I am sure that some Religious fundaments will call this ruling of some crazy liberal judge.
That would be delusional. The judge is a rather conservative Bush appointee.
I am conservative myself and I personally do believe in inelegant design but I do not believe that it should be tough in schools as science.
Believe whatever you want according to the dictates of your own conscience. So long as you don't try to put it in public school science curricula, that is fine with me.
Science is not guaranteed to be absolute truth, science is a process of observations and finding a theory that best fits the observation, if a pattern cannot be found it is called random
Science is a bit more than you give it credit for. There is a pretty well defined set of philisophical principals that extend it well beyond pure empiricism.
As far as 'random', this is whare I disagree. Self-organization is easy to show on many scales and doesn't require any faith to accept. This argument is an approach used to try obfuscate the fact that there are real ways of dealing with the question of self organization. Unfortunately they require some pretty careful thinking to undersand and are not as easily presented to the general public as Darwinism is.
Just saying God did it is a shortcut that ends further investigation
And that is the problem. Progress ends when you stop looking for alternative explanations.
Rupert Murdoch gained his American citizenship specifically so he could own FOX
This was an attempt to convince the FCC that purchasing FOX would be acceptable under foreign ownership rules. However since Newscorp was still 85% foreign owned this turned out to be not a major factor in the decision to allow Newscorp to purchase FOX. The FCC can decide to approve foreign media ownership if it can be convinced doing so is in the public interest.
Most countries, the US included, heavily regulate radio broadcast media (such as audio radio and television), including ownership and content.
Ownership, yes. In the US there is no rule that a station must broadcast a certain percentage of US produced content, and in fact some stations broadcast non-US content exclusively.
Broaderband offers the potential to allow users to do more than just download. For example Cablevision is now offering a 2nd tier service that offers 30 mbps down and 2 up. Nice speed - but more important this service allows users to run their own mail and web servers. Initially the web server bandwith is capped, but I have hopes that the cap value will gradually be increased.
This is the next Internet as far as the home user is concerned - anyone who wants to can run their own servers.
Free speach restrictions in Europe are much more pervasive than this. For example look at the French restrictions requiring TV and Film content to be 51% European.
GC does not necessarily cause load spikes - as modern Java collectors have proven it is possible to to do GC without machine pauses.
On the other hand, smart pointers fall well short of what Java offers - since smart pointer based software typically suffer from reference count bugs, and don't handle references loops. And doing the memory collection inline rather than in a seperate thread is a real disadvantage - but then it isn't like C++ has a threading model anyway.
C++ really suffers in many ways by not having modern GC and threading support. It is really starting to look like modern technology is passing it by. THis is becommng more and more of a problem as processors become increasingly parallel.
I agree with you to a certain point - but the fact is that a large part of programming today is not worth spending the time on to go to a low level implementation. Who cares if that UI is somewhat bloated? It isn't on the critical path. Likewise a lot of that Java code is spending most of its time waiting for a stored procedure to run, etc. For this sort of stuff (probably 95% of what a programmer does in this day and age) the correct answer is to write generic maintainable code. And that means OOP, Java, GC - all the things you don't like.
One of the basic rules of pragmatic programming is that you don't optimize until you have to - carefully optimized code tends to be a lot more fragile than generic code.
I've stopped buying DVDs because I don't want to re-buy once HD DVDs become available - Netflix is a terrific alternative to building your own video collection.
I have had some annoyances with Netflix though - damaged (out right broken or cracked DVDs) are about 15% of what I recieve, and sometimes I have to wait several days to get a movie from across the country. But all in all it is super convenient compared to the alternatives, and very inexpensive for what you get.
I suspect that Netflix is in a great position now because it would cost a heck of a lot of money to start up a competitive service.
I've had occasion to travel to Tennessee on occasional business trips. From what I could see the state is certainly lacking growth opportunities. A big part of that starts with the poor spending levels in the education system, 44th per student nationally. Until Tenessee gets with the program and realizes that the state will not develop economically if its citizens don't have competitive skills businesses, except when they need cheap uneducated labor, are not going to be interested even if taxes are 0.
But the benchmark you site uses Ruby 1.9 which is unreleased, unfinished, unoptimized and not even beta yet. It was compared to a fully optimized Java release: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.4.2_05-b04, mixed mode).
Attacking a set of benchmarks based on softare versions is not helpful unless you supply measurements that support your point. And please note that Java 1.4.2 is not current. Scientific evaluation rather than hand waving, please.
When I say that Ruby drastically improves programmer productivity compared to Java
I'd accept this based on my experiences with Python. However I think you give that up in testing - especially as the size of the programmer team grows. Dynamically typed languages are subject to more runtime errors than statically typed languages, and run time errors are more expensive to test for and to catch.
I have not yet detected a single memory leak in my c++ apps using runtime tracers after I started using smartpointers (boost) and a c++ lint checking.
That contravales most opinions regarding smart pointers - while they reduce memory management problems in C++, reference miscounts and circular references in smart pointer based code still leave C++ programs more vulnerable to memory leaks than programs with built-in GC implementations that are more robust in handling these conditions.
That is pathetic. My base service is 10, going to 15 over the next few months as the cable company rolls out an upgrade. Those with the 30 service are reporting that they can't find any hosts that hit that speed - all the can find is some speed tests that verify their throughput, so I may just stick with the standard service.
Christmas as a gift-giving tradition was created as a marketting ploy roughly around 1900.
Utterly ridiculous. The tradition of giving gifts at Christmas is as old as Christianity itself. Roman accounts of Christmas celebrations include exchanges of gifts amoung relatives.
Rank amateurs couldn't implement their own transactions.
A blog author puts up an article about writing a prototype 5 years ago in MySQL and you think that Google is still using the same implementation to handle 1 billion dollars a month in revenues? Are you serious?
Take a look at the comments on the blog article. It is quite clear that whoever wrote the article has no idea of what a transaction really is in the first place.
You don't have a clue as to what you're talking about here or how filesystems and controllers work, do you?
So you are saying that it is perfectly acceptable for a power outage to cause a database failure? That is total nonsense, period. Other systems have concepts like redo logs, archive logs, etc. to handle this sort of problem. In the Wikipedia discussion of this incident they clearly admit that other databases would have survived this incident without damage.
and the MySQL databases do all of the work?
Wrong. Read the quote. All the bookings and pricing occur in the Non-MySQL database. THe MySQL stuff is just slave replicas that do nothing but handle client reads for shopping from data pushed daily from the Non-MySQL database.
Slashdot Mirror
This would be a start:
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691116245/qid=1
I also believe in inelegant design. How else do you explain the Edsel?
Not to mention the prostate and appendix. Also it seemed to be a factor in the Google story as well.
But there's still no reason for the "blink" tag.
I thought most browsers had evolved away from that.
I am sure that some Religious fundaments will call this ruling of some crazy liberal judge.
That would be delusional. The judge is a rather conservative Bush appointee.
I am conservative myself and I personally do believe in inelegant design but I do not believe that it should be tough in schools as science.
Believe whatever you want according to the dictates of your own conscience. So long as you don't try to put it in public school science curricula, that is fine with me.
Science is not guaranteed to be absolute truth, science is a process of observations and finding a theory that best fits the observation, if a pattern cannot be found it is called random
Science is a bit more than you give it credit for. There is a pretty well defined set of philisophical principals that extend it well beyond pure empiricism.
As far as 'random', this is whare I disagree. Self-organization is easy to show on many scales and doesn't require any faith to accept. This argument is an approach used to try obfuscate the fact that there are real ways of dealing with the question of self organization. Unfortunately they require some pretty careful thinking to undersand and are not as easily presented to the general public as Darwinism is.
Just saying God did it is a shortcut that ends further investigation
And that is the problem. Progress ends when you stop looking for alternative explanations.
Reminds me of a similar quote:
When asked about railroads tne Duke of Wellington complained that they would "only encourage the common people to move about needlessly."
Rupert Murdoch gained his American citizenship specifically so he could own FOX
This was an attempt to convince the FCC that purchasing FOX would be acceptable under foreign ownership rules. However since Newscorp was still 85% foreign owned this turned out to be not a major factor in the decision to allow Newscorp to purchase FOX. The FCC can decide to approve foreign media ownership if it can be convinced doing so is in the public interest.
Most countries, the US included, heavily regulate radio broadcast media (such as audio radio and television), including ownership and content.
Ownership, yes. In the US there is no rule that a station must broadcast a certain percentage of US produced content, and in fact some stations broadcast non-US content exclusively.
Broaderband offers the potential to allow users to do more than just download. For example Cablevision is now offering a 2nd tier service that offers 30 mbps down and 2 up. Nice speed - but more important this service allows users to run their own mail and web servers. Initially the web server bandwith is capped, but I have hopes that the cap value will gradually be increased.
This is the next Internet as far as the home user is concerned - anyone who wants to can run their own servers.
Free speach restrictions in Europe are much more pervasive than this. For example look at the French restrictions requiring TV and Film content to be 51% European.
DVD is quite good enough with a good upconverter, so...
I've seen BluRay content on a Qualia 006. DVD isn't good enough.
That 95% of the programing that can be done in java, will be outsourced.
Along with everything else including CPU design, writing device drivers, and everything else that you normally don't write in Java.
Even if you write C++ code and don't do a single delete, most of the time your leaky ass program will use a ton less ram than the java equivalent.
Assuming your program handles trivial amounts of data, and isn't a daemon or a server. Not trivial programs - boom.
Only knowing the simple way of doing things, makes you disposable.
Only knowing one way of doing things makes you disposable.
S=k log W
GC does not necessarily cause load spikes - as modern Java collectors have proven it is possible to to do GC without machine pauses.
On the other hand, smart pointers fall well short of what Java offers - since smart pointer based software typically suffer from reference count bugs, and don't handle references loops. And doing the memory collection inline rather than in a seperate thread is a real disadvantage - but then it isn't like C++ has a threading model anyway.
C++ really suffers in many ways by not having modern GC and threading support. It is really starting to look like modern technology is passing it by. THis is becommng more and more of a problem as processors become increasingly parallel.
I agree with you to a certain point - but the fact is that a large part of programming today is not worth spending the time on to go to a low level implementation. Who cares if that UI is somewhat bloated? It isn't on the critical path. Likewise a lot of that Java code is spending most of its time waiting for a stored procedure to run, etc. For this sort of stuff (probably 95% of what a programmer does in this day and age) the correct answer is to write generic maintainable code. And that means OOP, Java, GC - all the things you don't like.
One of the basic rules of pragmatic programming is that you don't optimize until you have to - carefully optimized code tends to be a lot more fragile than generic code.
I've stopped buying DVDs because I don't want to re-buy once HD DVDs become available - Netflix is a terrific alternative to building your own video collection.
I have had some annoyances with Netflix though - damaged (out right broken or cracked DVDs) are about 15% of what I recieve, and sometimes I have to wait several days to get a movie from across the country. But all in all it is super convenient compared to the alternatives, and very inexpensive for what you get.
I suspect that Netflix is in a great position now because it would cost a heck of a lot of money to start up a competitive service.
I had an introduction to molecular quantum mechanics in a AP high school chemistry course in 1968.
I've had occasion to travel to Tennessee on occasional business trips. From what I could see the state is certainly lacking growth opportunities. A big part of that starts with the poor spending levels in the education system, 44th per student nationally. Until Tenessee gets with the program and realizes that the state will not develop economically if its citizens don't have competitive skills businesses, except when they need cheap uneducated labor, are not going to be interested even if taxes are 0.
Now we know where Canadian beer comes from.
However the 'study of superfluidity' (also known as Quantum hydrodynamics) is a recent advancement.
Not that recent. In 1973 I attended a lecture given by Lars Onsager on the quantum mechanics of superfluids.
Randall Mills is a medical doctor and well known crackpot
And he seems to appear regularly on slashdot unfortunately. MODPARENTUP
It is a very old technique now called phishing for R&D grants.
But the benchmark you site uses Ruby 1.9 which is unreleased, unfinished, unoptimized and not even beta yet. It was compared to a fully optimized Java release: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.4.2_05-b04, mixed mode).
Attacking a set of benchmarks based on softare versions is not helpful unless you supply measurements that support your point. And please note that Java 1.4.2 is not current. Scientific evaluation rather than hand waving, please.
When I say that Ruby drastically improves programmer productivity compared to Java
I'd accept this based on my experiences with Python. However I think you give that up in testing - especially as the size of the programmer team grows. Dynamically typed languages are subject to more runtime errors than statically typed languages, and run time errors are more expensive to test for and to catch.
I have not yet detected a single memory leak in my c++ apps using runtime tracers after I started using smartpointers (boost) and a c++ lint checking.
That contravales most opinions regarding smart pointers - while they reduce memory management problems in C++, reference miscounts and circular references in smart pointer based code still leave C++ programs more vulnerable to memory leaks than programs with built-in GC implementations that are more robust in handling these conditions.
Ruby is useless to me because it has no unicode support.
e st=all&lang=java&lang2=ruby&sort=fullcpu
In this shootout it was found that Ruby had lower memory consumption, but also ran much more slowly than Java:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?t
Premium service of 5mb/s
That is pathetic. My base service is 10, going to 15 over the next few months as the cable company rolls out an upgrade. Those with the 30 service are reporting that they can't find any hosts that hit that speed - all the can find is some speed tests that verify their throughput, so I may just stick with the standard service.
Christmas as a gift-giving tradition was created as a marketting ploy roughly around 1900.
Utterly ridiculous. The tradition of giving gifts at Christmas is as old as Christianity itself. Roman accounts of Christmas celebrations include exchanges of gifts amoung relatives.
Rank amateurs couldn't implement their own transactions.
A blog author puts up an article about writing a prototype 5 years ago in MySQL and you think that Google is still using the same implementation to handle 1 billion dollars a month in revenues? Are you serious?
Take a look at the comments on the blog article. It is quite clear that whoever wrote the article has no idea of what a transaction really is in the first place.
You don't have a clue as to what you're talking about here or how filesystems and controllers work, do you?
So you are saying that it is perfectly acceptable for a power outage to cause a database failure? That is total nonsense, period. Other systems have concepts like redo logs, archive logs, etc. to handle this sort of problem. In the Wikipedia discussion of this incident they clearly admit that other databases would have survived this incident without damage.
and the MySQL databases do all of the work?
Wrong. Read the quote. All the bookings and pricing occur in the Non-MySQL database. THe MySQL stuff is just slave replicas that do nothing but handle client reads for shopping from data pushed daily from the Non-MySQL database.