Maybe they could use some sort of distributed cache so it doesn't go to one place. Sort of like DNS does but instead of IP's it returns the DTD. Obviously this would mean deprecating the current standard but who cares? Just turn it off, people will figure out pretty quickly what they need to do.
This is a classic column-orientated DBMS, ala Sybase. You use these for data warehousing since they are optimized for read queries and not transactions. Stuff like Google search queries. It also allows you to quickly build cubes of data across a timeline, since you have data in columns instead of rows.
It's pretty difficult to do the same thing with row-based DBMS. However, you can see that doing an insert is going to be costly.. This looks like a pretty good try, I know there were some other projects going to try to replicate what BigTable does. And after hearing that IBM story the other day about one computer running the entire internet, I started thinking about Google.
More interesting is their distributed file system, which is what makes this really work well.
It's amazing how the president and the elected representatives just allow this to happen without any debate. The FBI has WAY too much power since 9/11. Someone needs to dial this back, take the government out of our business.
That's why you need to vote for Ron Paul in your primary or caucus. Also, today, please do not click on any political news stories on your favorite news portal unless they mention Ron Paul. That way his stories are at the top of the list (most popular). Everywhere you turn, he has massive support. He will win Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho, West Viginia. He's the best candidate right now. But there is not a mention of him on ANY mainstream media, be it Cable News OR major online outlets (Yahoo, MSNBC, etc.). Yet if you look, almost every small local paper is carrying a story about him every day. It's a massive corporate conspiracy to keep his voice from being heard. Even if he's not the best candidate, it's just not right to repress any strong voice, especially if the people want to hear it. It's symbolic of everything we have come to distrust about our country in the past 8 years.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. This is another example of why we really need to change the government--they are trying to snatch more power every day at the expense of our freedom.
Yeah, so what. Why is every big bank in the U.S. run out of South Dakota and Delaware? Because those states have lax banking laws. Why are movies made in California? Low tax on entertainment. Duh.
If Washington State decided to levy M$FT they would be driving out one of the largest employers, and those employees DO pay income tax. Not to mention sales tax on everything they buy. Lots of companies are in Nevada to not pay tax. Guess what, there wouldn't be SHIT in Nevada if they had the tax! So, states do things that help them out, and companies do also. This is a NON STORY.
Hitler would be proud of Romney. McCain is an Ex POW and was probably brainwashed. Huckabee is more theocratic than Bush, and that's saying something. Ron Paul is the only normal person. And he's not going to be viable since he's getting crushed by the big corps. Ron Paul needs everyone of those computer people who support him to actually GET OUT the vote, get out of the basement.
He keeps bringing up economics, which all the other candidates are afraid of. The other candidates are still running with the classic war/fear thing. If Ron Paul goes third-party, which he probably could, he has a chance. He is raising money like a mug and hasn't been spending it. The problem is people are so concerned with voting for "the winner" and not where they actually should. This is not a sports book, you don't have to pick the winner. Picking the loser and helping them get a stronger voice, even if they lose, is better than selling out for the premade winner they want you to pick.
And the fact that certain US/Saudi Arabian oil companies have cables directly between Houston and Saudi. Private cables, not Flag, which is a consortium of international telcoms and local governments. So, hey, let's extend an olive branch and you can use our network, which flows directly into downtown Houston. Then everyone will forget for a while and in 10 years it will still be there because the tech who connected it died accidentally in a plane crash and it was unlabeled so no one ever thought to check it.
Granted, it's possible to lose this many at once to chance, but those cables are armored, especially at depths anchors normally go to.. Could this be part of the "information blockade"? Interesting that there was a major "information warfare" exercise recently also..
The point is, with no long-range communications coming out of a country, the powers that be can say they are saying whatever they want, and we have to believe them. Like how they depict the Iranian president as being very dark-skinned, when the majority of Iranians are white. Or other things. Naturally. And of course, knowing this, and knowing that the same cases were manufactured for all wars previous to now, you come to realize that we the public are pawns and are simply living the story written for us by the great ones.
Microsoft is a publishing company. The biggest publishing company, actually. They publish software. Google is a advertising company. They sell ads.
Microsoft's main strength, they make the ubiquitous OS on all pre-built PCs, means they at least $100 of every PC sold. Google's main strength, their search engine, can only be free.
Google's trying to make M$FT sweat by taking all that practically free money they're making selling ads to reinvest in the online services model. But the problem is the online service is ONLINE, not on your machine. So there's no way for them to ever get a piece of PC sales as long as Microsoft has the OS locked down. Thus they are going where it's easy, Mobile Devices. Google is always on a precipice. They rose so quickly, much more quickly than Microsoft, they can fall just as quickly. They are a reasonably small company with not that many employees and not that many products.
Microsoft has always done a good job of keeping their company small enough to make a shitload of money for the shareholders. They have 60 billion in cash, and they pay dividends. They could buy Yahoo, totally remove it from the internet and still make 20 times what Google makes. They are in two separate businesses and I hate it how people are always comparing them.
I guess the David n' Goliath thing is a classic meme in Journalism but Google is doing their own thing, not trying to fight Microsoft. I do think they'll do a better job than M$FT in the global market, what with Sir Gay being russian and everything. It is kindof funny how you hear stories about the communist atmosphere around the Google campuses, almost cult-like. Whereas Microsoft has really lightened up, especially since Ray Ozzie came on board.
Some things will never change, Microsoft will always try to structure their products to sell as many OS licenses as possible and Google will always only sell ads.
Arcing actually replaces the abrasion problem with an ablation problem (and a conductivity problem). Unless you mean arcing between the rails themselves, which shouldn't happen, as the solution is the same as the contact-area and general resistance solution: wider, thicker rails.
What if you use a buffer gas such as helium? And construct the rails out of platinum and titanium alloy?
Reading Slashdot.. is clearly educational material for advancing one's knowledge of the field.
Aren't you new here?...(1658)..oh..sarcasm.
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Too bad Excel only allows up to 65535 lines;) However, you can have an unlimited number of worksheets up to available memory and resources. Unfortunately, the girls in accounting figured this out a few years ago...
Ruby sucks anyway. I'd rather see cross-platform experience: Windows, Linux, MSSQL, MySql, PCs, Mainframes, Accounting, Security, and other knowledge. This is for a business programmer. For an academic/science programmer, I'd want to see some serious math and CS background. 99% of programming on the business side is going to be accounting, database or some combination thereof. The other 1% is graphics for the CEO's fancy dashboard. Unless you're a games programmer. But nowadays the presentation code is so easy a graphic designer can easily do it himself, with a real programmer in the back to do the accounting and database stuff.
You're talking about Software Engineering, "the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software".
Knowing languages is good. Theory is good also. But to make a working product you need much much more. From the inital vision, to project planning, choosing the appropriate tools (language, platform, etc.), and matching features to business process requirements, you have a lot of work ahead of you. Of course, actually writing the code is a challenge in itself, but in a lot of small- to mid-sized businesses, the "developer" is also the project manager, the analyst, the senior developer and the IT manager all at once. Careerwise you CANNOT go wrong having at least rudmentary (such as Quick Kill) and probably at least a familiarity with development methodolgies. There is no one leader, agile was big for a while but it was too cult-like.. There's a million of them, you have to match the right one to the job. People who do this are software engineers.
Wow, you know a language. Most working coders know 10. It's applying that knowledge to make or maintain software that gets you a job.
So you're saying for a worst case situation, where the batteries die, the generators are out of fuel, everything is down--and this solar panel or whatever sits there all day gathering sun and then at a predetermined time it runs the tower for 30 minutes so people can text their parents or whatever. Not bad idea, it would be extremely cheap to implement, and in the worst case scenario, it would continue to allow some communications. Coupled with fuel cell or hand-crank power for the cell phones themselves you could have a fairly reliable temporary 30 minute-per-day communication service.
Adopt a development methodology that defines what features will be developed and what features WILL NOT be developed. Now you have a place to put all those "great ideas" people have while you're still making the base product. You can also keep them in mind while making other modules, so you know you can make them later. This eliminates scope creep. It may not seem like a piece of paper will work, but as a society we all know the power of forms. Act like it's not your choice, that someone in management is making you use the methodology. No one will want to contradict anyone else so they will just accept it. And when it works, and you come in on-time and on-budget it will become part of the corporate culture.
Your deliverables (above) will be a part of your project charter. You will also include stuff like: a list of stakeholders, RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS (such as a deadline not being met, etc.), testing, and of course "Success", which will be a list of metrics that define a successful product (ie: it can generate payroll checks, it can print report A, etc). Then, take your project charter (look it up on google) and put a bunch of lines on the bottom for you, the team and the management and the key users to sign off on. Do not start work until it gets signed off. Then make a copy for yourself and file the original with the project documentation. Work and complete all the features to be developed. At the end, take the project charter and make sure everything is fulfilled, then give it to the "customer" and have them sign off again for completion (after you demo the software).
Usually scope creep means poor project management, and as a developer you can't expect anyone else to do it. Just do it, you will be very thankful you did. Also, if it's a short project, try something called Quick-Kill project management. Large projects need a better methodology. I use one I made up that's based on the quick kill and some microsoft stuff, with some unix version control stuff, and oracle business process analysis stuff... Over time you will develop your own methodology and become a star senior programmer making $300,000 a year.
I could see how you could use this in school, to capture a lecture in a very basic form. Then you can run through 1 minute of audio around the time each picture was taken (say every 5 minutes) and review a 50 minute lecture in 10 minutes. Of course it's possible to record all the audio (the snippet function would be in software), so if you came to a spot that you needed to fully review, you could listen to all the audio of the section. I think that if dementia patients could benefit from this then everyone can.
It might be useful to add some additional information, such as geocoordinates, to the recordings also. Then you could "tag" your regular locations (such as the lecture hall, etc), and set up rules to automatically download and save to certain categories in the database, based on the location you were at when they recorded. So, for instance, you could set up a rule that all recordings at the coordinates of Lecture Hall One should be saved to "Physics Lectures", and all recordings at the coordinates of Lecture Hall Two go to "Accounting Lectures". It's going to need to be automatic if people are going to use it.
It's no less stupid than using information from your newspaper or cable news. What youtube lacks in education it makes up for in lack of corporate influence... we are all starting to see that a pure free market is not as optimal for the people as originally thought. A balanced capitalism, with plenty of inefficient government services and stifling regulation results in more stable growth and more equality overall.
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Except they would then "legally" spam the bill with commas, periods, t crossing, i dotting so you couldn't find the real corrections.
Does anyone else change their homepage to links like this just to scare their girlfriends?
You must be new here.
Maybe they could use some sort of distributed cache so it doesn't go to one place. Sort of like DNS does but instead of IP's it returns the DTD. Obviously this would mean deprecating the current standard but who cares? Just turn it off, people will figure out pretty quickly what they need to do.
This is a classic column-orientated DBMS, ala Sybase. You use these for data warehousing since they are optimized for read queries and not transactions. Stuff like Google search queries. It also allows you to quickly build cubes of data across a timeline, since you have data in columns instead of rows.
IE:
a,b,c,d,e; 1,2,3,4,5,6; a,b,c,d,e;
instead of:
a, 1, a;
b, 2, b;
c, 3, c;
d, 4, d;
e, 5, e;
A cube using the time dimension would look like:
01:01:01; a,b,c,d,e; 1,2,3,4,5; a,b,c,d,e;
01:01:02; a,b,c,d,e; 1,2,6,4,5; a,b,c,d,e;
It's pretty difficult to do the same thing with row-based DBMS. However, you can see that doing an insert is going to be costly.. This looks like a pretty good try, I know there were some other projects going to try to replicate what BigTable does. And after hearing that IBM story the other day about one computer running the entire internet, I started thinking about Google.
More interesting is their distributed file system, which is what makes this really work well.
It's amazing how the president and the elected representatives just allow this to happen without any debate. The FBI has WAY too much power since 9/11. Someone needs to dial this back, take the government out of our business.
That's why you need to vote for Ron Paul in your primary or caucus. Also, today, please do not click on any political news stories on your favorite news portal unless they mention Ron Paul. That way his stories are at the top of the list (most popular). Everywhere you turn, he has massive support. He will win Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho, West Viginia. He's the best candidate right now. But there is not a mention of him on ANY mainstream media, be it Cable News OR major online outlets (Yahoo, MSNBC, etc.). Yet if you look, almost every small local paper is carrying a story about him every day. It's a massive corporate conspiracy to keep his voice from being heard. Even if he's not the best candidate, it's just not right to repress any strong voice, especially if the people want to hear it. It's symbolic of everything we have come to distrust about our country in the past 8 years.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. This is another example of why we really need to change the government--they are trying to snatch more power every day at the expense of our freedom.
From your link:
MySQL began development with a focus on speed while PostgreSQL began development with a focus on features and standards.
MySQL's MyISAM engine performs faster than PostgreSQL, but at the cost of transactions, data safety, and various constraints.
PostgreSQL, on the other hand, provides features, such as partial indexing, that can lead to faster performance on certain queries.
PostgreSQL is also better in the sack.
I didn't correct the wiki because I thought it was hilarious and probably true.
Yeah, so what. Why is every big bank in the U.S. run out of South Dakota and Delaware? Because those states have lax banking laws. Why are movies made in California? Low tax on entertainment. Duh.
If Washington State decided to levy M$FT they would be driving out one of the largest employers, and those employees DO pay income tax. Not to mention sales tax on everything they buy. Lots of companies are in Nevada to not pay tax. Guess what, there wouldn't be SHIT in Nevada if they had the tax! So, states do things that help them out, and companies do also. This is a NON STORY.
Hitler would be proud of Romney. McCain is an Ex POW and was probably brainwashed. Huckabee is more theocratic than Bush, and that's saying something. Ron Paul is the only normal person. And he's not going to be viable since he's getting crushed by the big corps. Ron Paul needs everyone of those computer people who support him to actually GET OUT the vote, get out of the basement.
He keeps bringing up economics, which all the other candidates are afraid of. The other candidates are still running with the classic war/fear thing. If Ron Paul goes third-party, which he probably could, he has a chance. He is raising money like a mug and hasn't been spending it. The problem is people are so concerned with voting for "the winner" and not where they actually should. This is not a sports book, you don't have to pick the winner. Picking the loser and helping them get a stronger voice, even if they lose, is better than selling out for the premade winner they want you to pick.
And the fact that certain US/Saudi Arabian oil companies have cables directly between Houston and Saudi. Private cables, not Flag, which is a consortium of international telcoms and local governments. So, hey, let's extend an olive branch and you can use our network, which flows directly into downtown Houston. Then everyone will forget for a while and in 10 years it will still be there because the tech who connected it died accidentally in a plane crash and it was unlabeled so no one ever thought to check it.
Granted, it's possible to lose this many at once to chance, but those cables are armored, especially at depths anchors normally go to.. Could this be part of the "information blockade"? Interesting that there was a major "information warfare" exercise recently also..
The point is, with no long-range communications coming out of a country, the powers that be can say they are saying whatever they want, and we have to believe them. Like how they depict the Iranian president as being very dark-skinned, when the majority of Iranians are white. Or other things. Naturally. And of course, knowing this, and knowing that the same cases were manufactured for all wars previous to now, you come to realize that we the public are pawns and are simply living the story written for us by the great ones.
Also, this is interesting.
Microsoft is a publishing company. The biggest publishing company, actually. They publish software.
Google is a advertising company. They sell ads.
Microsoft's main strength, they make the ubiquitous OS on all pre-built PCs, means they at least $100 of every PC sold.
Google's main strength, their search engine, can only be free.
Google's trying to make M$FT sweat by taking all that practically free money they're making selling ads to reinvest in the online services model. But the problem is the online service is ONLINE, not on your machine. So there's no way for them to ever get a piece of PC sales as long as Microsoft has the OS locked down. Thus they are going where it's easy, Mobile Devices. Google is always on a precipice. They rose so quickly, much more quickly than Microsoft, they can fall just as quickly. They are a reasonably small company with not that many employees and not that many products.
Microsoft has always done a good job of keeping their company small enough to make a shitload of money for the shareholders. They have 60 billion in cash, and they pay dividends. They could buy Yahoo, totally remove it from the internet and still make 20 times what Google makes. They are in two separate businesses and I hate it how people are always comparing them.
I guess the David n' Goliath thing is a classic meme in Journalism but Google is doing their own thing, not trying to fight Microsoft. I do think they'll do a better job than M$FT in the global market, what with Sir Gay being russian and everything. It is kindof funny how you hear stories about the communist atmosphere around the Google campuses, almost cult-like. Whereas Microsoft has really lightened up, especially since Ray Ozzie came on board.
Some things will never change, Microsoft will always try to structure their products to sell as many OS licenses as possible and Google will always only sell ads.
Arcing actually replaces the abrasion problem with an ablation problem (and a conductivity problem). Unless you mean arcing between the rails themselves, which shouldn't happen, as the solution is the same as the contact-area and general resistance solution: wider, thicker rails.
What if you use a buffer gas such as helium? And construct the rails out of platinum and titanium alloy?
You mean:
E) Look directly into the beam, with remaining eye.
Reading Slashdot .. is clearly educational material for advancing one's knowledge of the field.
Aren't you new here?...(1658)..oh..sarcasm.
Too bad Excel only allows up to 65535 lines ;) However, you can have an unlimited number of worksheets up to available memory and resources. Unfortunately, the girls in accounting figured this out a few years ago...
Billing Xref.xls (1.86GB)
Ruby sucks anyway. I'd rather see cross-platform experience: Windows, Linux, MSSQL, MySql, PCs, Mainframes, Accounting, Security, and other knowledge. This is for a business programmer. For an academic/science programmer, I'd want to see some serious math and CS background. 99% of programming on the business side is going to be accounting, database or some combination thereof. The other 1% is graphics for the CEO's fancy dashboard. Unless you're a games programmer. But nowadays the presentation code is so easy a graphic designer can easily do it himself, with a real programmer in the back to do the accounting and database stuff.
You're talking about Software Engineering, "the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software".
Knowing languages is good. Theory is good also. But to make a working product you need much much more. From the inital vision, to project planning, choosing the appropriate tools (language, platform, etc.), and matching features to business process requirements, you have a lot of work ahead of you. Of course, actually writing the code is a challenge in itself, but in a lot of small- to mid-sized businesses, the "developer" is also the project manager, the analyst, the senior developer and the IT manager all at once. Careerwise you CANNOT go wrong having at least rudmentary (such as Quick Kill) and probably at least a familiarity with development methodolgies. There is no one leader, agile was big for a while but it was too cult-like.. There's a million of them, you have to match the right one to the job. People who do this are software engineers.
Wow, you know a language. Most working coders know 10. It's applying that knowledge to make or maintain software that gets you a job.
Well, at least those astronomers will get to experience one type of shower up close in their lives.
This would have been nice to have when my WIFE dropped her PHONE in the TOILET.
And all the bees are mysteriously dying. So maybe it is a good metaphor, just not one you'd want to use..
No, they'll come home from work and plug in immediately, when the load on the electrical grid is highest (at least during the summer)
Perfect, then my car can sell the energy left in its batteries to the grid at peak rates, and fill them back up at night when it's cheaper.
So you're saying for a worst case situation, where the batteries die, the generators are out of fuel, everything is down--and this solar panel or whatever sits there all day gathering sun and then at a predetermined time it runs the tower for 30 minutes so people can text their parents or whatever. Not bad idea, it would be extremely cheap to implement, and in the worst case scenario, it would continue to allow some communications. Coupled with fuel cell or hand-crank power for the cell phones themselves you could have a fairly reliable temporary 30 minute-per-day communication service.
Adopt a development methodology that defines what features will be developed and what features WILL NOT be developed. Now you have a place to put all those "great ideas" people have while you're still making the base product. You can also keep them in mind while making other modules, so you know you can make them later. This eliminates scope creep. It may not seem like a piece of paper will work, but as a society we all know the power of forms. Act like it's not your choice, that someone in management is making you use the methodology. No one will want to contradict anyone else so they will just accept it. And when it works, and you come in on-time and on-budget it will become part of the corporate culture.
Your deliverables (above) will be a part of your project charter. You will also include stuff like: a list of stakeholders, RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS (such as a deadline not being met, etc.), testing, and of course "Success", which will be a list of metrics that define a successful product (ie: it can generate payroll checks, it can print report A, etc). Then, take your project charter (look it up on google) and put a bunch of lines on the bottom for you, the team and the management and the key users to sign off on. Do not start work until it gets signed off. Then make a copy for yourself and file the original with the project documentation. Work and complete all the features to be developed. At the end, take the project charter and make sure everything is fulfilled, then give it to the "customer" and have them sign off again for completion (after you demo the software).
Usually scope creep means poor project management, and as a developer you can't expect anyone else to do it. Just do it, you will be very thankful you did. Also, if it's a short project, try something called Quick-Kill project management. Large projects need a better methodology. I use one I made up that's based on the quick kill and some microsoft stuff, with some unix version control stuff, and oracle business process analysis stuff... Over time you will develop your own methodology and become a star senior programmer making $300,000 a year.
Have fun
I could see how you could use this in school, to capture a lecture in a very basic form. Then you can run through 1 minute of audio around the time each picture was taken (say every 5 minutes) and review a 50 minute lecture in 10 minutes. Of course it's possible to record all the audio (the snippet function would be in software), so if you came to a spot that you needed to fully review, you could listen to all the audio of the section. I think that if dementia patients could benefit from this then everyone can.
It might be useful to add some additional information, such as geocoordinates, to the recordings also. Then you could "tag" your regular locations (such as the lecture hall, etc), and set up rules to automatically download and save to certain categories in the database, based on the location you were at when they recorded. So, for instance, you could set up a rule that all recordings at the coordinates of Lecture Hall One should be saved to "Physics Lectures", and all recordings at the coordinates of Lecture Hall Two go to "Accounting Lectures". It's going to need to be automatic if people are going to use it.
Human-developed robots will continually approach the abilities of actual living things but will never acheive it.
It's no less stupid than using information from your newspaper or cable news. What youtube lacks in education it makes up for in lack of corporate influence... we are all starting to see that a pure free market is not as optimal for the people as originally thought. A balanced capitalism, with plenty of inefficient government services and stifling regulation results in more stable growth and more equality overall.