Most yahoo music subscribers paid for a monthly all-you-can-eat platter of music selected from millions of songs. There was no implication of permanence. It was more like a subscription radio station that you got to dj yourself, with the bonus that you could choose some to throw on your Nomad when you were away from a computer.
Yeah, that DRM-ed music from yahoo really really sucked. Having all-you-can eat access to millions of songs on demand for a few bucks a month was horrible. I'd rather pay more for satellite radio and listen to pre-selected songs that I don't like.
The power draw of modern Intel CPUs is similar to the power draw of older CPUs. Granted, performance/power ratios have increased, but if these boxes are doing i/o, that's of relatively minor importance.
If you are so crazy that you think Santa Clause is an FBI agent out to kill you and you strike out that does not meet the standard for legal insanity here.
That's OK with me. Sorry if it seems callous, but a mentally ill murderer is still a murderer. Criminal law serves to protect the public. It sucks to have mental illness and to be locked up, but it sucks more to get stabbed to death on a subway train.
If by "management", you mean "manager at Walmart", I'm all for it. Good project managers are good at the task they are managing. Bad project managers are just "managers" because they are good at the shmooz. I've experienced both.
First, as the Java platform has matured, it has become incredibly complex. Today it's possible to do anything with Java, but no one developer can do everything
What developer has to do everything? We use Java to run our systems without using all the complex frameworks that you seem to be referring to. It does the job. Just because people have developed over-engineered frameworks with a language doesn't detract from the the value of that language.
The microorganism's ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variety of extreme environments on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the solar system.
Why all the angst? Singularity is an OS with a process isolation model based on software verification rather than allowing the loading of arbitrary code and using hardware to enforce process separation. It rules out certain things like code generation and shared memory, but by imposing these specific limitations, it can enforce process isolation more efficiently than the standard hardware-based approach. Where's this awful, slow abstraction layer you're complaining about?
There are many physiological disorders that are diagnosed as depression. Everything from vitamin deficiencies to brain tumors can lead to symptoms, and diagnoses, of depression.
As far as nice pens go, a Fisher space pen (bullet style) is an ideal travel companion. It's tiny when folded up, and will write on greasy paper, upside down.
why oh why would you buy DRM music when you can get a CD???
As a happy yahoo music subscriber (who also has an extensive CD collection), a few bucks every month gives me access to an unlimited amount of music from millions of albums. If someone mentions a band they like, or I want to listen to some album I heard about long ago but never listened to, or whatever, I just go on Yahoo music and listen to it. No extra charge, I get the real deal, high quality, legal album. I have diverse and changing musical tastes, so it's a perfect all-you-can-eat buffet as far as I'm concerned.
Engineering the design of a door handle for a Fisher Price play kitchen such that it is more easily manufactured, and hence cheaper, doesn't involve life and death. There are countless real engineering jobs that involve things like cost-cutting and such on non-critical systems.
I had a lightbulb moment after rereading this thing a few times. The authors of the paper think MapReduce is a distributed query processor, backed by a datastore of unstructured records. They picture this database where every query kicks off a MapReduce operation. Seriously, reread it from that perspective. It makes sense. Too bad for them, their fundamental assumption is wrong. It helps to have even a small amount of experience working with a technology before writing a critique of it.
The whole point of MapReduce is to take an unindexed stream of data and shrink it down based on some criteria where numerous records can be associated (Map) and aggregated (Reduce). It is a process. The *result* of the process is an indexed database, which is often inserted into a relational or time-series database.
It's an apples and oranges comparison, and the author's never eaten an orange.
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Read my post again. "Most yahoo music subscribers...". Most. Most. Got it?
Check out the exercise section at about.com. For instance, there's a great low-impact cardio workout that takes only about 15 minutes, but it will leave you sweating and winded if you're bad shape.
Most yahoo music subscribers paid for a monthly all-you-can-eat platter of music selected from millions of songs. There was no implication of permanence. It was more like a subscription radio station that you got to dj yourself, with the bonus that you could choose some to throw on your Nomad when you were away from a computer.
Yeah, that DRM-ed music from yahoo really really sucked. Having all-you-can eat access to millions of songs on demand for a few bucks a month was horrible. I'd rather pay more for satellite radio and listen to pre-selected songs that I don't like.
Are you speaking from experience? I've done this to 160kbps mp3, and there are no noticeable artifacts.
Grandma's got an eee now with Firefox preinstalled.
The power draw of modern Intel CPUs is similar to the power draw of older CPUs. Granted, performance/power ratios have increased, but if these boxes are doing i/o, that's of relatively minor importance.
The first iMacs were the first computers to use USB
This is not my recollection at all. I would be interested if you could cite a reference for this.
If you are so crazy that you think Santa Clause is an FBI agent out to kill you and you strike out that does not meet the standard for legal insanity here.
That's OK with me. Sorry if it seems callous, but a mentally ill murderer is still a murderer. Criminal law serves to protect the public. It sucks to have mental illness and to be locked up, but it sucks more to get stabbed to death on a subway train.
If by "management", you mean "manager at Walmart", I'm all for it. Good project managers are good at the task they are managing. Bad project managers are just "managers" because they are good at the shmooz. I've experienced both.
First, as the Java platform has matured, it has become incredibly complex. Today it's possible to do anything with Java, but no one developer can do everything
What developer has to do everything? We use Java to run our systems without using all the complex frameworks that you seem to be referring to. It does the job. Just because people have developed over-engineered frameworks with a language doesn't detract from the the value of that language.
The microorganism's ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variety of extreme environments on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the solar system.
Sounds like my cubicle at work.
Why all the angst? Singularity is an OS with a process isolation model based on software verification rather than allowing the loading of arbitrary code and using hardware to enforce process separation. It rules out certain things like code generation and shared memory, but by imposing these specific limitations, it can enforce process isolation more efficiently than the standard hardware-based approach. Where's this awful, slow abstraction layer you're complaining about?
In what way is depression *not* all in your head?
There are many physiological disorders that are diagnosed as depression. Everything from vitamin deficiencies to brain tumors can lead to symptoms, and diagnoses, of depression.
on your personal machine they'd have to physically take it off you
Like when your laptop is stolen while it's in sleep mode. This is rather a common situation.
As far as nice pens go, a Fisher space pen (bullet style) is an ideal travel companion. It's tiny when folded up, and will write on greasy paper, upside down.
why oh why would you buy DRM music when you can get a CD???
As a happy yahoo music subscriber (who also has an extensive CD collection), a few bucks every month gives me access to an unlimited amount of music from millions of albums. If someone mentions a band they like, or I want to listen to some album I heard about long ago but never listened to, or whatever, I just go on Yahoo music and listen to it. No extra charge, I get the real deal, high quality, legal album. I have diverse and changing musical tastes, so it's a perfect all-you-can-eat buffet as far as I'm concerned.
/ Not so happy that yahoo is selling me to Real.
OK, you win. Every engineering decision is life-or-death.
Engineering the design of a door handle for a Fisher Price play kitchen such that it is more easily manufactured, and hence cheaper, doesn't involve life and death. There are countless real engineering jobs that involve things like cost-cutting and such on non-critical systems.
Natural gas is regularly pumped back into the ground at oil fields. It's not some new idea that hasn't been done in practice.
It's basically a single web page with a hundred photos on it. Bad idea.
I had a lightbulb moment after rereading this thing a few times. The authors of the paper think MapReduce is a distributed query processor, backed by a datastore of unstructured records. They picture this database where every query kicks off a MapReduce operation. Seriously, reread it from that perspective. It makes sense. Too bad for them, their fundamental assumption is wrong. It helps to have even a small amount of experience working with a technology before writing a critique of it.
The whole point of MapReduce is to take an unindexed stream of data and shrink it down based on some criteria where numerous records can be associated (Map) and aggregated (Reduce). It is a process. The *result* of the process is an indexed database, which is often inserted into a relational or time-series database.
It's an apples and oranges comparison, and the author's never eaten an orange.
But it's a pretty good trick.
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