Kind of hard to believe that ten years ago it was quite common for people to still have their SQL Servers hooked up the Internet with no firewall or firewall rules that permitted direct connections to the control port. Good luck finding that configuration today...
I'd love to have a 7-8 inch Surface...if the price was around $250-280 and it included Microsoft Office. Instead, I'm moving my wife and kids Nexus 7s ($200/pop) and hooking them up to Google Docs. I've even abandoned my iPad/iPod infrastructure at this point - tablets are way too fragile (and easily stolen) to be paying $400+ for each one.
Hierarchical DBs have been making a comeback recently, often reclothed as "NoSQL" databases specializing in "big data" analysis. There seem to be many opportunities to make these databases more applicable to current problems or just easier for relational DBAs to understand and implement.
>> If your driverless car is about to crash into a bus, should it veer off a bridge?
The bus should be built to take the occasional crash, particularly in low speed zones where busses are typically used, so no.
Or, with enough computing power, you can imagine an "unethical" decision tree based on actuarial tables: 1) Calculate location and weight of all known human on the bus 2) Calculate likely trajectories, damage, etc. 3) Compare worth of each human (using federal tables, of course) in each vehicle 4) Make the most "cost effective" decision...
>> "Kung Fu Panda" thing supposed to be a joke in a Blizzard?.. game whose players ostensibly take very seriously.
The two things I loved most about WarCraft is that it never took itself seriously ("you never touch the other elves that way") and that it happily tossed backstory and convention aside to stage battles ("OK, so here's an orc vs. orc battle"). The beer-breathing panda in WarCraft III was...well, kind of par for the course, so here you go.
Please don't tell me anyone's taking the World of Warcraft seriously.
OK, we've been beating these dead horses for more than a decade. At this point I'm not even sure who HASN'T been bored by these over-expanded, over-merchandised universes.
1.) The system is very disorganized, there are documents from the late 90's that aren't relevant, but have to be sifted through to find more current stuff.
Google Docs won't fix that.
2.) Often documents are not where they should be and are difficult to find.
Google Docs won't fix that.
3.) No one except Bob really knows how the system works.
Google Docs will fix this.
4.) No one really wants to use the system because of the monster it's become.
Google Docs may not fix this. See #1 and #2.
Besides the passive aggressiveness in this post, you might have bigger communication issues on your board than just the document collection system. If you want a more concrete suggestion: convert Bob's entire system into Google Docs, fix it up so it provides the same member benefits as Bob's system (no, one big "oldshit" folder won't cut it) and then give him a demo. And really dig into #1 and #2 - that's a problem with any document collection system ever built.
>> A statement from the trust (Britain's single payer health care system) said: "The trust does have the visual data on file but the cost of generating an image from what is now obsolete technology is not a cost effective use of public money.
Good thing there's no chance of the US going to a single-payer system...er...am I right?
In cloud-speak, we call it "IaaS" ("infrastructure as as service"), but if you need some Linux servers, some Windows servers, some database servers, whatever, there's plenty of competition between commodity providers, including RackSpace, already.
There are a few dozen large competitors (also including RackSpace) also trying to get people locked in with "PaaS" ("platform as a service"), but by and large companies are either too smart or too poor (no resources for initial development or migration) to jump into that shark tank.
>> I have two machines, four monitors, multiple external hard drives, cable modem, network switch, router, USB hubs — everything requires power and connection
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Kind of hard to believe that ten years ago it was quite common for people to still have their SQL Servers hooked up the Internet with no firewall or firewall rules that permitted direct connections to the control port. Good luck finding that configuration today...
Crappy links in the article. To sign up, er "apply", for the alpha:
http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
>> It would be great to see this addressed by our community through some outreach and awareness programs.
OK, who let the social worker on Slashdot? Seriously, when has "outreach" or "awareness" ever solved anything? (Urban violence? Drug use? What?)
Yes, these appear to be clean.
I just downloaded the (free) B1 "In Search of the Unknown" module and it looks great - even has bookmarks.
>> those phony programs politicians use to project government expenditures
That's Excel in most cases, I bet. As long as spreadsheets can handle up to 50 rows and numbers up to 3000 I suspect all will be as it is today.
>> 3d printing is ubiquitous
Really? Talk to me after offices start letting people print in color again...
>> Or does our government and the electorate who put them there have a right to know what's really going on?
Did I miss something? Did we nationalize the oil companies last night? Are we Venezuela or Russia?
Judging from the tone and content of the "article" above, I'd guess that Timothy Lord discovered magic mushrooms at CES.
Wasn't it Senate majority leader Reid whining about the "Fiscal Cliff" yesterday? Is this what he's been working on instead?
Forget battery life - price is way too high.
I'd love to have a 7-8 inch Surface...if the price was around $250-280 and it included Microsoft Office. Instead, I'm moving my wife and kids Nexus 7s ($200/pop) and hooking them up to Google Docs. I've even abandoned my iPad/iPod infrastructure at this point - tablets are way too fragile (and easily stolen) to be paying $400+ for each one.
>> Any suggestions?
Hierarchical DBs have been making a comeback recently, often reclothed as "NoSQL" databases specializing in "big data" analysis. There seem to be many opportunities to make these databases more applicable to current problems or just easier for relational DBAs to understand and implement.
>> If your driverless car is about to crash into a bus, should it veer off a bridge?
The bus should be built to take the occasional crash, particularly in low speed zones where busses are typically used, so no.
Or, with enough computing power, you can imagine an "unethical" decision tree based on actuarial tables:
1) Calculate location and weight of all known human on the bus
2) Calculate likely trajectories, damage, etc.
3) Compare worth of each human (using federal tables, of course) in each vehicle
4) Make the most "cost effective" decision...
Did a certain editor watch a little hentai this weekend?
>> your neighbors dropping the bass at 2am
Isn't that animal abuse too?
>> This is the fourth drone that the group has lost while investigating pigeon shootings
Bert, is that you?
>> good thing to seek to redress the shortcomings of the classic series
Special effects, check. What else?
>> (Doctor tries to get into his companions' pants.)
Sex, really? I thought you were British.
>> "Kung Fu Panda" thing supposed to be a joke in a Blizzard? .. game whose players ostensibly take very seriously.
The two things I loved most about WarCraft is that it never took itself seriously ("you never touch the other elves that way") and that it happily tossed backstory and convention aside to stage battles ("OK, so here's an orc vs. orc battle"). The beer-breathing panda in WarCraft III was...well, kind of par for the course, so here you go.
Please don't tell me anyone's taking the World of Warcraft seriously.
OK, we've been beating these dead horses for more than a decade. At this point I'm not even sure who HASN'T been bored by these over-expanded, over-merchandised universes.
>> I have a number of applications that will not run on 64-bit Windows, but I would like...more than 4GB of RAM
Do you realize that many of your 32-bit applications would freak out in a 4GB memory space?
1.) The system is very disorganized, there are documents from the late 90's that aren't relevant, but have to be sifted through to find more current stuff.
Google Docs won't fix that.
2.) Often documents are not where they should be and are difficult to find.
Google Docs won't fix that.
3.) No one except Bob really knows how the system works.
Google Docs will fix this.
4.) No one really wants to use the system because of the monster it's become.
Google Docs may not fix this. See #1 and #2.
Besides the passive aggressiveness in this post, you might have bigger communication issues on your board than just the document collection system. If you want a more concrete suggestion: convert Bob's entire system into Google Docs, fix it up so it provides the same member benefits as Bob's system (no, one big "oldshit" folder won't cut it) and then give him a demo. And really dig into #1 and #2 - that's a problem with any document collection system ever built.
>> A statement from the trust (Britain's single payer health care system) said: "The trust does have the visual data on file but the cost of generating an image from what is now obsolete technology is not a cost effective use of public money.
Good thing there's no chance of the US going to a single-payer system...er...am I right?
Better yet. I live in a contiguous state. How exactly would we go about seceding from this American sinkhole?
In cloud-speak, we call it "IaaS" ("infrastructure as as service"), but if you need some Linux servers, some Windows servers, some database servers, whatever, there's plenty of competition between commodity providers, including RackSpace, already.
There are a few dozen large competitors (also including RackSpace) also trying to get people locked in with "PaaS" ("platform as a service"), but by and large companies are either too smart or too poor (no resources for initial development or migration) to jump into that shark tank.
>> No word on whether users will be able to transfer their WLM accounts to Skype.
From TFA: "To ease the changeover, Microsoft is offering a tool to migrate WLM messenger contacts over."
>> vast amounts of tangled cables
Really? How many?
>> I have two machines, four monitors, multiple external hard drives, cable modem, network switch, router, USB hubs — everything requires power and connection
Hmmm...something tells me you don't work in IT.