Compared to PostgreSQL that is just getting it now?
Most PostgreSQL solutions are addons and do the replication poorly and you can tell the PostgreSQL people get that given the number of abandoned and experimental projects. For the last project I used an HA cluster on(6 months ago), I tried several of the PostgreSQL options including the new experimental one (whose documentation was out of date) before giving up and going with MariaDB + Galera which is annoying to use since you have to prime the cluster if you restart all of it starting with the cluster item that has the most recent update (you try each one until it doesn't error). Starting the rest, and then restarting the original without the init command. I *hated* it, but at least it mostly works.
I'm hoping PostgreSQL has caught up by the time I ever need to do it again. The new idea they have looked promising, but the command interface was still changing too often to make it useful for me.
Postgres is an excavator, while the other two are bobcats. For heavy lifting, the choice is obvious.
Well, not so fast. For single server, PostgreSQL is superior (although less user friendly from the shell) But Mysql / MariaDB still beat PostgreSQL when it comes to replication.
Yes but then you have to know how to keep it up to date or it's yet another zombie waiting to happen. I'd rather most people went with a higher quality hosting service.
Also, $15 is expensive. I pay a lot less than that on OVH.
This problem is inherent to the http protocol itself. It is simply not possible to store state when the connection is designed to drop between requests.
I would would be very annoyed with my internet provider if they put ads on a service I was paying for. You can charge me money, or you can put ads on it. not both.
Worse than that.. the northern arctic radar system designed to warn us of incoming ICBMs uses vacuum tubes (or at least it did 10 years ago when my uncle worked there) sourced from Russia.
Enough that the voting block representing them inside the Conservative party were Harper's primary motivation for the change. Many people I know (especially in Alberta) consider the long form census a violation of their right to privacy and they made a lot of noise about wanting it gone.
Except that the long form census was never reliable data. A large number of people who were forced to fill it out retaliated by filling it out with bad info. Even the census takers knew many of the results were bogus but nothing could be done about it.
Here in Canada, there is a law that limits loans based on the what percentage of my income the payments would end up being. I can't help but think a lot of this madness would end if the maximum student loan was based on what is affordable based on the expected income of someone graduating with the degree in question.
The actual result was creating a gender imbalance and far too small of a working age population to support the older generation when they are unable to work. They are predicting that in the near future there will be 4 retirees per one working age adult and that is unsustainable.
If you want to control the population you need a gradual drop, not a sharp one.
Again, a fake bomb would not qualify as "exigent circumstances" after the point where they determined there was no threat so they had no legal right to question the kid without a parent or guardian present so the police interrogation was a violation of his civil rights.
This is a good lesson in why stereotypes are dumb. Have you forgotten about the Oklahoma bombing already? The most casualties in a bombing on US soil was a white guy. Or how about the bombs the Columbine attackers brought in when they shot up their school? Again white kids.
I fully expect the teachers to check it out, that's just being responsible I might even expect them to confiscate it for safety reasons (those transformer connections look a bit suspect to me) or based on the fact that he was disrupting class with it. What I don't expect, would be for them to take him out of school in handcuffs and then illegally question him without his parents present or for that matter, having the principal send a letter to all of the parents implying the kid was potentially dangerous.
This is not about it being an invention. This is about him doing something interesting for his age and at the very least he did some re soldering there and instead of getting a pat on the head from his teachers, they overreacted the police. On top of that, he was illegally questioned by the police since his parents were not allowed to be present even after he asked for them. They made this kid feel like an isolated second class person and to be honest, I can't imagine a more effective way to turn this kid into an actual terrorist.
The attention he got was more about undoing the damage than rewarding any actual genius.
Keep in mind that they are using it to push chrome apps as desktop apps. A good example of this is Google hangouts which does not have a native app with voice/video and so uses chrome as it's platform.
Up until the point that all of your neighbors upgrade to AC with 80 MHz or 160 MHz channels on 5Ghz and suddenly your back to the same crowded, interference burdened system you see on 2.4GHz. It's ridiculous that these units will be sold, configured out of the box for maximum speed, chewing up spectrum, to connect to a 10Mbs Internet connection.
There are many more 5 ghz channels than 2.4 ghz and the range is much shorter so there will actually be fewer neighbors to contend with so the situation should never get anywhere near as bad as it is now on 2.4 ghz. On top of that things like, cheap wireless phones and baby monitors are not on the 5ghz range so I doubt the situation will ever end up as bad.
All I really care about is that, for the first time, I can actually use wireless reliably. I have a link in my apartment where the wireless router is in the next room to my bedroom. I struggled to get decent speeds for even youtube but since upgrading my wireless router to 802.11ac, I've managed to stream 1080p movies off my NAS.
The Asus routers have a nice "AP mode" where NAT/DHCP gets turned off and NTP, updates etc just keep working. Contrast that with the latest Linksys models that reset their config if they can't access the internet through the WAN port to manage it's "cloud based management".
These days I use nothing but Asus for myself and I advise customers to avoid Linksys..
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Compared to PostgreSQL that is just getting it now?
Most PostgreSQL solutions are addons and do the replication poorly and you can tell the PostgreSQL people get that given the number of abandoned and experimental projects. For the last project I used an HA cluster on(6 months ago), I tried several of the PostgreSQL options including the new experimental one (whose documentation was out of date) before giving up and going with MariaDB + Galera which is annoying to use since you have to prime the cluster if you restart all of it starting with the cluster item that has the most recent update (you try each one until it doesn't error). Starting the rest, and then restarting the original without the init command. I *hated* it, but at least it mostly works.
I'm hoping PostgreSQL has caught up by the time I ever need to do it again. The new idea they have looked promising, but the command interface was still changing too often to make it useful for me.
Postgres is an excavator, while the other two are bobcats. For heavy lifting, the choice is obvious.
Well, not so fast. For single server, PostgreSQL is superior (although less user friendly from the shell) But Mysql / MariaDB still beat PostgreSQL when it comes to replication.
Yes but then you have to know how to keep it up to date or it's yet another zombie waiting to happen. I'd rather most people went with a higher quality hosting service.
Also, $15 is expensive. I pay a lot less than that on OVH.
This problem is inherent to the http protocol itself. It is simply not possible to store state when the connection is designed to drop between requests.
You mean there are downsides to $6.00/month hosting packages? Who knew?
Heh. While I wholeheartedly agree with you, ads on cable television have already set the precedent.
Care to take a guess why I refuse to have cable TV in my house?
I would would be very annoyed with my internet provider if they put ads on a service I was paying for. You can charge me money, or you can put ads on it. not both.
Worse than that.. the northern arctic radar system designed to warn us of incoming ICBMs uses vacuum tubes (or at least it did 10 years ago when my uncle worked there) sourced from Russia.
You mean like this? There is a reason Montreal has some of the lowest point to point fiber costs on the continent.
The problem is that in most cases there is no possible way to sanitize the input since Windows takes control of it.
You make it sound like no one has ever hacked a hypervisor.
Enough that the voting block representing them inside the Conservative party were Harper's primary motivation for the change. Many people I know (especially in Alberta) consider the long form census a violation of their right to privacy and they made a lot of noise about wanting it gone.
Except that the long form census was never reliable data. A large number of people who were forced to fill it out retaliated by filling it out with bad info. Even the census takers knew many of the results were bogus but nothing could be done about it.
Here in Canada, there is a law that limits loans based on the what percentage of my income the payments would end up being. I can't help but think a lot of this madness would end if the maximum student loan was based on what is affordable based on the expected income of someone graduating with the degree in question.
The actual result was creating a gender imbalance and far too small of a working age population to support the older generation when they are unable to work. They are predicting that in the near future there will be 4 retirees per one working age adult and that is unsustainable.
If you want to control the population you need a gradual drop, not a sharp one.
Too bad for them. I've been "pinning" locations on maps since I was a child in the 80s.
Again, a fake bomb would not qualify as "exigent circumstances" after the point where they determined there was no threat so they had no legal right to question the kid without a parent or guardian present so the police interrogation was a violation of his civil rights.
On top of that, he was illegally questioned by the police since his parents were not allowed to be present even after he asked for them. .
No perfectly legal, as in "exigent circumstances", google it.
How can you have "exigent circumstances" after the device was determined not to be a bomb?
This is a good lesson in why stereotypes are dumb. Have you forgotten about the Oklahoma bombing already? The most casualties in a bombing on US soil was a white guy. Or how about the bombs the Columbine attackers brought in when they shot up their school? Again white kids.
I fully expect the teachers to check it out, that's just being responsible I might even expect them to confiscate it for safety reasons (those transformer connections look a bit suspect to me) or based on the fact that he was disrupting class with it. What I don't expect, would be for them to take him out of school in handcuffs and then illegally question him without his parents present or for that matter, having the principal send a letter to all of the parents implying the kid was potentially dangerous.
This is not about it being an invention. This is about him doing something interesting for his age and at the very least he did some re soldering there and instead of getting a pat on the head from his teachers, they overreacted the police. On top of that, he was illegally questioned by the police since his parents were not allowed to be present even after he asked for them. They made this kid feel like an isolated second class person and to be honest, I can't imagine a more effective way to turn this kid into an actual terrorist.
The attention he got was more about undoing the damage than rewarding any actual genius.
Keep in mind that they are using it to push chrome apps as desktop apps. A good example of this is Google hangouts which does not have a native app with voice/video and so uses chrome as it's platform.
Up until the point that all of your neighbors upgrade to AC with 80 MHz or 160 MHz channels on 5Ghz and suddenly your back to the same crowded, interference burdened system you see on 2.4GHz. It's ridiculous that these units will be sold, configured out of the box for maximum speed, chewing up spectrum, to connect to a 10Mbs Internet connection.
There are many more 5 ghz channels than 2.4 ghz and the range is much shorter so there will actually be fewer neighbors to contend with so the situation should never get anywhere near as bad as it is now on 2.4 ghz. On top of that things like, cheap wireless phones and baby monitors are not on the 5ghz range so I doubt the situation will ever end up as bad.
All I really care about is that, for the first time, I can actually use wireless reliably. I have a link in my apartment where the wireless router is in the next room to my bedroom. I struggled to get decent speeds for even youtube but since upgrading my wireless router to 802.11ac, I've managed to stream 1080p movies off my NAS.
The Asus routers have a nice "AP mode" where NAT/DHCP gets turned off and NTP, updates etc just keep working. Contrast that with the latest Linksys models that reset their config if they can't access the internet through the WAN port to manage it's "cloud based management".
These days I use nothing but Asus for myself and I advise customers to avoid Linksys..