The article is titled "Women in Science," but it basically argues that the preparation costs for becoming a scientist (college, grad school, post doc) are so high, and the economic rewards so low and uncertain, that intelligent people are more likely to be drawn to other fields like medicine.
In a word, yes. I think there are a couple reasons for this:
1. OR mappers like Hibernate have gotten to the point that they are quite good, so they make the value add prop of object databases less compelling. 2. Object databases are never going to get the speed of relational databases. This is the real dealbreaker. Suppose an object database can handle 95% of my queries with adequate performance. All well and good, but I'm totally screwed on those other 5%. On the other hand, if I was using a relational database with hibernate, hibernate might handle 95% of the queries with adequate performance, but for those other 5% I can workaround by writing custom SQL. With that setup I get the best of both worlds.
I don't know of any attempts to use object databases on large enterprise projects that haven't been complete failures, with the failure always due to performance issues.
I see nothing wrong with the Supreme Court reviewing cases that are of judicial importance - that's their job. I was just pointing out that the statistics that were presented do nothing to support the GPs conclusions, and in fact would support to the exact opposite conclusion (though, again, you can't conclusively draw any conclusions, because an important piece of data - the total number of cases decided by each circuit court - was not given).
Umm, actually, you're completely wrong. Is this "lie with statistics" day? The PDF you show lists percentages of cases reviewed by the supreme court that are overturned, i.e:
number of decisions overturned / number of decisions reviewed = 75% for 9th district
However, the supreme court only reviews cases that are controversial and/or of judicial importance in the first place. The 9th circuit had a whopping 24 cases reviewed by the SC and 18 decisions were overturned - most of the other courts had only 1-4 cases reviewed.
The important metric is really: number of cases overturned by supreme court / number of cases decided by circuit court
Why is this parent modded down? I find it very difficult to believe someone was walking 25 miles a day, every day, for an extended period if they had any other obligations. Plus, if this 200 lb woman was really walking 25 miles a day, she would have been burning almost 3000 calories per day just by the walking assuming a brisk 15-minute mile pace (see http://walking.about.com/cs/howtoloseweight/a/howc alburn.htm). There's no way she could be walking this much and not losing wait without eating a very large amount of food.
That's called capitalism, and has nothing to do with being in a bubble. It doesn't matter how cool your technology is, if people don't want to buy it, your company is worth nothing. Transmeta may have some awesome technology, but in the end their chips were too slow and Intel/AMD did a lot of catch up on the power side. YouTube may be simple technology, but it has millions of viewers and is the #1 destination when people think about video on the web.
While I don't necessarily disagree that the YouTube price is too high, don't make the common technologist's mistake of thinking that great technology should equal big profits.
Great, so as a motorist, if I win as a member of this class action lawsuit, I'll maybe get a coupon for $5 of gas, while the lawyers will get tens of millions. I can't wait.
The argument, though, is that since the law states the employer must make a "good faith effort" to find a qualified US worker that they ARE breaking the letter of the law. When the whole objective of the process is to go through the motions with the end goal of not finding a qualified US worker (i.e. "we're going to make it look like you're looking for qualified applicants even though you have absolutely no plan of hiring a US worker"), it seems to me any rational person would not consider this a good faith effort.
Bullshit. I keep seeing all of these business articles talking about how Jobs is such a great salesman, and while he is, that is not the reason for Apple's resurgence in the past 7-8 years. More than his salesmanship, Jobs fanatical focus on building great products is why everyone is talking about Apple. People are excited about the iPhone not just because it's flat and shiny, but because it provides a level of functionality and user experience (at least as its been depicted so far) that no other cell phone provides. I want to by an iPhone not because it's cool (I don't even own an iPod), but because I believe it will offer an integrated set of features I can't get anywhere else.
Remember the Motorola ROKR? Not even Jobs could put lipstick on that pig. Jobs is a great salesman, but only when selling products that truly offer a better user experience than other products.
Have you seen gears.google.com? It's technology that lets you run web apps offline. Basically, this gets rid of one of the biggest complaints about web apps like google spreadsheet and docs. I think technology like this will eventually put the nail in the coffin for a large class of desktop-only apps.
Because it's easier to illegally invoke the DMCA (god, why can't this law be struck down?) Be careful what you wish for. The DMCA is what's allowing Google to thumb their noses at the likes of Viacom and their ilk. The DMCA states that a site operator is immune if they comply with takedown notices. Thus, someone puts up an episode of the Daily Show on YouTube, Viacom sends a takedown notice, Google complies, and then seconds later someone has reposted it. This can go on ad infinitum, meaning that most of the time the video is available (users can repost videos MUCH faster than Viacom can monitor YouTube).
Sure, there is the problem that it's pretty easy to send a frivolous take-down notice and most site operators will comply rather than risk a lawsuit, but with the proliferation of so many video sites, the content will just pop up somewhere else, and the copyright owners are destined to lose this game of whack-a-mole.
This is one reason why I'll never buy HP hardware again: they are the king of crapware. For example, it's virtually impossible to install an HP consumer printer without installing all sorts of custom BS that runs ALL THE TIME. It's a printer, just give me a f@#$%in driver and be done with it.
I'm surprised that getting caught with a traffic cam can count as a point on your license. How do they know who was driving the car?
In most places I believe that getting caught with red light cams is basically treated like a parking ticket - the owner of the car pays the fine, but it doesn't affect your driving record or insurance at all because there is no easy way to tell who was driving the car.
Did you even read the entire Groklaw article? The whole reason this was posted is in response to this totally asinine Information Week Article headline:
IBM Helps Fund Web Hosting For Anti-SCO Site Groklaw
Basically, Information Week and some asshat reporter named Paul McDougall tried to smear Pamela Jones by suggesting IBM was behind Groklaw because Groklaw is hosted on ibiblio. Well, so is a shitload of other stuff, including support files for SCO OpenWare.
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The issue is when the "you" in this case is the teacher, posting works that are written by the students. The teacher cannot just waive the rights of the students.
Regardless, I agree with a previous poster that this sounds like a fine example of fair use, similar to Google Books.
Not really. Actually, it's more accurate to say a relational database is like an excel spreadsheet and "business intelligence" (which really means OLAP, on-line analytical processing) software is like pivot tables. The difference is that modern databases and OLAP systems can support billions of rows and access from thousands of users, an Excel spreadsheet not so much.
To give more context, Hyperion (or, more accurately, a company Hyperion bought a while back) basically invented OLAP with Essbase. This is a hugely important deal in enterprise software. Lots of companies use Oracle for their transactional data (i.e. sales data, purchasing data, etc), to support huge data volumes, but Oracle's homegrown OLAP products to analyze this data are generally poorly received in the marketplace. Hyperion is one of the standard bearers of this type of software.
All IE7 does is go to the search page OF YOUR CHOICE if you misspell something. I have IE7 configured with Google as my default search engine, and when I type in lexus-financail.com I go to Google's search page, which I find is a very helpful feature.
Sheesh, it's like people don't even TRY with the FUD anymore.
You are missing the point. The demo program just uses boot.ini as an example, but the core problem of redirecting keystrokes to a file upload is the issue, because any file with a well-known location could be uploaded. You could write a simpler program yourself by just using two fields, a text box and a file input, and show how typing in the text box immediately appears in the file input.
website sound: "All your base are belong to us" Vista: "Do you want to reformat your hard drive?" website sound: "All your base are belong to us" Vista: "Are you sure you want to reformat?" website sound: "All your base are belong to us" Vista: "Reformatting.........."
...and in some women walk around with no shits on like men.... Do the American tax payers launch a multi billion dollar crusade to purge the internet of porn and bring our Christian morals to the internationally based Internet?
I'd just like to state that though I am non-Christian, I am thoroughly against people walking around with shits on.
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Philip Greenspun has a very good article on why becoming a scientist doesn't make sense for most people:
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
The article is titled "Women in Science," but it basically argues that the preparation costs for becoming a scientist (college, grad school, post doc) are so high, and the economic rewards so low and uncertain, that intelligent people are more likely to be drawn to other fields like medicine.
Why is this modded down? It is legally correct. For a fairly good description of why the GPL is NOT a contract (but is still enforceable) see http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/06/enforcing_the_g.html
In a word, yes. I think there are a couple reasons for this:
1. OR mappers like Hibernate have gotten to the point that they are quite good, so they make the value add prop of object databases less compelling.
2. Object databases are never going to get the speed of relational databases. This is the real dealbreaker. Suppose an object database can handle 95% of my queries with adequate performance. All well and good, but I'm totally screwed on those other 5%. On the other hand, if I was using a relational database with hibernate, hibernate might handle 95% of the queries with adequate performance, but for those other 5% I can workaround by writing custom SQL. With that setup I get the best of both worlds.
I don't know of any attempts to use object databases on large enterprise projects that haven't been complete failures, with the failure always due to performance issues.
I see nothing wrong with the Supreme Court reviewing cases that are of judicial importance - that's their job. I was just pointing out that the statistics that were presented do nothing to support the GPs conclusions, and in fact would support to the exact opposite conclusion (though, again, you can't conclusively draw any conclusions, because an important piece of data - the total number of cases decided by each circuit court - was not given).
Umm, actually, you're completely wrong. Is this "lie with statistics" day? The PDF you show lists percentages of cases reviewed by the supreme court that are overturned, i.e:
number of decisions overturned / number of decisions reviewed = 75% for 9th district
However, the supreme court only reviews cases that are controversial and/or of judicial importance in the first place. The 9th circuit had a whopping 24 cases reviewed by the SC and 18 decisions were overturned - most of the other courts had only 1-4 cases reviewed.
The important metric is really:
number of cases overturned by supreme court / number of cases decided by circuit court
Your source document does not show this data.
Why is this parent modded down? I find it very difficult to believe someone was walking 25 miles a day, every day, for an extended period if they had any other obligations. Plus, if this 200 lb woman was really walking 25 miles a day, she would have been burning almost 3000 calories per day just by the walking assuming a brisk 15-minute mile pace (see http://walking.about.com/cs/howtoloseweight/a/howc alburn.htm). There's no way she could be walking this much and not losing wait without eating a very large amount of food.
Don't worry, maybe the Slashdot in your Universe will get one of our future dupes.
That's called capitalism, and has nothing to do with being in a bubble. It doesn't matter how cool your technology is, if people don't want to buy it, your company is worth nothing. Transmeta may have some awesome technology, but in the end their chips were too slow and Intel/AMD did a lot of catch up on the power side. YouTube may be simple technology, but it has millions of viewers and is the #1 destination when people think about video on the web.
While I don't necessarily disagree that the YouTube price is too high, don't make the common technologist's mistake of thinking that great technology should equal big profits.
Great, so as a motorist, if I win as a member of this class action lawsuit, I'll maybe get a coupon for $5 of gas, while the lawyers will get tens of millions. I can't wait.
The argument, though, is that since the law states the employer must make a "good faith effort" to find a qualified US worker that they ARE breaking the letter of the law. When the whole objective of the process is to go through the motions with the end goal of not finding a qualified US worker (i.e. "we're going to make it look like you're looking for qualified applicants even though you have absolutely no plan of hiring a US worker"), it seems to me any rational person would not consider this a good faith effort.
IBM, are you kidding me? IBM is one of the biggest patent trolls there is. See this article for a good description of IBM's shakedown process:
http://members.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html
Bullshit. I keep seeing all of these business articles talking about how Jobs is such a great salesman, and while he is, that is not the reason for Apple's resurgence in the past 7-8 years. More than his salesmanship, Jobs fanatical focus on building great products is why everyone is talking about Apple. People are excited about the iPhone not just because it's flat and shiny, but because it provides a level of functionality and user experience (at least as its been depicted so far) that no other cell phone provides. I want to by an iPhone not because it's cool (I don't even own an iPod), but because I believe it will offer an integrated set of features I can't get anywhere else.
Remember the Motorola ROKR? Not even Jobs could put lipstick on that pig. Jobs is a great salesman, but only when selling products that truly offer a better user experience than other products.
Have you seen gears.google.com? It's technology that lets you run web apps offline. Basically, this gets rid of one of the biggest complaints about web apps like google spreadsheet and docs. I think technology like this will eventually put the nail in the coffin for a large class of desktop-only apps.
Sure, there is the problem that it's pretty easy to send a frivolous take-down notice and most site operators will comply rather than risk a lawsuit, but with the proliferation of so many video sites, the content will just pop up somewhere else, and the copyright owners are destined to lose this game of whack-a-mole.
This is one reason why I'll never buy HP hardware again: they are the king of crapware. For example, it's virtually impossible to install an HP consumer printer without installing all sorts of custom BS that runs ALL THE TIME. It's a printer, just give me a f@#$%in driver and be done with it.
I'm surprised that getting caught with a traffic cam can count as a point on your license. How do they know who was driving the car?
In most places I believe that getting caught with red light cams is basically treated like a parking ticket - the owner of the car pays the fine, but it doesn't affect your driving record or insurance at all because there is no easy way to tell who was driving the car.
Did you even read the entire Groklaw article? The whole reason this was posted is in response to this totally asinine Information Week Article headline:
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IBM Helps Fund Web Hosting For Anti-SCO Site Groklaw
(See http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.j
Basically, Information Week and some asshat reporter named Paul McDougall tried to smear Pamela Jones by suggesting IBM was behind Groklaw because Groklaw is hosted on ibiblio. Well, so is a shitload of other stuff, including support files for SCO OpenWare.
Wow, I never thought I would see the words "alabaster dildo hypothesis" in such a cogent and insightful response.
But read the section you posted more carefully:
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The issue is when the "you" in this case is the teacher, posting works that are written by the students. The teacher cannot just waive the rights of the students.
Regardless, I agree with a previous poster that this sounds like a fine example of fair use, similar to Google Books.
Ugh, how the hell did this comment get modded "insightful?" It gives no insight whatsoever into the pros/cons for DST.
From now on I'm just going to respond 42 to everything, can't get more insightful than that.
Not really. Actually, it's more accurate to say a relational database is like an excel spreadsheet and "business intelligence" (which really means OLAP, on-line analytical processing) software is like pivot tables. The difference is that modern databases and OLAP systems can support billions of rows and access from thousands of users, an Excel spreadsheet not so much.
To give more context, Hyperion (or, more accurately, a company Hyperion bought a while back) basically invented OLAP with Essbase. This is a hugely important deal in enterprise software. Lots of companies use Oracle for their transactional data (i.e. sales data, purchasing data, etc), to support huge data volumes, but Oracle's homegrown OLAP products to analyze this data are generally poorly received in the marketplace. Hyperion is one of the standard bearers of this type of software.
All IE7 does is go to the search page OF YOUR CHOICE if you misspell something. I have IE7 configured with Google as my default search engine, and when I type in lexus-financail.com I go to Google's search page, which I find is a very helpful feature.
Sheesh, it's like people don't even TRY with the FUD anymore.
You are missing the point. The demo program just uses boot.ini as an example, but the core problem of redirecting keystrokes to a file upload is the issue, because any file with a well-known location could be uploaded. You could write a simpler program yourself by just using two fields, a text box and a file input, and show how typing in the text box immediately appears in the file input.
website sound: "All your base are belong to us"
Vista: "Do you want to reformat your hard drive?"
website sound: "All your base are belong to us"
Vista: "Are you sure you want to reformat?"
website sound: "All your base are belong to us"
Vista: "Reformatting.........."
...and in some women walk around with no shits on like men. ... Do the American tax payers launch a multi billion dollar crusade to purge the internet of porn and bring our Christian morals to the internationally based Internet?
I'd just like to state that though I am non-Christian, I am thoroughly against people walking around with shits on.
Unless you're in to that stuff, sicko.