This is all about trying to gain mobile market share, but realistically all they're doing is highlighting the headache. Thanks, but I don't want to build an app in Objective C, Java, and.Net and get them certified by Google, and Microsoft, and Apple. What a headache. As usual Microsoft is arriving at the point when the whole idea of writing custom apps per phone is starting to jump the shark.
If they would release an easy to use IE mobile virtual images like they've done for all the current IE desktop applications they might actually have something like a leg up on their competition (I know they have some emulator inside Visual Studio, but that's not the same).
Google has a cross-platform emulator, but neither Apple nor Microsoft do. This could easily be another situation like Firefox where developers design webapps for Android and make them work passably on the other browsers.
Yeah, the summary of course chose the junk science claim and ignored all of the actual scientific ones. You're right, though, the articles do dwell primarily on the science.
Could you explain how you would use calculus to optimize DB calls over thousands of concurrent connections? I'm trying to figure out if you've got some sort of elegant solution I should be using or if you're just making work for yourself.
I would qualify as a blue collar programmer. I have a 4 year degree in theater and dance. Of course, I know how to produce a theatrical production from end to end and worked on every aspect and actually that's been very useful in programming. The ability to break down a project into pieces and get them all done is very important if you're going to be working in startup environments. If you're going to go work for a fortune 50 you might be able to just mindlessly work on a single dialog box for years, never really knowing how it fits into the larger project.
But I get hired as a white collar programmer and we often debate whether a degree is the sign of someone good or someone you want to avoid. There are just as many sloppy CS majors who don't really care about programming and don't "get it". At the end of the day I tend towards people who have projects they work on outside of work, as that shows me they're passionate enough about programming to enjoy it in their free time.
I can fix a lack of education. I can't fix a lack of enthusiasm.
Considering that a lot of literature for parents is focused on encouraging more nurturing in boys, I find the idea that they would base research on how boys play as "feminization" as completely ridiculous.
Let me know when they find out something about physical changes. Blaming the results of parenting on chemicals is ridiculous.
Or Realty C: Oil is controlled by cartels who want to ensure that they extract maximum profit from oil before they are driven out of business by alternative energy.
If the markets are allowed to function properly then we will gradually phase in alternative energy to meet our needs, BUT the oil companies will not see massive spikes in the price of oil as they slowly go out of business. So it actually makes the most sense for them to keep prices stable and low to keep their revenue stable until the last possible minute when they absolutely have to tell everyone they have no more oil left and they'll be glad to sell the few remaning barrels to the highest bidder and retire in their golden palace.
Remember we are talking about cartels here, and not a free market.
Really? I find in the real world my data almost always has a relationship and a relational database does a good job of modeling it. I can see some small webapps that wouldn't need a relational database. And perhaps something like Digg doesn't. But most of the world still deals with data that has strong relationships to one another.
That said, I've been playing with CouchDB for a wiki type application I'm working on that allows users to add metadata to documents. And a relational database is not good for those sort of end-user driven changes.
Too many people here who don't understand the value of both types of databases. They're both valuable. But very rarely is a nosql database a good replacement for a relational database.
I was a bit confused by your post. But then I realized your spelling was not because you are British, but due to you being a medieval serf who beliefs that we're talking about essential body fluids. In that case you're correct. Neither satire nor parody is a (normal) bodily fluid.
I feel like many of these combined savings have already been achieved without the associated problems of living in a dome. What are those things called? Oh yes, high rise buildings.
If you combined them with something like Houston's tunnel system and New York's subway you could have a very easy to climate control system while still providing for traditional means of transportation.
All 3 to Karmic. All 3 work great. None are even remotely similar hardware wise. As an added bonus the power saving on my laptop works better than my wife's Vista machine now which is definitely a great upgrade.
Yeah, except that it's a windows bug too. I learned to use the keyboard commands that move windows around for this very reason in windows. Alt+Space+M move around so I can see the resolutions. Alt+Space+M move around so I can see the actual apply buttons.
We have a wide spectrum. Avant-garde. Commercial. Some artists get large grants from the government or private foundations. Some don't. It's like movie production. Or theater production. Or sculpture. Some things can only be done with the large amount of investment that commercial dollars can provide. Some can be done in the artists free time with little up front investment. Getting the commercial dollars involves having more hands in the mix to make sure the end product is commercially viable.
There's really only so much you can do generically. I'm really happy with phing. I use the dbdeploy task to keep my databases in a similar state. I build on a local machine, deploy via ssh and then migrate the database.
I'd suggest that rather than checkout at each level you create a continous integration machine using something like cruise control or bamboo, then push out build tarballs and migrate the database.
No they're not. Are you nuts? How much time do you think you get for robbing a liquor store? Do you know how many liquor stores you'd have to knock over to make even a million dollars? Let's assume that all liquor stores keep $5000 in the till. You knock them over after hours in a way that ensures no one could possibly get hurt, and not armed. That's 200 liquor stores to make a million bucks.
No chance in hell you're getting less than 24 years for knocking over 200 liquor stores.
The rich tend to lose the most during recessions on paper, due to most of their wealth being in stocks.
Taking out of account the fact that you think losing more = losing more total dollars, rather than losing a percentage of one's income. You seem to be stuck in the "averages tell me something useful" realm of economics 101.
Regardless, this psychological shock to the very rich tends to make them do irrational things to try to prop up their paper worth such as firing employees at businesses that are doing just fine, thus causing the businesses to work poorly, and adding workers to the unemployment queue which in turn increases their payroll taxes, thus reducing the likelihood they'll hire in the near future. GM's a great example of a company finely run by economics 101 standards.
Most of the rich are emotional apes of average intelligence just like the rest of us, who have gotten very, very lucky.
"The US is not the market for Toyota it once was. The reasons for selling into the US are declining with each passing year and Prius are showing up on used lots in increasing numbers"
* citation needed
I fail to understand this as Toyota outsells GM worldwide, and is within a few points in the US. Perhaps you're just seeing more Priuses (Priusi?) on used car lots because dealers are stocking what people want, and cash for clunkers took a lot of US cars out of the used car market?
The KBB of an 8 year old Prius is still around $10k. So, um... dunno what you're saying.
Thanks to this open format known as HTML, it's not too hard to build a screen-scraper and get your data back out. Not to mention that the google and facebook APIs will help you pull quite a bit out.
Compare that to a client GUI program with no copy-and-paste capability. As someone who's done a lot of data extracation from closed systems, I'll take a terminal first, and a web client second, everything else is a distant third.
Nah, I blame the "shitty voters". If 50% of Americans don't know that Medicare is a government program, then I'm not going to trust that their vote is going to be in any way informed. Politicians represent their constituents far too well.
"Lynch said during that press conference according to reports that in the future wireless service will likely be sold in packages based on the speed of service a customer needs. This un-metered approach is similar to how the wired broadband industry has operated."
Fixed it for you. I don't know if you've heard about this "iPhone" and it's unlimited data plan? The traditional model is that customers get more features for less money. We're not really interested in spending more money to get less features. Companies that do that are generally what we call bankrupt.
Can you explain what doesn't make sense about that quote? Because it still makes sense to me. My mother had a close to Christmas birthday and always got combo Christmas/Birthday gifts, so she explicitly planned to keep all of her kids birthdays away from the holidays.
I'm currently in the phase of life where most of my friends are having kids and we've often discussed the disadvantage to having kids around Christmas. I have one friend who had a kid with a birthday around Christmas and that was unplanned. I'm not saying that no one has ever planned to have a child in December, I'm just saying that when planning you're more likely to try to steer around it (and as other people have stated once you've been trying a while you'll take a baby in any month of the year).
They really should have let the product market itself. Because for once they have a halfway decent product. Remember when they said Vista was as good as OSX? And then we used Vista and perhaps we should have treated their marketing campaign like a child with mental deficiencies? Like it's not polite to laugh at them, because they are trying...
But Windows 7 is actually the product Vista was supposed to be. But they're trying to sell it as something new. The only way that Microsoft could market this is, "Yeah, Windows Vista sucks ass. The UI didn't make sense, and it was often slow for no apparent reason. We'll acknowledge that now that we have a replacement. We know that almost every computer shipped with Vista has been converted to Windows XP. Here's the produce that fixes all those problems."
The only way to regain consumer trust is to admit your faults. Or just say nothing and let consumers do your advertising for you. I can already see the tweets - "Windows 7 not a steaming pile of dogshit!". That's the kind of grassroots movement that sells software.
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This is all about trying to gain mobile market share, but realistically all they're doing is highlighting the headache. Thanks, but I don't want to build an app in Objective C, Java, and .Net and get them certified by Google, and Microsoft, and Apple. What a headache. As usual Microsoft is arriving at the point when the whole idea of writing custom apps per phone is starting to jump the shark.
If they would release an easy to use IE mobile virtual images like they've done for all the current IE desktop applications they might actually have something like a leg up on their competition (I know they have some emulator inside Visual Studio, but that's not the same).
Google has a cross-platform emulator, but neither Apple nor Microsoft do. This could easily be another situation like Firefox where developers design webapps for Android and make them work passably on the other browsers.
Yeah, the summary of course chose the junk science claim and ignored all of the actual scientific ones. You're right, though, the articles do dwell primarily on the science.
Could you explain how you would use calculus to optimize DB calls over thousands of concurrent connections? I'm trying to figure out if you've got some sort of elegant solution I should be using or if you're just making work for yourself.
I would qualify as a blue collar programmer. I have a 4 year degree in theater and dance. Of course, I know how to produce a theatrical production from end to end and worked on every aspect and actually that's been very useful in programming. The ability to break down a project into pieces and get them all done is very important if you're going to be working in startup environments. If you're going to go work for a fortune 50 you might be able to just mindlessly work on a single dialog box for years, never really knowing how it fits into the larger project.
But I get hired as a white collar programmer and we often debate whether a degree is the sign of someone good or someone you want to avoid. There are just as many sloppy CS majors who don't really care about programming and don't "get it". At the end of the day I tend towards people who have projects they work on outside of work, as that shows me they're passionate enough about programming to enjoy it in their free time.
I can fix a lack of education. I can't fix a lack of enthusiasm.
Considering that a lot of literature for parents is focused on encouraging more nurturing in boys, I find the idea that they would base research on how boys play as "feminization" as completely ridiculous.
Let me know when they find out something about physical changes. Blaming the results of parenting on chemicals is ridiculous.
Or Realty C: Oil is controlled by cartels who want to ensure that they extract maximum profit from oil before they are driven out of business by alternative energy.
If the markets are allowed to function properly then we will gradually phase in alternative energy to meet our needs, BUT the oil companies will not see massive spikes in the price of oil as they slowly go out of business. So it actually makes the most sense for them to keep prices stable and low to keep their revenue stable until the last possible minute when they absolutely have to tell everyone they have no more oil left and they'll be glad to sell the few remaning barrels to the highest bidder and retire in their golden palace.
Remember we are talking about cartels here, and not a free market.
Really? I find in the real world my data almost always has a relationship and a relational database does a good job of modeling it. I can see some small webapps that wouldn't need a relational database. And perhaps something like Digg doesn't. But most of the world still deals with data that has strong relationships to one another.
That said, I've been playing with CouchDB for a wiki type application I'm working on that allows users to add metadata to documents. And a relational database is not good for those sort of end-user driven changes.
Too many people here who don't understand the value of both types of databases. They're both valuable. But very rarely is a nosql database a good replacement for a relational database.
P.S. You know Health Care passed right?
I was a bit confused by your post. But then I realized your spelling was not because you are British, but due to you being a medieval serf who beliefs that we're talking about essential body fluids. In that case you're correct. Neither satire nor parody is a (normal) bodily fluid.
I feel like many of these combined savings have already been achieved without the associated problems of living in a dome. What are those things called? Oh yes, high rise buildings.
If you combined them with something like Houston's tunnel system and New York's subway you could have a very easy to climate control system while still providing for traditional means of transportation.
All 3 to Karmic. All 3 work great. None are even remotely similar hardware wise. As an added bonus the power saving on my laptop works better than my wife's Vista machine now which is definitely a great upgrade.
"Because those people if they dislike the network enough, will leave eventually."
and go where? to one of the other baby bells who have used their monopoly power to let their networks rot?
Yeah, except that it's a windows bug too. I learned to use the keyboard commands that move windows around for this very reason in windows. Alt+Space+M move around so I can see the resolutions. Alt+Space+M move around so I can see the actual apply buttons.
We have a wide spectrum. Avant-garde. Commercial. Some artists get large grants from the government or private foundations. Some don't. It's like movie production. Or theater production. Or sculpture. Some things can only be done with the large amount of investment that commercial dollars can provide. Some can be done in the artists free time with little up front investment. Getting the commercial dollars involves having more hands in the mix to make sure the end product is commercially viable.
These complaints go back to ancient Rome.
Is this an iPod Touch killer also? I'm waiting for a hand-held android device that doesn't require a cell plan.
There's really only so much you can do generically. I'm really happy with phing. I use the dbdeploy task to keep my databases in a similar state. I build on a local machine, deploy via ssh and then migrate the database.
I'd suggest that rather than checkout at each level you create a continous integration machine using something like cruise control or bamboo, then push out build tarballs and migrate the database.
No they're not. Are you nuts? How much time do you think you get for robbing a liquor store? Do you know how many liquor stores you'd have to knock over to make even a million dollars? Let's assume that all liquor stores keep $5000 in the till. You knock them over after hours in a way that ensures no one could possibly get hurt, and not armed. That's 200 liquor stores to make a million bucks.
No chance in hell you're getting less than 24 years for knocking over 200 liquor stores.
The rich tend to lose the most during recessions on paper, due to most of their wealth being in stocks.
Taking out of account the fact that you think losing more = losing more total dollars, rather than losing a percentage of one's income. You seem to be stuck in the "averages tell me something useful" realm of economics 101.
Regardless, this psychological shock to the very rich tends to make them do irrational things to try to prop up their paper worth such as firing employees at businesses that are doing just fine, thus causing the businesses to work poorly, and adding workers to the unemployment queue which in turn increases their payroll taxes, thus reducing the likelihood they'll hire in the near future. GM's a great example of a company finely run by economics 101 standards.
Most of the rich are emotional apes of average intelligence just like the rest of us, who have gotten very, very lucky.
No he's correct the BBC is biased to the left.
But take heart, that's only because nature and reality are biased to the left also.
"The US is not the market for Toyota it once was. The reasons for selling into the US are declining with each passing year and Prius are showing up on used lots in increasing numbers"
* citation needed
I fail to understand this as Toyota outsells GM worldwide, and is within a few points in the US. Perhaps you're just seeing more Priuses (Priusi?) on used car lots because dealers are stocking what people want, and cash for clunkers took a lot of US cars out of the used car market?
The KBB of an 8 year old Prius is still around $10k. So, um... dunno what you're saying.
Thanks to this open format known as HTML, it's not too hard to build a screen-scraper and get your data back out. Not to mention that the google and facebook APIs will help you pull quite a bit out.
Compare that to a client GUI program with no copy-and-paste capability. As someone who's done a lot of data extracation from closed systems, I'll take a terminal first, and a web client second, everything else is a distant third.
Nah, I blame the "shitty voters". If 50% of Americans don't know that Medicare is a government program, then I'm not going to trust that their vote is going to be in any way informed.
Politicians represent their constituents far too well.
"Lynch said during that press conference according to reports that in the future wireless service will likely be sold in packages based on the speed of service a customer needs. This un-metered approach is similar to how the wired broadband industry has operated."
Fixed it for you. I don't know if you've heard about this "iPhone" and it's unlimited data plan? The traditional model is that customers get more features for less money. We're not really interested in spending more money to get less features. Companies that do that are generally what we call bankrupt.
Can you explain what doesn't make sense about that quote? Because it still makes sense to me. My mother had a close to Christmas birthday and always got combo Christmas/Birthday gifts, so she explicitly planned to keep all of her kids birthdays away from the holidays.
I'm currently in the phase of life where most of my friends are having kids and we've often discussed the disadvantage to having kids around Christmas. I have one friend who had a kid with a birthday around Christmas and that was unplanned. I'm not saying that no one has ever planned to have a child in December, I'm just saying that when planning you're more likely to try to steer around it (and as other people have stated once you've been trying a while you'll take a baby in any month of the year).
They really should have let the product market itself. Because for once they have a halfway decent product. Remember when they said Vista was as good as OSX? And then we used Vista and perhaps we should have treated their marketing campaign like a child with mental deficiencies? Like it's not polite to laugh at them, because they are trying...
But Windows 7 is actually the product Vista was supposed to be. But they're trying to sell it as something new. The only way that Microsoft could market this is, "Yeah, Windows Vista sucks ass. The UI didn't make sense, and it was often slow for no apparent reason. We'll acknowledge that now that we have a replacement. We know that almost every computer shipped with Vista has been converted to Windows XP. Here's the produce that fixes all those problems."
The only way to regain consumer trust is to admit your faults. Or just say nothing and let consumers do your advertising for you. I can already see the tweets - "Windows 7 not a steaming pile of dogshit!". That's the kind of grassroots movement that sells software.