The cloud is not always a cost saving solution and it also requires trusting someone else with your data. If you have very little in the way of IT staff, infrastructure or no specialised needs then, as long are willing to trust the service, then it can be a cost saving.
Although you shouldn't be paranoid I would encourage you to think of the relative liability of the cloud. Like the ones made out of vapour there are no guarantees that the one you are using will there tomorrow, that you will have access to your data when you need it or that it ends up in a jurisdiction that may cause you problems, even for something seemingly innocent.
I am sceptical about the cloud (aka hosted services with no precise geographical location) and although I already use services like gmail and github, I also realise that I have put my trust in an entity that may bot deserve it for reasons of convenience.
The more I read up on Postgres, the more likely I am going to drop MySQL in favour of Postgres. The one thing that kinda keeps me in the MySQL realm is that their command line tools just seem better, though that isn't really much of a reason to stay. Maybe someone can redo the command-line interpreter to be easier to use? Sure this is being said by someone who hasn't greased their wheels in Postgres yet.
One other thing making Postgres more interesting are the PostGIS. On the MySQL side the equivalent project was started but seems to have been parked in an incomplete status.
I can provide 95% accuracy if gender is provide alone;) The missing five percent if for people not quite telling the truth. I am confused though where to place cross-gender people?
I imagine cultural bias was ignored in the study, since there is a good chance an east Asian guy would be considered female, if this study was simply bases on North American statistics. I say this since I find in south east and east Asia people are much more visual in the text they write.
I have a subscription to the New Scientist. The magazine is easy to read and keeps me updated on what us happening in general. Beyond that I turn to the Internet or the odd specialised journal once in a while.
It probably won't matter. IPv4 is likely to coexist for a long while yetespecially on intranets. IPv6 gives access to places that are too new to have been able to get an IPv4 public address.
At the same time what are statistics worth if they are voluntary? I thought the whole point of the census was to have decent statistics to help confirm choices made and help future decisions?
My cynical nature seems to be not surprised about "that builders had ignored safety standards", in China.
One thing that should be mentioned is looking at the photos of the Chinese bullet train, is that the design did not inspire itself on one of the key advantages of the French TGV. That advantage being that the bogies are between the carriages and not under each carriage. Apparently the French designed it that way because it reduces the scope of damage due to derailment. The TGV has derailed, but it always derails in a straight line.
As good as all this is, I would like to see smarter server farms. For a load balanced systems there would be hot, warm and hibernate. All this would be linked to a master controller that would rev up and down the machines as needed. Also, each server would be of the form of mini-ITX, to pack more in and designed to be reach a certain maximum threshold before bringing on supporting systems.
I am also wondering whether in a hosted environment whether there would be a way to give each customer a virtual machine that could be moved around hardware as load requirements dictates?
It is not new, but maybe getting a company like Microsoft talking about it will mean people will actually take notice?
This is also probably why in colder climates the server farms should be downtown, where the excess heat can be taken advantage with the least loss, due to distance.
The right solution is probably the browser ignoring actions based on domain. Another solution is to ignore sending cookies based on domain and also ensuring JS from that domain can't read certain data. It would require a black list, but if they aren't going to play ball, then we can play hard ball.
Does not compute. How can it be costing the USA of twice the population of the country (hint: USA has a population of 300 million), in term of jobs? Add to that the percentage of people impacted by this is far smaller than the real population. I am guessing that it is even below 5% (I don't have figures to validate that estimate)?
Clearly from the Master of Bullshit Arts line of education?
It is isn't theft. What it is is invasion of privacy and ignoring 'contractual' requirements of 'do not track'. This is why sometimes we need regulation. It is also why the best privacy protection is for the browser to protect itself.
The analogy here is asking the server not to put tomato sauce in in your hamburger and instead they decide to spit in it, with a big "f*@k you" attitude.
I was just thinking that I actually have 3D versions of all the above games, but they don't need any special software and aren't affected by system updates or change in my computer. You can probably guess what I mean;)
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The cloud is not always a cost saving solution and it also requires trusting someone else with your data. If you have very little in the way of IT staff, infrastructure or no specialised needs then, as long are willing to trust the service, then it can be a cost saving.
Although you shouldn't be paranoid I would encourage you to think of the relative liability of the cloud. Like the ones made out of vapour there are no guarantees that the one you are using will there tomorrow, that you will have access to your data when you need it or that it ends up in a jurisdiction that may cause you problems, even for something seemingly innocent.
I am sceptical about the cloud (aka hosted services with no precise geographical location) and although I already use services like gmail and github, I also realise that I have put my trust in an entity that may bot deserve it for reasons of convenience.
The more I read up on Postgres, the more likely I am going to drop MySQL in favour of Postgres. The one thing that kinda keeps me in the MySQL realm is that their command line tools just seem better, though that isn't really much of a reason to stay. Maybe someone can redo the command-line interpreter to be easier to use? Sure this is being said by someone who hasn't greased their wheels in Postgres yet.
One other thing making Postgres more interesting are the PostGIS. On the MySQL side the equivalent project was started but seems to have been parked in an incomplete status.
Ah heck, now this made me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilVFpvzuBM
A small bonus can't help to show some appreciation.
Like a solider, you are appreciated once you are no longer around to do the job. It sucks, but that's often the only way any of us gets appreciated.
Chalk this down to a marketing team with nothing better to do.
I can provide 95% accuracy if gender is provide alone ;) The missing five percent if for people not quite telling the truth. I am confused though where to place cross-gender people?
I imagine cultural bias was ignored in the study, since there is a good chance an east Asian guy would be considered female, if this study was simply bases on North American statistics. I say this since I find in south east and east Asia people are much more visual in the text they write.
I have a subscription to the New Scientist. The magazine is easy to read and keeps me updated on what us happening in general. Beyond that I turn to the Internet or the odd specialised journal once in a while.
It probably won't matter. IPv4 is likely to coexist for a long while yetespecially on intranets. IPv6 gives access to places that are too new to have been able to get an IPv4 public address.
I sometimes wonder if Harper based his governance methods on those of George Bush and his cronies?
At the same time what are statistics worth if they are voluntary? I thought the whole point of the census was to have decent statistics to help confirm choices made and help future decisions?
My cynical nature seems to be not surprised about "that builders had ignored safety standards", in China.
One thing that should be mentioned is looking at the photos of the Chinese bullet train, is that the design did not inspire itself on one of the key advantages of the French TGV. That advantage being that the bogies are between the carriages and not under each carriage. Apparently the French designed it that way because it reduces the scope of damage due to derailment. The TGV has derailed, but it always derails in a straight line.
ref: Nova: Looking down the track at very fast trains
As good as all this is, I would like to see smarter server farms. For a load balanced systems there would be hot, warm and hibernate. All this would be linked to a master controller that would rev up and down the machines as needed. Also, each server would be of the form of mini-ITX, to pack more in and designed to be reach a certain maximum threshold before bringing on supporting systems.
I am also wondering whether in a hosted environment whether there would be a way to give each customer a virtual machine that could be moved around hardware as load requirements dictates?
Some of them are cold inspite of the actual temperature ;)
It is not new, but maybe getting a company like Microsoft talking about it will mean people will actually take notice?
This is also probably why in colder climates the server farms should be downtown, where the excess heat can be taken advantage with the least loss, due to distance.
Oh, I thought that was a bird. :)
or simply going to another legal source,
You've got it all wrong. Its the rights of the publishers.
The right solution is probably the browser ignoring actions based on domain. Another solution is to ignore sending cookies based on domain and also ensuring JS from that domain can't read certain data. It would require a black list, but if they aren't going to play ball, then we can play hard ball.
Does not compute. How can it be costing the USA of twice the population of the country (hint: USA has a population of 300 million), in term of jobs? Add to that the percentage of people impacted by this is far smaller than the real population. I am guessing that it is even below 5% (I don't have figures to validate that estimate)?
Clearly from the Master of Bullshit Arts line of education?
It is isn't theft. What it is is invasion of privacy and ignoring 'contractual' requirements of 'do not track'. This is why sometimes we need regulation. It is also why the best privacy protection is for the browser to protect itself.
The analogy here is asking the server not to put tomato sauce in in your hamburger and instead they decide to spit in it, with a big "f*@k you" attitude.
You mean: One Rich Asshole Called Larry Elison. The C was missing, unless that was part of the enterprise license?
I was just thinking that I actually have 3D versions of all the above games, but they don't need any special software and aren't affected by system updates or change in my computer. You can probably guess what I mean ;)
I was actually thinking solitaire 3D or Suduko 3D. Just imagine how it would improve your gameplay. ;)