afford to send someone to space.
You expect a software company to never fold? To never discontinue a product? Really? Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
In the US, the average household net-worth is $350k.
So, actually, most households could afford a trip to space.
When Steam goes bankrupt, you will never be able to take your games with you to your new PCs. When Steam has an outage, it can disable your Steam client, meaning you can't play your games even in offline mode. This happened a few months ago.
If you get your games through Steam, your are subjecting yourself to some nasty DRM that will eventually lock you out of everything (no company lasts forever).
This is not correct. Steam recently had an outage which locked you out of all your games, even in offline mode. Steam also prevents you from moving your games to a new computer without being registered online.
If Steam goes away, so do your games, eventually.
Growing your cluster to handle more traffic is certainly considered "scaling" by most, and this is the way most cloud-computing services do things. I refer to this sort of scaling as horizontal, whereas adding RAM or CPU power to a single machine would be horizontal scaling. Please correct me if you know of a better term...
If you cloudsource everything, you can lay off all your datacenter operations staff. You still need sysadmins, security guys, and coders; but the people who run wires, rack servers, replace faulty disks, manage the SAN, etc. etc. are no longer relevant. You must factor the cost of this staff when comparing TCO.
Linux driver support is still dodgy. The kernel that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 has broken support for rt2870 802.11N wireless cards, and even broken support for NVidia 9500GT graphics cards, though the later is fixed in an update. WiFi users will still find themselves tearing their hair out, even with the latest-and-greatest Linux distro.
The Google App Engine cloud computing offering plans to (eventually) automatically scale your application as much as you need. But that scalability comes at a cost: only key-value stores may be used. Sorry, no relational databases available. JOINs just don't scale. You can distribute data across any number of nodes, but JOINing data which lives on separate computers is not gonna happen.
If you need JOIN-like behavior, your app has to request all the data, then compute the result itself. Trying to write an app for such a system means rearchitecting the data in ways to minimize the need for such operations, even if that means having duplicate data.
It's quite an exercise to unlearn what you have learned about SQL and relational databases, but the use of object mappers can help a lot.