A significant number of people think the Great Firewall is acceptable, even a good thing. If they didn't it wouldn't exist.
That's only true in China, where the significant people are on the Central Committee and nobody else matters. In the free world, we realize that bad things happen without a mandate from the people.
The legal basis is Force Majeure (sp?). Basically, if the economy here collapsed, something like the MCP mess would be voidable. Regardless, it was stupid of MS to try and squeeze their salesmen.
It really comes down to this: Honor contracts freely entered into and legally binding, or have a really hard time having companies being willing to sign contracts in your country.
No, it comes down to this: screw someone when they're down just because you think you can and you will lose any pull you have with them. On the flip side, I couldn't muster an ounce of anger towards Iceland if they were to cancel these contracts, given the state of their economy. Of course, if this were 1930s America, I might be one of the ones robbing banks and burning mortgage papers.
From the tomshardware review I dug up, SSD are slow compared to DRAM based disks, and I can get an acard for $250 + ram costs. I'd probably go with that and store things like redo logs on there.
However, if they were made to develop the software on boxes that met the minimum recommended spec. for their operating system, they'd have to give some thought to making the code run efficiently.
They tried that at MS years ago. It didn't work and was roundly regarded as a retarded move. You can't get an 8 way 4Ghz 64G box today, but you can get an 8 way 2.5Ghz 32G box for reasonable scratch.
Here you go. Seems SSD isn't so fast when compared to DDR ramdrives. Of course, the limited capacity means that it's mostly useful for pshop and redo logs on your DB server.
I don't know where you've been, but a FS on ram is just like an FS on disk. Of course, linux is so aggressive on caching that you might be able to just get a pile of RAM and use the buffer cache.
So how does a NAND flash SSD compare to a raid-1 or raid-10 array for compile speeds? I'd like to see the difference, as the code that I work on takes about 1.5 hours to build on a single disk, and incrementals are iffy at best.
Facts could be seen to be more deserving of copyright protection because, unlike creative works, they have to be collected and, depending on the context, kept up-to-date.
That tends to devalue the facts themselves and vest more value in the reputation of the guy collecting them. In this case, the protection isn't copyright, but trademark.
they're kidding themselves if they think they won't also be absorbed into the motherboard or CPU.
Nvidia already makes chipsets, so they're covered there. There will always be a place for fancy graphics cards - I don't see even a 30W onboard chip, realistically - a GPU with a small heat draw is fast enough for all business users and some less demanding games. Anything bigger and you're probably in the GPU upgrade cycle anyway. It's a niche now and in the future, but it won't disappear anytime soon.
Given the content of TFA, Nvidia may well be building an integrated chip that's just something like a 486 on 45nm silicon. The actual shared silicon may be nothing much at all - MMU or something.
x86 in an instruction set and a bunch of semantics. The decoder takes about 1% of a modern CPU, and if you're able to lop this off and run it on a GPU or something for cheap, your software won't care.
No, you requisition some guns, get manufacturers to submit bids and test their samples. Then you screw it up anyhow by not shipping cleaning kits with the version 1 of whatever you choose.
ie and microsoft are more "battlehardened" than firefox or mac
Yeah right. IE is swiss cheese and I won't use it period. FF leaks memory, but it doesn't have any serious exploits that I've run into, despite being at a probable 10-20% marketshare.
having a god does not preclude you from making advancements in technology. In fact, it might even motivate them.
But handing people a complete package of religion, culture, and government that doesn't demand any advancement and doesn't allow dissent against anything dictated by that package will certainly impede progress.
Gladwell goes too far in destroying the idea of individual effort in becoming 'successful'.
Not at all - there's a world of difference between the successful software guy and Microsoft (insert joke here). Basically, hard work will pay off, and the more effort you put into your work, the better you will do, but getting to the Bill gates level takes something beyond your control.
I take Benjamin Franklin's point of view on money, which is to say that it's important up to a certain point, and relatively unimportant after that.
Interestingly, Bill Gates says the same thing - "I have infinite money". He didn't spend his last 10 years and MS because he needed more moolah, he did it to make MS more successful.
Because the swiss have some sort of problem with a foreigner just waltzing into their country and taking a job when they've already got swiss that can do it. Most countries are like this, so the way of things is that Indian jobs are reserved for Indians, Chinese jobs for Chinese, and American jobs for Americans.
But you're just changing the question to be one that you can answer, which isn't really a valid solution.
And you're reading way too much into the question. Null doesn't mean what you think.
Suppose your boss asks you if a particular customer's address is 123 Fake St. You look up the customer information in the database and found their address is NULL. Your boss wants a yes or no answer. What do you say?
"We don't have an address for that guy". Seriously, that's what null means. If your boss can't handle uncertainty, you need a new boss.
All it can really do is say either "the question is nonsensical" or "the question is impossible to answer given the available data".
But the question is perfectly sensible: "1 not in (2,3,NULL)" evaluates to false. Null isn't a placeholder, it's null.
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and if you piss on people enough, they won't buy from you. Even if you have a product they want.
Well at least agree/disagree on the wisdom of this move - driving your sales force out of business can only be bad.
I recall a number of php attacks, so yeah, there are attacks against it, especially since a lot of those sites aren't really well adminned.
A significant number of people think the Great Firewall is acceptable, even a good thing. If they didn't it wouldn't exist.
That's only true in China, where the significant people are on the Central Committee and nobody else matters. In the free world, we realize that bad things happen without a mandate from the people.
The legal basis is Force Majeure (sp?). Basically, if the economy here collapsed, something like the MCP mess would be voidable. Regardless, it was stupid of MS to try and squeeze their salesmen.
It really comes down to this: Honor contracts freely entered into and legally binding, or have a really hard time having companies being willing to sign contracts in your country.
No, it comes down to this: screw someone when they're down just because you think you can and you will lose any pull you have with them. On the flip side, I couldn't muster an ounce of anger towards Iceland if they were to cancel these contracts, given the state of their economy. Of course, if this were 1930s America, I might be one of the ones robbing banks and burning mortgage papers.
From the tomshardware review I dug up, SSD are slow compared to DRAM based disks, and I can get an acard for $250 + ram costs. I'd probably go with that and store things like redo logs on there.
However, if they were made to develop the software on boxes that met the minimum recommended spec. for their operating system, they'd have to give some thought to making the code run efficiently.
They tried that at MS years ago. It didn't work and was roundly regarded as a retarded move. You can't get an 8 way 4Ghz 64G box today, but you can get an 8 way 2.5Ghz 32G box for reasonable scratch.
Here you go. Seems SSD isn't so fast when compared to DDR ramdrives. Of course, the limited capacity means that it's mostly useful for pshop and redo logs on your DB server.
I don't know where you've been, but a FS on ram is just like an FS on disk. Of course, linux is so aggressive on caching that you might be able to just get a pile of RAM and use the buffer cache.
So how does a NAND flash SSD compare to a raid-1 or raid-10 array for compile speeds? I'd like to see the difference, as the code that I work on takes about 1.5 hours to build on a single disk, and incrementals are iffy at best.
Well, it's not like you're some sort of authority on Dogs and Fogs, while these guys are.
a bunch of non-elected astronomers
I'm just trying to imagine how you'd go about electing astronomers and why.
Facts could be seen to be more deserving of copyright protection because, unlike creative works, they have to be collected and, depending on the context, kept up-to-date.
That tends to devalue the facts themselves and vest more value in the reputation of the guy collecting them. In this case, the protection isn't copyright, but trademark.
they're kidding themselves if they think they won't also be absorbed into the motherboard or CPU.
Nvidia already makes chipsets, so they're covered there. There will always be a place for fancy graphics cards - I don't see even a 30W onboard chip, realistically - a GPU with a small heat draw is fast enough for all business users and some less demanding games. Anything bigger and you're probably in the GPU upgrade cycle anyway. It's a niche now and in the future, but it won't disappear anytime soon.
No you don't, but that doesn't stop the muslims, christians, or jews.
Given the content of TFA, Nvidia may well be building an integrated chip that's just something like a 486 on 45nm silicon. The actual shared silicon may be nothing much at all - MMU or something.
x86 in an instruction set and a bunch of semantics. The decoder takes about 1% of a modern CPU, and if you're able to lop this off and run it on a GPU or something for cheap, your software won't care.
you tend to choose gun #1.
No, you requisition some guns, get manufacturers to submit bids and test their samples. Then you screw it up anyhow by not shipping cleaning kits with the version 1 of whatever you choose.
ie and microsoft are more "battlehardened" than firefox or mac
Yeah right. IE is swiss cheese and I won't use it period. FF leaks memory, but it doesn't have any serious exploits that I've run into, despite being at a probable 10-20% marketshare.
Maybe qeuc34 is an app user account. Probably not, but maybe.
having a god does not preclude you from making advancements in technology. In fact, it might even motivate them.
But handing people a complete package of religion, culture, and government that doesn't demand any advancement and doesn't allow dissent against anything dictated by that package will certainly impede progress.
I don't see any unicode in there. Perhaps you need some %uxxxx instead of assuming UTF8 encoding or something.
Gladwell goes too far in destroying the idea of individual effort in becoming 'successful'.
Not at all - there's a world of difference between the successful software guy and Microsoft (insert joke here). Basically, hard work will pay off, and the more effort you put into your work, the better you will do, but getting to the Bill gates level takes something beyond your control.
I take Benjamin Franklin's point of view on money, which is to say that it's important up to a certain point, and relatively unimportant after that.
Interestingly, Bill Gates says the same thing - "I have infinite money". He didn't spend his last 10 years and MS because he needed more moolah, he did it to make MS more successful.
Because the swiss have some sort of problem with a foreigner just waltzing into their country and taking a job when they've already got swiss that can do it. Most countries are like this, so the way of things is that Indian jobs are reserved for Indians, Chinese jobs for Chinese, and American jobs for Americans.
But you're just changing the question to be one that you can answer, which isn't really a valid solution.
And you're reading way too much into the question. Null doesn't mean what you think.
Suppose your boss asks you if a particular customer's address is 123 Fake St. You look up the customer information in the database and found their address is NULL. Your boss wants a yes or no answer. What do you say?
"We don't have an address for that guy". Seriously, that's what null means. If your boss can't handle uncertainty, you need a new boss.
All it can really do is say either "the question is nonsensical" or "the question is impossible to answer given the available data".
But the question is perfectly sensible: "1 not in (2,3,NULL)" evaluates to false. Null isn't a placeholder, it's null.