MUMPS does not let you deploy a clustered database server as Oracle does, nor any of the other major RDBMS vendors, so it's scalability is limited to how big a single node can be. Also, shoehorning Oracle onto a 4GB node is kind of a joke. I use as much memory for a laptop.
I also see no mention of client-server deployment, with separate application servers. That is another implied limitations of MUMPS -- not only are you restricted to one database server, your applications have to run on that same server.
The "white paper" doesn't even suggest that MUMPS can take advantage of SMP hardware, which, given it's age, it might well not.
Everything will be destroyed or flooded except for Ozzy Osbourne's mansion. Ozzy is immortal. You can't kill him. He's survived more self-abuse than humanly possible. He'll rise above the ashes and throw a concert for the survivors.:P
HP/MPE had a hierarchical database, too. That OS and database have been dead for many years.
There is a good reason for that.
While I applaud the original poster's learning a bit about the bowels of computing history, the fact that they did so doesn't mean new systems should be developed with archaic tools like MUMPS. There is nothing a hierarchical database can do that relational databases don't do better. And as long as you're using one with ACID compliance, even a NoSQL database is better than a hierarchical system.
How, pray tell, is the ability to add attributes on the fly any different than "ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN..."?
What Apple wanted was lock-in to their tool chain, so all interpreters were blocked from release for iOS. It's not about "forward looking" -- it's about being able to sell an Apple Mac to every single developer out there that wants to run their tool chain. Money, money, money. And more money.
Have you not read any of the reports of NutterNYahoo's threats and warnings? He is every bit as anti-Iran as Iran is anti-Israel. Both sides are like toddlers in a sandbox making threats they can't carry out.
Iran decided they were going to try to make an issue out of the arms embargo. In response, everyone else has decided to make an issue of their missile program.
It would have been better if both of those issues had been left alone. Now we're seeing an ever-decreasing chance of a deal in the end.
Not that I have any faith the US Congress would approve the deal anyhow with all the warmongerers and haters in that lot of losers.
Good lord, man! Where do you think most medicines came from? They're isolated from the herbs that were used before!
And accupuncture has been shown scientifically to trigger the release of a neurochemical that is over 10x as powerful as morphine that the brain produces on it's own.
As to cannabis, there are thousands upon thousands of people who've found relief by using it. The fact that no one is willing to fund research doesn't mean the research wouldn't show it's effective. The pharmacorps just aren't interested in funding research for something they can't patent and rake obscene profits from.
I don't think you quite grasp how many older medical practices with centuries of effective treatment are lumped together under "alternative" along with claptrap like homeopathy.
Just to name a few: Herbology, accupuncture, and the use of cannabis are considered "alternative" therapies. Every one of those has been in use for thousands of years longer than "modern" medicine, and are as effective as they've ever been, despite the naysaying of those who would rather shove prescription pills down your throat.
The panic that set in the last time internet service to my town was disrupted was so severed that this one town was able to overload SaskTel's help lines for four hours. That's right. The panic of 15,000 people calling in to ask when it's going to be fixed swamped the call center for a province of 1.1 million.
A widespread outage would likely result in mobs and suicides...
When you live in the boonies, you learn to make do without all of the benefits of civilized society from time to time.
They could always have set up additional backup links via satellite, a secondary microwave link, etc. They chose not to invest the money. Now they suffer the consequences.
They've no one to blame but themselves. It's not a "conspiracy" as some have claimed. It's just bad luck.
The rules of class action lawsuits, though, mean that if Uber's drivers are classed as employees, those who would like to remain independent won't have that option...
I call bullshit on this. There are thousands upon thousands of companies out there whose employees work alongside contractors in the computing industry on the same projects. There is nothing in the law that dictates that if one person is an employee, all workers must be employees. Nor is the reverse true.
It is up to the company and the future labour resource to decide which relationship they're going to pursue at the start of employment.
They even get to change their mind later, and offer to turn a contractor into an employee.
Apple just needs to have the streaming music division pay the appstore division the same fees as everyone else to level the playing field. The fact that they own both competing divisions then becomes a moot point, legally.
The time has come for the patent offices of the world to mandate that you must have at least a prototype implementation of a system in order to be able to patent it.
I was far more impressed by a Y2K conversion system developed at Queens University in Kingston which would analyze the binaries from several different machine architectures, turn them into flow graphs, and pattern match the flow graphs into re-created C++ code. Unfortunately the startup that was launched to bring that system to market imploded due to legal issues and fights, and never went much further than addressing the needs of a few early adopters.
This system, on the other hand, seems focused on merely identifying known algorithms and patching the code to use optimized implementations of those algorithms. It does not "correct bugs" -- it plugs in replacement routines. Sure the old code may have had "bugs", but more likely it just wasn't as well optimized as the code produced by modern compilers.
There is also no mention of the system in question being able to deal with anything other than Intel-architecture code, which is a very serious limitation when making claims that a system can generically fix bugs, even if you're only dealing with one class of algorithms.
Seeing as I've only ever been involved in hiring programmers, yes, your certificates would land you at the bottom of the pile. Cisco configuration and Windows administration are irrelevant to what I used to have a say in hiring people for.
The fact that you claim you "need" certification to do Windows administration just proves what a lazy-assed, non-Googling, non-self-teaching fuck you are. There isn't a god damned thing about Windows administration that "requires" certification if you're willing to do some research and learning.
Christ. Think about it. You're claiming you need certification to use a freaking command line shell!!!
If you need someone to babysit you through reading a few overheads and taking a trivial "exam" each day, then yes, certificates are worth the investment.
But if you need that kind of hand holding to learn something, you're not worth hiring. I always shuffled certificate-braggers to the *bottom* of the resume pile as a result.
One of the big "security benefits" I've heard claimed is that WebAssembly will only be able to invoke the same functions/methods as JavaScript itself. So that implies that WebAssembly is nothing more than pre-compiled JavaScript.
As the compile phase of JavaScript pales in comparison to the execution phase, the only people I can see pushing for this are those who want DRM-style protection of their JavaScript so no one else can read it.
The amount of trash stories we're inundated with since Dice took over is slowly turning Slashdot into a generic infotainment website that has no more relevance to technology and science than Faux News.
What has generic politics from the US got to do with technology?
What has an over-the-hill cartoon got to do with technology?
What does the situation in Greece have to do with technology?
It's all turning into one grand flogging of clickbait instead of content, and I'm disgusted by it.
I just bleed for the scammers and fraudsters who are going to be directly and immediately traced by this change of policy.
As to those who are complaining about their "personal" information being made public: perhaps you'd care to explain why you don't have a business address and corporate officers for your "business"?
Sure there are people who run their businesses out of their homes, but they should not be free of identification requirements just because they're small businesses. Any business should be forced to provide valid contact information in case of problems with the business.
There are far too many "company" websites out there that don't provide any real contact information, just an email form that you can't even be assured routes your issues and complaints anywhere except the great bit bucket. They don't publish email addresses, they don't publish the names of corporate officers, and they don't publish a street address.
If you don't want to provide your contact information, don't get a.com. There are plenty of other options. The.coms should be reserved for professionally run businesses, not a free-for-all for scam artists who are willing to pony up a few dollars for a website registration and then hide behind anonymous information.
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MUMPS does not let you deploy a clustered database server as Oracle does, nor any of the other major RDBMS vendors, so it's scalability is limited to how big a single node can be. Also, shoehorning Oracle onto a 4GB node is kind of a joke. I use as much memory for a laptop.
I also see no mention of client-server deployment, with separate application servers. That is another implied limitations of MUMPS -- not only are you restricted to one database server, your applications have to run on that same server.
The "white paper" doesn't even suggest that MUMPS can take advantage of SMP hardware, which, given it's age, it might well not.
Everything will be destroyed or flooded except for Ozzy Osbourne's mansion. Ozzy is immortal. You can't kill him. He's survived more self-abuse than humanly possible. He'll rise above the ashes and throw a concert for the survivors. :P
HP/MPE had a hierarchical database, too. That OS and database have been dead for many years.
There is a good reason for that.
While I applaud the original poster's learning a bit about the bowels of computing history, the fact that they did so doesn't mean new systems should be developed with archaic tools like MUMPS. There is nothing a hierarchical database can do that relational databases don't do better. And as long as you're using one with ACID compliance, even a NoSQL database is better than a hierarchical system.
How, pray tell, is the ability to add attributes on the fly any different than "ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN..."?
What Apple wanted was lock-in to their tool chain, so all interpreters were blocked from release for iOS. It's not about "forward looking" -- it's about being able to sell an Apple Mac to every single developer out there that wants to run their tool chain. Money, money, money. And more money.
Now the warmongers in both governments can block the deal, so the heads of state can say "Well, we tried" and things continue on as "normal."
Say WHAT?
Have you not read any of the reports of NutterNYahoo's threats and warnings? He is every bit as anti-Iran as Iran is anti-Israel. Both sides are like toddlers in a sandbox making threats they can't carry out.
Iran decided they were going to try to make an issue out of the arms embargo. In response, everyone else has decided to make an issue of their missile program.
It would have been better if both of those issues had been left alone. Now we're seeing an ever-decreasing chance of a deal in the end.
Not that I have any faith the US Congress would approve the deal anyhow with all the warmongerers and haters in that lot of losers.
Good lord, man! Where do you think most medicines came from? They're isolated from the herbs that were used before!
And accupuncture has been shown scientifically to trigger the release of a neurochemical that is over 10x as powerful as morphine that the brain produces on it's own.
As to cannabis, there are thousands upon thousands of people who've found relief by using it. The fact that no one is willing to fund research doesn't mean the research wouldn't show it's effective. The pharmacorps just aren't interested in funding research for something they can't patent and rake obscene profits from.
I don't think you quite grasp how many older medical practices with centuries of effective treatment are lumped together under "alternative" along with claptrap like homeopathy.
Just to name a few: Herbology, accupuncture, and the use of cannabis are considered "alternative" therapies. Every one of those has been in use for thousands of years longer than "modern" medicine, and are as effective as they've ever been, despite the naysaying of those who would rather shove prescription pills down your throat.
Get a grip. It's a movie. It's fantasy. It's not reality.
Sheesh.
The FUD spewed by the "discrimination" crowd is just mind-boggling sometimes.
WTF would it take to satisfy you all? Vader cross-dressing in his apartment?
The panic that set in the last time internet service to my town was disrupted was so severed that this one town was able to overload SaskTel's help lines for four hours. That's right. The panic of 15,000 people calling in to ask when it's going to be fixed swamped the call center for a province of 1.1 million.
A widespread outage would likely result in mobs and suicides...
When you live in the boonies, you learn to make do without all of the benefits of civilized society from time to time.
They could always have set up additional backup links via satellite, a secondary microwave link, etc. They chose not to invest the money. Now they suffer the consequences.
They've no one to blame but themselves. It's not a "conspiracy" as some have claimed. It's just bad luck.
I call bullshit on this. There are thousands upon thousands of companies out there whose employees work alongside contractors in the computing industry on the same projects. There is nothing in the law that dictates that if one person is an employee, all workers must be employees. Nor is the reverse true.
It is up to the company and the future labour resource to decide which relationship they're going to pursue at the start of employment.
They even get to change their mind later, and offer to turn a contractor into an employee.
Apple just needs to have the streaming music division pay the appstore division the same fees as everyone else to level the playing field. The fact that they own both competing divisions then becomes a moot point, legally.
You choose to watch videos on those feeds.
You don't choose which ads are going to inundate your browser.
This.
The time has come for the patent offices of the world to mandate that you must have at least a prototype implementation of a system in order to be able to patent it.
I was far more impressed by a Y2K conversion system developed at Queens University in Kingston which would analyze the binaries from several different machine architectures, turn them into flow graphs, and pattern match the flow graphs into re-created C++ code. Unfortunately the startup that was launched to bring that system to market imploded due to legal issues and fights, and never went much further than addressing the needs of a few early adopters.
This system, on the other hand, seems focused on merely identifying known algorithms and patching the code to use optimized implementations of those algorithms. It does not "correct bugs" -- it plugs in replacement routines. Sure the old code may have had "bugs", but more likely it just wasn't as well optimized as the code produced by modern compilers.
There is also no mention of the system in question being able to deal with anything other than Intel-architecture code, which is a very serious limitation when making claims that a system can generically fix bugs, even if you're only dealing with one class of algorithms.
Seeing as I've only ever been involved in hiring programmers, yes, your certificates would land you at the bottom of the pile. Cisco configuration and Windows administration are irrelevant to what I used to have a say in hiring people for.
The fact that you claim you "need" certification to do Windows administration just proves what a lazy-assed, non-Googling, non-self-teaching fuck you are. There isn't a god damned thing about Windows administration that "requires" certification if you're willing to do some research and learning.
Christ. Think about it. You're claiming you need certification to use a freaking command line shell!!!
If you need someone to babysit you through reading a few overheads and taking a trivial "exam" each day, then yes, certificates are worth the investment.
But if you need that kind of hand holding to learn something, you're not worth hiring. I always shuffled certificate-braggers to the *bottom* of the resume pile as a result.
One of the big "security benefits" I've heard claimed is that WebAssembly will only be able to invoke the same functions/methods as JavaScript itself. So that implies that WebAssembly is nothing more than pre-compiled JavaScript.
As the compile phase of JavaScript pales in comparison to the execution phase, the only people I can see pushing for this are those who want DRM-style protection of their JavaScript so no one else can read it.
Mod parent up.
The amount of trash stories we're inundated with since Dice took over is slowly turning Slashdot into a generic infotainment website that has no more relevance to technology and science than Faux News.
What has generic politics from the US got to do with technology?
What has an over-the-hill cartoon got to do with technology?
What does the situation in Greece have to do with technology?
It's all turning into one grand flogging of clickbait instead of content, and I'm disgusted by it.
I just bleed for the scammers and fraudsters who are going to be directly and immediately traced by this change of policy.
As to those who are complaining about their "personal" information being made public: perhaps you'd care to explain why you don't have a business address and corporate officers for your "business"?
Sure there are people who run their businesses out of their homes, but they should not be free of identification requirements just because they're small businesses. Any business should be forced to provide valid contact information in case of problems with the business.
There are far too many "company" websites out there that don't provide any real contact information, just an email form that you can't even be assured routes your issues and complaints anywhere except the great bit bucket. They don't publish email addresses, they don't publish the names of corporate officers, and they don't publish a street address.
If you don't want to provide your contact information, don't get a .com. There are plenty of other options. The .coms should be reserved for professionally run businesses, not a free-for-all for scam artists who are willing to pony up a few dollars for a website registration and then hide behind anonymous information.
Stop looking for a "job" and start looking for contracts.
I thought "Basil" was the dealer's name... :P
Ah. You mean like regulations have eliminated torrents and drugs, right?