As we move to electric cars and other advances cars will be more like a 80mph laptop.
We will need to have safe guards at all level. Another computer should have been watching the system and saying...what the hell are we accelerating for anyways.
Why the hell can cars run this fast anyways. Do we really need a car that will run over 90mph for more than a few seconds during a pass. Are we all so brainwashed by action movies we pretend we might need to run away from a maniac we probably couldn't outrun anyways.
Not that it would detect everyone, but I do feel like I tend to move the mouse close to a story I'm reading.
If you could tell the story closest to the middle of the page you might be able to infer it from scrolling as well. I tend to read about 1/3+ down the page. My head naturally rests so that I have to look up a bit to look at say the "slahsdot" logo on this page.
Some companies like NT authentication. No go in the other browsers...at least not as integrated.
When you say IE 6 you are really saying IE 4 thru 6. No one wrote applications for IE 6. They wrote them for IE 4. Back then Firefox was just an idea, Chrome wasn't even that far.
If you've ever programmed for Netscape you'll realize why people wrote for IE 4. If you remember they wanted layers. LAYERS!!!! not divs.
Generally these apps are internal in nature. That is they used more powerful things like iframes (long before Ajax was an idea).
Now all those apps that got rewritten during the web boom need to be ported, but there is no money. Many people would just rather deal with IE then invest all the time to change box models...that's where most of the crap breaks.
ActiveX apps where about having a little more power than HTML 4 could deliver at the time. Some people made the wrong bet for sure. If all you open sourcers want to get people off IE getting a good ActiveX plugin for the other browsers would be a good start.
The last reason why most companies use IE is support. You may like that Firefox auto updates, but for locked down boxes this isn't good. Why oh why won't firefox install an update service that could run as a power user. Another thing that could get users off. Chrome is also installed at the user level which is bad for builds.
Then on top of all that supporting more than one browser does have a cost. As great as chrome and FF are they are not perfect and they do break like anything else...especially when you start supporting large bases.
Group policiy is also another thing missing from Chrome\FF. Not important to a small company (not as important anyways), but to a large setting some policies in AD an having them propogate is important.
Chrome is fairly new...don't expect large enterprise IT to embrace it over night.
Windows update might "suck" to you, but to IT especially those with System configuration manger it works well in the large scheme. You can deploy to an AD group.
So if we really want to get Chrome support we need to work on becoming part of the MS ecosystem which isn't just lockin, but it a series a Enterprise level setups. Not important to the small company, but very important to the largest.
Looking at the history of the tablet it always seems to be a PC with a touch screen. MS Word or Excel and a tablet don't go together.
The start menu, task bar, and general navigation of a full blown PC (win or mac) doesn't directly translate.
It is very likely that this tablet will just be a big ole iPhone. I think everyone who has used their smart phone on their couch has gone "God I wish the screen was just a few more inches".
The "content" portion of the web will translate very well to the new tablets.
Any app that requires but load of editing...especially with text won't work. Imagine writing a book, some C++ code, or fill in a form with 20 inputs on one of these things. Even with a slide out keyboard these sort of tasks suck. People will make simple music and video editors...but real work just has to be done on a full pc.
That said the tablet could be put in a doc and instead of translating the pc to a tablet...it'll be the other way around. This is where MS might have some advantage for some folks...especially in business.
A Chrome OS tablet has to follow with what is essentially an Android phone with a slightly bigger screen. MS will come out with something like Windows with a simple interface...or Zune(just rebrand the thing already MS).
Wouldn't it be great if you could get one tablet with all three OSs....
Look this is the real world. If Linux wants respect you can't do it by crying about MS, Google, or any other company.
Just take the high road, fight the good fight, and take care of business. If open source is truely great it will work out. Don't try and take on MS just write better code and better systems.
The truth of Linux's and OS adoption is less about MS, and more about the little tweeks to make Linux easier not only for your grandma, but even for techs. Instead of some arbitrary command line arguments to change a driver option...make a check box on a dialog...both side wins. Make a GUI tool to configure Apache. The truth is many technical folks actually want that.
Let me write a few more......You want some wine with that cheese?...You need some open source vagisil ( can a women please come up with the equivalent for men...).
Seriuosly can we a baby crying icon for these stories?
Wow a "object oriented" database discussion again. I've never read one of these:P I've only been doing this 15 years and I've lost count of these talks a long time ago.
What is the difference between schema less and schema rigid anyways. I don't see what that has anything to do with performance. The real issue is uptime and transaction support. People want to add a column or index without taking the system down. That is different then dealing with PBs of data. Most table structures can easily deal with that much data.
If you have a DB that is big you have lots of outs. Pay...get Enterprise version of whatever. Break it into many DB/tables and merge together. Archive. Archive I bet will get most people by. Does eBay really need all that bidding info for items over a few weeks old...only for analysis maybe. Move that old stale data out of the active heavily hit data tiers.
The fact remains that MySQL should be able to scale to TBs of data. The fact that it can't is a failure of the product. All the others have been for a while. Why can't it...I don't know...the fact that it uses a F'in different file for each index on a table. If you don't understand how old school that is start using Paradox. Just because it is open source doesn't mean it has to be so damn out of date. Please for the love of god save multiple tables/indexes in the same pre sized file...god.
Google has all the power to go and use something different. Google gets to cheat. Google is a collection of pretty static data. They scan the internet a lot, but imagine if every time you did a search Google had to scan every web page on the planet, index them, and then give you search results. That would be impractical for sure. So for now they just store big collections of blobs and a big fast index for searching keywords and links to pages. Impressive none the less, but it's not like your typical app. GMail is...funny that it is one system they've had problem with. Even then EMAIL DOESN'T CHANGE. It's user specific, but it's still f'in static. GoogleTastic if you ask me.
The fact is people are using RDBMS right now to solve real world problems. Some start up is finding a way to tweek MySQL to do something cool and then posting it on a blog...then all of the sudden RDBMS is dead. RDBMS is fine, it will be fine for at least 10 years if not longer. In that time it will evolve as well so that it will be around for even longer. MySQL in 5 years will have online index addition, performance hitless online column addition, partitioning, geo indexing, XML columns, BigASS table support, Oracle RAC like support, and a thousand other features that some RDBMSs have today and some will not see for even longer. Then developers that spent all that cash developing custom shit will revert and post comments like this one.
That's the way it goes in software development. The middle tier gets bigger, gets inept, custom shit comes out, it gets integrated into the middle tier shit....continue;
Instead of pronouncing death start talking about how dated a 2 dimensional result set is. JOINs should return N dimension result sets similar to XML with butt loads of meta data. ODBC/JDBC are dated...so updated them.
select u.login, ul.when from users u join user_logins ul as logins.login ON ul.user_id = u.user_id where u.name = 'me' should equal something like a nested XML packet instead of duplicated crap when there is more then one user_logins.
I don't signatures going away this quickly. As much as I would have loved to sign my mortage digitaly...the good 'ole John Hancock is embedded in every day life.
My wife has been forging my sig on papers for a while. All the stupid little things that come around. It does seem a bit easier with everyone scratching it out in block letters.
I'll get behind nuclear power when any state that produces stores it in their state. Putting it in a mountain across the country is not a solution.
Otherwise it's just a bunch of hot air. If you think it is safe and the waste is safe then you can store the waste and have nuclear plants next to schools. If you don't then it really isn't all that safe.
The other big issue is that a disaster...even if inprobable...is decades long. If a coal plant blows up the results can last for some time...but nuclear disasters can be multi generational. Is the plant safe from itself, hurricanes(acts of god), and acts of terrorism\human made events?
Is it manageable? If we scale to lots of more plants...can we actually manage the waste and control of them all. Having 10 plants might be safe, but increase it to 50 and it might become dangerous.
So trade CO2 for nuclear waste? Are we not going backwards here just to solve the problem more quickly?
The govt. always gets highly critizied. Or even when someone is just making a simple obersvation it all of the sudden becomes a "slam".
Can you imagine if companies had to bear this sort of total public critisim. How many companies have stupid errors on there website, menus, marketing, or anything else and we don't get upset.
I just take it with a grain of salt and hope things get better. The govt. isn't going to be perfect becuase it's ran by human beings...just like everything else.
Are you using Outlook 2007? Are you using Pine? My local email search works just fine thank you....and I can fing sort. Yes the search on the web is pretty good, but not the only thing email needs.
Not that I hate GMail, but I haven't used the web app in probably six months. Hooked it up to Outlook. I can search, sort, see complex HTML emails, and a whole lot of other things better.
GMail has been down several times for varying groups of people. That is always the weird thing. It never seems to be fully down...which is good and bad I guess.
I think there is some major differences with games though especially sports based ones. The engine development itself might not be able to handle throwing people at the problem, but we are talking mostly about graphics, animation, balancing, and a whole lot of things that are not "traditional" programming. I could hire 40 graphic artists and get more done quicker than with 5.
With general software we generally don't know the specs very well. Is this true with a football game? The game of football is pretty well defined. We have pretty much evolved the game play of a console version of the sport? Is it really that hard to define what a football player should look like? Here is a picture of real life football player X make it is as close as you can.
Btw, how much should a game like Madden cost anyways? Are they really starting from scratch? I doubt it...each Madden year is like an add-on to the last.
Something like Left 4 Dead I can see following under normal rules. It is your standard 1st person shooter in some respects, but it does have some elements that are new. Valve did most of the work on the engine already.
I think games are becoming more like movies than developing some web app. Next time you watch a movie really pay attention to the credits...a lot of people worked on Dark Knight.
I've often been skeptical of the idea that you could disproove a hidden variable. The hidden variable itself could be dynamic controlled by another hidden variable.
I guess I just assume that there is more we don't know about the universe that we do know about it.
if anyone could write an informed anti global warming post attached this story and get modded past -1.
This to me is one of the biggest problems with the argument in general. It's becoming partisan by both sides.
Just because the vast majority of sciencetists think something is true does not make it true. Many scientists thought the universe was static and not expanding. Even with all the measurements we have I'm still not 100% convinced...maybe 99.9. Enough to go with it, but I'm never suprised when some scientific theory is proven "slightly incorrect". Maybe light works differently 20 million light years away...the measurments themselves have HUGE assumptions built in. No one can prove these things until we get warp drives...but again enough to go with it.
We often watch the discovery channel and take at face value the thing the announcer says. The Universe is X years old...we only think we think we know that. It could very well be older. I don't expect the announcer to say that will every sentence, but it would be nice if scientists reminded themselves from time to time.
It is entirely possible that more than one source of global warming is possible, but it is never discussed. It could be a combination of human and natural forces. It could be temporary or even self corrective over time. These are all scientfic possibilities that I think most scientists understand, but don't want to muddle the argument with. I'm not sure why everyone gets there panties in a bundle. You should want this kind of challenge and should not be afraid of it. It could be the oppurtunity to actually make the case better.
Finally the idea that scientists are not political is BS. They are human beings that vote just like everyone else. They have to get their grants somehow. Just because you have a big brain and a PhD doesn't mean you couldn't default on your house, cheat on your wife, or any of the other inperfect crap human beings do.
Just because we can simulate neurons does not mean we instanlty have an intelligent being.
Can anyone really tell you why some of us are smarter than others at birth? Maybe close like "This part of the brain is bigger than average", but that's a pretty far cry to the exact reasoning.
Also, do we really have the human brain mapped out well enough that we can map eyes, ears, and other sensors to this neural net. Yes our brain is made up of neurons, but it also has some structure to it.
Even after all that it still takes most of us about 20 years to get decently intelligent.
That is also assuming that our brains are totally just running on the neurons. That something we can't even detect is involved. Scientists seem to have a hard time explaining "the movie in your head" still.
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a) create a Steve job version of the Bill Gates borg icon.
b) change the MS icon Ms instead of the Bill Gates borg icon.
I just think it's time.
As we move to electric cars and other advances cars will be more like a 80mph laptop.
We will need to have safe guards at all level. Another computer should have been watching the system and saying...what the hell are we accelerating for anyways.
Why the hell can cars run this fast anyways. Do we really need a car that will run over 90mph for more than a few seconds during a pass. Are we all so brainwashed by action movies we pretend we might need to run away from a maniac we probably couldn't outrun anyways.
Not that it would detect everyone, but I do feel like I tend to move the mouse close to a story I'm reading.
If you could tell the story closest to the middle of the page you might be able to infer it from scrolling as well. I tend to read about 1/3+ down the page. My head naturally rests so that I have to look up a bit to look at say the "slahsdot" logo on this page.
Sometimes it just not just an IE 6 type of thing.
Some companies like NT authentication. No go in the other browsers...at least not as integrated.
When you say IE 6 you are really saying IE 4 thru 6. No one wrote applications for IE 6. They wrote them for IE 4. Back then Firefox was just an idea, Chrome wasn't even that far.
If you've ever programmed for Netscape you'll realize why people wrote for IE 4. If you remember they wanted layers. LAYERS!!!! not divs.
Generally these apps are internal in nature. That is they used more powerful things like iframes (long before Ajax was an idea).
Now all those apps that got rewritten during the web boom need to be ported, but there is no money. Many people would just rather deal with IE then invest all the time to change box models...that's where most of the crap breaks.
ActiveX apps where about having a little more power than HTML 4 could deliver at the time. Some people made the wrong bet for sure. If all you open sourcers want to get people off IE getting a good ActiveX plugin for the other browsers would be a good start.
The last reason why most companies use IE is support. You may like that Firefox auto updates, but for locked down boxes this isn't good. Why oh why won't firefox install an update service that could run as a power user. Another thing that could get users off. Chrome is also installed at the user level which is bad for builds.
Then on top of all that supporting more than one browser does have a cost. As great as chrome and FF are they are not perfect and they do break like anything else...especially when you start supporting large bases.
Group policiy is also another thing missing from Chrome\FF. Not important to a small company (not as important anyways), but to a large setting some policies in AD an having them propogate is important.
Chrome is fairly new...don't expect large enterprise IT to embrace it over night.
Windows update might "suck" to you, but to IT especially those with System configuration manger it works well in the large scheme. You can deploy to an AD group.
So if we really want to get Chrome support we need to work on becoming part of the MS ecosystem which isn't just lockin, but it a series a Enterprise level setups. Not important to the small company, but very important to the largest.
I would love it if any new language tutorial didn't just print hello world to the console.
Who the hell needs to do that anymore.
Any language should be able to send an email and vaildate an email out of the box. Otherwise I'll just use Python...etc.
Looking at the history of the tablet it always seems to be a PC with a touch screen. MS Word or Excel and a tablet don't go together.
The start menu, task bar, and general navigation of a full blown PC (win or mac) doesn't directly translate.
It is very likely that this tablet will just be a big ole iPhone. I think everyone who has used their smart phone on their couch has gone "God I wish the screen was just a few more inches".
The "content" portion of the web will translate very well to the new tablets.
Any app that requires but load of editing...especially with text won't work. Imagine writing a book, some C++ code, or fill in a form with 20 inputs on one of these things. Even with a slide out keyboard these sort of tasks suck. People will make simple music and video editors...but real work just has to be done on a full pc.
That said the tablet could be put in a doc and instead of translating the pc to a tablet...it'll be the other way around. This is where MS might have some advantage for some folks...especially in business.
A Chrome OS tablet has to follow with what is essentially an Android phone with a slightly bigger screen. MS will come out with something like Windows with a simple interface...or Zune(just rebrand the thing already MS).
Wouldn't it be great if you could get one tablet with all three OSs....
free lunch. Yep your high school economics teacher wasn't a complete idiot.
So IE has a buffer overrun. This wasn't something on port 135...so how did the Chineese get in.
Did it get in via a viewing of an email inside of Outlook?
Did some stupid user visit a bad site sent thru email?
The end user had to go to a site which then allowed a trojan to get install...is this what happened?
Look this is the real world. If Linux wants respect you can't do it by crying about MS, Google, or any other company.
Just take the high road, fight the good fight, and take care of business. If open source is truely great it will work out. Don't try and take on MS just write better code and better systems.
The truth of Linux's and OS adoption is less about MS, and more about the little tweeks to make Linux easier not only for your grandma, but even for techs. Instead of some arbitrary command line arguments to change a driver option...make a check box on a dialog...both side wins. Make a GUI tool to configure Apache. The truth is many technical folks actually want that.
Let me write a few more... ...You want some wine with that cheese? ...You need some open source vagisil ( can a women please come up with the equivalent for men...).
Seriuosly can we a baby crying icon for these stories?
And that had nothing to do with production capacity?
Wow a "object oriented" database discussion again. I've never read one of these :P I've only been doing this 15 years and I've lost count of these talks a long time ago.
What is the difference between schema less and schema rigid anyways. I don't see what that has anything to do with performance. The real issue is uptime and transaction support. People want to add a column or index without taking the system down. That is different then dealing with PBs of data. Most table structures can easily deal with that much data.
If you have a DB that is big you have lots of outs. Pay...get Enterprise version of whatever. Break it into many DB/tables and merge together. Archive. Archive I bet will get most people by. Does eBay really need all that bidding info for items over a few weeks old...only for analysis maybe. Move that old stale data out of the active heavily hit data tiers.
The fact remains that MySQL should be able to scale to TBs of data. The fact that it can't is a failure of the product. All the others have been for a while. Why can't it...I don't know...the fact that it uses a F'in different file for each index on a table. If you don't understand how old school that is start using Paradox. Just because it is open source doesn't mean it has to be so damn out of date. Please for the love of god save multiple tables/indexes in the same pre sized file...god.
Google has all the power to go and use something different. Google gets to cheat. Google is a collection of pretty static data. They scan the internet a lot, but imagine if every time you did a search Google had to scan every web page on the planet, index them, and then give you search results. That would be impractical for sure. So for now they just store big collections of blobs and a big fast index for searching keywords and links to pages. Impressive none the less, but it's not like your typical app. GMail is...funny that it is one system they've had problem with. Even then EMAIL DOESN'T CHANGE. It's user specific, but it's still f'in static. GoogleTastic if you ask me.
The fact is people are using RDBMS right now to solve real world problems. Some start up is finding a way to tweek MySQL to do something cool and then posting it on a blog...then all of the sudden RDBMS is dead. RDBMS is fine, it will be fine for at least 10 years if not longer. In that time it will evolve as well so that it will be around for even longer. MySQL in 5 years will have online index addition, performance hitless online column addition, partitioning, geo indexing, XML columns, BigASS table support, Oracle RAC like support, and a thousand other features that some RDBMSs have today and some will not see for even longer. Then developers that spent all that cash developing custom shit will revert and post comments like this one.
That's the way it goes in software development. The middle tier gets bigger, gets inept, custom shit comes out, it gets integrated into the middle tier shit....continue;
Instead of pronouncing death start talking about how dated a 2 dimensional result set is. JOINs should return N dimension result sets similar to XML with butt loads of meta data. ODBC/JDBC are dated...so updated them.
select u.login, ul.when from users u join user_logins ul as logins.login ON ul.user_id = u.user_id where u.name = 'me' should equal something like a nested XML packet instead of duplicated crap when there is more then one user_logins.
The start me up campaign was pretty good if I remember.
Get AC/DC or something. Something Thunderstruck or Back in Black.
Then go hire a music video guy to do some funky video where everyone's face turns into a window.
Why is this so hard?
I don't signatures going away this quickly. As much as I would have loved to sign my mortage digitaly...the good 'ole John Hancock is embedded in every day life.
My wife has been forging my sig on papers for a while. All the stupid little things that come around. It does seem a bit easier with everyone scratching it out in block letters.
I'll get behind nuclear power when any state that produces stores it in their state. Putting it in a mountain across the country is not a solution.
Otherwise it's just a bunch of hot air. If you think it is safe and the waste is safe then you can store the waste and have nuclear plants next to schools. If you don't then it really isn't all that safe.
The other big issue is that a disaster...even if inprobable...is decades long. If a coal plant blows up the results can last for some time...but nuclear disasters can be multi generational. Is the plant safe from itself, hurricanes(acts of god), and acts of terrorism\human made events?
Is it manageable? If we scale to lots of more plants...can we actually manage the waste and control of them all. Having 10 plants might be safe, but increase it to 50 and it might become dangerous.
So trade CO2 for nuclear waste? Are we not going backwards here just to solve the problem more quickly?
How bout we just not put ads in games and call it a day?
Is 50 bucks a pop not enough? Really?
Or if you are going to put ads in I have the perfect spot....level loading. Give me a stupid orbitz game to play why it loads.
The govt. always gets highly critizied. Or even when someone is just making a simple obersvation it all of the sudden becomes a "slam".
Can you imagine if companies had to bear this sort of total public critisim. How many companies have stupid errors on there website, menus, marketing, or anything else and we don't get upset.
I just take it with a grain of salt and hope things get better. The govt. isn't going to be perfect becuase it's ran by human beings...just like everything else.
Are you using Outlook 2007? Are you using Pine? My local email search works just fine thank you....and I can fing sort. Yes the search on the web is pretty good, but not the only thing email needs.
Not that I hate GMail, but I haven't used the web app in probably six months. Hooked it up to Outlook. I can search, sort, see complex HTML emails, and a whole lot of other things better.
GMail has been down several times for varying groups of people. That is always the weird thing. It never seems to be fully down...which is good and bad I guess.
Would it be feasible to put solar collectors outside of earths orbit which in turn transmit to earth orbiting satalties that then relay down.
Could we put something closer to the Sun and leap from back to earth more effeciently than solar winds do?
I think there is some major differences with games though especially sports based ones. The engine development itself might not be able to handle throwing people at the problem, but we are talking mostly about graphics, animation, balancing, and a whole lot of things that are not "traditional" programming. I could hire 40 graphic artists and get more done quicker than with 5.
With general software we generally don't know the specs very well. Is this true with a football game? The game of football is pretty well defined. We have pretty much evolved the game play of a console version of the sport? Is it really that hard to define what a football player should look like? Here is a picture of real life football player X make it is as close as you can.
Btw, how much should a game like Madden cost anyways? Are they really starting from scratch? I doubt it...each Madden year is like an add-on to the last.
Something like Left 4 Dead I can see following under normal rules. It is your standard 1st person shooter in some respects, but it does have some elements that are new. Valve did most of the work on the engine already.
I think games are becoming more like movies than developing some web app. Next time you watch a movie really pay attention to the credits...a lot of people worked on Dark Knight.
I've often been skeptical of the idea that you could disproove a hidden variable. The hidden variable itself could be dynamic controlled by another hidden variable.
I guess I just assume that there is more we don't know about the universe that we do know about it.
if anyone could write an informed anti global warming post attached this story and get modded past -1.
This to me is one of the biggest problems with the argument in general. It's becoming partisan by both sides.
Just because the vast majority of sciencetists think something is true does not make it true. Many scientists thought the universe was static and not expanding. Even with all the measurements we have I'm still not 100% convinced...maybe 99.9. Enough to go with it, but I'm never suprised when some scientific theory is proven "slightly incorrect". Maybe light works differently 20 million light years away...the measurments themselves have HUGE assumptions built in. No one can prove these things until we get warp drives...but again enough to go with it.
We often watch the discovery channel and take at face value the thing the announcer says. The Universe is X years old...we only think we think we know that. It could very well be older. I don't expect the announcer to say that will every sentence, but it would be nice if scientists reminded themselves from time to time.
It is entirely possible that more than one source of global warming is possible, but it is never discussed. It could be a combination of human and natural forces. It could be temporary or even self corrective over time. These are all scientfic possibilities that I think most scientists understand, but don't want to muddle the argument with. I'm not sure why everyone gets there panties in a bundle. You should want this kind of challenge and should not be afraid of it. It could be the oppurtunity to actually make the case better.
Finally the idea that scientists are not political is BS. They are human beings that vote just like everyone else. They have to get their grants somehow. Just because you have a big brain and a PhD doesn't mean you couldn't default on your house, cheat on your wife, or any of the other inperfect crap human beings do.
Are you considering allowing D3 users to trade object using Battle NEt out side of a game?
Penguin?
Watching you from the closet...
Just because we can simulate neurons does not mean we instanlty have an intelligent being.
Can anyone really tell you why some of us are smarter than others at birth? Maybe close like "This part of the brain is bigger than average", but that's a pretty far cry to the exact reasoning.
Also, do we really have the human brain mapped out well enough that we can map eyes, ears, and other sensors to this neural net. Yes our brain is made up of neurons, but it also has some structure to it.
Even after all that it still takes most of us about 20 years to get decently intelligent.
That is also assuming that our brains are totally just running on the neurons. That something we can't even detect is involved. Scientists seem to have a hard time explaining "the movie in your head" still.
net send /domain:CONASTA "Anyone want a beer after work."