Weeellll...they are a fantastic provider, but what you pay a lot for bandwidth. You get a great VPS, but they're not really designed for this kind of high bandwidth, unless you also need correspondingly high cpu.
Attacking the Catholic Church in 2012 over the priest abuse scandal is like attacking Britain over John Major's policies.
The abuse scandal was a pattern of abuse and cover-up that exploded into the media spotlight in the late 80s/early 90s. The Church did wrong, but since then, they've done a lot of right - there's a zero-tolerance policies, lots of priests have been defrocked, billions in settlements have been paid, hundreds were jailed, etc. There will always be sexual abuse in any large organization with access to children - schools, Boy/Girl scouts, the YMCA, the Mendocino Physics Club, Gencon, whatever. So yes, there may be some that goes on today on a small scale...but what has changed is the organizational response. In 1970, a Bishop might have shuffled a pedophile priest to a different parish. Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.
So...why attack in 2012? What is the point? If this was 1990, it'd be more understandable.
I think "anonymous" (aka a half-dozen bored kids) is just desperate to remain in the spotlight. The attention-getting is more important than any "cause". In fact, attention-getting is the cause.
300 - 400%? Lol you're doing it wrong.
Billions of rows? So what? Easily handled by SQL.
CERN has a database with trillions of rows in a traditional Oracle RDBMS. I saw a presentation on it at Oracle OpenWorld this year by a guy from CERN..
This isn't totally true. In MongoDB, for example, you don't even really have to think about the "primary key" for every document. Many times I don't know it or even care to. If you wants to look up customers in by name, you'd index the last_name and first_name fields and then do your query like so:
db.users.find({last_name : 'Cluster', first_name : 'Lost'})
An excellent example.
I think of the NoSQL world as "get a document/piece of data by an indexed data column". It works very well for that. SQL is better for "correlate and compute summation on these data with these sets of conditions".
There's another piece to the definition. The traditional RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) is designed to give 100% consistent results. All other design goals are sacrificed so that two people asking the DB the same question at the same time will get the same answer, and no one can make a modification and someone else gets an answer that is not 100% up to date. NoSQL trades consistency for flexibility/simpler scalability.
If you post something on a social network at 1:00 and your friend in a different timezone looks at 1:00:10 and doesn't see the update, no big deal. If one person authorizes $500 on your credit card at 1:00 and consumes your limit and someone else tries to authorize $300 at 1:00:10 and it goes through because the DBMS isn't giving consistent answers, that's a problem.
They're just systems with two different design goals. Some DBs will let you restrict this - SQL Server 2008R2 has a "replicate to nodes" setup that tries to stay 100% in sync but doesn't guarantee it. OTOH, something like Oracle RAC is always 100% in sync because there's only one set of datafiles shared by everyone.
I said "simpler scalability" because the idea that SQL-based RDBMS systems can't scale to any length is ridiculous - all credit card processing, bank transactions, airline reservations, Amazon orders, etc. all flow through very traditional RDBMS of one of the flavors I mentioned. However, it's a lot more complicated than scaling NoSQL. Getting that guarantee of consistency is not easy once you outgrow a single server, need 100% (not 99.999%) uptime, etc..
NoSQL is also better for large document storage. Traditional RDBMS has LOBs but they're a later add-on and it somewhat shows. Want to store a few gigabytes of LOBs in your DB? Sure. Want to store terabytes of big LOBs and use your DB as a transactional filesystem? It can be done, but it won't be pretty.
All in all, it depends on what you're trying to do.
I think threadmaster here was talking about using IE as a user, not creating sites/apps. From a user POV, I only care about how a site looks on my computer.
Itanic is not a buggy or bad design. It's just a design without a good market. If you were doing a lot of computation where that last.01% of performance was important and you had the time/budget to write Itanium-specific assembler, you'd love Itanium (64 64-bit registers is nice). It's just solves problems that most people don't have.
To wit, a woman chose not to join a CAL against Honda and took them to small claims court. Instead of $100 and a $1000 credit towards a new Honda, she won $9,867.
I think the OP is pointing out the ritual of class action lawsuits in America. A CAL is filed and won or settled for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Lawyers take 30-50% and the rest is divided over the huge pool in the class, hence often resulting in a few bucks each.
It's a perverted system - as a big company, you are spared having to pay anything of substance to each litigant, yet the overall effect is still big. Lawyers love it because they get rich.
I usually get 2-3 letters or postcards a year informing me that I'm potentially part of a CAL because a had a Mastercard four years ago, or I exchanged foreign currency with company X in 2005, or because I changed flight reservations in 2006, or some other event that I've completely forgotten. Just check boxes A and B and sign on the line, and you get a check for $5-10 in three months, and you can check the status at SomeBigCompanySettlement.com. It's a weird part of modern life.
You'd be surprised how little it costs to get by. And if you're married, you can divide the labor between you two.
"Getting by" is OK when you're single or married without kids is one thing. It's not when you have kids, and have to consider their expenses, health care, college, what happens if you die, etc.
They're probably the last bastion of American computer assembly - I believe you can actually get an option code that certifies that an IBM POWER machine is made in the US of US components, even, intended for national security applications.
Interesting. Does that extends down to the source of all the raw materials?
Nowhere do the OP even remotely imply hating women. You are taking an extreme term and using it in an inappropriate context.
Ted Bundy was a misogynist. Someone who says it's manly to stand up for your beliefs is not. Someone who says such a person is a misogynist is either an idiot or trying to impress feminists in freshmen Women's Studies discussion sessions. Given the time to acclimate, I would guess second half of the year...like, say, February
She thought $400 a month (in a culture where there are no tips) was excellent money.
I don't know why people always quote things in dollars-per-month. That is meaningless. When I was in Russia in the late 90s, bus fare was less than 5 cents in the city I was in. At the same time it was $2 in the U.S. I took a family of 8 out to dinner with four courses, vodka, champagne, the works - $25. That would have been $200 in the U.S. Of course, the head of household was only making $300/month - but what did his $300 equate to? Hard to say, given the difference in socialization, piracy, etc. Want a new laptop in Russia (then)? Expensive. Want a pound of beef? Very cheap.
You can't compare dollar incomes to living standards like that.
um, no.
You might want to look at the history of corporate behavior in unregulated/low regulated societies through out all of history.
All of history? I think you'll find the first 6,000 years or so of human existence to be a very fast read on this subject, since corporations didn't exist until the Romans and arguably not in an identifiable form comparable to modern corporations until well after the Renaissance.
That 5% is a pure guess. It could be 50% for all you know.
There's also a difference between shutting down and finding the sales prospects - as prices go up, fewer people can buy - make that line of business unattractive to the point where they get out of it. Consolidation, monopoloy...
Except that alternative is worse for the workers, who already have the option of not working at those factories and, funnily enough, they don't actually prefer it.
Your solution helps your moral guilty at their expense. For shame.
There is tremendous irony here. The Chinese threw out the old ruling class for the communists and end up exploited by the capitalists.
Low-tech goods can still be found "made in the USA" (assuming you're in the USA, but probably true elsewhere). A Google, for example, turned up this site for shoes. There are lots of things where, if you're willing to pay more and take a more traditional approach (e.g., leather instead of high-tech fabrics), you can buy local. For example, it is easy to buy all your furniture from a local craftsman/woodworker - but the price will not even be remotely like what you'd find at Wal-mart.
On the other hand, for most if not all high-tech consumer goods, there simply is no other choice.
The sole evidence presented is the statement "I mean, it costs $40,000 to put up a patch – we can’t afford that!". The second article simply refers to the first.
What is this $40K? Are developers literally getting an invoice for $40K from Microsoft, or is that one of those "that's X number of hours @ so much per developer hour" kind of multiplications? If it's an invoice, is it really a flat fee in that nice round number or is he just pulling this number out of the air?
For a bunch of people who allegedly are alternative non-mainstream revolutionary wannabes, Slashdotters sure take everything they read in blogs at face value.
Immediately, 300 posts on Slashdot about McCarthyism, the destruction of civil liberties, dogs and cats living together, etc.
People here are so lame and predictable.
Nice add, too, about parliamentary privilege, which is utterly irrelevant.
This summary reads like it was written by a 14-year-old who went to an ACLU rally and came away foaming at the mouth, pumping his fist in the air, eager to find an evil politician.
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Weeellll...they are a fantastic provider, but what you pay a lot for bandwidth. You get a great VPS, but they're not really designed for this kind of high bandwidth, unless you also need correspondingly high cpu.
Maybe linode coupled with a good CDN.
Attacking the Catholic Church in 2012 over the priest abuse scandal is like attacking Britain over John Major's policies.
The abuse scandal was a pattern of abuse and cover-up that exploded into the media spotlight in the late 80s/early 90s. The Church did wrong, but since then, they've done a lot of right - there's a zero-tolerance policies, lots of priests have been defrocked, billions in settlements have been paid, hundreds were jailed, etc. There will always be sexual abuse in any large organization with access to children - schools, Boy/Girl scouts, the YMCA, the Mendocino Physics Club, Gencon, whatever. So yes, there may be some that goes on today on a small scale...but what has changed is the organizational response. In 1970, a Bishop might have shuffled a pedophile priest to a different parish. Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.
So...why attack in 2012? What is the point? If this was 1990, it'd be more understandable.
I think "anonymous" (aka a half-dozen bored kids) is just desperate to remain in the spotlight. The attention-getting is more important than any "cause". In fact, attention-getting is the cause.
Just out of curiosity, roughly how many fifths of a person would you say Arabs are?
Five.
But yahoos on Slashdot who ascribe any criticism of Middle Eastern fascism to some kind of racism...perhaps one.
The DFBSD Goals page is now empty. Hmm.
I seem to recall that at one point the goal was an OS that ran as a single OS image across multiple machines. Memory, processes, storage, etc. was unified into a single OS image. Is that still a DFBSD goal?
Short answer : GPL is liberalism . BSD is libertarianism .
So as the OP said, one isn't free and one is.
300 - 400%? Lol you're doing it wrong. Billions of rows? So what? Easily handled by SQL.
CERN has a database with trillions of rows in a traditional Oracle RDBMS. I saw a presentation on it at Oracle OpenWorld this year by a guy from CERN..
Yahoo also has trillion-rowed databases, on PostGreSQL.
This isn't totally true. In MongoDB, for example, you don't even really have to think about the "primary key" for every document. Many times I don't know it or even care to. If you wants to look up customers in by name, you'd index the last_name and first_name fields and then do your query like so: db.users.find({last_name : 'Cluster', first_name : 'Lost'})
An excellent example.
I think of the NoSQL world as "get a document/piece of data by an indexed data column". It works very well for that. SQL is better for "correlate and compute summation on these data with these sets of conditions".
There's another piece to the definition. The traditional RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) is designed to give 100% consistent results. All other design goals are sacrificed so that two people asking the DB the same question at the same time will get the same answer, and no one can make a modification and someone else gets an answer that is not 100% up to date. NoSQL trades consistency for flexibility/simpler scalability.
If you post something on a social network at 1:00 and your friend in a different timezone looks at 1:00:10 and doesn't see the update, no big deal. If one person authorizes $500 on your credit card at 1:00 and consumes your limit and someone else tries to authorize $300 at 1:00:10 and it goes through because the DBMS isn't giving consistent answers, that's a problem.
They're just systems with two different design goals. Some DBs will let you restrict this - SQL Server 2008R2 has a "replicate to nodes" setup that tries to stay 100% in sync but doesn't guarantee it. OTOH, something like Oracle RAC is always 100% in sync because there's only one set of datafiles shared by everyone.
I said "simpler scalability" because the idea that SQL-based RDBMS systems can't scale to any length is ridiculous - all credit card processing, bank transactions, airline reservations, Amazon orders, etc. all flow through very traditional RDBMS of one of the flavors I mentioned. However, it's a lot more complicated than scaling NoSQL. Getting that guarantee of consistency is not easy once you outgrow a single server, need 100% (not 99.999%) uptime, etc..
NoSQL is also better for large document storage. Traditional RDBMS has LOBs but they're a later add-on and it somewhat shows. Want to store a few gigabytes of LOBs in your DB? Sure. Want to store terabytes of big LOBs and use your DB as a transactional filesystem? It can be done, but it won't be pretty.
All in all, it depends on what you're trying to do.
I think threadmaster here was talking about using IE as a user, not creating sites/apps. From a user POV, I only care about how a site looks on my computer.
Itanic is not a buggy or bad design. It's just a design without a good market. If you were doing a lot of computation where that last .01% of performance was important and you had the time/budget to write Itanium-specific assembler, you'd love Itanium (64 64-bit registers is nice). It's just solves problems that most people don't have.
To wit, a woman chose not to join a CAL against Honda and took them to small claims court. Instead of $100 and a $1000 credit towards a new Honda, she won $9,867.
Get over it.
I think the OP is pointing out the ritual of class action lawsuits in America. A CAL is filed and won or settled for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Lawyers take 30-50% and the rest is divided over the huge pool in the class, hence often resulting in a few bucks each.
It's a perverted system - as a big company, you are spared having to pay anything of substance to each litigant, yet the overall effect is still big. Lawyers love it because they get rich.
I usually get 2-3 letters or postcards a year informing me that I'm potentially part of a CAL because a had a Mastercard four years ago, or I exchanged foreign currency with company X in 2005, or because I changed flight reservations in 2006, or some other event that I've completely forgotten. Just check boxes A and B and sign on the line, and you get a check for $5-10 in three months, and you can check the status at SomeBigCompanySettlement.com. It's a weird part of modern life.
Rinse wash repeat half a dozen times.
THAT'S what I was doing wrong. I was doing lather-rinse-repeat, and it was supposed to be rinse-wash-repeat.
Headed back downstairs to the lab...
You'd be surprised how little it costs to get by. And if you're married, you can divide the labor between you two.
"Getting by" is OK when you're single or married without kids is one thing. It's not when you have kids, and have to consider their expenses, health care, college, what happens if you die, etc.
He's already demonstrated that he "can", which means he's ineligible to teach.
They're probably the last bastion of American computer assembly - I believe you can actually get an option code that certifies that an IBM POWER machine is made in the US of US components, even, intended for national security applications.
Interesting. Does that extends down to the source of all the raw materials?
Try to avoid misogynistic language.
Nowhere do the OP even remotely imply hating women. You are taking an extreme term and using it in an inappropriate context.
Ted Bundy was a misogynist. Someone who says it's manly to stand up for your beliefs is not. Someone who says such a person is a misogynist is either an idiot or trying to impress feminists in freshmen Women's Studies discussion sessions. Given the time to acclimate, I would guess second half of the year...like, say, February
She thought $400 a month (in a culture where there are no tips) was excellent money.
I don't know why people always quote things in dollars-per-month. That is meaningless. When I was in Russia in the late 90s, bus fare was less than 5 cents in the city I was in. At the same time it was $2 in the U.S. I took a family of 8 out to dinner with four courses, vodka, champagne, the works - $25. That would have been $200 in the U.S. Of course, the head of household was only making $300/month - but what did his $300 equate to? Hard to say, given the difference in socialization, piracy, etc. Want a new laptop in Russia (then)? Expensive. Want a pound of beef? Very cheap.
You can't compare dollar incomes to living standards like that.
um, no. You might want to look at the history of corporate behavior in unregulated/low regulated societies through out all of history.
All of history? I think you'll find the first 6,000 years or so of human existence to be a very fast read on this subject, since corporations didn't exist until the Romans and arguably not in an identifiable form comparable to modern corporations until well after the Renaissance.
So as geekoid would say, "um, no."
That 5% is a pure guess. It could be 50% for all you know.
There's also a difference between shutting down and finding the sales prospects - as prices go up, fewer people can buy - make that line of business unattractive to the point where they get out of it. Consolidation, monopoloy...
Economics is fiendishly difficult to control.
Except that alternative is worse for the workers, who already have the option of not working at those factories and, funnily enough, they don't actually prefer it.
Your solution helps your moral guilty at their expense. For shame.
There is tremendous irony here. The Chinese threw out the old ruling class for the communists and end up exploited by the capitalists.
The hard part is going without shoes.
Low-tech goods can still be found "made in the USA" (assuming you're in the USA, but probably true elsewhere). A Google, for example, turned up this site for shoes. There are lots of things where, if you're willing to pay more and take a more traditional approach (e.g., leather instead of high-tech fabrics), you can buy local. For example, it is easy to buy all your furniture from a local craftsman/woodworker - but the price will not even be remotely like what you'd find at Wal-mart.
On the other hand, for most if not all high-tech consumer goods, there simply is no other choice.
Seriously - you want to be a disease vector for hideous diseases that are easily preventable. Go live somewhere else.
The sole evidence presented is the statement "I mean, it costs $40,000 to put up a patch – we can’t afford that!". The second article simply refers to the first.
What is this $40K? Are developers literally getting an invoice for $40K from Microsoft, or is that one of those "that's X number of hours @ so much per developer hour" kind of multiplications? If it's an invoice, is it really a flat fee in that nice round number or is he just pulling this number out of the air?
For a bunch of people who allegedly are alternative non-mainstream revolutionary wannabes, Slashdotters sure take everything they read in blogs at face value.
Legislator uses hyperbole to make his point.
Immediately, 300 posts on Slashdot about McCarthyism, the destruction of civil liberties, dogs and cats living together, etc.
People here are so lame and predictable.
Nice add, too, about parliamentary privilege, which is utterly irrelevant.
This summary reads like it was written by a 14-year-old who went to an ACLU rally and came away foaming at the mouth, pumping his fist in the air, eager to find an evil politician.