.. in general if you slavishly copy something you'll always be in 2nd place...
That applies to firefox but your generalization is wrong. Slavishly (and fastly) copying the competitors is a well used strategy for proven software products. It is call Fast Follower tactics and is used by most leaders in the industry. Yes, by leaders I mean the ones that have the biggest market share; in no way am I hinting that they are the worthiest.
Good examples of this are MSM, Yahoo, Skype, MS Windows even google has done it with their web mail (2004?) and some other products if I recall correctly.
If you have the technical know how you can go and build your own cloud storage with ec2/rackspace (or both in tandem) a VPN and some scripting...
That's what I am tinkering with on sundays and it's quite rewarding. Plus the fact that all my data comes from my home nas. Drawbacks are of course the slow transfer speeds because of the limited upload of consumer links.
If on the other side you don't know how to set up all that stuff then your only solution for having your data accessible is to use some cloud storage service like mentioned above.
The NoSQL movement gets meaningful with the concept that no one solution fits all problems. Relational databases are great for some jobs and not so for others. MySQL is the go to solution for 95% of websites because it will provide exactly what those websites need. On the other hand if you are developing a web app that deviates from the classic layout in its data needs some noSQL solutions might provide a better fit.
I'm not saying that either is pointless here, and personally I can't see any of today's established DB solutions (mySQL and Postgres; for the other ones I don't care much...) going away anytime soon. Obviously the evolution of our activities brings up (and will keep bringing) up demand for solutions that didn't exits earlier. So if you want to be ahead of the curve better understand the currents needs and available solutions or be left behind as a relic from more primitive times.
I don't know if there is a relation between noSQL evangelists and the truth, but them being noSQL heads probably means that they wouldn't perceive the relation as you do;-)
It's the same fake embrace the wiser propaganda derivative you have seen all to many times in politics and enterprise. Guy Andrew gets a cool term going for him (in this case the FOSS community finally gets Open Source projects mattering in the real world) so Guy Bernard, who is a dominant figure in its decline, dreams up an imitation of the term, similarly titled but semantically empty just to compete.
This tactic is very well documented in politics strategy texts and quite effective at that. It's main strength is the natural misinformation and possible disinformation of the general population who identifies qualities mostly by title and does so quite loosely. In fact non specialists will usually only keep the dominant word of the title in mind. In this case Cathrin 6pack will just understand that Microsoft goes Open, which fact immediately will be related to "Oh, Dean the tech guy always talked to me about Open Software" which will lead to the conclusion: "Microsoft is going Open Software" ergo "Microsoft is Open so there is no need to get uncomfortable and learn Other software to be Open since I am Open with the Microsoft Office"
I just put an order for a dozen of those to extend my WiFi network to the beach!
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Indeed.
Then talking about picture like or life like projection would actually mean something. Every time somebody goes and buys a new pc display they come over bragging how lifelike it displays their photos or something when in reality you can't even look at it from very close not talking about putting a magnifying glass on it.
Well, I don't really get the whole appitis thing that seems to have infected everyone in the 1st world... I mean isn't there a point where too much info is just that? Are all these applications really important to everybody's daily activities or are they just more white noise? Yes sure it is informative to see how many hours you have spent traveling underground, queing before others or in the loo (playing iFart) but is it really necessary? sure stats are good but at some point stats just encumber you and eat away on your productivity.
I haven't used webOS yet but I will in the near future and from what I can see and read It is a very well designed package and very developer friendly, which in turn means that probably I will be able to get much more out of it.
Well, hurting you brain i a not permanent way it does. That's also the reason of the misunderstanding of the title line, since 'hurts your brain' is some times perceived as 'permanently damages your brain'. But what you can take from the article is that the enforced contradiction of focusing distances is a strain on your brain (which is not set up to deal with such paradoxes, I think)
Thinking about what I just wrote: I kinda doubt that people who are ignorant to or denying the possible scenario of 3D being uncomfortable to others are going to get anything out of said article:-(
Subtitles in a 3D movie who ever thought that this was a good idea? I know that many many countries (my own included) rely on subtitling the movies they import because the general populous can't understand the movie's language but there really is a point where a feature becomes just a fashion statement/gimmick.... And don't go telling me that subtitles in a movie don't hurt the 3D effect, because in all movies I have seen they did (And I don't even pay attention to subtitles normally). But hey I can do with subtitles, what I can't do with is having to be driven home after a 3D flick because you are too wasted to drive yourself! I'm happy that now there is some substantial scientific data about this, that I can use to educate some of my ignorant peers!
I used to run f14 LXDE on my netbook but I couldn't bear the looks of it.. Really I mean it's ok to just put a bunch of widgets and buttons into a bar but please try to keep it a bit clean and in touch with the chrome/look'n'feel/etc!
Anyway, I am using xmonad atm on said netbook wich amongst other things gave me back the 60px I was loosing to the menu bar, better understanding of how my distro works, the opportunity to dive into functional programming (cool stuff | brain damage), about 80 megs of RAM, about two hours of battery life in moderate use (xbacklight -dec 100).
I am currently contemplating what I shall do with my workstations (both F14 gnome), I really want to give arch a try but I don't know if I can manage to squeeze in the free time needed to understand all the setup work + actually setting up the workstations / command aliases / crontabs / more... Ok, crontabs may be a bit of an exageration even though I would have to check all the scripts they run for dependencies.
BTW: I do support M theory as an idea but would like the theory of everything to be a bit more elegant ie: creating an infinite regression or scaling loop... So I'm quite happy that this was just a false alarm
Thanks for the laughs mate! But yes, it is really a mater of using your tools correctly...
I once forced myself to take a day of because I saw an Intranet DB 20GB in size with just 20k rows in a total 14 tables... The 'hotshot' C++ programmer that wrote the scripts to the db had not only told the app to upload every image to a table field but also doing it multiple times for the same image instead of keeping some relational record and taxing the Intranet sever with many many DB retrieves and php overhead (because obviously that's the way you deliver an image right???) !
The effect of this? Just a week after the app was delivered it's lookups slowed down to a crawl and getting me called in because 'Your Intranet has gone slow' Obviously the `hotshot` was just a contract and had taken off for newer heights and was (of course) unreachable. After looking login in to the DB server I noticed the blob types in every single table and went home to laugh my buttocks of
Long story short I just expanded the Intranet app to accommodate the new functionality, adding a public interface for doing project uploads from outside the company network. This is what they used the C++ binary for btw... (like ssl hasn't been invented yet)
which actually was what the Managers should have done in the first place.
D@mn do I get angry when I think of incompetent management
Second: well, ksplice is supposed to be opensource right? at least that's what wikipedia said when I looked at it. So isn't it most probable that somebody will just compile that source into openOracleYouDummiesSplikce v0.3?
Yep VR headsets ruled since the 90s. There just is no beating them in the shit_your_pants_immersion department the best thing is that now you can have the afordably AND without the neck aches of the 90's (these things were huge and heavy). I really am looking forward to someone designing a 1080p headset compatible with a games console...
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hey, this video was featured on the front page of /. and it has omly 880 views?!?!?!?!?!?!?
D@mn
I must be new here!
.. in general if you slavishly copy something you'll always be in 2nd place ...
That applies to firefox but your generalization is wrong. Slavishly (and fastly) copying the competitors is a well used strategy for proven software products. It is call Fast Follower tactics and is used by most leaders in the industry. Yes, by leaders I mean the ones that have the biggest market share; in no way am I hinting that they are the worthiest.
Good examples of this are MSM, Yahoo, Skype, MS Windows even google has done it with their web mail (2004?) and some other products if I recall correctly.
very informative, do you know if those retailers ship internationally?
Also; would you mind making a link out of the url in you signature? More effective that way
As far as I understand they used storage arrays from nimbus data
If you have the technical know how you can go and build your own cloud storage with ec2/rackspace (or both in tandem) a VPN and some scripting...
That's what I am tinkering with on sundays and it's quite rewarding. Plus the fact that all my data comes from my home nas. Drawbacks are of course the slow transfer speeds because of the limited upload of consumer links.
If on the other side you don't know how to set up all that stuff then your only solution for having your data accessible is to use some cloud storage service like mentioned above.
I'm guessing here but from what I see in the linux world ubuntu to fedora is more like 5/1 or even more...
well..
The NoSQL movement gets meaningful with the concept that no one solution fits all problems. Relational databases are great for some jobs and not so for others. MySQL is the go to solution for 95% of websites because it will provide exactly what those websites need. On the other hand if you are developing a web app that deviates from the classic layout in its data needs some noSQL solutions might provide a better fit.
I'm not saying that either is pointless here, and personally I can't see any of today's established DB solutions (mySQL and Postgres; for the other ones I don't care much...) going away anytime soon. Obviously the evolution of our activities brings up (and will keep bringing) up demand for solutions that didn't exits earlier. So if you want to be ahead of the curve better understand the currents needs and available solutions or be left behind as a relic from more primitive times.
I don't know if there is a relation between noSQL evangelists and the truth, but them being noSQL heads probably means that they wouldn't perceive the relation as you do ;-)
... don't offer ACIDity ...
I don't know about its acidity but I have heard that Cassandra can give you AIDs!
disclaimer: my facts are all true! I have been know to lie though...
It's the same fake embrace the wiser propaganda derivative you have seen all to many times in politics and enterprise. Guy Andrew gets a cool term going for him (in this case the FOSS community finally gets Open Source projects mattering in the real world) so Guy Bernard, who is a dominant figure in its decline, dreams up an imitation of the term, similarly titled but semantically empty just to compete.
This tactic is very well documented in politics strategy texts and quite effective at that. It's main strength is the natural misinformation and possible disinformation of the general population who identifies qualities mostly by title and does so quite loosely. In fact non specialists will usually only keep the dominant word of the title in mind. In this case Cathrin 6pack will just understand that Microsoft goes Open, which fact immediately will be related to "Oh, Dean the tech guy always talked to me about Open Software" which will lead to the conclusion: "Microsoft is going Open Software" ergo "Microsoft is Open so there is no need to get uncomfortable and learn Other software to be Open since I am Open with the Microsoft Office"
I just put an order for a dozen of those to extend my WiFi network to the beach!
Indeed.
Then talking about picture like or life like projection would actually mean something. Every time somebody goes and buys a new pc display they come over bragging how lifelike it displays their photos or something when in reality you can't even look at it from very close not talking about putting a magnifying glass on it.
Another way of thinking is to keep you personal info segregated:
email : Yahoo || private || alt
friendShite: facebook || alt
shoutCasting: twitter || alt
fill in your own subcategories as necessary.
Well, I don't really get the whole appitis thing that seems to have infected everyone in the 1st world...
I mean isn't there a point where too much info is just that? Are all these applications really important to everybody's daily activities or are they just more white noise? Yes sure it is informative to see how many hours you have spent traveling underground, queing before others or in the loo (playing iFart) but is it really necessary? sure stats are good but at some point stats just encumber you and eat away on your productivity.
I haven't used webOS yet but I will in the near future and from what I can see and read It is a very well designed package and very developer friendly, which in turn means that probably I will be able to get much more out of it.
...you scream...
I'm sorry that the impact of my text was that deafening to you. May I suggest you wear ear protection while browsing these pages?
Well, hurting you brain i a not permanent way it does. That's also the reason of the misunderstanding of the title line, since 'hurts your brain' is some times perceived as 'permanently damages your brain'. But what you can take from the article is that the enforced contradiction of focusing distances is a strain on your brain (which is not set up to deal with such paradoxes, I think)
Indeed. Plus the Idiotic Blurring that is always inherited from the 2D footage of the movie and just is wrong when displayed through stereoscopy...
Thinking about what I just wrote: :-(
I kinda doubt that people who are ignorant to or denying the possible scenario of 3D being uncomfortable to others are going to get anything out of said article
Subtitles in a 3D movie who ever thought that this was a good idea? I know that many many countries (my own included) rely on subtitling the movies they import because the general populous can't understand the movie's language but there really is a point where a feature becomes just a fashion statement/gimmick....
And don't go telling me that subtitles in a movie don't hurt the 3D effect, because in all movies I have seen they did (And I don't even pay attention to subtitles normally).
But hey I can do with subtitles, what I can't do with is having to be driven home after a 3D flick because you are too wasted to drive yourself!
I'm happy that now there is some substantial scientific data about this, that I can use to educate some of my ignorant peers!
the real article
xmonad? haven't tried awsome because the former intrigued me too much...
I used to run f14 LXDE on my netbook but I couldn't bear the looks of it.. Really I mean it's ok to just put a bunch of widgets and buttons into a bar but please try to keep it a bit clean and in touch with the chrome/look'n'feel/etc!
Anyway, I am using xmonad atm on said netbook wich amongst other things gave me back the 60px I was loosing to the menu bar, better understanding of how my distro works, the opportunity to dive into functional programming (cool stuff | brain damage), about 80 megs of RAM, about two hours of battery life in moderate use (xbacklight -dec 100).
I am currently contemplating what I shall do with my workstations (both F14 gnome), I really want to give arch a try but I don't know if I can manage to squeeze in the free time needed to understand all the setup work + actually setting up the workstations / command aliases / crontabs / more... Ok, crontabs may be a bit of an exageration even though I would have to check all the scripts they run for dependencies.
it isn't?
BTW: I do support M theory as an idea but would like the theory of everything to be a bit more elegant ie: creating an infinite regression or scaling loop... So I'm quite happy that this was just a false alarm
Thanks for the laughs mate!
But yes, it is really a mater of using your tools correctly...
I once forced myself to take a day of because I saw an Intranet DB 20GB in size with just 20k rows in a total 14 tables...
The 'hotshot' C++ programmer that wrote the scripts to the db had not only told the app to upload every image to a table field but also doing it multiple times for the same image instead of keeping some relational record and taxing the Intranet sever with many many DB retrieves and php overhead (because obviously that's the way you deliver an image right???) !
The effect of this? Just a week after the app was delivered it's lookups slowed down to a crawl and getting me called in because 'Your Intranet has gone slow' Obviously the `hotshot` was just a contract and had taken off for newer heights and was (of course) unreachable. After looking login in to the DB server I noticed the blob types in every single table and went home to laugh my buttocks of
Long story short I just expanded the Intranet app to accommodate the new functionality, adding a public interface for doing project uploads from outside the company network. This is what they used the C++ binary for btw... (like ssl hasn't been invented yet)
which actually was what the Managers should have done in the first place.
D@mn do I get angry when I think of incompetent management
uhh....
First off: Let the Oracle bashing begin!!!!! :-D
Second: well, ksplice is supposed to be opensource right? at least that's what wikipedia said when I looked at it. So isn't it most probable that somebody will just compile that source into openOracleYouDummiesSplikce v0.3?
that's all really...
Yep VR headsets ruled since the 90s. There just is no beating them in the shit_your_pants_immersion department the best thing is that now you can have the afordably AND without the neck aches of the 90's (these things were huge and heavy).
I really am looking forward to someone designing a 1080p headset compatible with a games console...