If it were 1 or 2 out of 9 liberal art students on the IT department, maybe we could then give some better error messages than hex codes or "method of object not found"
Having a team of diverse backgrounds does make it stronger and more compentent to serve a world of diverse needs.
"Stem Cell Tourists Take Costa Rica Off the Agenda"
Really did people seeking rip-off and dangerous stem cell treatments decide the Costa Rica was just not cool enough any more? No, exactly the oppisite, Costa Rica decided to no longer offer rip-off and dangerous stem cell treatments.
like as in "Costa Rica takes Stem Cell Tourism Off the Agenda"
I hate being the grammar nazi but really, English, do any of you people here speak it?
That is because the essence of his article is that it does not matter what segment of cloud computing you use, if you application is not *designed* to scale, it will not scale. No matter if it was sold to do so or not.
This is that same idea that if you take a single threaded app and put it on an 8 core proc, you will not get any performance boost from the single core. If your data set has to join a trillion rows to a billion rows, you can throw all the parallelism you want at it and you will just have a thousand boxen trying to perform the same join a thousand times and performance will not improve.
On the other hand if you have a single table or name value pairs, you can split work among many many machines and have what used to take a week happen in minutes. But not all problems can be modeled to fit that kind of process, and even fewer of them actually are.
Really? I would happily wait 2 more days for Architectural Digest or the Economist in effort to reduce government spending and national fuel consumption. What possibly are you receiving by regular post that is day-critical?
Look dumasses the proper moderation on this post is either "funny" or "flamebait" not "interesting.
Seriously, what turnip truck did you all fall off of? Were your irony genes mutated by cosmic rays or microwave ovens?
Really, here on Slashdot you assert that a modern centralized datacenter is unneeded? You think that maintaining myriad and inconsistent IT systems is a good use of state funds. Really?
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Yeah, but this article is discussing the state if the industry, not how an expert user can avoid popups and other scareware/malware.
There are loads of machines out there being infected today by doing normal browsing on reputable sites. With the current industry practice of n-number of redirects through n-number of networks for 3rd party ad serving it makes it near impossible to track down those of nefarious intent on an incident level.
Once again it is not the.01% of us slashdotters that are the problem with malware infections, it is the millions of joe sixpacks that care not to go through the trouble that it takes to install and then browse with these specialized browsers and plugins.
I for one agree, something must be done; and "open letters" like this are often how the conversation starts.
Remember that TFA stated the ~50% of *users* clicked thru to articles, which would only amount to 1 click for the ~200 or so headlines to choose from on a given google news page. This makes a click thru rate of about 1 in 400 impressions or 0.25%
Which is still considered a miracle click thru rate for banner display media tha advertisers pay for.
So considering they are getting this trafic for FREE it seems like a pretty god deal to me.
It is worth noting that the Venetian is also an official CES venue in their convention space so CEA is not just a big pull on the industry, but a big pull on the Venetian for some pretty hefty revenue. This does not take conspiracy theory, this is a corporate entity throwing a small client under the bus to make a gigantic client happy. Standard procedure in big business.
When I got My iPhone from AT+T I was told that the iPhone data plan is required for all iPhones on the AT+T network, regardless if they are in contract or owned outright. So AFAIK there is no way to have an IPhone without the AT+T data charge without jailbreaking it and violating my TOS with both Apple and AT+T.
So in effect, yes all iPhones are subsidized by the plans.
This blog post completely misunderstands Microsoft's culture of dogfooding. Dogfooding is the practice of using the most recent beta, alpha, or CTP version of their software internally before it goes to any customers. Both Vista and windows 7 were used for many months by everybody in Redmond before they even went to a public beta. The idea of dogfooding it that they will ferret out problems by using them within MSFT before exposing their clients to those problems.
If the Danger data loss was a result of transitioning to Microsoft technologies, (which is a point of utter speculation) this would be the opposite of dogfooding.
Yeah that's just like a guy I was talking to about a new video codec he was writing. He could put an entire hour of HD into a single bit. He has the compressor nailed, but is having a little trouble with the decompressor.
You can insure that a page that you control (personal blog, resume whatever) comes up by buying placements on the big three engines. Then when somebody googles or yahoos you they get your paid listing every time. Full names are not very popular search terms and competition will be low. Unless your name is stockquote getrich you should be able to be the top listing for less than 20 cents a click.
Do people fundamentally change when they have more than one option to choose? I would have guessed rarely. Just because people have more choices does not mean they make statistically random choices. People have far greater psychological issues about what they choose and why they choose them than just availability. People like to be on the bandwagon and choose what their friends do, they like to choose things they've heard of and feel safe about, what's been recently marketed to them, comfort foods vs. healthy foods, etc.
You are missing the point altogether; people buy blockbusters because they want something and that is what is usually made available to them. The people that are settling and buying media for lack of better choices will be served by a wider variety of products and more obscure/less popular ones will get purchased when otherwise they would not.
Take a look at the netflix top 100 http://www.netflix.com/Top100? the only picture in the top 10 that was produced in the last year and a half is "No Country for Old Men" hardly your typical blockbuster.
You obviously have no idea how big giving works in the world.
If you don't like Bill that is fine, but the Gates Foundation is doing significant good work in many areas of poverty, disease and global development.
It has never been a standard for a charity to make its investments align with its mission, its investments are to fund its mission.
Even joe sixpack with an IRA has investments that do not perfectly align with his morality; and a single article from one sensationalist from the LA Times is not the bar against which to measure.
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And the award for best use of completely pulling numbers out of his ass goes to ...
If it were 1 or 2 out of 9 liberal art students on the IT department, maybe we could then give some better error messages than hex codes or "method of object not found"
Having a team of diverse backgrounds does make it stronger and more compentent to serve a world of diverse needs.
"Stem Cell Tourists Take Costa Rica Off the Agenda"
Really did people seeking rip-off and dangerous stem cell treatments decide the Costa Rica was just not cool enough any more? No, exactly the oppisite, Costa Rica decided to no longer offer rip-off and dangerous stem cell treatments.
like as in "Costa Rica takes Stem Cell Tourism Off the Agenda"
I hate being the grammar nazi but really, English, do any of you people here speak it?
Sounds like the ancients were wise and resourceful people with a keen sense of priority.
That is because the essence of his article is that it does not matter what segment of cloud computing you use, if you application is not *designed* to scale, it will not scale. No matter if it was sold to do so or not.
This is that same idea that if you take a single threaded app and put it on an 8 core proc, you will not get any performance boost from the single core. If your data set has to join a trillion rows to a billion rows, you can throw all the parallelism you want at it and you will just have a thousand boxen trying to perform the same join a thousand times and performance will not improve.
On the other hand if you have a single table or name value pairs, you can split work among many many machines and have what used to take a week happen in minutes. But not all problems can be modeled to fit that kind of process, and even fewer of them actually are.
Really? I would happily wait 2 more days for Architectural Digest or the Economist in effort to reduce government spending and national fuel consumption. What possibly are you receiving by regular post that is day-critical?
Look dumasses the proper moderation on this post is either "funny" or "flamebait" not "interesting. Seriously, what turnip truck did you all fall off of? Were your irony genes mutated by cosmic rays or microwave ovens?
Really, here on Slashdot you assert that a modern centralized datacenter is unneeded? You think that maintaining myriad and inconsistent IT systems is a good use of state funds. Really?
Yeah, but this article is discussing the state if the industry, not how an expert user can avoid popups and other scareware/malware.
.01% of us slashdotters that are the problem with malware infections, it is the millions of joe sixpacks that care not to go through the trouble that it takes to install and then browse with these specialized browsers and plugins.
There are loads of machines out there being infected today by doing normal browsing on reputable sites. With the current industry practice of n-number of redirects through n-number of networks for 3rd party ad serving it makes it near impossible to track down those of nefarious intent on an incident level.
Once again it is not the
I for one agree, something must be done; and "open letters" like this are often how the conversation starts.
Remember that TFA stated the ~50% of *users* clicked thru to articles, which would only amount to 1 click for the ~200 or so headlines to choose from on a given google news page. This makes a click thru rate of about 1 in 400 impressions or 0.25%
Which is still considered a miracle click thru rate for banner display media tha advertisers pay for.
So considering they are getting this trafic for FREE it seems like a pretty god deal to me.
Really? do you consider iTunes to be a non-crappy user interface?
It is worth noting that the Venetian is also an official CES venue in their convention space so CEA is not just a big pull on the industry, but a big pull on the Venetian for some pretty hefty revenue. This does not take conspiracy theory, this is a corporate entity throwing a small client under the bus to make a gigantic client happy. Standard procedure in big business.
neither do I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)
When I got My iPhone from AT+T I was told that the iPhone data plan is required for all iPhones on the AT+T network, regardless if they are in contract or owned outright. So AFAIK there is no way to have an IPhone without the AT+T data charge without jailbreaking it and violating my TOS with both Apple and AT+T.
So in effect, yes all iPhones are subsidized by the plans.
no kidding, that headline is retarded and misleading, even for /.
the Netherlands as well
This blog post completely misunderstands Microsoft's culture of dogfooding. Dogfooding is the practice of using the most recent beta, alpha, or CTP version of their software internally before it goes to any customers. Both Vista and windows 7 were used for many months by everybody in Redmond before they even went to a public beta. The idea of dogfooding it that they will ferret out problems by using them within MSFT before exposing their clients to those problems.
If the Danger data loss was a result of transitioning to Microsoft technologies, (which is a point of utter speculation) this would be the opposite of dogfooding.
Only a means to an end? Are you proposing that we could just get these guys at Paice laid and they will go away?
how about Ultra-Cheap
hmmmm...
If disabling 911 service is not a potential source of terror, society really has turned into something lower than an ochre jelly.
Can we make a special exemption for legal citizens that are contestants on Deal or no Deal?
Yeah that's just like a guy I was talking to about a new video codec he was writing. He could put an entire hour of HD into a single bit. He has the compressor nailed, but is having a little trouble with the decompressor.
You can insure that a page that you control (personal blog, resume whatever) comes up by buying placements on the big three engines. Then when somebody googles or yahoos you they get your paid listing every time. Full names are not very popular search terms and competition will be low. Unless your name is stockquote getrich you should be able to be the top listing for less than 20 cents a click.
Do people fundamentally change when they have more than one option to choose? I would have guessed rarely. Just because people have more choices does not mean they make statistically random choices. People have far greater psychological issues about what they choose and why they choose them than just availability. People like to be on the bandwagon and choose what their friends do, they like to choose things they've heard of and feel safe about, what's been recently marketed to them, comfort foods vs. healthy foods, etc.
You are missing the point altogether; people buy blockbusters because they want something and that is what is usually made available to them. The people that are settling and buying media for lack of better choices will be served by a wider variety of products and more obscure/less popular ones will get purchased when otherwise they would not. Take a look at the netflix top 100 http://www.netflix.com/Top100? the only picture in the top 10 that was produced in the last year and a half is "No Country for Old Men" hardly your typical blockbuster.
You obviously have no idea how big giving works in the world. If you don't like Bill that is fine, but the Gates Foundation is doing significant good work in many areas of poverty, disease and global development. It has never been a standard for a charity to make its investments align with its mission, its investments are to fund its mission. Even joe sixpack with an IRA has investments that do not perfectly align with his morality; and a single article from one sensationalist from the LA Times is not the bar against which to measure.