Is it just me or do the city-2-city connections look a little bit grid-like? I suppose it's a drawing artifact, but it certainly makes the graph look more wrong then right, as compared to small arched lines.
He makes a point. The point is that the parallel programming paradigm is still in it's infancy, in that there are certain rules to follow in each of these API's and languages, but that most of them are variations of solutions that are still different enough from each other to grant them any sort of existence (otherwise they would not exist). This simply means the field is moving.
As certain languages gain and loose momentum, so will the libraries, but the reverse is also true. When parallel programming really offers the bang for the buck for the kid in the street, it will automatically pull ahead the language or API that is easiest to use, and the API will either benefit or be killed from bloat explosion. Right now, parallel programming offers marginally noticeable improvements, because only now are we moving into the multi-core era for mainstream users, and the hardware is not quite proving that it works significantly better. The reasons are partly software as the whole software stack needs to be rethought and OS'es don't do a great job at harnessing all that power in a practical way. It could very well be that this is not simply a matter of language or API, but a matter of OS architecture.
In any case, it's about architecture, and not about sociologists fantasizing about a theoretical dilemma.
"Halo 3" should be arrested immediately, brought to justice and then executed. And his bastard parrents too, for naming their kid "Halo 3" in the first place, I mean come on!
PC patches don't require Sony's blessing-- that's the deal with it.
.. nor Microsoft's. The validation process is extremely harsh on console titles. It can take many months before a title goes from "shipped for validation" to "gold", simply because it may need n iterations to fall into the "passed" category. There are little to no margins for deviation from platform specs. For example, menu buttons, to name but a thing, are to be consistent, the way menus work, etc..
This process is not unique to Sony, it also exists within Microsoft and Nintendo. A bad title and a clunky platform experience and coherence can damage the appeal of a console quite a bit.
Ever since Barosso and the Italians came in the EU Commission, the only thing they care to chime about are rules and legislation about civil liberty rights. Lastly they were in favor for a rating system that would ban violent video games, now this. I'd rather vote for the inclusion of Turkey than to vote for Italian commissioners.
These nukes were enroute to be decommissioned. As in destroyed. The problem wasn't that they were on the wing. The problem was that someone didn't remove the warheads from them first. This was not about dusting off the weapons, this is about dusting the weapons.
"Dusting" nuclear weapons, with this kind of government?
I think that this event is played to the outside world as "an accident", but that it's a pretty strong (and for the republicans not unfortunate) message to the shortlist of countries currently on the "axis of evil". And even if it was NOT planned this way, it certainly had that effect to the outside world. So in any case, the authority that wanted to risk this event is responsible.
Thanks for going a bit deeper into it, I actually learned a new thing!
Of course you're a bit bitten by the fact that someone shouts "2 words" on such a broad topic, but I think I did take one example that speaks for itself. In case anyone wonders, yes, it is not the true one answer to every question / issue in the realm of scalability.
MapReduce is one algorithm and it covers only one possible strategic way to attack [a] problem. But most importantly it's an (interesting) way to take a problem, think about it in rather unconventional ways and solve it alike. You asserted that it says nothing about the technical network architectures and database tiers, or their issues than can arise, but it *does* say something about how to organise and scale the back-end without fundamentally changing the architecture, which is conceptually a strong idea if you have to deal with scalability. I'm quite sure that, in order to implement MapReduce effectively, you will no doubt come accross some of the issues that you mentionned. After all, all data driven systems need to communicate with the clients and pump data in and out as effeciently as possible.
Looking at how this looks for precedence, I'm interested to see how this turns out. We currently have laws that hold a bar liable if a patron gets a DUI on the way home. Bars serve alcohol, it's what they do. But they get in trouble if people use their product illegally. By the same token, aol supplies internet access. Should they be held completely harmless if people use their product illegally? If so, why is there a double standard between bars and ISPs?
That's just bullshit and you know it. You use a tool for good or bad. If you use it for good, you get tot take the credits (of course). If you use it for illegal purposes and something goes wrong, then suddenly the tool or those who provided it get blamed for it??
It's as if you are saying: everything I don't know about, I can't be held responsible for. Wrong. Make sure you do know what is in the EULA you pressed OK on, otherwise, YOU are in the wrong. This is a file sharing app, and you are sharing files, possibly copyrighted stuff. Get a grip on your life and act responsibly.
That said, fuck the RIAA and their cash cow copyright interpretation.
I think telco's are currently holding the ONLY key to a "free" society, and it should stay that way. Telelphone operators are (ab)used to harass people's life's, all in the "best interest" of the system. Same goes for newspapers and any other media outlet. But the Internet is currently the only place where every logged on person is essentially equal, where the human act and the digital tool are separated in terms of responsibility and execution. Of course any lawyer is going to try and mess up that factual balance, because that truth stands in the way of a profitable freak-law society.
This world, since ancient history, aims to reduce energy spend to come to "freedom". You can try to derail this temporarily with incorrect laws and political rubbish like in the parent post, but it's going to be useless in the end.
Forgive me for not having read the fine article, but I even think 14 years is a relatively long time. For software, 14 years is like eternity. It seems to me that you can't put one final period to all kinds of innovation. Pharmaceuticals, software or mechanical devices are all very different in terms of development, research, testing, productizing. Regulation bodies in certain domains are more rigorous than that they are in others. To me, any study that shouts "14 years" is just the same as it is saying "it's green"!
The Ps3 is currently running in the shops for 599 euro, still overpriced compared to the 499 it was going at in the US before the price cut. If you can, try to find someone in the US to ship you a box as gift. I've heard of a few shops doing this, and it'll save you quite some taxes:)
So far I've haven't seen shops in EU dropping 100 euro's from the price_tags, and I'm a little worried that the price-drops won't even reach consumers, unless the shops first burn through their stock of overpriced boxes.. how does that biz work?
I know upgrading is not always desired or possible with 3rd party app-servers etc, but in the case of 1.6 you seriously need to consider the move. 1.6 will boost your performance considerably, while you need to change virtually nothing. It also brings along some bugfixes (which, granted, also can result in behavior changes that need to be re-tested, but you have test suites, right?) and platform improvements.
There once was a time when producing Albums came AFTER you had produced and promoted a few singles, and when it was apparent that people were willing to buy them. Albums are, after all, a collection of music. Preferably good music.
The record industry, however, sees it a little bit different. They sell CDs, preferably expensive ones. So they fill them up with junk and hope to score 15 lines on the leaflet. Somewhere along the way, and big thanks to Sgt. Pepper, suddenly we are buying albums because most of the groups don't even bother to release singles. Probably because they would not sell big anyway.
This twisted turn in pop-culture is one of the often forgotten tricks that the EMI's and the BMG's have played on their consumers. And then suddenly, when P2p and iTunes come along, suddenly, consumers "remember" what they want in the first place, and out goes the profit scheme of the middle-man.
Apache is not only the most widely used web server, it is also the most supported one, of good quality, and offers countless possibilities alongside the purpose of your typical RR demo program, which is nice to have if you think like a biz.
The 'nineties' software business model is claimed to be outdated and the next thing you know this guy folds because he has to pay the bills. Loser!
Instead of bashing someone with a great idea but short on resources (planning, execution, time, luck,.. ) is there no one here who wants to stick out his neck and continue the bet?
I mean come on! Here's a brilliant opportunity and what do you all do? You dump on the guy that brings it along.
I never understood how IFPI came about. It exists in almost every Western country, but seems to be a fragmented operation run by some sketchy self-proclaimed industry vets out of a London UK office. It apparently represents anyone who created a releasable piece of music, and lists 1400+ record companies as their clients.
In short, the IFPI is used as some sort of corporate-collared bat swinging bulldog extortion venture. If these type of gangs are forbidden in civil life, how come everyone takes them for granted in corporate life? Where are the laws?
They don't firmly commit to anything, but merely spend a certain amount of time chasing whichever particular ambulance they think is hot with their customer base at a given moment. When the wind changes, they go off in a different direction.
Yes. God forbid a company attempt to shift their position relative to the climate in the marketplace, and throw their weight where they may see the most profit. It's called capitalism.
My thoughts exactly. I think SUN has proved itself to be far more flexible than any other company facing the same dire situations. DEC, SGi, BeOS, 3DfX.. they're all gone. Transmeta? Well..
In fact, when I went to one of SUN's attempts to push Java deeper into the developer minds at a local conference, I thought they had extreme bloat in their heads. They were still making huge amounts of money from hot metal, but their market was in free fall. Today I have reason to believe that SUN still has one of the finest crowds of SW & HW engineers that can take on MS and IBM.
So what if the jump the GPLv3 line. Be glad. The Linux community is going to need all the backing you can get if it wants to have a thorough defense against the Novell-MS Trojan.
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Is it just me or do the city-2-city connections look a little bit grid-like? I suppose it's a drawing artifact, but it certainly makes the graph look more wrong then right, as compared to small arched lines.
He makes a point. The point is that the parallel programming paradigm is still in it's infancy, in that there are certain rules to follow in each of these API's and languages, but that most of them are variations of solutions that are still different enough from each other to grant them any sort of existence (otherwise they would not exist). This simply means the field is moving.
As certain languages gain and loose momentum, so will the libraries, but the reverse is also true. When parallel programming really offers the bang for the buck for the kid in the street, it will automatically pull ahead the language or API that is easiest to use, and the API will either benefit or be killed from bloat explosion. Right now, parallel programming offers marginally noticeable improvements, because only now are we moving into the multi-core era for mainstream users, and the hardware is not quite proving that it works significantly better. The reasons are partly software as the whole software stack needs to be rethought and OS'es don't do a great job at harnessing all that power in a practical way. It could very well be that this is not simply a matter of language or API, but a matter of OS architecture.
In any case, it's about architecture, and not about sociologists fantasizing about a theoretical dilemma.
"Halo 3" should be arrested immediately, brought to justice and then executed. And his bastard parrents too, for naming their kid "Halo 3" in the first place, I mean come on!
wait a min..
This process is not unique to Sony, it also exists within Microsoft and Nintendo. A bad title and a clunky platform experience and coherence can damage the appeal of a console quite a bit.
Ever since Barosso and the Italians came in the EU Commission, the only thing they care to chime about are rules and legislation about civil liberty rights. Lastly they were in favor for a rating system that would ban violent video games, now this. I'd rather vote for the inclusion of Turkey than to vote for Italian commissioners.
"Dusting" nuclear weapons, with this kind of government?
I think that this event is played to the outside world as "an accident", but that it's a pretty strong (and for the republicans not unfortunate) message to the shortlist of countries currently on the "axis of evil". And even if it was NOT planned this way, it certainly had that effect to the outside world. So in any case, the authority that wanted to risk this event is responsible.
a) introduce doubt to the reasoning behind your statement
b) give counter examples, prefferably non-personal
c) allude to the "bigger" dilemma
d) introduce certainty that whatever the bigger dilemma is, your statement is quite irrelevant.
e) solve the big dilemma in one line.
Funny by the numbers.
Thanks for going a bit deeper into it, I actually learned a new thing!
;)
Of course you're a bit bitten by the fact that someone shouts "2 words" on such a broad topic, but I think I did take one example that speaks for itself. In case anyone wonders, yes, it is not the true one answer to every question / issue in the realm of scalability.
MapReduce is one algorithm and it covers only one possible strategic way to attack [a] problem. But most importantly it's an (interesting) way to take a problem, think about it in rather unconventional ways and solve it alike. You asserted that it says nothing about the technical network architectures and database tiers, or their issues than can arise, but it *does* say something about how to organise and scale the back-end without fundamentally changing the architecture, which is conceptually a strong idea if you have to deal with scalability. I'm quite sure that, in order to implement MapReduce effectively, you will no doubt come accross some of the issues that you mentionned. After all, all data driven systems need to communicate with the clients and pump data in and out as effeciently as possible.
Next time I promise I will write more words
Well, it's easy to say something isn't 'A', and then not spend a word on what IS 'A'.
If I'm so wrong on scalability maybe you can explain it here to me. Thanks.
map reduce
http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
That's just bullshit and you know it. You use a tool for good or bad. If you use it for good, you get tot take the credits (of course). If you use it for illegal purposes and something goes wrong, then suddenly the tool or those who provided it get blamed for it??
It's as if you are saying: everything I don't know about, I can't be held responsible for. Wrong. Make sure you do know what is in the EULA you pressed OK on, otherwise, YOU are in the wrong. This is a file sharing app, and you are sharing files, possibly copyrighted stuff. Get a grip on your life and act responsibly.
That said, fuck the RIAA and their cash cow copyright interpretation.
I think telco's are currently holding the ONLY key to a "free" society, and it should stay that way. Telelphone operators are (ab)used to harass people's life's, all in the "best interest" of the system. Same goes for newspapers and any other media outlet. But the Internet is currently the only place where every logged on person is essentially equal, where the human act and the digital tool are separated in terms of responsibility and execution. Of course any lawyer is going to try and mess up that factual balance, because that truth stands in the way of a profitable freak-law society.
This world, since ancient history, aims to reduce energy spend to come to "freedom". You can try to derail this temporarily with incorrect laws and political rubbish like in the parent post, but it's going to be useless in the end.
Congratulations, you just scored the big truth fish! Y'all can go home now, because this forum's officially closed!
(and I happen to agree, too)
Hey, not everyone drinks coffee at the end of the galaxy.
I actually meant it as a true sentiment, if you were wondering.
Forgive me for not having read the fine article, but I even think 14 years is a relatively long time. For software, 14 years is like eternity. It seems to me that you can't put one final period to all kinds of innovation. Pharmaceuticals, software or mechanical devices are all very different in terms of development, research, testing, productizing. Regulation bodies in certain domains are more rigorous than that they are in others. To me, any study that shouts "14 years" is just the same as it is saying "it's green"!
The Ps3 is currently running in the shops for 599 euro, still overpriced compared to the 499 it was going at in the US before the price cut. If you can, try to find someone in the US to ship you a box as gift. I've heard of a few shops doing this, and it'll save you quite some taxes :)
So far I've haven't seen shops in EU dropping 100 euro's from the price_tags, and I'm a little worried that the price-drops won't even reach consumers, unless the shops first burn through their stock of overpriced boxes.. how does that biz work?
I know upgrading is not always desired or possible with 3rd party app-servers etc, but in the case of 1.6 you seriously need to consider the move. 1.6 will boost your performance considerably, while you need to change virtually nothing. It also brings along some bugfixes (which, granted, also can result in behavior changes that need to be re-tested, but you have test suites, right?) and platform improvements.
Seriously.
There once was a time when producing Albums came AFTER you had produced and promoted a few singles, and when it was apparent that people were willing to buy them. Albums are, after all, a collection of music. Preferably good music.
The record industry, however, sees it a little bit different. They sell CDs, preferably expensive ones. So they fill them up with junk and hope to score 15 lines on the leaflet. Somewhere along the way, and big thanks to Sgt. Pepper, suddenly we are buying albums because most of the groups don't even bother to release singles. Probably because they would not sell big anyway.
This twisted turn in pop-culture is one of the often forgotten tricks that the EMI's and the BMG's have played on their consumers. And then suddenly, when P2p and iTunes come along, suddenly, consumers "remember" what they want in the first place, and out goes the profit scheme of the middle-man.
And we're still surprised about this?
Maybe someone needs to, eh, post some, eh, email or something..
thierry.dachelet@sabam.be
Agreed.
Apache is not only the most widely used web server, it is also the most supported one, of good quality, and offers countless possibilities alongside the purpose of your typical RR demo program, which is nice to have if you think like a biz.
Instead of bashing someone with a great idea but short on resources (planning, execution, time, luck,.. ) is there no one here who wants to stick out his neck and continue the bet?
I mean come on! Here's a brilliant opportunity and what do you all do? You dump on the guy that brings it along.
Come on kids, let's throw in some weight here..
"CA Bill bars Skin Implantation of RFID Chips"
Actually, I was going to say..
fangirl fanboi!
UMG! ..as in: Uh, Mi goat?
I never understood how IFPI came about. It exists in almost every Western country, but seems to be a fragmented operation run by some sketchy self-proclaimed industry vets out of a London UK office. It apparently represents anyone who created a releasable piece of music, and lists 1400+ record companies as their clients.
In short, the IFPI is used as some sort of corporate-collared bat swinging bulldog extortion venture. If these type of gangs are forbidden in civil life, how come everyone takes them for granted in corporate life? Where are the laws?
My thoughts exactly. I think SUN has proved itself to be far more flexible than any other company facing the same dire situations. DEC, SGi, BeOS, 3DfX.. they're all gone. Transmeta? Well..
In fact, when I went to one of SUN's attempts to push Java deeper into the developer minds at a local conference, I thought they had extreme bloat in their heads. They were still making huge amounts of money from hot metal, but their market was in free fall. Today I have reason to believe that SUN still has one of the finest crowds of SW & HW engineers that can take on MS and IBM.
So what if the jump the GPLv3 line. Be glad. The Linux community is going to need all the backing you can get if it wants to have a thorough defense against the Novell-MS Trojan.