Just go there and take a guided tour. If you'll hurry you'll be able to go to the detector pit and see it. Otherwise after starting up it will be inaccesible for visitors for the life-cycle of the experiments (10-20 years). Google for CERN visit service.
Although that looks pretty and professional, content-wise, it's also lacking
I doubt that there will ever be a complete, generic and non-biased comparison of RDBMSes. In some areas it is obvious that one should use big commercial system, in some SQLite is sufficient, while in most of the situations some research is needed.
Ok, this is yet another outdated report comparing three mainstream RDBMS'es - MySQL, PostgreSQL and ORACLE. It was done for yet another physical experiment - for choosing the proper system for storing data about the construction process of one of the LHC detectors - ALICE. And this report is at least professional, which cannot be said about the one mentioned in the article. http://dcdbappl1.cern.ch:8080/dcdb/archive/ttraczy k/db_compare/db_compare.html
Thanks to US great politicians, their poor understanding of the IT world, and great lobbying of groups of interest. There is a really good article about DMCA in the current release of IEEE Spectrum, pointing out all the bad things that it introduced (no hardware DVD copiers, no digital VCRs capable of skipping ads, etc.)
I know that it is not funny... It is like in many sci-fi... I liked the quote from Jonny Mnemonic - I don't remember it exactly, but the gist was: "The issue is not to heal people completly, the issue is to treat them and earn money".
But if we speak about funny ideas - the man seems to be willing to contribute to the research - so maybe he should state that all the results will be widely available (OpenSource license or something like that???)
Maybe bloggers should move to some hosting located outside of the France? Maybe not in Europe, as some countries have laws that for example prevents the search engines (local versions - like google.fr) from returning certain pages. The same goes for auctions etc...
At my company one of the tools used is TWiki. It does the job quite well, but I don't have any comparison to other wikis (except for being the user of MediaWiki - Wikipedia)
SO8 may have nice features, but I wouldn't expect sudden phasing out of MS Office. It might be a slow decrease in number of Office users - but it won't be radical - I would guess it will look similar as for the browser market - slow decrease of IE (despite other browsers respect standards, have many plugins, etc) and slow increase of FF and alternative browsers...
Children are extremely good topic for the `masses' - people who don't know anything about p2p will be against it - if you say them - that banning it will protect children. Unfortunatelly not many know, who will really benefit from this legislation.
I use Wikipedia very frequently to find the information I need. It's a really powerful combo when used properly with google. And so far I had not encountered poor articles on Wikipedia - sometimes only there were a bit incomplete ones, but still it's useful.
Well... recently we can observe many strange precedents, especially in the US. Most of us know that it's obvious, unfortunatelly there are groups which want to convince people that ISP are responsible.
By not being compliant to standards - speaking about IE and page rendering - MS forces the webmasters to create the webpages that are displaying correctly only under the `one and true':) browser. I had a situation that I had to adapt some HTML - that was rendered perfectly under Mozilla and Opera to be displayed correctly under IE. There is chance that more users will start using `alternative' browsers, due to various malicious `add-ons' to IE.
They are to big to care about the standards - the IE is the major, dominant browser - which is quite unfortunate, but true. They don't have to join any consortium, as de facto they are the standard (I don't speak about the quality, etc.)
And besides it is unstoppable. Even if prohibited the kind of ``black-market'' shall develop, where some groups will make huge amount of money... Because there are people willing to pay that money for extending there life, replacing organs etc... And that is not strange. Prohibitting cloning may look ``nice'' but for sure it will not stop the cloning. That were my 3 cents...
Maybe just to `convert' people. People are not willing to change their habits easily - so it's kind of bridge between `worlds'. On the other hand I'm sick of all attempts to make WM's look'n'feel like windows environment. It's reasonable to a point, but `copying' every tiny detail is too much.
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Just go there and take a guided tour. If you'll hurry you'll be able to go to the detector pit and see it. Otherwise after starting up it will be inaccesible for visitors for the life-cycle of the experiments (10-20 years). Google for CERN visit service.
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It's a hell of fun to work on.
Although that looks pretty and professional, content-wise, it's also lacking
I doubt that there will ever be a complete, generic and non-biased comparison of RDBMSes. In some areas it is obvious that one should use big commercial system, in some SQLite is sufficient, while in most of the situations some research is needed.
Ok, this is yet another outdated report comparing three mainstream RDBMS'es - MySQL, PostgreSQL and ORACLE. It was done for yet another physical experiment - for choosing the proper system for storing data about the construction process of one of the LHC detectors - ALICE.y k/db_compare/db_compare.html
And this report is at least professional, which cannot be said about the one mentioned in the article.
http://dcdbappl1.cern.ch:8080/dcdb/archive/ttracz
http://blog.hulboj.org/2006/10/windows_bad_linux_b ad.html
Even had to use the force (dpkg)...
It's faster to make gold out of Smurfs...
Thanks to US great politicians, their poor understanding of the IT world, and great lobbying of groups of interest.
There is a really good article about DMCA in the current release of IEEE Spectrum, pointing out all the bad things that it introduced (no hardware DVD copiers, no digital VCRs capable of skipping ads, etc.)
I know that it is not funny... It is like in many sci-fi... I liked the quote from Jonny Mnemonic - I don't remember it exactly, but the gist was: "The issue is not to heal people completly, the issue is to treat them and earn money".
But if we speak about funny ideas - the man seems to be willing to contribute to the research - so maybe he should state that all the results will be widely available (OpenSource license or something like that???)
Maybe he should patent himself, his DNA and other things ;)
Maybe bloggers should move to some hosting located outside of the France? Maybe not in Europe, as some countries have laws that for example prevents the search engines (local versions - like google.fr) from returning certain pages. The same goes for auctions etc...
It is admins' problem... Lazy admins...
There was at least one that I am aware of. It was comparison of 3 DBs with respect to its application for quite a big project.y k/db_compare/db_compare.pdf: dcdbappl1.cern.ch:8080/dcdb/archive/ttraczyk/db_co mpare/db_compare.pdf+dcdb+postgresql+mysql&hl=en&c lient=firefox-a
The report (made few years ago) is here:
http://dcdbappl1.cern.ch:8080/dcdb/archive/ttracz
However the machine seems to be down right now, so google html version:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:ijRVyqqJ_8EJ
At my company one of the tools used is TWiki. It does the job quite well, but I don't have any comparison to other wikis (except for being the user of MediaWiki - Wikipedia)
SO8 may have nice features, but I wouldn't expect sudden phasing out of MS Office. It might be a slow decrease in number of Office users - but it won't be radical - I would guess it will look similar as for the browser market - slow decrease of IE (despite other browsers respect standards, have many plugins, etc) and slow increase of FF and alternative browsers...
1% gain... with statistical error of 3%... or something like this.
Children are extremely good topic for the `masses' - people who don't know anything about p2p will be against it - if you say them - that banning it will protect children.
Unfortunatelly not many know, who will really benefit from this legislation.
I use Wikipedia very frequently to find the information I need. It's a really powerful combo when used properly with google. And so far I had not encountered poor articles on Wikipedia - sometimes only there were a bit incomplete ones, but still it's useful.
Well... recently we can observe many strange precedents, especially in the US.
Most of us know that it's obvious, unfortunatelly there are groups which want to convince people that ISP are responsible.
Good to hear that at least some people - and this time lawyers - have some reasonable ways of thinking.
By not being compliant to standards - speaking about IE and page rendering - MS forces the webmasters to create the webpages that are displaying correctly only under the `one and true' :) browser.
I had a situation that I had to adapt some HTML - that was rendered perfectly under Mozilla and Opera to be displayed correctly under IE.
There is chance that more users will start using `alternative' browsers, due to various malicious `add-ons' to IE.
They are to big to care about the standards - the IE is the major, dominant browser - which is quite unfortunate, but true.
They don't have to join any consortium, as de facto they are the standard (I don't speak about the quality, etc.)
As usual - every banned product/technology gives greatest amount of money to some criminal sindicates. Prohibition is a very good way to earn money..
And when the money comes in, I think the place would not be so important. My opinion is that we cannot stop the process and we really shouldn't.
As for me more important are possible benefits - that is finding cures for some diseases.
But we could discuss forever and neither of us would convince himself to change his mind. The future shall show which path was correct...
And besides it is unstoppable. Even if prohibited the kind of ``black-market'' shall develop, where some groups will make huge amount of money... Because there are people willing to pay that money for extending there life, replacing organs etc... And that is not strange. Prohibitting cloning may look ``nice'' but for sure it will not stop the cloning.
That were my 3 cents...
Maybe just to `convert' people. People are not willing to change their habits easily - so it's kind of bridge between `worlds'.
On the other hand I'm sick of all attempts to make WM's look'n'feel like windows environment. It's reasonable to a point, but `copying' every tiny detail is too much.