I'm not sure what your point here is. People do that sort of sequential querying all the time- each query simply asks for the subset of data of interest. What, exactly, are you unable to do in SQL that you want to be able to do?
You're confusing purchases that open new markets with purchases that remove competition in an existing market.
Purchasing Writely enabled Google to compete in a new market. It did not remove competition in any way- in some ways it expanded it, by giving Writely as a product more backing against its competitors. Similarly with DejaNews, Blogger, etc.
The only instance in which a purchase *removed* competition was the purchase of YouTube, where it resulted in the death of Google Video- competition was reduced because a player left the field.
The two activities are very different and can't meaningfully be compared.
Just an FYI: There's actually an Adblock plugin for Safari as well. I use both Firefox and Safari for different things- Firefox is better at anything that needs to stay open for long periods of time or do updates in the background; I find Safari faster for general browsing.
Interestingly enough, I've actually had the exact opposite experience. I made the switch to AT&T a little bit after the iPhone 3G came out, but with some reluctance due to the carrier change- I was actually quite happy with the quality of service (both cell and support) that I received from them.
Before the original iPhone launched, the other carriers wouldn't make the investment for things like Visual Voicemail; only AT&T and only with exclusivity.
Now, of course, it's an entirely different story- I'm willing to be that Sprint and Verizon would jump through hoops to get at the iPhone, and I can only imagine the AT&T stock drop the moment the end of exclusivity is announced.
I'm also betting that Verizon has been kicking itself for the past few years...
I can't really believe that Apple is any happier about that situation than its customers are. I'm wondering if we're seeing the beginning of the end of that exclusivity.
It's not really NetBean's fault. The JVM authors seem to take the classic computer science tradeoff of memory for speed to heart.
They unfortunately don't seem to realize that memory *is* speed, especially in today's world of pervasive multitasking, and therefore end up trading off speed for... nothing at all.
Right- it's a design choice. Rather than incredibly simple micro-ops that the real instructions get translated to, or instructions spanning multiple clock cycles, they've chosen to keep the per-core implementation much simpler. That lets them pack more of the simple cores on the chip, getting additional parallel processing at the cost of per-core optimal performance- which is fine, because these are things running on massively parallel problems.
CISCy was perhaps the wrong choice, but it's valid in a sense- each cycle on a gpu is more complicated than a cycle on a modern CPU, but that avoids inter-cycle complexities that occupy a huge amount of die space on the CPUs to speed up single-threaded performance.
GPUs are a little more CISCy.. Since the cycle time is constrained to be as slow as the slowest operation that must complete in one cycle, it means that it's a bit harder to cut down on cycle time.
With competent encryption this really isn't that big a deal- any reasonable system will prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, and once that's blocked and the whole stream is encrypted, there's not that much to worry about.
The author of the article seemed like either a non-programmer, a complete novice programmer, or, frankly, a completely incompetent programmer. I was going to write something like the above, but was too annoyed by the idiocies to be coherent.
I suspect that IBM's motivation was much more related to ensuring that their customers didn't get cold feet about linux than it was to avoid other people trying to sue them. SCO was threatening all linux users- and since IBM makes money off linux at this point, they, that meant SCO was threatening their entire customer base. That made it a very good idea for IBM to trounce SCO in court, proving that their customers were safe (and therefore should keep buying IBM products/services).
The GP is talking about a very different view. MS was never going to sue TomTom's users; they just wanted money from TomTom. It's not at all unlikely that the settlement cost less money than litigation would, and certainly is less distracting, so the GP's point is quite valid.
Sadly- and as someone who hates Microsoft Office- I have to say that I agree with you.
OpenOffice is okay at certain things, and fails miserably at many others- while being amazingly bloated, slow, and painful to interact with. Every time a new version comes out, I give it a try- and every time I feel lucky that I don't have to deal with document writing in that format but infrequently.
But when you move to a platform built on standards instead of proprietary systems, you gain increased mobility after the initial transition. If you're on a Microsoft platform, with everything in.doc, and you find that you don't like where MS is taking things- you've got a painful transition. If you're on a standards-based platform, and you find that you don't like where your current vendor is heading, you can move to another vendor with comparatively minor cost (possibly some retraining, but at least no conversion).
Depends on the variety of christian religious craziness you're dealing with. Some are of the "no belief, straight to hell!" variety. Most of the evangelicals are, in fact.
I'd disagree strongly regarding SimCity 2 and later, and Civ3/Civ4. For SimCity, the earliest simcity games were far too simple; the mid games in the series brought it to an appropriate level. It's when the went for Sims tie-ins that the series collapsed, at least from my view.
And as for Civilization- every Civ game has at least a couple low difficulties that should be trivial for anyone who enjoys that sort of game. Challenge disorder is when challenge gets added for no apparent reason, but I can't see any problems with the availability of increased challenges for players who have the skills to play on that level. It's like asking for a chess game that only has "absolute beginner" as an option- the others are just needless challenge, right?
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Also, I'd like to see stuff which is not easily expressed in relational algebra, like running sums or grouping on a computed field.
Grouping on a computed field is quite easy, so if you're waiting for SQL to support it... you've been waiting too long, it already does.
As for running sums, that's the sort of thing that Oracle already has and just went into the Postgres 8.4 release that was on slashdot the other day.
Your SQL complaints are a bit out of date. :)
I'm not sure what your point here is. People do that sort of sequential querying all the time- each query simply asks for the subset of data of interest. What, exactly, are you unable to do in SQL that you want to be able to do?
You're confusing purchases that open new markets with purchases that remove competition in an existing market.
Purchasing Writely enabled Google to compete in a new market. It did not remove competition in any way- in some ways it expanded it, by giving Writely as a product more backing against its competitors. Similarly with DejaNews, Blogger, etc.
The only instance in which a purchase *removed* competition was the purchase of YouTube, where it resulted in the death of Google Video- competition was reduced because a player left the field.
The two activities are very different and can't meaningfully be compared.
Just an FYI: There's actually an Adblock plugin for Safari as well. I use both Firefox and Safari for different things- Firefox is better at anything that needs to stay open for long periods of time or do updates in the background; I find Safari faster for general browsing.
No, but the $300 i7 920 surely is...
So in other words, we should ultimately blame you for the commercialization and spamming of the internet?
I'm not sure you should have told us that...
I wasn't aware of this. Do you have a source? (Not that I don't trust your information, I'm merely curious about additional information.)
That must have been interesting during the buyout, then.
Interestingly enough, I've actually had the exact opposite experience. I made the switch to AT&T a little bit after the iPhone 3G came out, but with some reluctance due to the carrier change- I was actually quite happy with the quality of service (both cell and support) that I received from them.
Before the original iPhone launched, the other carriers wouldn't make the investment for things like Visual Voicemail; only AT&T and only with exclusivity.
Now, of course, it's an entirely different story- I'm willing to be that Sprint and Verizon would jump through hoops to get at the iPhone, and I can only imagine the AT&T stock drop the moment the end of exclusivity is announced.
I'm also betting that Verizon has been kicking itself for the past few years...
I can't really believe that Apple is any happier about that situation than its customers are. I'm wondering if we're seeing the beginning of the end of that exclusivity.
It's not really NetBean's fault. The JVM authors seem to take the classic computer science tradeoff of memory for speed to heart.
They unfortunately don't seem to realize that memory *is* speed, especially in today's world of pervasive multitasking, and therefore end up trading off speed for... nothing at all.
If only a) I had mod points and b) you hadn't posted as AC...
Right- it's a design choice. Rather than incredibly simple micro-ops that the real instructions get translated to, or instructions spanning multiple clock cycles, they've chosen to keep the per-core implementation much simpler. That lets them pack more of the simple cores on the chip, getting additional parallel processing at the cost of per-core optimal performance- which is fine, because these are things running on massively parallel problems.
CISCy was perhaps the wrong choice, but it's valid in a sense- each cycle on a gpu is more complicated than a cycle on a modern CPU, but that avoids inter-cycle complexities that occupy a huge amount of die space on the CPUs to speed up single-threaded performance.
GPUs are a little more CISCy.. Since the cycle time is constrained to be as slow as the slowest operation that must complete in one cycle, it means that it's a bit harder to cut down on cycle time.
With competent encryption this really isn't that big a deal- any reasonable system will prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, and once that's blocked and the whole stream is encrypted, there's not that much to worry about.
If I had mod points, you would get them.
The author of the article seemed like either a non-programmer, a complete novice programmer, or, frankly, a completely incompetent programmer. I was going to write something like the above, but was too annoyed by the idiocies to be coherent.
C, K or F? Hope it's obvious everywhere!
I'm not a hungarian notation fan, but it (or similar techniques) have their place.
I suspect that IBM's motivation was much more related to ensuring that their customers didn't get cold feet about linux than it was to avoid other people trying to sue them. SCO was threatening all linux users- and since IBM makes money off linux at this point, they, that meant SCO was threatening their entire customer base. That made it a very good idea for IBM to trounce SCO in court, proving that their customers were safe (and therefore should keep buying IBM products/services).
The GP is talking about a very different view. MS was never going to sue TomTom's users; they just wanted money from TomTom. It's not at all unlikely that the settlement cost less money than litigation would, and certainly is less distracting, so the GP's point is quite valid.
Sadly- and as someone who hates Microsoft Office- I have to say that I agree with you.
OpenOffice is okay at certain things, and fails miserably at many others- while being amazingly bloated, slow, and painful to interact with. Every time a new version comes out, I give it a try- and every time I feel lucky that I don't have to deal with document writing in that format but infrequently.
But when you move to a platform built on standards instead of proprietary systems, you gain increased mobility after the initial transition. If you're on a Microsoft platform, with everything in .doc, and you find that you don't like where MS is taking things- you've got a painful transition. If you're on a standards-based platform, and you find that you don't like where your current vendor is heading, you can move to another vendor with comparatively minor cost (possibly some retraining, but at least no conversion).
Depends on the variety of christian religious craziness you're dealing with. Some are of the "no belief, straight to hell!" variety. Most of the evangelicals are, in fact.
I'd disagree strongly regarding SimCity 2 and later, and Civ3/Civ4. For SimCity, the earliest simcity games were far too simple; the mid games in the series brought it to an appropriate level. It's when the went for Sims tie-ins that the series collapsed, at least from my view.
And as for Civilization- every Civ game has at least a couple low difficulties that should be trivial for anyone who enjoys that sort of game. Challenge disorder is when challenge gets added for no apparent reason, but I can't see any problems with the availability of increased challenges for players who have the skills to play on that level. It's like asking for a chess game that only has "absolute beginner" as an option- the others are just needless challenge, right?
I think you need to read some more history books- the pastel view of feudalism that shows up in fantasy novels doesn't count.
The Opera link is only one of three. Another links to a page about the recently formed Patent Advisory Group for this problem at the W3C site.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a... stationwagon filled with 4.5 petabyte shipping containers?