Don't be pedantic. When people talk about NoSQL they're talking about more then a meme. They mean the various implementations: Cassandra, HBase, BigTable, Tokyo Cabinet. All these were designed from day 1 to scale to TB+ datasizes, and all do it pretty well.
Scale: handle tons of data, respond quickly, be able to grow across dozens, if not 100s of hosts.
Actually, the real problem is that MySQL sucks. Sure, you can patch over some of its suck with Memcache, but at somepoint your still stuck waiting 30 seconds for a query to return, no matter how optimized you make it. Yes, it's trivial to get Oracle and MSSQL to scale to billions of rows, but those cost money no one is willing to spend. NoSQL is wonderful in that it scales easily and is free.
Sure, you have to denormalize your data, but you probably already were to try to squeeze the last bit of performance out of MySQL.
You want people to use RDBMS? Make a free one that doesn't suck donkey balls and they will.
Why not try a wab based service like WebEx WebOffice. It's a full groupware suite that's easy to use, works in Safari, Gecko and IE and you don't have to administer a bunch of servers. Easy as can be.
I'm sure you do know lots of amazing IT people without CS degrees, but that's because CS has very little to do with being a Helpdesk or Cisco monkey. Think of it this way, real CS folks are like the people designing cars. IT folks are the UAW workers building them, or more likely Bob, from Bob's Towing and Autobody.
It seems to me Slashdot got trolled bigtime on this one. I don't see Apple discontinuing either of the flat-panel iMacs, especially since everyone seems to like them.
Now stopping production to update the product line? With MacWorld coming up, that doesn't seem to be much of a stretch. Or maybe they're just moving production to a company that doesn't broadcast all of Apple's future moves to the entire world.
Since there seems to be so much confusion about Quicktime 6 and MPEG4.
Quicktime is not a codec, it's a framework. Much like DirectShow in Windows, it's the video conduit of MacOS.
Quicktime is also a file format. This file format (usually.mov or.qt) is just a container. It has preferred codec. Think of it as the equivalent of.avi in Windows. In the past, it was common that the codec was some variant of Sorenson. Since Quicktime 6, the standard is ISO MPEG4.
"Quicktime files" can contain and of a myriad of codecs just like AVIs can. One of these is MPEG4, of which there are a plethora of partially compatible codecs, like DIVX, MS MPEG4, Xvid and ISO MPEG4.
The MPEG people have decided that the universal MPEG4 format should be called.mp4 and be a Quicktime container file with AAC audio and ISO MPEG4 compatible video. These are all open, documented standards (even the Quicktime file format) that anyone can use assuming they're willing to license the patents, just like for MPEG1 and MPEG2.
Hope this clears this all up for those of you unwilling to do two seconds of research.
Okay folks, let's get this right. MacOS X is not derived from FreeBSD. It is derived from NextStep. MacOS X is a Mach microkernal with a persona that attemps to mimick BSD, FreeBSD in particular.
Saying MacOS X is derived from FreeBSD is like saying that Windows XP is derived from System V because they both have POSIX compatibility layers. It's stupid and wrong.
RMS and the FSF hurt open source at least as much as they help it. Stupid campaigns like this just waste the time of people who could be coding or the money that could be used to pay programmers to work on open source.
I'd like to know about when RMS stopped caring about "free" software and became and raving zealot who wants credit for something he didn't really do (we'll disregard the fact the GPL limits your freedoms in ways that BSD and MIT licenses don't). Sure, he and the FSF people wrote some utilities, but without a kernel those utilities would be useless. And sure, they were working on Hurd, but that's been sitting in development hell longer then even Mozilla. Linus made kernel that worked. Open source is viable today because of the Linux kernel, not because of the ranting of RMS and the FSF.
Maybe Linux users should band together and port the BSD tools to Linux so we can shut RMS up. I'd love to run a GNU free Linux.
The original MacOS X Server was BSD based. It didn't have Aqua or the Carbon Libraries though. It only ran Objective C (Cocoa) programs and regular Classic Mac Apps in the Blue Box, a complete copy of Classic running in a window. MacOS X Server 1 was essentially NextStep ported to Apple hardware with a Platnium theme. You can actually find many current day MacOS X apps in the original, all unchanged.
From this original MacOS X Apple created OS X 10 as we know it today. They added Carbon, a better classic, and a new interface (Aqua).
Apple's Project Builder, which comes as part of the free Developer tools for Mac OS X is excellent. It has great Swing drag and drop interface creation plus all the other standard IDE tools. And did I mention it's free?
there is more to the world then reloading Slashdot every five minutes. As many others have said, choose what interests you, what makes you happy. But also remember that life exists beyond the confines of the x-tube lab.
The plan to opensource the database has nothing to do with the Library of Congress. The idea for having the Library of Congress oversee it is just something "some suggest"
Slashdot (for better or worse) stopped being a technology site a long time ago. I has become a community, and in communities people talk about lots of different things.
It's so annoying to read through the comments nowdays. If a tenth of them are actually discussing the story, that's a good day. No, instead we have trolls, and the "not news for nerds" people and the general whining of the crowd.
I really wish the folks on Slashdot would mature a little discussion could actually happen, but that probably to mcuh to ask
Asimov is Russian, moved to the US in 1923. The other three are British, though it's hard to call Adams a "seminal author." Yes, he writes amusing books, but just because book has spaceships doesn't mean it's sci-fi. Adams is a humorist, writing a farce.
And what's this about America not having any good sci-fi writers? To the names Heinlien, Asimov (he moved to the US before he was 3), Niven, Pournelle, Varley, Brin, Robinson, Sheffield or Bova mean anything to you? While I don't agree that sci-fi is a purely American artform, we sure have made a decent sized contribution.
Now what's really curious is why Jules Verne wasn't mentioned at all...
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Don't be pedantic. When people talk about NoSQL they're talking about more then a meme. They mean the various implementations: Cassandra, HBase, BigTable, Tokyo Cabinet. All these were designed from day 1 to scale to TB+ datasizes, and all do it pretty well.
Scale: handle tons of data, respond quickly, be able to grow across dozens, if not 100s of hosts.
Actually, the real problem is that MySQL sucks. Sure, you can patch over some of its suck with Memcache, but at somepoint your still stuck waiting 30 seconds for a query to return, no matter how optimized you make it. Yes, it's trivial to get Oracle and MSSQL to scale to billions of rows, but those cost money no one is willing to spend. NoSQL is wonderful in that it scales easily and is free.
Sure, you have to denormalize your data, but you probably already were to try to squeeze the last bit of performance out of MySQL.
You want people to use RDBMS? Make a free one that doesn't suck donkey balls and they will.
So much talk about web office's but they don't mention WebEx WebOffice.
Why not try a wab based service like WebEx WebOffice. It's a full groupware suite that's easy to use, works in Safari, Gecko and IE and you don't have to administer a bunch of servers. Easy as can be.
Yeah, because Konfabulator is nothing like Win98's old Active Desktop... except for the whole being exactly the same thing.
I'm sure you do know lots of amazing IT people without CS degrees, but that's because CS has very little to do with being a Helpdesk or Cisco monkey. Think of it this way, real CS folks are like the people designing cars. IT folks are the UAW workers building them, or more likely Bob, from Bob's Towing and Autobody.
Say it with me now folks: Analog Hole. And as the quality of recordings and video goes, up, the extra DAD conversion will be barely noticable.
Yeah, because MAC address locking is all that difficult. Hell, most 802.11 access points turn it on by default.
And even with you scenerio of a nosy neighbor, I hope you're using an SSL/HTTPS website, so your credit card number is secured through that interface.
Encrypting the physical layer is just silly. If you want your packets to stay private, use the appropriate encryption on proper level.
I don't car how much you test it, I'd like it to actually pass the test. Here's hoping
Skip over the embeded Quickime and just grab the .MOVs:
o v
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/teaser.mov
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/actone.mov
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/acttwo.mov
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/actthree.m
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/tag.mov
It seems to me Slashdot got trolled bigtime on this one. I don't see Apple discontinuing either of the flat-panel iMacs, especially since everyone seems to like them.
Now stopping production to update the product line? With MacWorld coming up, that doesn't seem to be much of a stretch. Or maybe they're just moving production to a company that doesn't broadcast all of Apple's future moves to the entire world.
Since there seems to be so much confusion about Quicktime 6 and MPEG4.
.mov or .qt) is just a container. It has preferred codec. Think of it as the equivalent of .avi in Windows. In the past, it was common that the codec was some variant of Sorenson. Since Quicktime 6, the standard is ISO MPEG4.
.mp4 and be a Quicktime container file with AAC audio and ISO MPEG4 compatible video. These are all open, documented standards (even the Quicktime file format) that anyone can use assuming they're willing to license the patents, just like for MPEG1 and MPEG2.
Quicktime is not a codec, it's a framework. Much like DirectShow in Windows, it's the video conduit of MacOS.
Quicktime is also a file format. This file format (usually
"Quicktime files" can contain and of a myriad of codecs just like AVIs can. One of these is MPEG4, of which there are a plethora of partially compatible codecs, like DIVX, MS MPEG4, Xvid and ISO MPEG4.
The MPEG people have decided that the universal MPEG4 format should be called
Hope this clears this all up for those of you unwilling to do two seconds of research.
Aren't there four operational shuttles?
Discovery
Atlantis
Endevour
Columbia
Saying MacOS X is derived from FreeBSD is like saying that Windows XP is derived from System V because they both have POSIX compatibility layers. It's stupid and wrong.
I'd like to know about when RMS stopped caring about "free" software and became and raving zealot who wants credit for something he didn't really do (we'll disregard the fact the GPL limits your freedoms in ways that BSD and MIT licenses don't). Sure, he and the FSF people wrote some utilities, but without a kernel those utilities would be useless. And sure, they were working on Hurd, but that's been sitting in development hell longer then even Mozilla. Linus made kernel that worked. Open source is viable today because of the Linux kernel, not because of the ranting of RMS and the FSF.
Maybe Linux users should band together and port the BSD tools to Linux so we can shut RMS up. I'd love to run a GNU free Linux.
The original MacOS X Server was BSD based. It didn't have Aqua or the Carbon Libraries though. It only ran Objective C (Cocoa) programs and regular Classic Mac Apps in the Blue Box, a complete copy of Classic running in a window. MacOS X Server 1 was essentially NextStep ported to Apple hardware with a Platnium theme. You can actually find many current day MacOS X apps in the original, all unchanged.
From this original MacOS X Apple created OS X 10 as we know it today. They added Carbon, a better classic, and a new interface (Aqua).
Apple's Project Builder, which comes as part of the free Developer tools for Mac OS X is excellent. It has great Swing drag and drop interface creation plus all the other standard IDE tools. And did I mention it's free?
"journalists -- remember, there are no established qualifications"
That about explains JonKatz, doesn't it?
there is more to the world then reloading Slashdot every five minutes. As many others have said, choose what interests you, what makes you happy. But also remember that life exists beyond the confines of the x-tube lab.
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish?
The plan to opensource the database has nothing to do with the Library of Congress. The idea for having the Library of Congress oversee it is just something "some suggest"
LEarn hjow to read people!!!
Slashdot (for better or worse) stopped being a technology site a long time ago. I has become a community, and in communities people talk about lots of different things.
It's so annoying to read through the comments nowdays. If a tenth of them are actually discussing the story, that's a good day. No, instead we have trolls, and the "not news for nerds" people and the general whining of the crowd.
I really wish the folks on Slashdot would mature a little discussion could actually happen, but that probably to mcuh to ask
and Roddenbery did before that in the 60s :)
Sorry but no.
Asimov is Russian, moved to the US in 1923. The other three are British, though it's hard to call Adams a "seminal author." Yes, he writes amusing books, but just because book has spaceships doesn't mean it's sci-fi. Adams is a humorist, writing a farce.
And what's this about America not having any good sci-fi writers? To the names Heinlien, Asimov (he moved to the US before he was 3), Niven, Pournelle, Varley, Brin, Robinson, Sheffield or Bova mean anything to you? While I don't agree that sci-fi is a purely American artform, we sure have made a decent sized contribution.
Now what's really curious is why Jules Verne wasn't mentioned at all...