Doubt it. Most game developers have not even figured out how to use more than 2GB of main memory or more than one core. I can't even think of a game that currently uses four cores. The next gen consoles have four, and thus that will be the norm for PC games as well for the next six to nine years.
Total War series has been using four cores for a number of years and I'm sure it's not the only game developed for the PC that does so.
I should add, violence in Australia and to a lesser extent, the UK is more cultural than driven by poverty. The levels of poverty seen in the US are very rare in Australia and the UK. You're unlikely to be mugged or robbed here, more likely get in a fight drinking.
I do, actually using mutlpile 3TB FusionIO cards for a database migration project. Beats having to stuff around with slow SANs, shared (slow) storage and SAN admins. If you take into account performance, rack space, power consumption and cooling, it's cheaper than SAN storage. Just say no to spinning rust.
A quicker path to fascism is to outlaw something that people enjoy. Then you can use tax payers money to fund a vast empire that executes or puts people in prisons for either supplying demand or trying to enjoy themselves. Prohibition is the fascist weapon of choice. On the Ron Paul/tax drugs, you might have a point, tax enforcement will just replace prohibition but hopefully on much lower scale.
That's a little harsh. At the time of slammer, I was feeling superior as I had rolled that patch out when it was released. It was then that I discovered the horror of MSDE installed, unpatched on user PCs and various application servers.
It could also be away to get around the protectionist pricing policies of Apple. It would be cheaper for some people outside of the US to purchase the phone in the US and ship it over, but this is not allowed by Apple and is possibly the motivation for the store managers reaction. Outright, a 16GB iPhone 5 costs 649.00 USD at apple.com, at apple.com.au it's listed for 799 AUD which is a whooping 843.82 USD (using google for conversion), even if you can minus 10% for Australian sales tax, there is a 110 USD difference.
"make copyright a flat 18 years for individuals and 5 years for corporations, with not extensions and a one year loss in term for each transferral of copyright (be it selling the copyright or merging/wholly owning the company)", that is the most sensible copyright suggestion I have ever seen. If I could mod up I would.
I agree, broken the golden rule and read the article... This is insidious, Meir should not be able to force copyright on a beer recipe, protect the trademark, yes, but claiming copyright on a beer recipe is going too far.
Beer recipes are generally not that secret, visit a brewery and you're generally shown the full process and ingredients. It's true that most don't give the recipe away, but if you know your brewing it's not hard to reproduce. If you get talking to a brewer and show some interest they'll point you in the right direction. I might be ignorant, but I've never heard of a brewer suing another brewer over a recipe or beer making process. Most brewers are happy to share. Yeast is another matter, many breweries closely guard their yeast, but others give it away.
Why was the parent comment modded as Troll? Seems to be fair comment, sales taxes are regressive taxes, the less you earn the greater percentage of your income you pay. Are the mods FoxNews fans?
At least the Samsung workers don't need safety nets to stop them committing suicide. Glad to see Samsung is not infringing Apple's patent on suicide inducing labor conditions.
The two major parties are identical with these types of moves. The opposition will come from some sections of the media, but not the dominant Murdoch media, and The Greens and possibly some of the small right-wing parties.
You forget about ASIO, they will not require a subpoena, warrant or any form of court order. Once the data is stored it will be mined. Despite ASIO wiping up fear about terrorists, their main targets are political. ASIO targets environmentalists. The data retention is designed to strike fear into the general population, terrorists (if there are any) and criminals will use secure VPNs, Tor or what have you, to hide communications. The other target of this proposal is copyright infringement, mainly Bit Torrent users. There is no "HUGE" difference, if the data exists, it will be abused.
OLTP database systems. The bottleneck for transaction systems is hardening transactions. It's the D in ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability). If you can harden a transaction in RAM, throughput will be amazing.
If you can use PowerShell, you can pick up Perl and Python. Using standalone executables defeats the purpose of using a scripting language. Want to know what a script does? Open the script the file and read, no so with executables, doable, but not ideal. I really like Perl, and in a mixed OS environment, Perl makes sense. In a team of windows admins, it's tough call to expect all the team members to learn Perl, however PowerShell is an easy sell.
I second that, ask if they like PowerShell. A windows admin that can script is a productive admin, an admin that has invested time in PowerShell is an admin that can adapt and possibly understands the windows environment well.
No benefit in trying out the latest hardware? We now have disk subsystems that can almost match RAM for speed, they didn't exist 4-5 years ago. If you're doing serious development, that is a huge paradigm shift. Sure, if you're not writing multi-threaded applications or test harnesses or running various database systems, you could cruise by with old hardware. To make the assumption that just because you don't explore the new or have reason to push bounds that no-one else does, is ignorance and time wasting. Your attitude is identical to Bill Gates claiming that 640K of RAM is enough for anyone.
Then there is gaming...
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Doubt it. Most game developers have not even figured out how to use more than 2GB of main memory or more than one core. I can't even think of a game that currently uses four cores. The next gen consoles have four, and thus that will be the norm for PC games as well for the next six to nine years.
Total War series has been using four cores for a number of years and I'm sure it's not the only game developed for the PC that does so.
I should add, violence in Australia and to a lesser extent, the UK is more cultural than driven by poverty. The levels of poverty seen in the US are very rare in Australia and the UK. You're unlikely to be mugged or robbed here, more likely get in a fight drinking.
Fair points, and it's similar in Australia, certain areas are more violent than others. Conservative regional areas, some indigenous communities (where alcohol is allowed) , outer suburbs and anywhere alcohol is served can be dangerous. Though with alcohol, the same can be said of most countries. However US gun violence is not limited to gangs in the inner city, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10256057/US-teenagers-shot-Australian-baseball-player-because-they-were-bored.html
However the US has almost 5 times the homicide rate of the UK and Australia. Most people would rather take a punch than a bullet.
I do, actually using mutlpile 3TB FusionIO cards for a database migration project. Beats having to stuff around with slow SANs, shared (slow) storage and SAN admins. If you take into account performance, rack space, power consumption and cooling, it's cheaper than SAN storage. Just say no to spinning rust.
A quicker path to fascism is to outlaw something that people enjoy. Then you can use tax payers money to fund a vast empire that executes or puts people in prisons for either supplying demand or trying to enjoy themselves. Prohibition is the fascist weapon of choice. On the Ron Paul/tax drugs, you might have a point, tax enforcement will just replace prohibition but hopefully on much lower scale.
That's a little harsh. At the time of slammer, I was feeling superior as I had rolled that patch out when it was released. It was then that I discovered the horror of MSDE installed, unpatched on user PCs and various application servers.
It could also be away to get around the protectionist pricing policies of Apple. It would be cheaper for some people outside of the US to purchase the phone in the US and ship it over, but this is not allowed by Apple and is possibly the motivation for the store managers reaction. Outright, a 16GB iPhone 5 costs 649.00 USD at apple.com, at apple.com.au it's listed for 799 AUD which is a whooping 843.82 USD (using google for conversion), even if you can minus 10% for Australian sales tax, there is a 110 USD difference.
"make copyright a flat 18 years for individuals and 5 years for corporations, with not extensions and a one year loss in term for each transferral of copyright (be it selling the copyright or merging/wholly owning the company)", that is the most sensible copyright suggestion I have ever seen. If I could mod up I would.
I agree, broken the golden rule and read the article... This is insidious, Meir should not be able to force copyright on a beer recipe, protect the trademark, yes, but claiming copyright on a beer recipe is going too far.
Beer recipes are generally not that secret, visit a brewery and you're generally shown the full process and ingredients. It's true that most don't give the recipe away, but if you know your brewing it's not hard to reproduce. If you get talking to a brewer and show some interest they'll point you in the right direction. I might be ignorant, but I've never heard of a brewer suing another brewer over a recipe or beer making process. Most brewers are happy to share. Yeast is another matter, many breweries closely guard their yeast, but others give it away.
Only takes one...
Timothy McVeigh and Anders Behring Breivik, both terrorists and both Christians, so by your "logic" we should watch Christians as well.
Why was the parent comment modded as Troll? Seems to be fair comment, sales taxes are regressive taxes, the less you earn the greater percentage of your income you pay. Are the mods FoxNews fans?
The South Americans may disagree with your version of history...
At least the Samsung workers don't need safety nets to stop them committing suicide. Glad to see Samsung is not infringing Apple's patent on suicide inducing labor conditions.
The two major parties are identical with these types of moves. The opposition will come from some sections of the media, but not the dominant Murdoch media, and The Greens and possibly some of the small right-wing parties.
Yes, copyright is one of the stated reasons for this draconian proposal.
You forget about ASIO, they will not require a subpoena, warrant or any form of court order. Once the data is stored it will be mined. Despite ASIO wiping up fear about terrorists, their main targets are political. ASIO targets environmentalists. The data retention is designed to strike fear into the general population, terrorists (if there are any) and criminals will use secure VPNs, Tor or what have you, to hide communications. The other target of this proposal is copyright infringement, mainly Bit Torrent users. There is no "HUGE" difference, if the data exists, it will be abused.
To back up your points, 27C3: Adventures in analyzing Stuxnet (Bruce Dang from Microsoft). An amazing video where Bruce gives a blow by blow account of the discovery of Stuxnet and the measures that were taken to close the holes it exploited.
OLTP database systems. The bottleneck for transaction systems is hardening transactions. It's the D in ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability). If you can harden a transaction in RAM, throughput will be amazing.
If you can use PowerShell, you can pick up Perl and Python. Using standalone executables defeats the purpose of using a scripting language. Want to know what a script does? Open the script the file and read, no so with executables, doable, but not ideal. I really like Perl, and in a mixed OS environment, Perl makes sense. In a team of windows admins, it's tough call to expect all the team members to learn Perl, however PowerShell is an easy sell.
I second that, ask if they like PowerShell. A windows admin that can script is a productive admin, an admin that has invested time in PowerShell is an admin that can adapt and possibly understands the windows environment well.
Asking someone how to query an Access database would frighten decent admins. "OMG they rely on Access in a production environment, nasty".
No benefit in trying out the latest hardware? We now have disk subsystems that can almost match RAM for speed, they didn't exist 4-5 years ago. If you're doing serious development, that is a huge paradigm shift. Sure, if you're not writing multi-threaded applications or test harnesses or running various database systems, you could cruise by with old hardware. To make the assumption that just because you don't explore the new or have reason to push bounds that no-one else does, is ignorance and time wasting. Your attitude is identical to Bill Gates claiming that 640K of RAM is enough for anyone. Then there is gaming...