MongoDB (and others) is best thought of as being a document database, rather than a columnar database. Think of what makes up, say, an Order - in Mongo, that's one document. In RDBMS it is several data tables and join tables, even though the data is only indexed from the primary 'orders' table.
A NoSQL DB will still index on specific fields that you specify. It still has a query language, even if it isn't SQL, it might have relations between fields in documents, and so on. You might still deserialise from the DB into a strictly defined object at the code level (there's your schema), and so on.
There are pros and cons, of course. You may decide that using PostgreSQL with its JSON types is a middle ground you can accept. You may be perfectly happy with multi-table columnar storage for documents. You might be wary of MongoDB in particular because it had a load of teething problems and data resiliency issues.
I think what many people can accept is paying for fewer new Oracle installs within their company.
Sounds like libel or slander to me. And as this is not political speed, it isn't protected, there's far less to hide behind.
I don't know what is wrong with the far right that they want to shut down... oh wait, it's the petrochemical industry isn't it. Solar power and electric cars aren't their favourite things.
Alternate crop - visual recognition systems are very advanced now. It'll know that the Cabbage isn't a Cauliflower.
Soil not suitable - how is that different from now, i.e., how is it relevant?
Animals - yeah, easily avoided or scared away. However QA for partially eaten crop would be needed - likely again an AI that visually inspects crops and rejects according to a range of criteria (mould, damage, etc).
Campers can get processed, the rude sods.
There will be a maintenance crew for the equipment. Note that most farms will hire in harvesting machines, so they will come with a crew to operate (the machines usually follow the season across the country).
Garbage should be easily identifiable. The crew can remove it.
Indeed, this is like IT replacing typing pools, etc.
Instead of having armies of crop pickers doing seasonal work, you will get the machines in (standard agricultural hiring patterns), and they will come with their team of maintainers/fixers/programmers. This team will be far smaller than the army of crop pickers, but more expensive per person.
It may be that farms will need to build higher quality accommodation for the higher paid maintenance teams - they might be able to get away with tents and barns for seasonal workers, but that probably won't fly in the future.
All signs point to most repetitive manual work being automated at some point in the future, which will be catastrophic for people who only work in those areas who don't upskill. Basic Wage is one possible solution, starvation riots another.
Not so much use for a lot of the legacy (especially legacy in-house applications) x86 apps that aren't being updated and which will perform perfectly adequately even under emulation on ARM.
Yes, I thought it was going to be about potential employers being totally arsey when snooping on your social media profiles, but it was just a zero-article about the online equivalent of being a socialite and earning money just by being someone in the public eye.
Which as we already know, only works for the top 1% of people trying to be in the social arena. And of course, you'd be a complete waste of oxygen to boot. Actually, in social media it's probably the top 0.01% of people at best. The 0.1% get enough money from advert income to buy noodles.
So future election cycles will be about who promises the most for those stuck on basic income. As a significant number of people end up on it, and assuming it's set at a level beneath what people actually need, then people's votes are easily won. Oh, they can top up their basic incomes with part time work? Yes, nice in theory, but they're trying to get money off of other people on basic income. Initially it will be okay though, there will be enough employed to pay for these services and items, but as more people migrate to BI...
There is a trash sci-fi novel called Beggars and Choosers which is set in a future world where most people exist in a world where full social welfare is provided, elections are a sham of who promises the most stuff to the populace (in return for not harrassing the upper classes), and the upper classes exist in cities free from the masses enjoying the best of everything (whilst also descending into various forms of debauchery). I presume the basic incomers were pushed out of cities via housing affordability mechanisms beforehand.
Nintendo appear to be calling it a 'home system' which goes against all the (single source) handheld rumours.
I'm guessing that the video will have some imagery of the console and controller/handheld devices, and we can use their sizes to work out very roughly how much heat needs to be dissipated and their rough power. It should also confirm cartridges, controller design and modularity, but nothing about the internals.
I'm guessing about 20 seconds of hardware money shots and 2m 40s of Zelda...
It used fitness trackers (which surely skews the results towards those bothered enough to get one of those things), not Pokemon Go, for step counts.
Most older people seem to play Pokemon Go in the pub, so if it wasn't for the fact they would be in a pub already, it surely is decreasing their life expectancy!:D
Every programmer has their own favourite font, from 8x13 bitmap through Courier (why oh why!), old school mono fonts like Andale Mono, Monaco and Consolas, and more modern ones like Firacode, Hasklig, Iosevka, Monoid and SourceCode Pro.
Whilst it's nice to have another option, I don't think this mono font's main aim is to satisfy programmers.
The recent ARM SoCs are competitive with the low end Intel chips (and in Apple's case, the A10 is approaching mid-range Intel i5s) used in this type of laptop, and indeed many exceed them. Next year the SD830 and the MT X30 should both be extremely powerful options.
This could help Google reduce costs and achieve the thinness this laptop suggests, without resorting to poorly performing Atom SoCs.
Indeed it seems that business is going to try and push employees for another 2 hours of time a day, even though the end result is even lower productivity than ever before due to the fact that people really only have about 6 hours a day in them to be productive, according to studies anyway.
So yeah, let's make commuting more pleasurable. Cars with cocktail cabinets, a games console, some music, leather wingback chairs, humidor, etc. Because at some point the technology will work, and when it does, and when all cars are self-driving, the fears about watching the road will fade away, and car interiors will change drastically. Let's say this happens around 2040...
Of course in cities by then most people will be catching self-driving bustaxi type services because of congestion - but at least they will be nearly door-to-door.
Or maybe working from home will have actually happened seriously... nah.
This was always the endgame for Uber - drivers are costly and aren't available all the time.
Pretty much everyone knew this, I'm sure even the drivers knew this - if they didn't then more fool them.
This is why it's absolutely pointless to even get into the taxi/rideshare business now - there's a few year's left for meat drivers, and after that customers will be saved from human interaction as all the rides drive themselves, and due to not having to pay the meat aspect, the rides will be slightly cheaper - enough to be the obvious choice over the feared-rapey dodgy meat driver anyway:p
Yeah, I'm with you. In fact I think the game makes level progression too easy early on, setting up a false expectation of one level/day progression that suddenly turns into one level/week, then one level/month around level 30 for casual players.
But... it should be harder to level up!
The game is getting better, buddy pokemon is cute, and finally I can power up rarer pokemon that I have only seen once.
The game needs something for the winter months however. I'm thinking non-local PvP matches (which would require some form of friends system) you can do from home. Obviously first any form of PvP would be nice (I guess PvP Training for Same Team Players, and PvP Battles for Intra-Team). That will get some people back into the game.
The good thing is that I haven't spent much time on the game itself, I only play it when doing things I would have had to do anyway - walking to the train station, etc. So it enhances wasted time!
I'm level 23 and I haven't spent a penny. Nor will I ever have to, as there all the objects are available by walking around and using the Pokestops. However the game SUCKS for non-urban players due to a lack of pokestops and gyms... and pokemon.
Just walk to the pokestops and get the balls. Pokemon frequency seems to scale in line with pokestop frequency so you don't have to run out. Spending money on the pokeball option is the stupidest thing to do out of all the items on the shop. You can even earn in-game currency by using the Gyms.
I don't feel it's unfair to have to spend a week or two levelling up once you hit higher levels. And the game is trying to discourage pidgey-farming (lucky egg mass evolutions) by making them harder to catch at higher levels.
HDR makes pictures more real, as in bright light emitting objects will finally look like bright light emitting objects. Nuclear explosions in movies will actually blind you. Etc.
HDR needs a HDR supporting TV (HDMI 2a). This appears to mean a TV with a 10-bit panel (or 12-bit panel), and the ability for individual pixels to be displayed at very high light output levels (500 - 1000 nits).
Theoretically a 1080p TV could be sold with HDR capability, but so far it's being bundled with high-end 4K TVs. I expect it will come to 1080p panels at some point.
IMO it's worth holding off on a TV purchase atm until HDR TVs meet your price point.
What they do is increase the max brightness level of the TV from around 300 nits to a higher level. LCDs seem to get 600 nits, OLEDs seem to get 1000 nits.
HDR movies are mastered with metadata that says what the max brightness means in terms of nits. HDR10 has 10-bits per channel, and a typical HDR10 movie is mastered with 1023=4000 nits (but 1000 and 10000 are also used). The encoding is non linear to prevent the issue of blacks being distinguishable.
Dolby have their own HDR standard, which is 12-bits per channel, and mastering in this says that channel value of 4095=10000 nits. The encoding is different from HDR10 (dual-stream - SDR with HDR metadata).
I presume in a games console that they will target 1000 nits as max channel value, because there aren't TVs yet that support more.
It is very visually different, and most reviews I read say it's more important than 4K in terms of visual improvement over 1080p.
1. Dolby HDR can work over HDMI 1.4, but most TVs support HDR10 which needs HDMI 2. 2. The biggest difference in versions of HDMI is the bandwidth available, and HDR10 really means 10-bit 4K video. 3. The HDMI controller in the PS4 is programmable. It may be possible that the firmware can update it to HDMI 2 in featureset (even if it can't do 4K modes) 4. It may be that 1080p HDR10 will work as long as the PS4 HDMI 1.4 port is connected to a TV that supports HDR10 on its HDMI 2 port.
I don't see any reason why HDR10 should be limited to 4K resolutions - that may be the headline resolution but there is nothing stopping the same HDR10 bitstream working on a 1080p signal, indeed it would be kind of stupid to limit that. However stupid things do happen.
And after that date, the price difference is such that getting the PS4 Slim over the PS4 Pro is a bad purchasing decision. And you've got those two months to save up that $100.
Yeah, the cops screwed this one up. Even when the evidence in hand is a recording of events, protocol has to be followed. There should have been enough other evidence (photos of the victim, victim testimony, etc) to get something to stick too, which it looks like the cops neglected to collect.
And (not aimed at you!) why is it better for a guilty person to go free rather than even one innocent person go to jail? Because it is highly likely that a guilty person would commit a similar crime again. Which is what happened in this case. It does create more victims unfortunately, but it also removes a lot of doubt.
And if they were guilty, and they don't commit another crime - then at least they have been rehabilitated for whatever reason they chose (feeling bad, fear, etc).
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A lot of the NoSQL stuff out there is trite tosh.
MongoDB (and others) is best thought of as being a document database, rather than a columnar database. Think of what makes up, say, an Order - in Mongo, that's one document. In RDBMS it is several data tables and join tables, even though the data is only indexed from the primary 'orders' table.
A NoSQL DB will still index on specific fields that you specify. It still has a query language, even if it isn't SQL, it might have relations between fields in documents, and so on. You might still deserialise from the DB into a strictly defined object at the code level (there's your schema), and so on.
There are pros and cons, of course. You may decide that using PostgreSQL with its JSON types is a middle ground you can accept. You may be perfectly happy with multi-table columnar storage for documents. You might be wary of MongoDB in particular because it had a load of teething problems and data resiliency issues.
I think what many people can accept is paying for fewer new Oracle installs within their company.
Sounds like libel or slander to me. And as this is not political speed, it isn't protected, there's far less to hide behind.
I don't know what is wrong with the far right that they want to shut down ... oh wait, it's the petrochemical industry isn't it. Solar power and electric cars aren't their favourite things.
Alternate crop - visual recognition systems are very advanced now. It'll know that the Cabbage isn't a Cauliflower.
Soil not suitable - how is that different from now, i.e., how is it relevant?
Animals - yeah, easily avoided or scared away. However QA for partially eaten crop would be needed - likely again an AI that visually inspects crops and rejects according to a range of criteria (mould, damage, etc).
Campers can get processed, the rude sods.
There will be a maintenance crew for the equipment. Note that most farms will hire in harvesting machines, so they will come with a crew to operate (the machines usually follow the season across the country).
Garbage should be easily identifiable. The crew can remove it.
Indeed, this is like IT replacing typing pools, etc.
Instead of having armies of crop pickers doing seasonal work, you will get the machines in (standard agricultural hiring patterns), and they will come with their team of maintainers/fixers/programmers. This team will be far smaller than the army of crop pickers, but more expensive per person.
It may be that farms will need to build higher quality accommodation for the higher paid maintenance teams - they might be able to get away with tents and barns for seasonal workers, but that probably won't fly in the future.
All signs point to most repetitive manual work being automated at some point in the future, which will be catastrophic for people who only work in those areas who don't upskill. Basic Wage is one possible solution, starvation riots another.
Not so much use for a lot of the legacy (especially legacy in-house applications) x86 apps that aren't being updated and which will perform perfectly adequately even under emulation on ARM.
Yes, I thought it was going to be about potential employers being totally arsey when snooping on your social media profiles, but it was just a zero-article about the online equivalent of being a socialite and earning money just by being someone in the public eye.
Which as we already know, only works for the top 1% of people trying to be in the social arena. And of course, you'd be a complete waste of oxygen to boot.
Actually, in social media it's probably the top 0.01% of people at best. The 0.1% get enough money from advert income to buy noodles.
So future election cycles will be about who promises the most for those stuck on basic income. As a significant number of people end up on it, and assuming it's set at a level beneath what people actually need, then people's votes are easily won. Oh, they can top up their basic incomes with part time work? Yes, nice in theory, but they're trying to get money off of other people on basic income. Initially it will be okay though, there will be enough employed to pay for these services and items, but as more people migrate to BI...
There is a trash sci-fi novel called Beggars and Choosers which is set in a future world where most people exist in a world where full social welfare is provided, elections are a sham of who promises the most stuff to the populace (in return for not harrassing the upper classes), and the upper classes exist in cities free from the masses enjoying the best of everything (whilst also descending into various forms of debauchery). I presume the basic incomers were pushed out of cities via housing affordability mechanisms beforehand.
Maybe we could hold a referendum to pick the target?
Nintendo appear to be calling it a 'home system' which goes against all the (single source) handheld rumours.
I'm guessing that the video will have some imagery of the console and controller/handheld devices, and we can use their sizes to work out very roughly how much heat needs to be dissipated and their rough power. It should also confirm cartridges, controller design and modularity, but nothing about the internals.
I'm guessing about 20 seconds of hardware money shots and 2m 40s of Zelda...
It used fitness trackers (which surely skews the results towards those bothered enough to get one of those things), not Pokemon Go, for step counts.
Most older people seem to play Pokemon Go in the pub, so if it wasn't for the fact they would be in a pub already, it surely is decreasing their life expectancy! :D
Has anyone come up with a reasonable, backward-compatable, manner in which this could be achieved (technically) within the current Unicode standard?
And not one of them is the cardinal 4 directions arrow, as mentioned.
Every programmer has their own favourite font, from 8x13 bitmap through Courier (why oh why!), old school mono fonts like Andale Mono, Monaco and Consolas, and more modern ones like Firacode, Hasklig, Iosevka, Monoid and SourceCode Pro.
Whilst it's nice to have another option, I don't think this mono font's main aim is to satisfy programmers.
I thought web fonts only downloaded the glyphs required to render the page?
The recent ARM SoCs are competitive with the low end Intel chips (and in Apple's case, the A10 is approaching mid-range Intel i5s) used in this type of laptop, and indeed many exceed them. Next year the SD830 and the MT X30 should both be extremely powerful options.
This could help Google reduce costs and achieve the thinness this laptop suggests, without resorting to poorly performing Atom SoCs.
Only if the Sony Camera detects an XBox in the room.
Indeed it seems that business is going to try and push employees for another 2 hours of time a day, even though the end result is even lower productivity than ever before due to the fact that people really only have about 6 hours a day in them to be productive, according to studies anyway.
So yeah, let's make commuting more pleasurable. Cars with cocktail cabinets, a games console, some music, leather wingback chairs, humidor, etc.
Because at some point the technology will work, and when it does, and when all cars are self-driving, the fears about watching the road will fade away, and car interiors will change drastically. Let's say this happens around 2040...
Of course in cities by then most people will be catching self-driving bustaxi type services because of congestion - but at least they will be nearly door-to-door.
Or maybe working from home will have actually happened seriously ... nah.
This was always the endgame for Uber - drivers are costly and aren't available all the time.
Pretty much everyone knew this, I'm sure even the drivers knew this - if they didn't then more fool them.
This is why it's absolutely pointless to even get into the taxi/rideshare business now - there's a few year's left for meat drivers, and after that customers will be saved from human interaction as all the rides drive themselves, and due to not having to pay the meat aspect, the rides will be slightly cheaper - enough to be the obvious choice over the feared-rapey dodgy meat driver anyway :p
Yeah, I'm with you. In fact I think the game makes level progression too easy early on, setting up a false expectation of one level/day progression that suddenly turns into one level/week, then one level/month around level 30 for casual players.
But ... it should be harder to level up!
The game is getting better, buddy pokemon is cute, and finally I can power up rarer pokemon that I have only seen once.
The game needs something for the winter months however. I'm thinking non-local PvP matches (which would require some form of friends system) you can do from home. Obviously first any form of PvP would be nice (I guess PvP Training for Same Team Players, and PvP Battles for Intra-Team). That will get some people back into the game.
The good thing is that I haven't spent much time on the game itself, I only play it when doing things I would have had to do anyway - walking to the train station, etc. So it enhances wasted time!
I'm level 23 and I haven't spent a penny. Nor will I ever have to, as there all the objects are available by walking around and using the Pokestops. However the game SUCKS for non-urban players due to a lack of pokestops and gyms ... and pokemon.
Just walk to the pokestops and get the balls. Pokemon frequency seems to scale in line with pokestop frequency so you don't have to run out. Spending money on the pokeball option is the stupidest thing to do out of all the items on the shop. You can even earn in-game currency by using the Gyms.
I don't feel it's unfair to have to spend a week or two levelling up once you hit higher levels. And the game is trying to discourage pidgey-farming (lucky egg mass evolutions) by making them harder to catch at higher levels.
HDR makes pictures more real, as in bright light emitting objects will finally look like bright light emitting objects. Nuclear explosions in movies will actually blind you. Etc.
HDR needs a HDR supporting TV (HDMI 2a). This appears to mean a TV with a 10-bit panel (or 12-bit panel), and the ability for individual pixels to be displayed at very high light output levels (500 - 1000 nits).
Theoretically a 1080p TV could be sold with HDR capability, but so far it's being bundled with high-end 4K TVs. I expect it will come to 1080p panels at some point.
IMO it's worth holding off on a TV purchase atm until HDR TVs meet your price point.
There are HDR TVs.
What they do is increase the max brightness level of the TV from around 300 nits to a higher level. LCDs seem to get 600 nits, OLEDs seem to get 1000 nits.
HDR movies are mastered with metadata that says what the max brightness means in terms of nits. HDR10 has 10-bits per channel, and a typical HDR10 movie is mastered with 1023=4000 nits (but 1000 and 10000 are also used). The encoding is non linear to prevent the issue of blacks being distinguishable.
Dolby have their own HDR standard, which is 12-bits per channel, and mastering in this says that channel value of 4095=10000 nits. The encoding is different from HDR10 (dual-stream - SDR with HDR metadata).
I presume in a games console that they will target 1000 nits as max channel value, because there aren't TVs yet that support more.
It is very visually different, and most reviews I read say it's more important than 4K in terms of visual improvement over 1080p.
This depends on a lot of things.
1. Dolby HDR can work over HDMI 1.4, but most TVs support HDR10 which needs HDMI 2.
2. The biggest difference in versions of HDMI is the bandwidth available, and HDR10 really means 10-bit 4K video.
3. The HDMI controller in the PS4 is programmable. It may be possible that the firmware can update it to HDMI 2 in featureset (even if it can't do 4K modes)
4. It may be that 1080p HDR10 will work as long as the PS4 HDMI 1.4 port is connected to a TV that supports HDR10 on its HDMI 2 port.
I don't see any reason why HDR10 should be limited to 4K resolutions - that may be the headline resolution but there is nothing stopping the same HDR10 bitstream working on a 1080p signal, indeed it would be kind of stupid to limit that. However stupid things do happen.
And after that date, the price difference is such that getting the PS4 Slim over the PS4 Pro is a bad purchasing decision. And you've got those two months to save up that $100.
Yeah, the cops screwed this one up. Even when the evidence in hand is a recording of events, protocol has to be followed. There should have been enough other evidence (photos of the victim, victim testimony, etc) to get something to stick too, which it looks like the cops neglected to collect.
And (not aimed at you!) why is it better for a guilty person to go free rather than even one innocent person go to jail? Because it is highly likely that a guilty person would commit a similar crime again. Which is what happened in this case. It does create more victims unfortunately, but it also removes a lot of doubt.
And if they were guilty, and they don't commit another crime - then at least they have been rehabilitated for whatever reason they chose (feeling bad, fear, etc).