I deal with data warehouses quite a bit. One that is almost finished loading now has...
442,573,477 records in the fact table.
I can start looking at the dimensions, but you get the idea. I didn't mean for this to get into a 'my data is bigger than yours' debate:), but 100M records just doesn't seem that much given the amount of data my team and I deal with on a daily basis.
The office documents thing is really not a problem. I've not had problem one loading them into OO.o, nor saving.doc or.xls files for other people to open.
You may not have problems, but every time I've pushed users to OO I have quite a few users who break OO with the first xls they open. These users don't have any embedded vba either. Just complicated spreadsheets with charts, pivot tables and/or data connections to external sources. Did you know that Excel is a great tool to backup against cubed data from a data warehouse. I admittedly haven't tried OO in awhile so it may have all these features now, but at the time these features are what kept us from switching.
Exchange is about the worst thing you could possibly use. It stores email in megalithic files that, when corrupted, can really only be repaired by reloading from backup. It's not precisely considered to be reliable or anything.
I agree that Exchange is and can be a pain. It's not the email that's a challenge to move over though. Shared calendars and folders are key to any big organization. When you have multiple offices across multiple timezones shared calendars are crucial in setting up meetings. Having something like Outlook tie into that functionality (mail, schedules, contacts) and make it easy to setup is where Exchange keeps people from switching off of it.
One of the things that bugs me about the whole switch to linux crowd is how they trivialize these features as not needed or unimportant. Businesses would love to use things that are 'free' and would use them if all they were missing were unimportant features.
The problem was not that he couldn't get Linux working; it was that he couldn't get Linux working with Microsoft Windows ! There is a big difference between the two.
For him working meant interoperability with Exchange and Office documents. Most corps also define 'working' in a similar way. Don't dismiss the article simply because you disagree with his definition of working.
I think - honestly - that a CS degree at your time in life is worthless for the most part.
I would disagree. More education is never worthless. Of course at 30 what you pick to study and how you go about doing it is much more important than at 18. At 30, with years of experience, should you go back to school and do intro to computers? Um no. But, I'm sure there are many topics that you've never come across in your experience that would be fun and useful to learn in a school setting. Some schools may even let you do a dual undergrad/MS (if you never finished your 4 year BS) based on your experience and maybe some testing out of classes.
Keep in mind, too, that even as a manager, I get to write queries against SQL databases with 140M records - that impresses some of the young'uns.:P
When did 140M records become big? Maybe if that is 1 table:p
Actually with Wal-Mart getting behind CFLs and the little education that's been trickling out people are switching. I had to do my own research, but I mainly switched b/c they last longer and I hate changing light bulbs. Why not just educate the public on why CFLs can be better than standard light bulbs.
Just get a signed letter from your doctor explaining the situation, and there should be no problem.
Lets think about that statement. A signed letter from your doctor to use a standard light bulb? Next thing you know you won't be able to spank your kids or open a cigar bar...err, never mind.
I agree. I have a '05 4-Runner and the onboard computer says I average 21-22mpg. It's no Honda Civic, but the civic couldn't pull a boat, fit 4 people comfortably, etc...
Great example from Atlas Shrugged about laws and how it ties into drugs. If you ever look at the history of how pot was criminalized it was mainly from peoples dislike for Mexicans. We don't like Mexicans, this is a drug they use, lets make it illegal.
And your spot on about 'they system'. The gov. wants people dependent on it. This dependence is what keeps the gov. in power. Any group wants the people in it dependent on them so the group will continue to exist. Look at groups like the NCAAP or other minority groups or leaders. If people really became and were equal there would be no reason for those groups to exist.
I agree with you and it's something I struggle with to find a personal answer to. Where is the middle line? What constitutes helping someone not fall by the wayside instead of helping someone who is just lazy? As a society we certainly don't want to remove the incentive to work hard and come up with novel ideas and inventions.
I'd also like to think (hopefully; naively perhaps?) that most people are in this middle line (really want to work hard and not be taken care of unless need be) and end up just picking one extreme side or the other b/c that's their only choice.
Yea, well, it *sounds* good. But coming from Hillary, I wouldn't get too excited until you see some details. When the other shoe drops, you may be hearing things like "well, you see, to maintain these important privacy protections, it's necessary to fundamentally change some things about how you access the internet.... "...or how you buy a gun or get porn or access health care...
Re:The right to privacy is underrated
on
The Privacy Candidate
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
For Ayn Rand to stay consistent with her philosophy she had to take things to the extreme. So many dismiss her w/o ever reading or thinking about what she said (common with all topics on/. I guess) I think one must commend her for trying to stay consistent throughout even if things get a little crazy on the extremes.
She is all about using your abilities to your fullest. Working hard for yourself. Getting rewarded for your hard work. What is wrong with that philosophy? I think it's much better than expecting the gov. to take care of you and me paying a huge portion of my reward for working hard in taxes to take of people who often just want to be on the public dole.
Responding to AC heh. It's not that I think there is something inherent about a library that is good for research, but I can't imagine that all research is either a) searchable online or b) available online. Online research sites like citeseer, google, and yes even wikipedia are great starting places for doing research. But to only use those is to miss out on a lot of other research that is out there.
It's not about saying it was harder back in my day. You could even argue it was easier since there wasn't nearly as much noise back then.
Exactly. I'd ban the citing of wikipedia from any class I taught also. It's made to be a starting point for research, not an endpoint. Kids these days just don't know how to go the library and do real research. If it doesn't come up on google and/or wikipedia it must not exist!
Hey fanboy, go back to posting bullshit stories about how you saw '50 PS3s gathering dust at BestBuy yesterday'.
ROFL. I didn't see 50, but every store around here(EB, BB, Target, Walmart) has PS3s sitting for sale. If you want one you can go right out and get it. Wiis on the other hand are impossible to find. They are still giving out vouchers for them with people waiting in lines. In 2-3 years the PS3 may not be a dud may be the winning system, but right now it's not selling.
Almost everybody with a PS2 has at least one light-gun.
Huh? I used to have a ps2 and know 5-6 people with ps2s and have never seen a light gun. Until I read your post I didn't even know a lightgun existed for the ps2. Admittedly I'm not a gaming fanatic, but I bet my attitude toward games falls more to the norm than the everybody you're talking about.
My buddy has been looking for a DSLite since 2 weeks before Christmas and he still hasn't found one. Could we be in the midst of nintendo returning to video game power?
All I have is wii sports atm and some friends and I had an epic bowling game last night. It really is a fun party type of system. Okay, and the video you linked to means another game I have to buy lol...
I got a Wii yesterday. I just happened to be standing in BB when they put 3 of them out. I grabbed one then the other 2 were picked up before I walked away. Amazing how the demand is holding strong for the system.
You're assuming that PS3s are currently selling. Everytime I go to BB and EB they have tons of ps3s sitting under the demo machine. Of couse no one is buying them or playing the demos for that matter. People are either playing guitar hero on the ps2, the wii (if they have a demo), or whatever titles the xbox360 is demoing. I just noticed today that if you buy and xbox360 now you can get a free game. So in effect their largest competitor just dropped it's price.
I'll second what you said. I know a CIO and a bunch of SVPs who report directly to CEOs. They are smart and hard working. Of course it's a different type of work than what I would call work. They are basically on the phone for 8-10 hours/day 6-7 days/week while travelling all the time. They make lots of money, but at what cost to themselves and their family. It's definitely not a job I would want.
I agree with you and was mainly making a joke. I've used linux to the point where I can get most things done with it that I want to, but generally I just don't feel like jumping through hoops to get there anymore. I'm using OS X for the most part now. Partly b/c I dislike MS and Windows and partly b/c I think it's a better system. The hardware lock is somewhat of a bummer, but the Apple hardware I've used has always been quality stuff for me anyways, so all is not lost. I know I pay a small premium for OS X, but it's what I like:)
That doesn't make much sense to me. First the author says it's going to be hard to sell many iPhones and uses the facts that RIM only sold 5.5M blackberrys last year and the iPhone will be Cingular only. Then he says that people aren't going to buy ipods in order to wait for the iPhone. I'm not sure how he can have it both ways there.
Now, if he wants to make a case that people may hold off on a new ipod to see if the ipod line may get the touchscreen interface I might buy into that line of reasoning.
Slashdot Mirror
I deal with data warehouses quite a bit. One that is almost finished loading now has...
:), but 100M records just doesn't seem that much given the amount of data my team and I deal with on a daily basis.
442,573,477 records in the fact table.
I can start looking at the dimensions, but you get the idea. I didn't mean for this to get into a 'my data is bigger than yours' debate
BTW, what dbms are you housing your data in?
The office documents thing is really not a problem. I've not had problem one loading them into OO.o, nor saving .doc or .xls files for other people to open.
You may not have problems, but every time I've pushed users to OO I have quite a few users who break OO with the first xls they open. These users don't have any embedded vba either. Just complicated spreadsheets with charts, pivot tables and/or data connections to external sources. Did you know that Excel is a great tool to backup against cubed data from a data warehouse. I admittedly haven't tried OO in awhile so it may have all these features now, but at the time these features are what kept us from switching.
Exchange is about the worst thing you could possibly use. It stores email in megalithic files that, when corrupted, can really only be repaired by reloading from backup. It's not precisely considered to be reliable or anything.
I agree that Exchange is and can be a pain. It's not the email that's a challenge to move over though. Shared calendars and folders are key to any big organization. When you have multiple offices across multiple timezones shared calendars are crucial in setting up meetings. Having something like Outlook tie into that functionality (mail, schedules, contacts) and make it easy to setup is where Exchange keeps people from switching off of it.
One of the things that bugs me about the whole switch to linux crowd is how they trivialize these features as not needed or unimportant. Businesses would love to use things that are 'free' and would use them if all they were missing were unimportant features.
The problem was not that he couldn't get Linux working; it was that he couldn't get Linux working with Microsoft Windows ! There is a big difference between the two.
For him working meant interoperability with Exchange and Office documents. Most corps also define 'working' in a similar way. Don't dismiss the article simply because you disagree with his definition of working.
I think - honestly - that a CS degree at your time in life is worthless for the most part.
:P
:p
I would disagree. More education is never worthless. Of course at 30 what you pick to study and how you go about doing it is much more important than at 18. At 30, with years of experience, should you go back to school and do intro to computers? Um no. But, I'm sure there are many topics that you've never come across in your experience that would be fun and useful to learn in a school setting. Some schools may even let you do a dual undergrad/MS (if you never finished your 4 year BS) based on your experience and maybe some testing out of classes.
Keep in mind, too, that even as a manager, I get to write queries against SQL databases with 140M records - that impresses some of the young'uns.
When did 140M records become big? Maybe if that is 1 table
and nobody is switching to CFLs.
Actually with Wal-Mart getting behind CFLs and the little education that's been trickling out people are switching. I had to do my own research, but I mainly switched b/c they last longer and I hate changing light bulbs. Why not just educate the public on why CFLs can be better than standard light bulbs.
Just get a signed letter from your doctor explaining the situation, and there should be no problem.
Lets think about that statement. A signed letter from your doctor to use a standard light bulb? Next thing you know you won't be able to spank your kids or open a cigar bar...err, never mind.
I agree. I have a '05 4-Runner and the onboard computer says I average 21-22mpg. It's no Honda Civic, but the civic couldn't pull a boat, fit 4 people comfortably, etc...
Great example from Atlas Shrugged about laws and how it ties into drugs. If you ever look at the history of how pot was criminalized it was mainly from peoples dislike for Mexicans. We don't like Mexicans, this is a drug they use, lets make it illegal.
And your spot on about 'they system'. The gov. wants people dependent on it. This dependence is what keeps the gov. in power. Any group wants the people in it dependent on them so the group will continue to exist. Look at groups like the NCAAP or other minority groups or leaders. If people really became and were equal there would be no reason for those groups to exist.
I agree with you and it's something I struggle with to find a personal answer to. Where is the middle line? What constitutes helping someone not fall by the wayside instead of helping someone who is just lazy? As a society we certainly don't want to remove the incentive to work hard and come up with novel ideas and inventions.
I'd also like to think (hopefully; naively perhaps?) that most people are in this middle line (really want to work hard and not be taken care of unless need be) and end up just picking one extreme side or the other b/c that's their only choice.
Yea, well, it *sounds* good. But coming from Hillary, I wouldn't get too excited until you see some details. When the other shoe drops, you may be hearing things like "well, you see, to maintain these important privacy protections, it's necessary to fundamentally change some things about how you access the internet.... " ...or how you buy a gun or get porn or access health care...
For Ayn Rand to stay consistent with her philosophy she had to take things to the extreme. So many dismiss her w/o ever reading or thinking about what she said (common with all topics on /. I guess) I think one must commend her for trying to stay consistent throughout even if things get a little crazy on the extremes.
She is all about using your abilities to your fullest. Working hard for yourself. Getting rewarded for your hard work. What is wrong with that philosophy? I think it's much better than expecting the gov. to take care of you and me paying a huge portion of my reward for working hard in taxes to take of people who often just want to be on the public dole.
Higher taxes means you can have a better educational system, a better medical system
Please cite some proof for this claim. Some of the best funded school systems in the nation on the per child basis are also the worst performance wise. So tell me again why I want higher taxes to give more money to people who don't know how to spend it?
No, we need lower taxes and smaller federal gov.
Higher taxes means broader shoulders carry more weight
It also means less money for those broader shoulders to use to invest and create more jobs with much more efficiency than the gov. can.
Responding to AC heh. It's not that I think there is something inherent about a library that is good for research, but I can't imagine that all research is either a) searchable online or b) available online. Online research sites like citeseer, google, and yes even wikipedia are great starting places for doing research. But to only use those is to miss out on a lot of other research that is out there.
It's not about saying it was harder back in my day. You could even argue it was easier since there wasn't nearly as much noise back then.
Exactly. I'd ban the citing of wikipedia from any class I taught also. It's made to be a starting point for research, not an endpoint. Kids these days just don't know how to go the library and do real research. If it doesn't come up on google and/or wikipedia it must not exist!
Hey fanboy, go back to posting bullshit stories about how you saw '50 PS3s gathering dust at BestBuy yesterday'.
ROFL. I didn't see 50, but every store around here(EB, BB, Target, Walmart) has PS3s sitting for sale. If you want one you can go right out and get it. Wiis on the other hand are impossible to find. They are still giving out vouchers for them with people waiting in lines. In 2-3 years the PS3 may not be a dud may be the winning system, but right now it's not selling.
I dunno. I just walked into BB yesterday right as they were putting 3 out and picked one up and bought it :p
Now, like you, if I could just find another wiimote lol
Almost everybody with a PS2 has at least one light-gun.
Huh? I used to have a ps2 and know 5-6 people with ps2s and have never seen a light gun. Until I read your post I didn't even know a lightgun existed for the ps2. Admittedly I'm not a gaming fanatic, but I bet my attitude toward games falls more to the norm than the everybody you're talking about.
My buddy has been looking for a DSLite since 2 weeks before Christmas and he still hasn't found one. Could we be in the midst of nintendo returning to video game power?
All I have is wii sports atm and some friends and I had an epic bowling game last night. It really is a fun party type of system. Okay, and the video you linked to means another game I have to buy lol...
I got a Wii yesterday. I just happened to be standing in BB when they put 3 of them out. I grabbed one then the other 2 were picked up before I walked away. Amazing how the demand is holding strong for the system.
You're assuming that PS3s are currently selling. Everytime I go to BB and EB they have tons of ps3s sitting under the demo machine. Of couse no one is buying them or playing the demos for that matter. People are either playing guitar hero on the ps2, the wii (if they have a demo), or whatever titles the xbox360 is demoing. I just noticed today that if you buy and xbox360 now you can get a free game. So in effect their largest competitor just dropped it's price.
I'll second what you said. I know a CIO and a bunch of SVPs who report directly to CEOs. They are smart and hard working. Of course it's a different type of work than what I would call work. They are basically on the phone for 8-10 hours/day 6-7 days/week while travelling all the time. They make lots of money, but at what cost to themselves and their family. It's definitely not a job I would want.
I agree with you and was mainly making a joke. I've used linux to the point where I can get most things done with it that I want to, but generally I just don't feel like jumping through hoops to get there anymore. I'm using OS X for the most part now. Partly b/c I dislike MS and Windows and partly b/c I think it's a better system. The hardware lock is somewhat of a bummer, but the Apple hardware I've used has always been quality stuff for me anyways, so all is not lost. I know I pay a small premium for OS X, but it's what I like :)
You will hear linux users shitting on windows MUCH more often than windows users shitting on linux.
Well yeah. The windows users are too busy shitting on OS X.
iPhone cannibalizing iPod sales
That doesn't make much sense to me. First the author says it's going to be hard to sell many iPhones and uses the facts that RIM only sold 5.5M blackberrys last year and the iPhone will be Cingular only. Then he says that people aren't going to buy ipods in order to wait for the iPhone. I'm not sure how he can have it both ways there.
Now, if he wants to make a case that people may hold off on a new ipod to see if the ipod line may get the touchscreen interface I might buy into that line of reasoning.