Good point. The problem with blogs is that they generally fall into one of two categories: 1. Well thought out and refreshing material whether it be code, commentary, or information unavailable anywhere else. 2. No unique content, just links to the first type of site.
It seems like pagerank would already eliminate the second type of blog so I don't see why its even an issue.
Only on slashdot would you see such a ridiculous comment...
Having worked with just about every RDBMS out there (including Oracle 7 - 10g) I can tell you that the reason Oracle has a well deserved reputation for being a behemoth is not so much its diversion from other platforms but because of its complete lack of decent management tools compared to other vendors. Every RDBMS is a behemoth if you are trying to manage it from a command line but pretty much all other vendors have managed to provide an intuitive wrapper around the inner core. Not oracle. Unless something chaged recently they couldn't be bothered to provide anything but an incredibly lame and slow Java app which you may or may not be able to get working.
If you're job is 100% Oracle DBA than this isn't such a big deal. If (like most us) you have other things on your mind than trying to find the most efficient table space and log file settings you will be burning Larry Ellison in effigy pretty soon.
That being said its not much different from any other RDBMS. The function names may be a little different but you may also find some new shortcuts (CONNECT BY comes to mind) but its just SQL.
As far as where to get started pick up the "Complete Reference" title for whichever version you are using. Combine that with whatever the latest PL/SQL book from Oracle and you've got everything you'll need sans the detailed spatial implementation.
Yes, its more complicated than I stated, but in essence we are both saying the same thing. Lets say you bought stock in this fictitious highly profitable company for $100 dollars a share (no dividend). Assume its trading at a price to earnings ratio of 1, the stock valuation you describe. (Ok nitpickers, value and profit aren't the same but bare with me for a second.) If they make the same amount of money next year and the stock trades at the same p/e the value of my stock has not increased, making it a very poor investment. Doesn't matter that they made 100 billion trillion, my stock is still worth the same amount.
Of course companies trade at very high p/e values and there is no way to distill the way the market works into a paragraph, but the is premise true.
This is the problem with companies going public that shouldn't. The stock market is all about growth, not profit. Have a compay that makes 100 billion trillion dollars a year? Great, but next year you will have to make 200 billion trillion or else your stock will tank. Its not just about being profitable, stock is all about growth. If not you better pay one hell of a dividend.
Kind of reminds of when you had to decide whether you were going to get DVD+R or DVD-R discs. Now you can get a dual format drive for less than $50 and not have to worry about it. I'm guessing after a little while we'll see the same thing happen with the new formats and nobody will care which one you're using.
Woah, calm down there guy, its a joke. You too are a player in the system, unless you don't own anything that was made in china. The fact is, it wasn't google, nike, or walmart in the headline, it was microsoft, and we all know why MS articles get posted here.
Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Brasky takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Brasky yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em!'"
Yeah, I know Bill Brasky. He's a 10 foot-tall beast-man, who showers in vodka, and feeds his baby shrimp scampi.
So anyway, Brasky would put on a white tie and tails and would walk his cobra through the park on a leash. He named the cobra Beverly, and he taught it how to fetch and dial a phone. But then one day it bit the maid. So with tears in his eyes Brasky had to shoot the maid.
Why stop the indexing of relative links from blogs to make google's life easier? 99% of the links posted in comments are relavent and would be beneficial to index. Why stop this for the 1% of jackasses out there?
The domains contained in the links from blogspam are well known, and there are plenty of blacklists out there. Why doesn't googleyahoomsn just remove these sites from its database? Its such an easy solution. I believe they already do this in some circumstances for link trading systems whose only goal is to get higher pagerank.
The fact that SPF can verify the server a message is sent from doesn't go far enough, and will only increase the demand for zombied machines.
Let me explain: Most major ISPs here in the US have already shut down outgoing 25. This means even if you have a hosted domain that allows you to use the host's smtp server, you can't (without jumping through hoops). You have to send through your ISPs smtp server.
Most large ISPs run only a few smtp domains, for example east.smtp.ISP.com, west.smtp.ISP.com.
With that being said, even if SPF was 100% rolled out, how many domains would have east.smtp.ISP.com SPF records? I'm guessing thousands.
Anyone with access to these few servers (100s of thousands I'm guessing) would be "authorzied" to send mail for any one of these domains.
The problem will only increase as the number of major home providers decreases. SPF relies on a low smtp/domain ratio, which just can't be guaranteed.
My experience pretty much mirrors yours, except that I got my degree in Jazz Performance.;-)
One thing that everyone seems to forget is that there is no degree that will make you a success. You can be a plumber and starve, or you can be a plumber that makes millions of dollars. It all depends on how you approach your professional life. People with good work ethics are in extremely short supply (and always will).
I wish people would stop painting the job future so bleak. If you are professional, imaginative, and hard working, you will do well no matter what.
I don't see it mentioned in the article, but the last time I read about something like this, it required a truck full of dangerous checmicals for every shot.
Does anyone know whther this is the same thing? It seems kind of useless if you need that much raw material, you'd only get one shot per plane.
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Its an ATM.
You are guaranteed to have no more than one user at a time.
Ordering in this case shouldn't be hard.
Not to beat a dead horse, but transactions aren't the same thing as parallel processing.
The example in the article is atrocious.
Why would you want the withdrawal and balance check to run concurrently?
Obligatory rogue wave video from Deadliest Catch on Discovery channel:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l_8hOai9hGQ
I discounted the article as soon it compared Rush to Poison.
IBM's silence on the issue is deafening.
You don't HAVE to use it on your laptop screen, the article said it could be used on any flat surface.
What makes you think they don't?
Its an expense just like everything else (aka, salaries, software, etc...)
Good point.
The problem with blogs is that they generally fall into one of two categories:
1. Well thought out and refreshing material whether it be code, commentary, or information unavailable anywhere else.
2. No unique content, just links to the first type of site.
It seems like pagerank would already eliminate the second type of blog so I don't see why its even an issue.
Is MySQL.
And it's the best place to stay.
Only on slashdot would you see such a ridiculous comment...
Having worked with just about every RDBMS out there (including Oracle 7 - 10g) I can tell you that the reason Oracle has a well deserved reputation for being a behemoth is not so much its diversion from other platforms but because of its complete lack of decent management tools compared to other vendors. Every RDBMS is a behemoth if you are trying to manage it from a command line but pretty much all other vendors have managed to provide an intuitive wrapper around the inner core. Not oracle. Unless something chaged recently they couldn't be bothered to provide anything but an incredibly lame and slow Java app which you may or may not be able to get working.
If you're job is 100% Oracle DBA than this isn't such a big deal. If (like most us) you have other things on your mind than trying to find the most efficient table space and log file settings you will be burning Larry Ellison in effigy pretty soon.
That being said its not much different from any other RDBMS. The function names may be a little different but you may also find some new shortcuts (CONNECT BY comes to mind) but its just SQL.
As far as where to get started pick up the "Complete Reference" title for whichever version you are using. Combine that with whatever the latest PL/SQL book from Oracle and you've got everything you'll need sans the detailed spatial implementation.
Yes, its more complicated than I stated, but in essence we are both saying the same thing.
Lets say you bought stock in this fictitious highly profitable company for $100 dollars a share (no dividend). Assume its trading at a price to earnings ratio of 1, the stock valuation you describe. (Ok nitpickers, value and profit aren't the same but bare with me for a second.)
If they make the same amount of money next year and the stock trades at the same p/e the value of my stock has not increased, making it a very poor investment. Doesn't matter that they made 100 billion trillion, my stock is still worth the same amount.
Of course companies trade at very high p/e values and there is no way to distill the way the market works into a paragraph, but the is premise true.
This is the problem with companies going public that shouldn't.
The stock market is all about growth, not profit.
Have a compay that makes 100 billion trillion dollars a year?
Great, but next year you will have to make 200 billion trillion or else your stock will tank. Its not just about being profitable, stock is all about growth. If not you better pay one hell of a dividend.
Kind of reminds of when you had to decide whether you were going to get DVD+R or DVD-R discs.
Now you can get a dual format drive for less than $50 and not have to worry about it.
I'm guessing after a little while we'll see the same thing happen with the new formats and nobody will care which one you're using.
"This alone is enough to make me seriously consider open source."
Why? Is there something in open source licenses that says you can't use the software to suppress human rights or free speech?
Woah, calm down there guy, its a joke. You too are a player in the system, unless you don't own anything that was made in china.
The fact is, it wasn't google, nike, or walmart in the headline, it was microsoft, and we all know why MS articles get posted here.
Wow, so Microsoft is responsible for the lack of human rights in China? But China is awesome right? I mean, they use linux, how can they be bad?
I bet they only use linux for the good stuff, and then they switch over to a MS box when they need to do some oppressing.
Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky took me out to go get a drink with him?
We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Brasky takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Brasky yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em!'"
Yeah, I know Bill Brasky. He's a 10 foot-tall beast-man, who showers in vodka, and feeds his baby shrimp scampi.
So anyway, Brasky would put on a white tie and tails and would walk his cobra through the park on a leash. He named the cobra Beverly, and he taught it how to fetch and dial a phone. But then one day it bit the maid. So with tears in his eyes Brasky had to shoot the maid.
Wow.
Slashdot is on the list.
This is not a solution as far as I'm concerned.
Why stop the indexing of relative links from blogs to make google's life easier?
99% of the links posted in comments are relavent and would be beneficial to index. Why stop this for the 1% of jackasses out there?
The domains contained in the links from blogspam are well known, and there are plenty of blacklists out there. Why doesn't googleyahoomsn just remove these sites from its database? Its such an easy solution. I believe they already do this in some circumstances for link trading systems whose only goal is to get higher pagerank.
Check out Windows Media Encoder.
You can attach to your input streams and send them to a central location with more bandwidth.
Your comment is the only thing I've read today that made me laugh out loud.
Honorary +1 funny to you, good sir.
The fact that SPF can verify the server a message is sent from doesn't go far enough, and will only increase the demand for zombied machines.
Let me explain:
Most major ISPs here in the US have already shut down outgoing 25. This means even if you have a hosted domain that allows you to use the host's smtp server, you can't (without jumping through hoops). You have to send through your ISPs smtp server.
Most large ISPs run only a few smtp domains, for example east.smtp.ISP.com, west.smtp.ISP.com.
With that being said, even if SPF was 100% rolled out, how many domains would have east.smtp.ISP.com SPF records?
I'm guessing thousands.
Anyone with access to these few servers (100s of thousands I'm guessing) would be "authorzied" to send mail for any one of these domains.
The problem will only increase as the number of major home providers decreases.
SPF relies on a low smtp/domain ratio, which just can't be guaranteed.
My experience pretty much mirrors yours, except that I got my degree in Jazz Performance. ;-)
One thing that everyone seems to forget is that there is no degree that will make you a success.
You can be a plumber and starve, or you can be a plumber that makes millions of dollars.
It all depends on how you approach your professional life.
People with good work ethics are in extremely short supply (and always will).
I wish people would stop painting the job future so bleak.
If you are professional, imaginative, and hard working, you will do well no matter what.
I don't see it mentioned in the article, but the last time I read about something like this, it required a truck full of dangerous checmicals for every shot.
Does anyone know whther this is the same thing?
It seems kind of useless if you need that much raw material, you'd only get one shot per plane.