I am a lead or senior architect for a medium sized software company - and I have a big problem finding/recruiting good architects. Internal candidates want to do it for all the wrong reasons- thier project manager is a jerk, etc. The good programmers really enjoy coding so they want to stay as programmers, and are afraid once they take on the role of architect they will be just paper pushers. The experienced 'architects' out there are almost all centered on business analysis these days, very few have enough code skills left to really be able to do a good job designing code.
When Yahoo was looking for a replacement for its in-house developed system they evaluated a bunch of languages - they rated Java higher than PHP, but had problems with Java on FreeBSD so they went with PHP. So I'd be careful with touting PHP because Yahoo uses it - they have a strange allegiance to BSD that colors their technology selections.
Java is the answer if the site is reasonably large sized.
Scalability, maintainablity, 3rd party support out the wazoo, large pool of experienced developers, proven to work up through the largest applications in the world.
IMHO Python or Ruby are great for smaller sites. PHP is quite usable by novice programmers, but in my opinion is not really well structured enough to recommend to anyone.
Perl should be relegated back to where it belongs - parsing, system maintenance tools, etc. Although I find that nowadays I use Python for that because I hate Perl syntax (you call that a syntax?).
C# isn't a player for me - I refuse to bend my knee to Redmond. I have made a lot of money porting old VB code to Java because of scalability, lack or portability to C#, etc. and don't want to get trapped in that world.
C/C++ are for specialty applications like EBay that handle 4 billion transactions per day. Nobody else can afford/justify the longer development times associated with these languages.
Fully rewritten = not proven to work yet. Maybe after it is out for a while it will be worthy of consideration, but something is a product that is only just available as a beta doesn't qualify.
Yes, at least on the 90m parts. I just built a dual core Athlon 64 system BECAUSE the power consumption is lower than anything Intel can offer in the same class. The Athlon 64 X2 was more expensive than the Pentium CPUs too, but i figure I will make the price difference back on power savings.
Well, I haven't used a turntable for over 10 years, but I have used a floppy drive 2-3 times in the past year. Therefore the obsoleteness quotient of the turntable is much higher in my book. On top of that there are new types of floppy drives that have built-in flash media readers that promise to be far more useful than the plain old flppy drive - I bought one recently and it looks like I might use it 5-6 times a year!
Yet our economy remains the most innovative, vibrant economy in the world. Why is that exactly?
Why? There are actually theories about that. The most interesting is that the US economy is very good at restructuring itself with minimal friction. It is exposed to market forces more directly than any other economy, and there are fewer structural impediments (regulations or cultural) inhibiting the economy from reacting to and exploiting new conditions.
If indeed the US is underinvesting in technology or technologists and finds itself falling behind competitively (something that has been raised as a spectre say for the past 70 years) it is capable of turning that or pretty much any other problem on its head in very short order.
I agree that marketting is a big fact, as is buy-in from other vendors.
I also think timing has a lot to do with it. The world was not really ready for Smalltalk when it came out, and the hardware of the time had problems running it in in a performance acceptable manner.
The Java libraries are also huge, and growing rapidly, so I don't think that is a relative disadvantage vis-a-vis Smalltalk.
Another issue may be how apropos the Smalltalk libraries are. Java does well to keep up with current fads and a lot of the new stuff gets implemented in Java first; if Smalltalk started appearing to be te platform of innovation it could experience a new wave of popularity.
There is so much wrong with using the word freon like this. Freon is a trademark of DuPont, and thus should always be capitalized. It is used to cover a class of halogenated fluorocarbons. Some of these halocarbons are ozone depleting, and some are not. Other manufacturers sell the same halocarbons under different trade names such as Genetron.
All car air conditioners use halocarbons, some use Freon, others Genetron, others other brands. If they use Freon, they may or may not be using ozone depleting types. I don't remember when the legislation banning ozone depleting halocarbons in auto air conditioners went into effect, but I am pretty sure that it has been several years since the lastnew car equipped with this type of refrigerant was sold.
That might surprise you, but we are not aiming at one language.
That's right, because you could never agree on one. Fact is still that Europe is full of terribly provincial little fiefdoms with a totally myopic view of their self importance, often trying to relive the days of their famous rulers of the past. Their internal disagreements dwarf trivial issues like how you measure length. The two greatest wars of the past century started in Europe for those very reasons. Even in the 21st century there are European captials that are armed camps because people cannot tolerate someone with a different religion or ethnic background.
And you think we are bad because we don't use the meter. What a joke.
I for one am for Esperanto as a bridge language
There is already a bridge language taught all over the world. And it isn't Esperanto.
Which ones
Me? English, French and Spanish. My wife, who was born to British parents in Chile was brought up in a bilingual household speaks both English and Spanish natively. Later she minored in French as an undergraduate in Chile, then won a scholarship to study in Europe where she polished her French studying at the Sorbonne, German while living in Austria, Italian studying in Rome, and Greek in Athens. Later she picked up Portugese while living in Brazil and teaching English there. I met her while she was here in the US picking up a Ph.D. in English on a Fullbright scholarship. She decided that living in the US was the most attractive option for her, and we were later married.
So what, the GSM standard (the one that did not work for me in the US) was invented in 1 km's radius from my workplace.
Oh wow a technical standard for a modulation scheme is like really comparable to the fundamental invention iteslf.
I almost feel bad, but in the link you provided my country is directly above yours. Sorry.
Your country is smaller than most US states. There are states in the US 5 times the size of Norway that also have greater internet penetration. The correct comparision accounts for scale, i.e. Europe vs. North America. Sorry..
By the way, I did not say "they were Nazi", I said "the closest thing to a Nazi rally"
You are the one who used the word Nazi. I don't know what passes for social graces in Europe, but in the US comparing anyone to a Nazi is deeply offensive. Before you start throwing that sort of stuff around you had better ponder on how the word quisling got into the English language.
I thought that people from Norway were supposed to be well educated and friendly, not insensitive idiots unaware of the culture and history of the people they are talking to, or full of prejuidices that they are looking for any fact to justify. I don't know what your background is, but it is clear that you are extremely lacking in what passes for civilized grace or behaviour by any reasonable standard.
Or do you think the already deeply entrenched U.S. politics are going to keep this technology from ever reaching us?
Nah. There is a lot of ultrabroadband activity in progress in the US already. Cablevision is beta testing 20 Mb/s service in Metro NY, and Verizon is deploying FIOS which is offering up to 30 Mbps, with future plans for 100 Mbps. Plus the FCC has stated that their #1 goal is to increase broadband use in the US.
Right now I have 10 Mbps over cable and find it to be pretty good in terms of raw speed. I am not sure that additional throughput would make a lot of difference to me, and be worth any additional expense.
Yup. It's a troll, and full of factual errors too.
How comes that I can't bloody call Europe from a payphone in Chicago airport?
Don't know what you were doing, but I used to call my wife in Santiago Chile from O'Hare.
Why doesn't my damn GSM mobile work?
Don't know. My GSM cell phone doesn't work in Europe either. Must be something wrong with the European cell phone system.
Number of complimentary internet connections: 0
What do expect from a bunch of Chemical Engineers? The chemical industry is in decline without much real innovation. It is why I got out and into something more exciting, despite the fact I had invested the time to get a Ph.D. in ChE.
My Diners stopped working for a couple of days, and the Visa was dead.
Pay your bills? I've travelled all over the world on my credit cards; the only place I had problems was in Chonju, Korea.
The statue of Liberty is small!!
What do you expect? It's a gift from the French. Everyone knows the French are cheap. And short too like the statue because Napoleon picked all the tall men for his army, and we know what happened when they tried to attack Russia. And it had to be chopped up to fit on a boat to get here anyway.
Why are still stuck in the stone, pound and foot age?
An Europe is a bunch of little squabbling principalities that still haven't even adopted a common language, currency (getting closer on currency but not there yet) or constitution. Our system may suck, but at least we all use it.
Times square: it's not square to begin with, and it's ludicrously small
Big enough for a million people on New Years Eve. What more do you want?
Ok, there are people who speak other language than English
Typical Euro chavanism. I speak 3 languages, my wife 7.
Sorry for the people governed by these beasts, but for me it was an experience to see the closest thing to a Nazi rally I will ever witness (I hope).
The real Nazis came from Europe. These beasts are the sons and daughters of those who broke the Atlantic wall to help free Europe from those Nazis, funded the Marshall plan, the Berlin airlift and much of the military that kept Europe free over the past half century. Of course it seems declasse' in Europe would have or admit any knowledge of such a thing.
At least not in the level of technology the citizens
I don't know about that. I've travelled all over the world - Europe, Asia, South America. Sure, there are some things (cell phones) that have greater acceptance in other countries than in the US, probably because their land lines never worked very well. That doesn't mean the US is unsophisticated technically; the cell phone was invented in the US by researchers at Bell Labs and Motorola, rather that the life style of people in the US hasn't adopted the technology to the extent of other countries.
And the internet? The penetration in the US is FAR higher than in Europe. The last published results show that the penetration in the North America is 67.4%. Europe 35.5%.
But each country has its idiosyncracies. Many European countries haven't even got up to the idea that mail should be delivered on a regular schedule yet, or that hotel rooms should be reasonably sized and clean, or that you shouldn't have to bribe a public official to get some paperwork processed.
How comes that I can't bloody call Europe from a payphone in Chicago airport?
Don't know what you were doing, but I used to call my wife in Santiago Chile from O'Hare.
Why doesn't my damn GSM mobile work?
Don't know. My cell phone doesn't work in Europe either. Must be something wrong with the European cell phone system.
Number of complimentary internet connections: 0
What do expect from a bunch of Chemical Engineers?
My Diners stopped working for a couple of days, and the Visa was dead.
Pay your bills? I've travelled all over the world on my credit cards; the only place I had problems was in Chonju, Korea.
The statue of Liberty is small!!
What do you expect? It's a gift from the French. Everyone knows the French are cheap.
Why are still stuck in the stone, pound and foot age?
The alternative is French.
Times square: it's not square to begin with, and it's ludicrously small
Big enough for a million people on New Years Eve. What more do you want?
Ok, there are people who speak other language than English
Typical Euro chavanism. I speak 3 languages, my wife 7.
Sorry for the people governed by these beasts, but for me it was an experience to see the closest thing to a Nazi rally I will ever witness (I hope).
The real Nazis came from Europe. These beasts are the sons and daughters of those who broke the Atlantic wall to help free Europe from those Nazis, and funded the Marshall plan, the Berlin airlift and much of the military that kept Europe free over the past half century. Of course it is too much to expect that someone educated in Europe would have any knowledge of such a thing.
At least not in the level of technology the citizens
I don't know about that. I've travelled all over the world - Europe, Asia, South America. Sure, there are some things (cell phones) that have greater acceptance in other countries than in the US, probably because their land lines never worked very well. But each country has its idiosyncracies. Many European countries haven't even got up to the idea that mail should be delivered on a regular schedule yet, or that hotel rooms should be reasonably sized and clean, or that you shouldn't have to bribe a public official to get some paperwork processed.
With Windows, you have a large accountable orginization.
And exactly how is Microsoft accountable to anyone or anything? Their license agreements specifically disclaim any such accountability, and even large governments have difficulty restraining them from illegal practices.
And that is to base your normalization on the nature of the data and the queries, not necessarily on the technical granularity.
Be careful with denormailzation - it can trigger a shitstorm of updates if one of the denormalized columns changes. Rather than changing one value in a \ table that is joined to another in a query, you may end up updating many millions of records in a denormalized table.
It is ok to denormalize tables for query preformance, or report based tables but if you are changing data in those tables you could lose all the performance gains and more.
No doubt the study of studies is itself of dubious quality.
Personally I would have expected that the Pareto principle (20% of anything is the important part) or Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap) would have been the operational forces here.
Outsourcing does not necessarily equal money savings
Right, I am sure that is the case. BUT I can guarantee that if you tie up the only technically savvy person in a company making 10 Base T connections using a crimping tool to save money that company will soon be out of business. Or look at it another way - if you find that outsourcing managing a small in company network is too expensive and costs more than what the real job of this technical guy is, maybe you should be setting up a small business network management consultancy.
If you are going to be in business you had better have a plan that generates a lot more cash per employee than what a small lan costs.
To be honest, I feel sorry for this guy. It sounds like he is going to be seriously abused in this environment.
Find a reliable contractor to come in once a week to set this up for you. You should be focussed on bringing in money, not doing level 1 desktop support.
This is akin to an unauthorized book copying where a book would be copied in its entirety and offered to others. It is irrelevant whether money is being charged or not - just that the copy was not authorized by the author.
Well, it is actually relevent whether the copy is being used for commercial gain. And as far as copying, your browser cache and a lot of proxy servers have copies too I bet.
To me the big issue here is fair use - and that is something that really needs to be expanded in copyright law.
He would have given us something better than a space shuttle.
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The reason education sucks is because, we as a society, don't fucking care.
That is an overly optimistic viewpoint. The truth is that America is openly anti-intellectual. Students that do acheive some degree of excellence are openly attacked and persecuted in schools. The cult of the celebrity runs wild. Teachers are considered as the lowest rung of the professional hierarchy.
Re:I Agree with Monkey Boy. Where's OS Innovation?
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Are there any projects out there for any platform that actually show innovation in a way that's not just like trying to copy or slightly-alter something that's been done by one of these commercial entities?
The problem with Monkey Boy is that he is cynically trying to market the concept that Microsoft is the source of innovation. It makes me want to vomit. It is the same revisionist history that we hear from Microsoft time over time, again and again. Bill Gates puts it in his books, Balmer in the trade press. The result is that the sheeple think Microsoft invented the personal computer, the internet and probably television, the laser, the transistor, the light bulb, and printing press too.
Look at the roots. UI and OS Innovation was done at SRI by Doug Englebart and at MIT, Bell Labs and Xerox PARC in the 60's and 70's. Not by commercial mass marketers like the popinjay Balmer and his Microsofties who have done nothing but guild the lilly.
What are the projects underway today that will lead to real gains? There are some pretty clear changes in the way hardware is evolving. The innovaters are the guys working on new softwware paradigms to take advantage of these changes.
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I wouldn't hire an architect
I am a lead or senior architect for a medium sized software company - and I have a big problem finding/recruiting good architects. Internal candidates want to do it for all the wrong reasons- thier project manager is a jerk, etc. The good programmers really enjoy coding so they want to stay as programmers, and are afraid once they take on the role of architect they will be just paper pushers. The experienced 'architects' out there are almost all centered on business analysis these days, very few have enough code skills left to really be able to do a good job designing code.
When Yahoo was looking for a replacement for its in-house developed system they evaluated a bunch of languages - they rated Java higher than PHP, but had problems with Java on FreeBSD so they went with PHP. So I'd be careful with touting PHP because Yahoo uses it - they have a strange allegiance to BSD that colors their technology selections.
I've used 'em all.
Java is the answer if the site is reasonably large sized.
Scalability, maintainablity, 3rd party support out the wazoo, large pool of experienced developers, proven to work up through the largest applications in the world.
IMHO Python or Ruby are great for smaller sites. PHP is quite usable by novice programmers, but in my opinion is not really well structured enough to recommend to anyone.
Perl should be relegated back to where it belongs - parsing, system maintenance tools, etc. Although I find that nowadays I use Python for that because I hate Perl syntax (you call that a syntax?).
C# isn't a player for me - I refuse to bend my knee to Redmond. I have made a lot of money porting old VB code to Java because of scalability, lack or portability to C#, etc. and don't want to get trapped in that world.
C/C++ are for specialty applications like EBay that handle 4 billion transactions per day. Nobody else can afford/justify the longer development times associated with these languages.
Fully rewritten = not proven to work yet. Maybe after it is out for a while it will be worthy of consideration, but something is a product that is only just available as a beta doesn't qualify.
Has the situation reversed?
Yes, at least on the 90m parts. I just built a dual core Athlon 64 system BECAUSE the power consumption is lower than anything Intel can offer in the same class. The Athlon 64 X2 was more expensive than the Pentium CPUs too, but i figure I will make the price difference back on power savings.
Well, I haven't used a turntable for over 10 years, but I have used a floppy drive 2-3 times in the past year. Therefore the obsoleteness quotient of the turntable is much higher in my book. On top of that there are new types of floppy drives that have built-in flash media readers that promise to be far more useful than the plain old flppy drive - I bought one recently and it looks like I might use it 5-6 times a year!
Yet our economy remains the most innovative, vibrant economy in the world. Why is that exactly?
Why? There are actually theories about that. The most interesting is that the US economy is very good at restructuring itself with minimal friction. It is exposed to market forces more directly than any other economy, and there are fewer structural impediments (regulations or cultural) inhibiting the economy from reacting to and exploiting new conditions.
If indeed the US is underinvesting in technology or technologists and finds itself falling behind competitively (something that has been raised as a spectre say for the past 70 years) it is capable of turning that or pretty much any other problem on its head in very short order.
I agree that marketting is a big fact, as is buy-in from other vendors.
I also think timing has a lot to do with it. The world was not really ready for Smalltalk when it came out, and the hardware of the time had problems running it in in a performance acceptable manner.
The Java libraries are also huge, and growing rapidly, so I don't think that is a relative disadvantage vis-a-vis Smalltalk.
Another issue may be how apropos the Smalltalk libraries are. Java does well to keep up with current fads and a lot of the new stuff gets implemented in Java first; if Smalltalk started appearing to be te platform of innovation it could experience a new wave of popularity.
There is so much wrong with using the word freon like this. Freon is a trademark of DuPont, and thus should always be capitalized. It is used to cover a class of halogenated fluorocarbons. Some of these halocarbons are ozone depleting, and some are not. Other manufacturers sell the same halocarbons under different trade names such as Genetron.
All car air conditioners use halocarbons, some use Freon, others Genetron, others other brands. If they use Freon, they may or may not be using ozone depleting types. I don't remember when the legislation banning ozone depleting halocarbons in auto air conditioners went into effect, but I am pretty sure that it has been several years since the lastnew car equipped with this type of refrigerant was sold.
That might surprise you, but we are not aiming at one language.
That's right, because you could never agree on one. Fact is still that Europe is full of terribly provincial little fiefdoms with a totally myopic view of their self importance, often trying to relive the days of their famous rulers of the past. Their internal disagreements dwarf trivial issues like how you measure length. The two greatest wars of the past century started in Europe for those very reasons. Even in the 21st century there are European captials that are armed camps because people cannot tolerate someone with a different religion or ethnic background.
And you think we are bad because we don't use the meter. What a joke.
I for one am for Esperanto as a bridge language
There is already a bridge language taught all over the world. And it isn't Esperanto.
Which ones
Me? English, French and Spanish. My wife, who was born to British parents in Chile was brought up in a bilingual household speaks both English and Spanish natively. Later she minored in French as an undergraduate in Chile, then won a scholarship to study in Europe where she polished her French studying at the Sorbonne, German while living in Austria, Italian studying in Rome, and Greek in Athens. Later she picked up Portugese while living in Brazil and teaching English there. I met her while she was here in the US picking up a Ph.D. in English on a Fullbright scholarship. She decided that living in the US was the most attractive option for her, and we were later married.
So what, the GSM standard (the one that did not work for me in the US) was invented in 1 km's radius from my workplace.
Oh wow a technical standard for a modulation scheme is like really comparable to the fundamental invention iteslf.
I almost feel bad, but in the link you provided my country is directly above yours. Sorry.
Your country is smaller than most US states. There are states in the US 5 times the size of Norway that also have greater internet penetration. The correct comparision accounts for scale, i.e. Europe vs. North America. Sorry..
By the way, I did not say "they were Nazi", I said "the closest thing to a Nazi rally"
You are the one who used the word Nazi. I don't know what passes for social graces in Europe, but in the US comparing anyone to a Nazi is deeply offensive. Before you start throwing that sort of stuff around you had better ponder on how the word quisling got into the English language.
I thought that people from Norway were supposed to be well educated and friendly, not insensitive idiots unaware of the culture and history of the people they are talking to, or full of prejuidices that they are looking for any fact to justify. I don't know what your background is, but it is clear that you are extremely lacking in what passes for civilized grace or behaviour by any reasonable standard.
Or do you think the already deeply entrenched U.S. politics are going to keep this technology from ever reaching us?
Nah. There is a lot of ultrabroadband activity in progress in the US already. Cablevision is beta testing 20 Mb/s service in Metro NY, and Verizon is deploying FIOS which is offering up to 30 Mbps, with future plans for 100 Mbps. Plus the FCC has stated that their #1 goal is to increase broadband use in the US.
Right now I have 10 Mbps over cable and find it to be pretty good in terms of raw speed. I am not sure that additional throughput would make a lot of difference to me, and be worth any additional expense.
Yup. It's a troll, and full of factual errors too.
How comes that I can't bloody call Europe from a payphone in Chicago airport?
Don't know what you were doing, but I used to call my wife in Santiago Chile from O'Hare.
Why doesn't my damn GSM mobile work?
Don't know. My GSM cell phone doesn't work in Europe either. Must be something wrong with the European cell phone system.
Number of complimentary internet connections: 0
What do expect from a bunch of Chemical Engineers? The chemical industry is in decline without much real innovation. It is why I got out and into something more exciting, despite the fact I had invested the time to get a Ph.D. in ChE.
My Diners stopped working for a couple of days, and the Visa was dead.
Pay your bills? I've travelled all over the world on my credit cards; the only place I had problems was in Chonju, Korea.
The statue of Liberty is small!!
What do you expect? It's a gift from the French. Everyone knows the French are cheap. And short too like the statue because Napoleon picked all the tall men for his army, and we know what happened when they tried to attack Russia. And it had to be chopped up to fit on a boat to get here anyway.
Why are still stuck in the stone, pound and foot age?
An Europe is a bunch of little squabbling principalities that still haven't even adopted a common language, currency (getting closer on currency but not there yet) or constitution. Our system may suck, but at least we all use it.
Times square: it's not square to begin with, and it's ludicrously small
Big enough for a million people on New Years Eve. What more do you want?
Ok, there are people who speak other language than English
Typical Euro chavanism. I speak 3 languages, my wife 7.
Sorry for the people governed by these beasts, but for me it was an experience to see the closest thing to a Nazi rally I will ever witness (I hope).
The real Nazis came from Europe. These beasts are the sons and daughters of those who broke the Atlantic wall to help free Europe from those Nazis, funded the Marshall plan, the Berlin airlift and much of the military that kept Europe free over the past half century. Of course it seems declasse' in Europe would have or admit any knowledge of such a thing.
At least not in the level of technology the citizens
I don't know about that. I've travelled all over the world - Europe, Asia, South America. Sure, there are some things (cell phones) that have greater acceptance in other countries than in the US, probably because their land lines never worked very well. That doesn't mean the US is unsophisticated technically; the cell phone was invented in the US by researchers at Bell Labs and Motorola, rather that the life style of people in the US hasn't adopted the technology to the extent of other countries.
And the internet? The penetration in the US is FAR higher than in Europe. The last published results show that the penetration in the North America is 67.4%. Europe 35.5%.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htm
But each country has its idiosyncracies. Many European countries haven't even got up to the idea that mail should be delivered on a regular schedule yet, or that hotel rooms should be reasonably sized and clean, or that you shouldn't have to bribe a public official to get some paperwork processed.
How comes that I can't bloody call Europe from a payphone in Chicago airport?
Don't know what you were doing, but I used to call my wife in Santiago Chile from O'Hare.
Why doesn't my damn GSM mobile work?
Don't know. My cell phone doesn't work in Europe either. Must be something wrong with the European cell phone system.
Number of complimentary internet connections: 0
What do expect from a bunch of Chemical Engineers?
My Diners stopped working for a couple of days, and the Visa was dead.
Pay your bills? I've travelled all over the world on my credit cards; the only place I had problems was in Chonju, Korea.
The statue of Liberty is small!!
What do you expect? It's a gift from the French. Everyone knows the French are cheap.
Why are still stuck in the stone, pound and foot age?
The alternative is French.
Times square: it's not square to begin with, and it's ludicrously small
Big enough for a million people on New Years Eve. What more do you want?
Ok, there are people who speak other language than English
Typical Euro chavanism. I speak 3 languages, my wife 7.
Sorry for the people governed by these beasts, but for me it was an experience to see the closest thing to a Nazi rally I will ever witness (I hope).
The real Nazis came from Europe. These beasts are the sons and daughters of those who broke the Atlantic wall to help free Europe from those Nazis, and funded the Marshall plan, the Berlin airlift and much of the military that kept Europe free over the past half century. Of course it is too much to expect that someone educated in Europe would have any knowledge of such a thing.
At least not in the level of technology the citizens
I don't know about that. I've travelled all over the world - Europe, Asia, South America. Sure, there are some things (cell phones) that have greater acceptance in other countries than in the US, probably because their land lines never worked very well. But each country has its idiosyncracies. Many European countries haven't even got up to the idea that mail should be delivered on a regular schedule yet, or that hotel rooms should be reasonably sized and clean, or that you shouldn't have to bribe a public official to get some paperwork processed.
With Windows, you have a large accountable orginization.
And exactly how is Microsoft accountable to anyone or anything? Their license agreements specifically disclaim any such accountability, and even large governments have difficulty restraining them from illegal practices.
And that is to base your normalization on the nature of the data and the queries, not necessarily on the technical granularity.
Be careful with denormailzation - it can trigger a shitstorm of updates if one of the denormalized columns changes. Rather than changing one value in a \ table that is joined to another in a query, you may end up updating many millions of records in a denormalized table.
It is ok to denormalize tables for query preformance, or report based tables but if you are changing data in those tables you could lose all the performance gains and more.
Well, I wrote a simple perl script that scans log files and then drops the IPs into IP tables.
Run it every three minutes or so and they won't get but a few shots in.
I tried posting it here but slashdot's lameness filter won't let it through.
Expect to see on-chip Intel DRM enforcing this.
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Sounds like the days of the Apple II clones are coming back.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/amistad/725
Intel 3 GHz P4.. kinda in the midrange of PC hardware. I want to know how OS X86 would run on my new home system .. Athlon X2 4400+ SLI mobo.
No doubt the study of studies is itself of dubious quality.
Personally I would have expected that the Pareto principle (20% of anything is the important part) or Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap) would have been the operational forces here.
Outsourcing does not necessarily equal money savings
Right, I am sure that is the case. BUT I can guarantee that if you tie up the only technically savvy person in a company making 10 Base T connections using a crimping tool to save money that company will soon be out of business. Or look at it another way - if you find that outsourcing managing a small in company network is too expensive and costs more than what the real job of this technical guy is, maybe you should be setting up a small business network management consultancy.
If you are going to be in business you had better have a plan that generates a lot more cash per employee than what a small lan costs.
To be honest, I feel sorry for this guy. It sounds like he is going to be seriously abused in this environment.
Find a reliable contractor to come in once a week to set this up for you. You should be focussed on bringing in money, not doing level 1 desktop support.
This is akin to an unauthorized book copying where a book would be copied in its entirety and offered to others. It is irrelevant whether money is being charged or not - just that the copy was not authorized by the author.
Well, it is actually relevent whether the copy is being used for commercial gain. And as far as copying, your browser cache and a lot of proxy servers have copies too I bet.
To me the big issue here is fair use - and that is something that really needs to be expanded in copyright law.
He would have given us something better than a space shuttle.
The reason education sucks is because, we as a society, don't fucking care.
That is an overly optimistic viewpoint. The truth is that America is openly anti-intellectual. Students that do acheive some degree of excellence are openly attacked and persecuted in schools. The cult of the celebrity runs wild. Teachers are considered as the lowest rung of the professional hierarchy.
Are there any projects out there for any platform that actually show innovation in a way that's not just like trying to copy or slightly-alter something that's been done by one of these commercial entities?
The problem with Monkey Boy is that he is cynically trying to market the concept that Microsoft is the source of innovation. It makes me want to vomit. It is the same revisionist history that we hear from Microsoft time over time, again and again. Bill Gates puts it in his books, Balmer in the trade press. The result is that the sheeple think Microsoft invented the personal computer, the internet and probably television, the laser, the transistor, the light bulb, and printing press too.
Look at the roots. UI and OS Innovation was done at SRI by Doug Englebart and at MIT, Bell Labs and Xerox PARC in the 60's and 70's. Not by commercial mass marketers like the popinjay Balmer and his Microsofties who have done nothing but guild the lilly.
What are the projects underway today that will lead to real gains? There are some pretty clear changes in the way hardware is evolving. The innovaters are the guys working on new softwware paradigms to take advantage of these changes.