Another nice thing about my system is that each relational table is basically a collection of columnar (key-value) stores. If you have a 100-column table with 10 million rows in it and you perform a query like "Select , , FROM WHERE ilike '%Apple%' OR > 1000;" then I only have to read in 5 of the 100 columns from disk no matter how many rows the query matches. With multi-threading, I can have separate threads checking Column32 and Column48 at the same time.
The tables that were taking a couple minutes to query on Postgres had about 20 columns and 5 million rows. Not huge, but respectable. They are still small enough to fit in RAM (32 GB), but I was testing how long it took to query after a cold boot and all data had to be brought in from disk.
I am building a new data management system that takes advantage of every core/thread available. Speed is everything! I upgraded my development machine from a i7-3770K to a i7-6800K last fall, but now I wish I had waited and got a Ryzen 1800X instead. The 6-core 6800K gave me about a 50% boost in performance, but I had hoped for more. I am looking to get my hands on an AMD machine to test it out with my program. By taking advantage of all the threads, my system can break up a single database query and run it in parallel to give very fast performance. Queries that take a couple of minutes on PostgreSQL (big relational tables), can run in about 10 seconds using this technique in my system. I am hoping that I can get those down to under 5 seconds using an 1800X.
For the same reason we don't have a single 'car standard' where every car sold has the exact same feature set. Same size engine, same tire size, same number of passengers, same radio, same transmission, etc... People actually want different cars. Some want a pickup to haul or tow things. Some want a little sports car that one carries two people. Others want a mini-van to haul their 5 kids or the soccer team around. Yes, some things would be easier if every car had the same parts and features, but most people don't want that situation. Same with your computer hardware and operating system. People want different things.
When too much money is invested in the status quo, you are much more like to see a slightly improved status quo next year rather than something completely different. Look at the resistance to changing our health care, our education system, our infrastructure, our.... Only when some newcomer finds a new way to do something and starts cleaning their clocks...do the entrenched players try to switch gears.
What guarantees does anyone paying a ransom get that they will be able to unlock their data? If you are dealing with ransomware, you are dealing with crooks who don't have any morals whatsoever. Once they get payment, why wouldn't they just let you twist in the wind? Many kidnappings are the same. You pay the ransom and you still get a dead or missing relative.
I once worked for a startup and I was very productive. I build two new products from a remote location for the company that resulted in tens of $Millions in new sales. I would work all day from a quiet place all by myself (no meetings, interruptions, etc.). A few years later, the company changed management and they wanted to 'cut the fat' from development. I happened to be working part-time at the time (recovering from burn-out) but was still very productive. It didn't matter at all to those bean counters that they were getting multiple dollars in value from me for every dollar they paid me, and they let me go. Luckily, I had founders stock and made out pretty well when the company sold. Otherwise, I would have been very ticked. I'm sure they used some meaningless statistic to justify getting rid of some really good programmers.
The service might be popular, but if the hosting company is not making money from it somehow, they see no reason to keep it going. If they even tried to sell subscriptions or advertising, no one wanted to subscribe or not block the ads. Everything free eventually goes away.
If such a site existed, I wonder if it would be any better than that 'suggestion box' we often see at companies or businesses. You often wonder if anybody actually reads the suggestions, let alone gives them any weight. You could certainly pay someone to build a custom tool for you, but that can often cost many $ thousands. Perhaps a better idea would be to create a website where people can post stuff like 'I need a solution to problem X. I am willing to pay $10 (or $20, $50,...) for it'. Then others can see your post and add 'I have that same problem and I would contribute too'. If enough people have the problem and the amounts add up to enough to tackle it, someone would probably spend the time and effort to do it. It would kind of be like a 'reverse kickstarter' site.
I recently upgraded my 5 year old 3770K (quad core) desktop to a new 6800K (hex core). I am working on a data management system that can utilize as many cores as are available. It not only can do more things at once (e.g. multiple separate queries) with more cores, but it can also break up a single query so that parts of it can run in parallel on separate cores. By doing this, a single large query can often complete faster on 6 cores than it can on 4 cores. Even though each core on the 6800K had a lower clock speed than the 3770K, I was still able to perform queries about 50% faster because of the 50% more cores. I assume that improvements in each core itself over the past 5 years just about made up the difference in lower clock speed.
The computing environment certainly has changed. The powers that be are busily taking a lot of the fun out of it in their efforts to create 'walled gardens' where THEY (not YOU) control everything. While I am glad that I don't have to get out a soldering iron just to save a few bytes to permanent storage; I get enraged every time some program or system tries to hide my data from me or make it nearly impossible to do what I want with it. I get ticked off when all your settings change because your system decided it was going to 'upgrade' whether you wanted to or not and the company that wrote the software wants to make you view some new ads. I pull my hair out when I can't even find where my app decided to store that file I just created. I certainly miss the days when the 'install program' was copy *.* and the 'uninstall program' was del *.* and you didn't have to worry about a dozen registry settings or DLLs left behind to play havoc on your system.
I am currently working on a new system that will bring a lot of that control back where it belongs...with the user.
Maybe he watched that movie "Core" (I think) where they were able to build a machine that tunneled through miles of rock very quickly when they threw enough money at the problem.
Wait...I thought San Francisco was a 'Sanctuary City' where people who break the laws are protected from the consequences. Is that what Uber means when they 'looked at this issue carefully and we don't believe...'?
Apparently, there were thousands of typos in the emails themselves. All those racial slurs. All those admissions of collusion with the press and super PACS. All those derogatory things the Clinton campaign was saying about Obama. All the campaign's dirty tricks. All the gaffes in Hillary's paid speeches....They were just all TYPOS!
Do you think upper management ever sent themselves a letter that said in effect "Instead of your regular big bonuses, the company has instead donated X $Millions to a charity in your name. Have a Merry Christmas."? I think not. If they would never do this to themselves, why do it to all the other employees?
I love the way people try to insinuate that a multi-national company who earns money overseas but didn't pay US taxes on that money is cheating somehow. What is next? Apple sold an iPhone in California and DIDN"T pay New York sales tax on it???? That must be criminal, right?
If I had a nickel for every time I got a 'hot tip' about how a stock, gold, oil futures, or bitcoin was going to double in the next year; I would already be filthy rich. This story is nothing but spam.
I watched an old Twilight Zone episode on Netflix the other day (1966) which was about a factory where all the workers were being replaced by a computer and robotic system. They have been saying the same thing for 50 years. How many jobs today were not even imagined in 1966?
SomeCompanyINeverHeardOf acquired SomeOtherCompanyFromWhoKnowsWhere for $LudicrousAmount to do SomethingCompletelyForeignToMe so that I am completely jealous that I didn't think of it first.
That means it will also back up your OS files, your programs, and everything else you download off the internet. After your first free year of cloud storage, you will be paying for every GB of stuff uploaded...including a lot of stuff you don't care if it is backed up or not. It's like when cable charges you extra every month for all those channels you never watch.
Lots of services let you do that, except they call it 'Pay-per-view' and they want to charge you something like $4.99 to watch some movie once that is 8 years old. You only have to watch a few programs before your bill is $40.
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Another nice thing about my system is that each relational table is basically a collection of columnar (key-value) stores. If you have a 100-column table with 10 million rows in it and you perform a query like "Select , , FROM WHERE ilike '%Apple%' OR > 1000;" then I only have to read in 5 of the 100 columns from disk no matter how many rows the query matches. With multi-threading, I can have separate threads checking Column32 and Column48 at the same time.
The tables that were taking a couple minutes to query on Postgres had about 20 columns and 5 million rows. Not huge, but respectable. They are still small enough to fit in RAM (32 GB), but I was testing how long it took to query after a cold boot and all data had to be brought in from disk.
I am building a new data management system that takes advantage of every core/thread available. Speed is everything! I upgraded my development machine from a i7-3770K to a i7-6800K last fall, but now I wish I had waited and got a Ryzen 1800X instead. The 6-core 6800K gave me about a 50% boost in performance, but I had hoped for more. I am looking to get my hands on an AMD machine to test it out with my program. By taking advantage of all the threads, my system can break up a single database query and run it in parallel to give very fast performance. Queries that take a couple of minutes on PostgreSQL (big relational tables), can run in about 10 seconds using this technique in my system. I am hoping that I can get those down to under 5 seconds using an 1800X.
For the same reason we don't have a single 'car standard' where every car sold has the exact same feature set. Same size engine, same tire size, same number of passengers, same radio, same transmission, etc... People actually want different cars. Some want a pickup to haul or tow things. Some want a little sports car that one carries two people. Others want a mini-van to haul their 5 kids or the soccer team around. Yes, some things would be easier if every car had the same parts and features, but most people don't want that situation. Same with your computer hardware and operating system. People want different things.
When too much money is invested in the status quo, you are much more like to see a slightly improved status quo next year rather than something completely different. Look at the resistance to changing our health care, our education system, our infrastructure, our.... Only when some newcomer finds a new way to do something and starts cleaning their clocks...do the entrenched players try to switch gears.
Why destroy them when you can just hack into them and get them to deliver it to your door instead?
What guarantees does anyone paying a ransom get that they will be able to unlock their data? If you are dealing with ransomware, you are dealing with crooks who don't have any morals whatsoever. Once they get payment, why wouldn't they just let you twist in the wind? Many kidnappings are the same. You pay the ransom and you still get a dead or missing relative.
I once worked for a startup and I was very productive. I build two new products from a remote location for the company that resulted in tens of $Millions in new sales. I would work all day from a quiet place all by myself (no meetings, interruptions, etc.). A few years later, the company changed management and they wanted to 'cut the fat' from development. I happened to be working part-time at the time (recovering from burn-out) but was still very productive. It didn't matter at all to those bean counters that they were getting multiple dollars in value from me for every dollar they paid me, and they let me go. Luckily, I had founders stock and made out pretty well when the company sold. Otherwise, I would have been very ticked. I'm sure they used some meaningless statistic to justify getting rid of some really good programmers.
The service might be popular, but if the hosting company is not making money from it somehow, they see no reason to keep it going. If they even tried to sell subscriptions or advertising, no one wanted to subscribe or not block the ads. Everything free eventually goes away.
It would be an improvement if the ads didn't play sound at 3x the volume level of the regular content. I know, my bar is set pretty low.
If such a site existed, I wonder if it would be any better than that 'suggestion box' we often see at companies or businesses. You often wonder if anybody actually reads the suggestions, let alone gives them any weight. You could certainly pay someone to build a custom tool for you, but that can often cost many $ thousands. Perhaps a better idea would be to create a website where people can post stuff like 'I need a solution to problem X. I am willing to pay $10 (or $20, $50,...) for it'. Then others can see your post and add 'I have that same problem and I would contribute too'. If enough people have the problem and the amounts add up to enough to tackle it, someone would probably spend the time and effort to do it. It would kind of be like a 'reverse kickstarter' site.
I recently upgraded my 5 year old 3770K (quad core) desktop to a new 6800K (hex core). I am working on a data management system that can utilize as many cores as are available. It not only can do more things at once (e.g. multiple separate queries) with more cores, but it can also break up a single query so that parts of it can run in parallel on separate cores. By doing this, a single large query can often complete faster on 6 cores than it can on 4 cores. Even though each core on the 6800K had a lower clock speed than the 3770K, I was still able to perform queries about 50% faster because of the 50% more cores. I assume that improvements in each core itself over the past 5 years just about made up the difference in lower clock speed.
The computing environment certainly has changed. The powers that be are busily taking a lot of the fun out of it in their efforts to create 'walled gardens' where THEY (not YOU) control everything. While I am glad that I don't have to get out a soldering iron just to save a few bytes to permanent storage; I get enraged every time some program or system tries to hide my data from me or make it nearly impossible to do what I want with it. I get ticked off when all your settings change because your system decided it was going to 'upgrade' whether you wanted to or not and the company that wrote the software wants to make you view some new ads. I pull my hair out when I can't even find where my app decided to store that file I just created. I certainly miss the days when the 'install program' was copy *.* and the 'uninstall program' was del *.* and you didn't have to worry about a dozen registry settings or DLLs left behind to play havoc on your system. I am currently working on a new system that will bring a lot of that control back where it belongs...with the user.
...there are more than two options when you try to turn off your computer. 1) Upgrade and Restart or 2) Upgrade and Shutdown
Apple admitting that they overcharge for memory upgrades?
Maybe he watched that movie "Core" (I think) where they were able to build a machine that tunneled through miles of rock very quickly when they threw enough money at the problem.
Wait...I thought San Francisco was a 'Sanctuary City' where people who break the laws are protected from the consequences. Is that what Uber means when they 'looked at this issue carefully and we don't believe...'?
Apparently, there were thousands of typos in the emails themselves. All those racial slurs. All those admissions of collusion with the press and super PACS. All those derogatory things the Clinton campaign was saying about Obama. All the campaign's dirty tricks. All the gaffes in Hillary's paid speeches....They were just all TYPOS!
Do you think upper management ever sent themselves a letter that said in effect "Instead of your regular big bonuses, the company has instead donated X $Millions to a charity in your name. Have a Merry Christmas."? I think not. If they would never do this to themselves, why do it to all the other employees?
I love the way people try to insinuate that a multi-national company who earns money overseas but didn't pay US taxes on that money is cheating somehow. What is next? Apple sold an iPhone in California and DIDN"T pay New York sales tax on it???? That must be criminal, right?
If I had a nickel for every time I got a 'hot tip' about how a stock, gold, oil futures, or bitcoin was going to double in the next year; I would already be filthy rich. This story is nothing but spam.
I watched an old Twilight Zone episode on Netflix the other day (1966) which was about a factory where all the workers were being replaced by a computer and robotic system. They have been saying the same thing for 50 years. How many jobs today were not even imagined in 1966?
SomeCompanyINeverHeardOf acquired SomeOtherCompanyFromWhoKnowsWhere for $LudicrousAmount to do SomethingCompletelyForeignToMe so that I am completely jealous that I didn't think of it first.
That means it will also back up your OS files, your programs, and everything else you download off the internet. After your first free year of cloud storage, you will be paying for every GB of stuff uploaded...including a lot of stuff you don't care if it is backed up or not. It's like when cable charges you extra every month for all those channels you never watch.
Lots of services let you do that, except they call it 'Pay-per-view' and they want to charge you something like $4.99 to watch some movie once that is 8 years old. You only have to watch a few programs before your bill is $40.