If "key/value" databases do become more popular, they certainly might eat in to relational database mindshare. 90% of web applications use RDMSs merely as persistent data storage--the fact that they are "relational" doesn't matter at all; the fact that a separate SQL language is needed to get the data (rather than using language-native data structures as an interface) is even a negative for RDMs.
As a web app developer, I'm excited that something other than SQL is getting attention. RDMSs won't go away because they have properties data miners, for example, need. But they aren't ideal for the simple persistent data stores most apps call for.
There are a lot of really bad design decisions made by the Firefox developers, but they are on windows, too. For example: Having the entire app, including all tabs, freeze up while a single slow tab is loading.
That's just dumb. dumb. dumb. The UI should never freeze on the user.
I thought everybody had a striped RAID with 300 SATA disks these days. Is it just me?
At any rate, the idea (at least at first) would be that the switches and routers are all linked up with Tbps Ethernet. Then users hanging off of these with Gbps Ethernet could transmit to each other at full speed.
I prefer women with educations and jobs of their own. Such women have no need for expensive gifts because they can buy what they want on their own. It's not the 1800's anymore, guys.
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He has it wrong. Unlocked communication devices are different, because they can cause additional costs/damage on the network they are connected to. This is the reason smartphone makers cripple their devices.
If the cell phone network eventually becomes as robust *cough* as the Internet, then the need for unlocked devices will go away. But right now, there is a lot of "trust the client" built in to the way the cellular network operates.
Are you that guy who drives around elementary schools in a windowless van with "FREE CANDY" spray painted on the side? If you live in a candy factory you could offer Willy Wonka tours, too.
I know cynicism, especially anti-US cynicism, is a ticket for free upmods on Slashdot, but your comment is just stunningly idiotic.
Public (i.e. government) education has made things fantastically better. The average person couldn't even READ back in the day. Now, poor kids can grow up to be scientists and engineers.
Furthermore, the fact that more people are interested in entertainment than politics says nothing about public education and everything about human nature.
Cynicism is often mistaken for intelligence by those who lack the later. Your comment is a perfect example of this.
The real reason to do this is to fix a flaw in the Constitution. The founders (perhaps for pragmatic reasons--no public education at the time) considered "common" people to be too dumb to vote. They decided only free, land-owning males have enough education or intelligence to make such an important decision.
Furthermore, they considered even these people to be easily fooled, and put in the electoral college so that the few political elites could override the peoples' vote if the people screwed up.
We now have public education and mass media. Anyone who feels so inclined can now be as politically inclined as the electoral college. Let's get rid of this relic of an unjust time.
I just want one of these things that interfaces with my computer as a Bluetooth HID. Think of it: mousing without having to lift your hands from the keyboard! And you only have to sacrifice the use of some vestigial muscle.
Really, if they can figure out how to key this thing off of that muscle that wiggles your ears, we could even maintain that classic bluetooth douchebag look by having something clipped on to our ears all the time.
Computer science/engineering graduates have average starting salaries far in excess of median household incomes in the US. I wouldn't call that peanuts, especially for starting salaries.
That's not what they said years ago. People arguing to use Perl instead of Bash did so because Perl was just far more functional. Perl and Bash both have pretty terrible maintainability, but Perl is a million times more functional.
Python and Ruby have the functionality of Perl without the maintenance issues inherent in a language which is really a hodge-podge of ancient unix idioms.
It's pretty unrealistic to expect companies to violate the laws of the countries they operate in. It is sure to damage their own business (which is their reason d'etre), and their employees could go to jail.
They don't care about plenty of other things, though. For example: eyestrain. How hard would it be to make the fonts scalable? I think the developers of EVE all use CRTs at 640x480. I have a high resolution LCD, so EVE is entirely unplayable for me.
Making the game more accessible to n00bs would also help a lot. They just keep adding complexity (or tedium) to the game to string the current lot of junkies along. They seem uninterested in simplifying the UI enough to get new people involved.
I don't use my Atom-powered netbook for physics simulations, so I spend zero time waiting for it to "do stuff." The network speed is pretty much always the bottleneck.
I think the point he is trying to make is that free markets and free speech tend to promote innovation, while government oppression tends to do the opposite.
He overstates his case--of course China could innovate, even under its current dictatorship. But all other things being equal, the advantage will remain with the West in the innovation department.
I agree. This review misses the point entirely. Netbooks are about portability--size and battery life. An Intel Atom-powered netbook can do all your web/officy stuff (as well as full-screen Hulu) and run for eight hours on a charge. There is no benefit in bumping the speed up a touch if that means shortening battery life.
If you want video editing and gaming capabilities, netbooks aren't for you. The only netbook processors that might interest me would be those that give me more speed with the same or less power use as the Atom.
Groveling to beg permission to buy something small (not major, small) shows your wife does not trust to you make minor decisions. It shows you have zero independence or self direction. I take it you are defending this because your wife makes you beg her permission for ever $20 you spend?
You have my sympathies. It is possible to be married without being a pathetic, groveling loser, fighting over tiny amounts of money all the time. In fact, I would wager that your groveling-type marriage is more likely to end in divorce, due to money fights all the time.
Infosec really is complex enough that it is almost impossible to do it right unless you make a career out of it. If you try to do it yourself, you will fail.
You have to hire a security expert to analyze your systems. Trying to do infosec "on the cheap" or DIY is like trying to do surgery on yourself. You attempt that and you wouldn't ask slashdot how to do that. Don't make the same mistake about infosec.
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If "key/value" databases do become more popular, they certainly might eat in to relational database mindshare. 90% of web applications use RDMSs merely as persistent data storage--the fact that they are "relational" doesn't matter at all; the fact that a separate SQL language is needed to get the data (rather than using language-native data structures as an interface) is even a negative for RDMs.
As a web app developer, I'm excited that something other than SQL is getting attention. RDMSs won't go away because they have properties data miners, for example, need. But they aren't ideal for the simple persistent data stores most apps call for.
There are a lot of really bad design decisions made by the Firefox developers, but they are on windows, too. For example: Having the entire app, including all tabs, freeze up while a single slow tab is loading.
That's just dumb. dumb. dumb. The UI should never freeze on the user.
I thought everybody had a striped RAID with 300 SATA disks these days. Is it just me?
At any rate, the idea (at least at first) would be that the switches and routers are all linked up with Tbps Ethernet. Then users hanging off of these with Gbps Ethernet could transmit to each other at full speed.
Yes, they are trusting the phones in some ways. This allows them to sell "unlimited" Internet access.
I must say I find your assertion that the network is not "poorly designed" to be a little funny.
That sounds like a feat of engineering, not science.
At any rate, I'm sure the pendulum clock industry is ecstatic. Can I get a Ph.D. for building a motor to flip sand-filled hourglasses over?
I prefer women with educations and jobs of their own. Such women have no need for expensive gifts because they can buy what they want on their own. It's not the 1800's anymore, guys.
He has it wrong. Unlocked communication devices are different, because they can cause additional costs/damage on the network they are connected to. This is the reason smartphone makers cripple their devices.
If the cell phone network eventually becomes as robust *cough* as the Internet, then the need for unlocked devices will go away. But right now, there is a lot of "trust the client" built in to the way the cellular network operates.
Perhaps it's the symbolism; like an auto repair shop replacing a saddle shop at the beginning of the last century.
Are you that guy who drives around elementary schools in a windowless van with "FREE CANDY" spray painted on the side? If you live in a candy factory you could offer Willy Wonka tours, too.
Introversion is not the same thing as Autism. What you described is introversion.
I know cynicism, especially anti-US cynicism, is a ticket for free upmods on Slashdot, but your comment is just stunningly idiotic.
Public (i.e. government) education has made things fantastically better. The average person couldn't even READ back in the day. Now, poor kids can grow up to be scientists and engineers.
Furthermore, the fact that more people are interested in entertainment than politics says nothing about public education and everything about human nature.
Cynicism is often mistaken for intelligence by those who lack the later. Your comment is a perfect example of this.
The real reason to do this is to fix a flaw in the Constitution. The founders (perhaps for pragmatic reasons--no public education at the time) considered "common" people to be too dumb to vote. They decided only free, land-owning males have enough education or intelligence to make such an important decision.
Furthermore, they considered even these people to be easily fooled, and put in the electoral college so that the few political elites could override the peoples' vote if the people screwed up.
We now have public education and mass media. Anyone who feels so inclined can now be as politically inclined as the electoral college. Let's get rid of this relic of an unjust time.
The 9x line went extinct. Only the NT line survived, so you should have taken a different path down the Windows family tree.
I just want one of these things that interfaces with my computer as a Bluetooth HID. Think of it: mousing without having to lift your hands from the keyboard! And you only have to sacrifice the use of some vestigial muscle.
Really, if they can figure out how to key this thing off of that muscle that wiggles your ears, we could even maintain that classic bluetooth douchebag look by having something clipped on to our ears all the time.
Computer science/engineering graduates have average starting salaries far in excess of median household incomes in the US. I wouldn't call that peanuts, especially for starting salaries.
That's not what they said years ago. People arguing to use Perl instead of Bash did so because Perl was just far more functional. Perl and Bash both have pretty terrible maintainability, but Perl is a million times more functional.
Python and Ruby have the functionality of Perl without the maintenance issues inherent in a language which is really a hodge-podge of ancient unix idioms.
It's pretty unrealistic to expect companies to violate the laws of the countries they operate in. It is sure to damage their own business (which is their reason d'etre), and their employees could go to jail.
They don't care about plenty of other things, though. For example: eyestrain. How hard would it be to make the fonts scalable? I think the developers of EVE all use CRTs at 640x480. I have a high resolution LCD, so EVE is entirely unplayable for me.
Making the game more accessible to n00bs would also help a lot. They just keep adding complexity (or tedium) to the game to string the current lot of junkies along. They seem uninterested in simplifying the UI enough to get new people involved.
The Samsung NC10, as well as several Asus modles do 8 hours. MSI has a version of the Wind with an 8 hour battery, too.
Personally, I bought the NC10. It seems to be slightly superior to its peers in every category (except price--markets at work, I guess).
I don't use my Atom-powered netbook for physics simulations, so I spend zero time waiting for it to "do stuff." The network speed is pretty much always the bottleneck.
I think the point he is trying to make is that free markets and free speech tend to promote innovation, while government oppression tends to do the opposite.
He overstates his case--of course China could innovate, even under its current dictatorship. But all other things being equal, the advantage will remain with the West in the innovation department.
I agree. This review misses the point entirely. Netbooks are about portability--size and battery life. An Intel Atom-powered netbook can do all your web/officy stuff (as well as full-screen Hulu) and run for eight hours on a charge. There is no benefit in bumping the speed up a touch if that means shortening battery life.
If you want video editing and gaming capabilities, netbooks aren't for you. The only netbook processors that might interest me would be those that give me more speed with the same or less power use as the Atom.
Groveling to beg permission to buy something small (not major, small) shows your wife does not trust to you make minor decisions. It shows you have zero independence or self direction. I take it you are defending this because your wife makes you beg her permission for ever $20 you spend?
You have my sympathies. It is possible to be married without being a pathetic, groveling loser, fighting over tiny amounts of money all the time. In fact, I would wager that your groveling-type marriage is more likely to end in divorce, due to money fights all the time.
But best of luck to you, mate.
Infosec really is complex enough that it is almost impossible to do it right unless you make a career out of it. If you try to do it yourself, you will fail.
You have to hire a security expert to analyze your systems. Trying to do infosec "on the cheap" or DIY is like trying to do surgery on yourself. You attempt that and you wouldn't ask slashdot how to do that. Don't make the same mistake about infosec.