To be fair, you can also use an umbrella when it's sunny. And it might be the solution for their lack of wealth if they get investors to buy into their idea, which, given the current state of affairs, is not that unlikely:)
This is the kind of decisions the industry will keep shoving down our throats until the hipsters decide that it's time to have a retro phone with headphone jack and physical keyboard.
That's exactly what ants do and it's very likely that they will stay on this world long after the thermonuclear war that will wipe us all. OK, I'm being dramatic, but I hope you get my point. Some societies simply like the way they are, and in many cases, that's not a bad thing. I don't think that by doing this, the Chinese want to be the next America.
The thing is, people may feel a little invaded at the beginning, but then, when they see that giving up their information eases their lives to some extent, they're willing to do it without remorse forever. Apparently receiving alerts about the flights you have to take or traffic jams ahead or turning you lights off from your bed are worth your most personal information. As for the government, I'd say they're satisfied with that. Now others are collecting that information for them.
Sadly, LMDE is not being updated anymore (I mean the releases, not the repositories). Mint is a superb distro, but I really miss Debian on it. I guess I'll have to keep my Debian Stretch for some time.
The problem is that we don't have a natural predator. We're on top of the food chain and are free to mate, expand and deplete all resources. Not to mention that, unlike other species, we're consciously selfish.
This. I briefly owned an LG Android phone but I learned to hate it very soon for sw and hw reasons. Now I'm stuck with my old N9/N900. They're excellent phones and I love the OS. On a partly related note, Sailfish seems to be doing it right. *pokes Nokia/HMD/Whatever*
I'm tired of appliances that have built-in support for connecting to third-party services that can't be removed. Recently I bought a Sony streaming player, and turns out that some time ago, due to a YouTube API change, it no longer connects to it, nobody's gonna fix it and I have an icon doing nothing that I can't remove. Same with my Nokia N9: Ovi Store, broken Skype application, Nokia Music Store. The original service provider is gone and now it's all polluting the applications list and there's no a way to delete them. What's going to happen when Amazon and Seagate decide that they're not good friends anymore or Amazon "changes its priorities"? At least they should provide a way to get rid of the crapware or install a replacement on your own, but guess what.
I read like 5 times what I wrote and I fail to see where am I defending his actions. I just saying that he's got a place in history, just like Hitler, Gandhi or the Homo Neanderthalensis. History is not a garden of unicorns, you know.
Soviets died in 1989 (if not before). Many other third world satellites were really dependent on the URSS and were assimilated by someone else shortly after the fall of the wall. Cuba managed to survive even being a few kilometers away from the US. Fidel has a place in History (not precisely in the dustbin) you like it or not.
You can say anything about Fidel, but he was a tough guy. Cuba resisted bravely (if you allow me to use the term) to an enemy way bigger and more powerful for many years. Curiously, the end of the Castro era could have arrived long before if the past presidents would have used the Obama approach: Embrace, extend and extinguish. Personally, I think he chose a wrong path and became the perfect example of why communist social structures are not sustainable. "Join together to share the lack of wealth", to use Stallman's words, simply goes against human nature. RIP, anyway.
VR as it is marketed (and has been all these years) may be doomed to fail due to the human-machine interfaces. I think a direct interface with the nervous system (as scary as it sounds) could be more successful making as live the experience of a virtual reality.
On a long enough time line, anything can be done by robots. The thing is, I don't think we have that much of time. As others have pointed out farming involves many complicated scenarios. For example, harvesting coffee beans is a time-consuming and exhausting task that requires special care and depending on the country, the terrain and social conditions won't help at all. It's like, autonomous trucks may work nicely on an Autobahn, but I want to see that working in Thailand or Venezuela.
It's not that this could not have happened to any other contractor, but HPE, like most HP itself, is walking dead and this is just another tiny nail in the coffin. It's funny when you read what Megan Whitman said about the recent merge with Micro Focus:
"They are fantastic assets," Whitman said in an interview. "They're just not core to our strategy."
I don't know if this is false decisiveness, but he has to do something, be it a stunt or not. He's already getting a lot of heat from almost half of the country. He needs to consolidate and keep calm his electoral base at least. Politics, just like economy, is more about emotions than technicalities.
Yeah, I've heard horror stories about MongoDB. My rule of thumb is, if whatever you are going to do can be done with an RDBMS without much hassle, you just go for it, it's proven and support is widely available. If your requirements demand something more exotic, try other options. Just out of curiosity, did you evaluate CassandraDB? I worked for a company that switched from MySQL to CDB. Their main product was having performance issues, but I think it was caused by database modeling mistakes rather than a db engine thing. I was a bit skeptic about the migration, but I left before I could see the results.
Yes, this also happens (or used to) if you created your Battle.NET account in Europe and you wanted to change it to America (the servers are separated by region and that also affects the currency they charge you and the available promotions).
I second angel'o'sphere. Without knowing details about the requirements, it seems that an in-memory database serves your purpose, periodically saving the most relevant states and user settings. You can handle the load and availability/resilience scaling horizontally. Just a random thought.
Yes, it's always about the scenario you have to face. For example, the idea of the project is to provide (in the future) a complete open source OSS (Operations Support Systems) suite. The next application in the pipeline is a Trouble Ticketing system integrated with the inventory. We have chosen an RDBMS as backend which will coexist with the inventory's graph database. Some of the reasons that led us to take that decision is that this kind of application is better modeled as a set of tables (in the end is just forms, tables and reports), the data model won't change [that much] once it's deployed and text indexing to serve searches is already proved to be efficient and reliable in major relational databases.
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Dude, you are totally taking the fun out of it :)
To be fair, you can also use an umbrella when it's sunny. And it might be the solution for their lack of wealth if they get investors to buy into their idea, which, given the current state of affairs, is not that unlikely :)
This is the kind of decisions the industry will keep shoving down our throats until the hipsters decide that it's time to have a retro phone with headphone jack and physical keyboard.
I could finally get a needle for my old turntable. They had literally disappeared from the local music stores over here.
That's exactly what ants do and it's very likely that they will stay on this world long after the thermonuclear war that will wipe us all. OK, I'm being dramatic, but I hope you get my point. Some societies simply like the way they are, and in many cases, that's not a bad thing. I don't think that by doing this, the Chinese want to be the next America.
The thing is, people may feel a little invaded at the beginning, but then, when they see that giving up their information eases their lives to some extent, they're willing to do it without remorse forever. Apparently receiving alerts about the flights you have to take or traffic jams ahead or turning you lights off from your bed are worth your most personal information.
As for the government, I'd say they're satisfied with that. Now others are collecting that information for them.
TAOP will make you a programming demigod as much as reading The Art of War will make you a warlord.
Sadly, LMDE is not being updated anymore (I mean the releases, not the repositories). Mint is a superb distro, but I really miss Debian on it. I guess I'll have to keep my Debian Stretch for some time.
Wait until you have to recompile your kernel to get your modem working!
The problem is that we don't have a natural predator. We're on top of the food chain and are free to mate, expand and deplete all resources. Not to mention that, unlike other species, we're consciously selfish.
This. I briefly owned an LG Android phone but I learned to hate it very soon for sw and hw reasons. Now I'm stuck with my old N9/N900. They're excellent phones and I love the OS. On a partly related note, Sailfish seems to be doing it right. *pokes Nokia/HMD/Whatever*
I'm tired of appliances that have built-in support for connecting to third-party services that can't be removed. Recently I bought a Sony streaming player, and turns out that some time ago, due to a YouTube API change, it no longer connects to it, nobody's gonna fix it and I have an icon doing nothing that I can't remove. Same with my Nokia N9: Ovi Store, broken Skype application, Nokia Music Store. The original service provider is gone and now it's all polluting the applications list and there's no a way to delete them.
What's going to happen when Amazon and Seagate decide that they're not good friends anymore or Amazon "changes its priorities"? At least they should provide a way to get rid of the crapware or install a replacement on your own, but guess what.
I read like 5 times what I wrote and I fail to see where am I defending his actions. I just saying that he's got a place in history, just like Hitler, Gandhi or the Homo Neanderthalensis. History is not a garden of unicorns, you know.
Soviets died in 1989 (if not before). Many other third world satellites were really dependent on the URSS and were assimilated by someone else shortly after the fall of the wall. Cuba managed to survive even being a few kilometers away from the US. Fidel has a place in History (not precisely in the dustbin) you like it or not.
You can say anything about Fidel, but he was a tough guy. Cuba resisted bravely (if you allow me to use the term) to an enemy way bigger and more powerful for many years. Curiously, the end of the Castro era could have arrived long before if the past presidents would have used the Obama approach: Embrace, extend and extinguish. Personally, I think he chose a wrong path and became the perfect example of why communist social structures are not sustainable. "Join together to share the lack of wealth", to use Stallman's words, simply goes against human nature. RIP, anyway.
VR as it is marketed (and has been all these years) may be doomed to fail due to the human-machine interfaces. I think a direct interface with the nervous system (as scary as it sounds) could be more successful making as live the experience of a virtual reality.
On a long enough time line, anything can be done by robots. The thing is, I don't think we have that much of time. As others have pointed out farming involves many complicated scenarios. For example, harvesting coffee beans is a time-consuming and exhausting task that requires special care and depending on the country, the terrain and social conditions won't help at all. It's like, autonomous trucks may work nicely on an Autobahn, but I want to see that working in Thailand or Venezuela.
Since many right-wing sectors claim that what gays do is "unnatural", does this mean that gay porn will be banned as well?
I don't know if this is false decisiveness, but he has to do something, be it a stunt or not. He's already getting a lot of heat from almost half of the country. He needs to consolidate and keep calm his electoral base at least. Politics, just like economy, is more about emotions than technicalities.
Yeah, I've heard horror stories about MongoDB. My rule of thumb is, if whatever you are going to do can be done with an RDBMS without much hassle, you just go for it, it's proven and support is widely available. If your requirements demand something more exotic, try other options. Just out of curiosity, did you evaluate CassandraDB? I worked for a company that switched from MySQL to CDB. Their main product was having performance issues, but I think it was caused by database modeling mistakes rather than a db engine thing. I was a bit skeptic about the migration, but I left before I could see the results.
Yes, this also happens (or used to) if you created your Battle.NET account in Europe and you wanted to change it to America (the servers are separated by region and that also affects the currency they charge you and the available promotions).
I always thought the delay (which also affects some bluetooth headsets/speakers) was caused by the audio compression/decompression process.
I second angel'o'sphere. Without knowing details about the requirements, it seems that an in-memory database serves your purpose, periodically saving the most relevant states and user settings. You can handle the load and availability/resilience scaling horizontally. Just a random thought.
Yes, it's always about the scenario you have to face. For example, the idea of the project is to provide (in the future) a complete open source OSS (Operations Support Systems) suite. The next application in the pipeline is a Trouble Ticketing system integrated with the inventory. We have chosen an RDBMS as backend which will coexist with the inventory's graph database. Some of the reasons that led us to take that decision is that this kind of application is better modeled as a set of tables (in the end is just forms, tables and reports), the data model won't change [that much] once it's deployed and text indexing to serve searches is already proved to be efficient and reliable in major relational databases.