Exactly. Basically if the #s are horrible they want to be able to look at them and say "you're an idiot for not clicking the little box for hardware acceleration before running your benchmark."
I've used VMWare fusion extensively. It has for the most part worked great. I recently tried Parallels to play some windows game. It's terrible. I tried using Parallels in my day to day work and it constantly messes up in random ways. I just switched back to Fusion today and will uninstall Parallels when I get a change later today.
What about people who work really hard and never get anywhere
If you do some reading on the '10,000 hour rule' it is addressed. Basically you need to spend your time working hard AND smart. The best example is Tiger woods and his 'directed' practices. He doesn't go out and hit 6" putts for 8 hours/day. He works hard and making himself better and what parts of the game his is poor at. The classic story is how he will go into a bunker and hit 200+ shots with the ball completely buried even though he might only hit that shot once/year while on tour. That's directed practice though.
people who are handed success for no reason and run with it
Running with it means that person has some ability.
people who are lazy but steal from others and become successful
Show me someone who is truly lazy and is also successful. I remember when Allen Iverson was given crap for ripping on practice. Many people took that as he's lazy and he doesn't practice. The funny thing is that I bet very few days have gone by in his years of playing basketball that he did not have a basketball in his hands.
people who are prevented from having any success due to circumstances beyond their control in life, such as tradition, societal expectations, government restriction, etc
Most restrictions are self-imposed. Obviously if you want to be successful at something illegal it could be hard (although highly financially rewarding).
In the end these are all just excuses for why someone thinks they are not as successful as they should be. Instead of looking for excuses, someone should identify what they could do differently and try it instead.
How do you know that the west africans do not match the intelligence of Asians? You also cannot forget religion. Many technological advances have been delayed or destroyed because of some cultures religious beliefs.
I don't know if I'd say it's crippled, underpowered, but not crippled. IMHO, the sweet spot price for a mini is $399. They would fly off the shelves at that price. The problem is that it would kill Apple TV sales and sales of iMacs.
Like I said, I really wanted one to run as an HTPC and $599 is just too much to spend. $399 I would have bought one today, $499 and I would have waited, but ended up saying 'what's a $100?' $599 is a new camera lens I want:)
A Mac Mini looks to be a decent media center if you get a wireless keyboard+mouse and download HandBrake+VLC. A better AppleTV than the AppleTV, since it comes with a DVD player.
I would agree if the price were $499 instead of $599.
I agree. Of course there are always exceptions, but I always work hard to design out any NULLs in my databases. The only place I still use them regularly is when dealing with start and end dates. Even then dealing with the nulls is annoying because you have to always check the end date for null and make it something for the query to use in a between like so:
select * from tblFoo where mydate is between startdate and isnull(enddate, getdate())
Of course you can make getdate() some really far date in the future if you want instead of getdate().
So far all I see is Obama ceding authority and decisions to others. He seems adept at not taking action himself or taking responsibility.
I'm not sure how this is a surprise to anyone. That's all he's ever done. He's never had to actually do any leading in his government positions. Now he has the football and simply handed off to some of the worst players there are in Pelosi and Reid. A real leader would have called Pelosi up and told her to get her act together or he would have carried the ball himself and worked to build his own bill.
I left out the NOR. If you want to kill DRM you have do both, stop pirating and stop buying. If all you do is pirate then they'll think that all they need is stronger DRM to force people to buy.
Reminds me of the old argument for pirating. "The content sucked so I downloaded it instead of buying." Well if it sucked why download it? All that person has done is shown the creators that the content was fine, but they just didn't want to pay for it. Result, more DRM.
The working conditions do stink (and should be improved), but I agree with you that simply telling us the wage (OMG! 41c/hour!!) without telling us how much it buys locally is simply there to enrage people who don't think. Obviously it must be a decent amount of money locally if people are willing to put up with the working conditions.
Hmmm. Maybe so, but how many people have iPod docks in their car?
Most (all?) new cars come with radios that have an aux jack on them. If you have an older car nearly any after market radio will have an aux jack on it. For a little more money you can get radios that have ipod jacks so you can control the ipod from the radio. Of course you can always do the broadcast tuner thing (which is what a person is already using if they have satellite radio and don't have an aux jack of some sort).
The big problem with satellite radio is that the actual base of people who see it as a need is small. The primary segment of people who want satellite are those that drive a lot AND cover a lot of ground. Everyone else can easily get by with normal radio and their ipod for music.
First, the 'find everyone who lives at the same address' question is a valid one.
Why would I want to go through each key to see if there's more than one value?
The simple case is to find any contacts that don't have an address yet. Other reasons could be to find ones that don't have a home address or business address yet.
What about history of addresses?
See, you're only thinking about your own little address book. I'm thinking about millions of addresses and all the possible analytics that could be done on them. From your answers it doesn't seem that a key-value store allows the same types of questions to be answered that a very simple relational model would allow.
So you go through each key and count the number of addresses and then return the ones that have more than one? Can look things up based on the Value and not the key? That would seem to be the only way to efficiently answer my questions posed above.
Sounds like a huge table scan for something that is simple in a relational model.
What's funny is that when I was in college (90s) Keynesian was thought of to be crap. We learned it and saw many examples why it doesn't work. I was amused to see all the economists coming out of the woodwork to support it now.
Regardless if Keynesian actually works or not, it will never work in OUR situation because of one fact. It requires that in the good times you raise taxes and CUT government spending. No way that the dems (or republicans for that matter) are going to cut government spending in the good times.
The problem at this moment is that the banks aren't lending,
That's BS. Watch the bankers testimony that was on last week. One of the guys rattled off just how much money the lent last month alone.
Anecdotally, I have numerous friends who recently bought houses and had zero problems getting loans. Others are refing because the banks are calling them. I spoke to a mortgage broker the other day and she said loans are not a problem at all, and haven't been for a long time.
Oh wait, you must mean banks aren't lending to people who have no down payment or the ability to pay back the loan. Barney Frank, is that you? BTW, lending to people who can't pay back the loan is what got us here in the first place.
Yes and no. My grandfather is old and is on medicare and VA benefits. His doctors clearly call the shots (keeping him extra nights in the hospital just for observation, etc...).
Daschels own book talks about limiting care to old people to save money and he was the first choice to fill the position that is over the NCHIT.
My problem with Keynesian theory is that it doesn't work in reality. Part of the theory says that in good times you raise taxes and CUT government spending. Problem is that once you get a government program going it will never be cut. That right there means Keynesian theory is a useless way to manage our economy.
This all assumes you agree with Keynesian theory to being with. It's not something I'm completely sold on.
This may show my lack of knowledge on key-value stores, but using your example how would I look up everyone who lives at the same address? How about return to me all the people who have more than 1 address?
Since the key is the name it doesn't sound like you could answer either of those queries without pulling all the data back and going through it yourself. At that point you've killed an of the perceived gain in performance over a traditional, normalized rdbms schema.
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Exactly. Basically if the #s are horrible they want to be able to look at them and say "you're an idiot for not clicking the little box for hardware acceleration before running your benchmark."
I've used VMWare fusion extensively. It has for the most part worked great. I recently tried Parallels to play some windows game. It's terrible. I tried using Parallels in my day to day work and it constantly messes up in random ways. I just switched back to Fusion today and will uninstall Parallels when I get a change later today.
If you do some reading on the '10,000 hour rule' it is addressed. Basically you need to spend your time working hard AND smart. The best example is Tiger woods and his 'directed' practices. He doesn't go out and hit 6" putts for 8 hours/day. He works hard and making himself better and what parts of the game his is poor at. The classic story is how he will go into a bunker and hit 200+ shots with the ball completely buried even though he might only hit that shot once/year while on tour. That's directed practice though.
Running with it means that person has some ability.
Show me someone who is truly lazy and is also successful. I remember when Allen Iverson was given crap for ripping on practice. Many people took that as he's lazy and he doesn't practice. The funny thing is that I bet very few days have gone by in his years of playing basketball that he did not have a basketball in his hands.
Most restrictions are self-imposed. Obviously if you want to be successful at something illegal it could be hard (although highly financially rewarding).
In the end these are all just excuses for why someone thinks they are not as successful as they should be. Instead of looking for excuses, someone should identify what they could do differently and try it instead.
How do you know that the west africans do not match the intelligence of Asians? You also cannot forget religion. Many technological advances have been delayed or destroyed because of some cultures religious beliefs.
I don't know if I'd say it's crippled, underpowered, but not crippled. IMHO, the sweet spot price for a mini is $399. They would fly off the shelves at that price. The problem is that it would kill Apple TV sales and sales of iMacs.
Like I said, I really wanted one to run as an HTPC and $599 is just too much to spend. $399 I would have bought one today, $499 and I would have waited, but ended up saying 'what's a $100?' $599 is a new camera lens I want :)
Yes. At some point you have say "this costs too much and isn't worth it." $599 is a 20% increase over $499.
I would agree if the price were $499 instead of $599.
Actually many implementations do return an error or at least a warning when you try execute expressions with nulls.
I agree. Of course there are always exceptions, but I always work hard to design out any NULLs in my databases. The only place I still use them regularly is when dealing with start and end dates. Even then dealing with the nulls is annoying because you have to always check the end date for null and make it something for the query to use in a between like so:
select * from tblFoo where mydate is between startdate and isnull(enddate, getdate())
Of course you can make getdate() some really far date in the future if you want instead of getdate().
A fool knows not that he is a fool. The wise is simply a fool that is conscious of his own ignorance.
I'm not sure how this is a surprise to anyone. That's all he's ever done. He's never had to actually do any leading in his government positions. Now he has the football and simply handed off to some of the worst players there are in Pelosi and Reid. A real leader would have called Pelosi up and told her to get her act together or he would have carried the ball himself and worked to build his own bill.
I left out the NOR. If you want to kill DRM you have do both, stop pirating and stop buying. If all you do is pirate then they'll think that all they need is stronger DRM to force people to buy.
Reminds me of the old argument for pirating. "The content sucked so I downloaded it instead of buying." Well if it sucked why download it? All that person has done is shown the creators that the content was fine, but they just didn't want to pay for it. Result, more DRM.
I mostly agree with your point. The quickest way to kill DRM is not to buy OR pirate anything that supports DRM.
The working conditions do stink (and should be improved), but I agree with you that simply telling us the wage (OMG! 41c/hour!!) without telling us how much it buys locally is simply there to enrage people who don't think. Obviously it must be a decent amount of money locally if people are willing to put up with the working conditions.
Most (all?) new cars come with radios that have an aux jack on them. If you have an older car nearly any after market radio will have an aux jack on it. For a little more money you can get radios that have ipod jacks so you can control the ipod from the radio. Of course you can always do the broadcast tuner thing (which is what a person is already using if they have satellite radio and don't have an aux jack of some sort).
The big problem with satellite radio is that the actual base of people who see it as a need is small. The primary segment of people who want satellite are those that drive a lot AND cover a lot of ground. Everyone else can easily get by with normal radio and their ipod for music.
I use Pandora on EDGE all the time. I only use it sitting at my desk, but it does work.
First, the 'find everyone who lives at the same address' question is a valid one.
The simple case is to find any contacts that don't have an address yet. Other reasons could be to find ones that don't have a home address or business address yet.
What about history of addresses?
See, you're only thinking about your own little address book. I'm thinking about millions of addresses and all the possible analytics that could be done on them. From your answers it doesn't seem that a key-value store allows the same types of questions to be answered that a very simple relational model would allow.
So you go through each key and count the number of addresses and then return the ones that have more than one? Can look things up based on the Value and not the key? That would seem to be the only way to efficiently answer my questions posed above.
Sounds like a huge table scan for something that is simple in a relational model.
Sounds like brain crack!
What's funny is that when I was in college (90s) Keynesian was thought of to be crap. We learned it and saw many examples why it doesn't work. I was amused to see all the economists coming out of the woodwork to support it now.
Regardless if Keynesian actually works or not, it will never work in OUR situation because of one fact. It requires that in the good times you raise taxes and CUT government spending. No way that the dems (or republicans for that matter) are going to cut government spending in the good times.
That's BS. Watch the bankers testimony that was on last week. One of the guys rattled off just how much money the lent last month alone.
Anecdotally, I have numerous friends who recently bought houses and had zero problems getting loans. Others are refing because the banks are calling them. I spoke to a mortgage broker the other day and she said loans are not a problem at all, and haven't been for a long time.
Oh wait, you must mean banks aren't lending to people who have no down payment or the ability to pay back the loan. Barney Frank, is that you? BTW, lending to people who can't pay back the loan is what got us here in the first place.
Yes and no. My grandfather is old and is on medicare and VA benefits. His doctors clearly call the shots (keeping him extra nights in the hospital just for observation, etc...).
Daschels own book talks about limiting care to old people to save money and he was the first choice to fill the position that is over the NCHIT.
My problem with Keynesian theory is that it doesn't work in reality. Part of the theory says that in good times you raise taxes and CUT government spending. Problem is that once you get a government program going it will never be cut. That right there means Keynesian theory is a useless way to manage our economy.
This all assumes you agree with Keynesian theory to being with. It's not something I'm completely sold on.
This may show my lack of knowledge on key-value stores, but using your example how would I look up everyone who lives at the same address? How about return to me all the people who have more than 1 address?
Since the key is the name it doesn't sound like you could answer either of those queries without pulling all the data back and going through it yourself. At that point you've killed an of the perceived gain in performance over a traditional, normalized rdbms schema.
It shows, because MSSQL is a lot more than 'just a database.' SSIS and MSAS come to mind as two very nice tools that come with an MSSQL license.