Instead of the story being "Apple lowers price, because of dismal sales", the story is about how people who paid too much are pissed and are getting a rebate.
Maybe when it hits $200 and works with t-mobile out of the box, I'll consider buying one.
In practice, row store architectures are well-suited for OLTP-like workloads which are more heavily loaded with update transactions (writes) rather than queries (reads). This is because row stores are extremely "write friendly", in that adding a row of data to a table requires a simple file appending I/O. On the other hand, column stores are well-suited for OLAP (data warehouse)-like workloads. Such workloads can be characterized as "read-mostly", primarily because of the relatively high cost of queries (which might perform complex analysis of several TB of data) vs transactions (which primarily consist of simple insertions).
So apparently the answer to the/. question "Are Relational Databases Obselete?" is...
NO.
Considering we're talking about row store versus column store, and the layout of data is dependent upon whether you are doing OLTP versus OLAP.
That's the beauty of the system. Consumers don't know. The insurance companies and healthcare providers have rigged the system such that consumers don't actually know how much stuff costs. Certainly not ahead of time.
On top of that, consumers aren't educated enough to make rational choices.
And then, to make it even better, most of the time when consumers show up at a doctor's office it's because they're sick and in pain, and they don't have time to shop around looking for a good deal.
It's funny. Republican-Americans were so proud of invading Iraq back in 2003. And now they're confused... They're afraid of defending all the claims that were made back then leading up to the war, but at the same time they're also afraid of admitting maybe they fucked up.
If Dick Cheney didn't mean to imply Hussein was behind 9/11, why did he keep repeating a claim that Iraqi intelligence had met with Muhammed Atta in Prague?
Or do you think we're all ignorant in this age of the internet, and can't go back and look things up?
The Americans did NOT go there to "win" those wars,
Of course not. We didn't have to win, so we didn't bother to try. They were wars of choice. There was no threat to the United States from the enemy, and therefore the people would only stomach the war waged by their politicians, if the cost were low. Once the cost became more than the public was willing to bear, the opposition to the war grew.
First rule of warfare, don't fight unless you have to.
Ok, most people would say our system is inefficient because it's nothing close to a "pure capitalist model." Not even remotely close to one; the government interferes on every level.
If healthcare was purely capitalist, the doctors, pharmacists, insurance companies and so on would be acting for the benefit of the consumer.
But that means curing people. There's more money to be made in treating symptoms. And don't you dare try to change that! You'll be called anti-business for trying to cut into their profits.
Just like the beef packer down in Kansas who wanted to test all of their cows for mad-cow disease, so they could be certified to ship beef to Japan. The USDA rightfully shut them down, because it would have been unfair competition, giving these guys a competitive edge over everybody else in the market.
If they let Honda sell near zero emissions automobiles in states where it's not mandated, that might put pressure on everybody else to also make near zero emissions cars, and that's just not fair!
So we should all thank our friends in the Government, for helping ot insure that competition in the marketplace does not create unfair competition.
Isn't the point of open source to be able to use it? Most of the apps you list here are command line tools. The ones that aren't command line tools are licensed under the LGPL. Are you seriously saying that if I bundle mkfsiso with my app and shell out to call it, I have to release my source code too?
I encourage you to go pester all these people using GPLed tools. Really, go for it. Prove the critics right, and that using GPL'ed software in your solutions is a legal nightmare.
Sheesh. This reminds me of the big argument the founder of Slackware got into, when he announced he was going to sell distributions. Yes, sell! Oh my god, the horrors of actually charging for somehthing!
I'm glad he was able to come up with a legitimate reason for the numbers being skewed, but it's disappointing he's still harping on about the air conditioners. It just makes him look like a crackhead.
IIS config can be scripted relatively easily if you are doing anything repetitive.
The negative, is the documentation is lame and you sometimes have to figure it out through trial and error. Usually someone has already done it, and you cna find the solution on google.
As he explained it, they were instructed to be very lenient on accepting patents, because it was simply taken for granted that any complaints or problems would be handled in the courts.
That's the way businesses preferred it to be done, and perhaps that is Apple's position here.
I have an older universal remote. An older MX-500 I bought years ago. It did take me a day to setup, but now when i want to watch a movie I press the ON button.
The ON button sends the ON command to the TV, DVD player and receiver and even opens the tray door for the DVD player.
I then put in a DVD, and the only thing I need to adjust is the volume, and maybe use the DVD menus.
When I'm done, I press the OFF button and it reverses the process. I even have a relayed switch that turns on a backlight when the TV comes on, bought it at Sears... it was intended to turn on a vacuum when you ran your saw.
I agree that things are a bit too complicated. My receiver has options that I don't even have a clue why i would want. When I first bought it, I pressed a wrong button on the remote and couldn't hear any sound. So I needed that MX-500, just to make it simple.
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Instead of the story being "Apple lowers price, because of dismal sales", the story is about how people who paid too much are pissed and are getting a rebate.
Maybe when it hits $200 and works with t-mobile out of the box, I'll consider buying one.
You don't think banning sale of Psuedophedrine isn't patriotic?
Nothing says anti-terrorism, like an anti-drug law!
Patriot Act should have been called the "Garbage we couldn't fit in any other bill".
So apparently the answer to the
NO.
Considering we're talking about row store versus column store, and the layout of data is dependent upon whether you are doing OLTP versus OLAP.
Oh god, another fucking bed-wetter.
Why are you pussies such cowards? Running around being afraid of your shadow, is no way to live.
That's the beauty of the system. Consumers don't know. The insurance companies and healthcare providers have rigged the system such that consumers don't actually know how much stuff costs. Certainly not ahead of time.
On top of that, consumers aren't educated enough to make rational choices.
And then, to make it even better, most of the time when consumers show up at a doctor's office it's because they're sick and in pain, and they don't have time to shop around looking for a good deal.
Wait, maybe a free market can never exist. Crap!
It's funny. Republican-Americans were so proud of invading Iraq back in 2003. And now they're confused... They're afraid of defending all the claims that were made back then leading up to the war, but at the same time they're also afraid of admitting maybe they fucked up.
If Dick Cheney didn't mean to imply Hussein was behind 9/11, why did he keep repeating a claim that Iraqi intelligence had met with Muhammed Atta in Prague?
Or do you think we're all ignorant in this age of the internet, and can't go back and look things up?
Of course not. We didn't have to win, so we didn't bother to try. They were wars of choice. There was no threat to the United States from the enemy, and therefore the people would only stomach the war waged by their politicians, if the cost were low. Once the cost became more than the public was willing to bear, the opposition to the war grew.
First rule of warfare, don't fight unless you have to.
He's playing off the article by spreading more myths.
:-)
It's pretty clever, actually.
If healthcare was purely capitalist, the doctors, pharmacists, insurance companies and so on would be acting for the benefit of the consumer.
But that means curing people. There's more money to be made in treating symptoms. And don't you dare try to change that! You'll be called anti-business for trying to cut into their profits.
You didn't realize that our nightly news is fiction?
:-)
It's produced by the same guys responsible for Beavis & Butthead.
Just like the beef packer down in Kansas who wanted to test all of their cows for mad-cow disease, so they could be certified to ship beef to Japan. The USDA rightfully shut them down, because it would have been unfair competition, giving these guys a competitive edge over everybody else in the market.
:-)
If they let Honda sell near zero emissions automobiles in states where it's not mandated, that might put pressure on everybody else to also make near zero emissions cars, and that's just not fair!
So we should all thank our friends in the Government, for helping ot insure that competition in the marketplace does not create unfair competition.
Sometimes you can't tell spoof from reality.
Apparently not according to the guy who submitted this article.
So GPL critics are right, and it is a viral license that should be avoided by commercial software interests?
Isn't the point of open source to be able to use it? Most of the apps you list here are command line tools. The ones that aren't command line tools are licensed under the LGPL. Are you seriously saying that if I bundle mkfsiso with my app and shell out to call it, I have to release my source code too?
I encourage you to go pester all these people using GPLed tools. Really, go for it. Prove the critics right, and that using GPL'ed software in your solutions is a legal nightmare.
Sheesh. This reminds me of the big argument the founder of Slackware got into, when he announced he was going to sell distributions. Yes, sell! Oh my god, the horrors of actually charging for somehthing!
Snoring. yep, yuck yuck... that's when you fall asleep during a speech. Man, I hate that.
Since 1997 we've been living in a Post-Desktop world. The Desktop is dead.
Long live the Palm PDA!
The Liberals made him into what he is today. If you're going to blame anybody, you gotta blame the Liberals.
Oh yeah, and the Islamofascist killer terror robots.
He's most definately a nerd. He's so much of a nerd, even the geeks beat up on him in high school.
I very much doubt global warming theory is dependent upon a single weather station in Minnesota.
I'm glad he was able to come up with a legitimate reason for the numbers being skewed, but it's disappointing he's still harping on about the air conditioners. It just makes him look like a crackhead.
Most corporation installations(where you will see IIS most likely) are a single IP address being hosted on numerous servers behind a load balancer.
This can't be even acceptable as a means for counting IIS installations.
IIS config can be scripted relatively easily if you are doing anything repetitive.
The negative, is the documentation is lame and you sometimes have to figure it out through trial and error. Usually someone has already done it, and you cna find the solution on google.
I knew a guy who went on to be a patent examiner.
As he explained it, they were instructed to be very lenient on accepting patents, because it was simply taken for granted that any complaints or problems would be handled in the courts.
That's the way businesses preferred it to be done, and perhaps that is Apple's position here.
It's been tried in several state legislatures, such as California.
The end result, is Government is run by the unelected bureacrats, because no legislator is in office long enough to figure out how things work.
I have an older universal remote. An older MX-500 I bought years ago. It did take me a day to setup, but now when i want to watch a movie I press the ON button.
The ON button sends the ON command to the TV, DVD player and receiver and even opens the tray door for the DVD player.
I then put in a DVD, and the only thing I need to adjust is the volume, and maybe use the DVD menus.
When I'm done, I press the OFF button and it reverses the process. I even have a relayed switch that turns on a backlight when the TV comes on, bought it at Sears... it was intended to turn on a vacuum when you ran your saw.
I agree that things are a bit too complicated. My receiver has options that I don't even have a clue why i would want. When I first bought it, I pressed a wrong button on the remote and couldn't hear any sound. So I needed that MX-500, just to make it simple.