Sure, then we could just randomly detonate certain passengers from certain destinations. Maybe competing oil-bearing countries. We'll call them terrorists...
It'll happen but not a second sooner then it absolutely has to. Think about it, if there's no driving force to roll out a new technology, as a company why would you? What's the return on a philosophic investment for a service provider? Customers don't want it, eventually they'll simply need it. Not to mention it's really a chicken/egg thing where early adopters (like the parent) will be tunneling anyway.
But just think, if it works passably only 90% of the time in reasonably stable/updated areas, isn't it still worth it? And lets not forget that no matter what our near future computing paradigm processors are going to continue getting smaller and more energy efficient, a thin client still has something to process with. I'm just saying that if we see a increase in available bandwidth and a reasonable drop in latency any time in the near future there's no good reason I shouldn't be able to (sorry for the market-speak) cloud-base my computing.
The advantage is that my processing is no long tied the the size or even cost of my device, I can upgrade one system and have that effect all my systems immediately, I can add processing power or memory on the fly and I can access the same data and application stack from anywhere. Keep authentication device neutral and I can even log in from a friends device/mobile/terminal and peruse or share data. Wanna listen to some music? Play a game? Help me with homework? Just bring the session. We've been doing it at home for ages with things like ssh, screen, rdp, vnc or remote X so even today it's possible to have a beowulf cluster run from your under-powered portable device, just maybe not on that exact hardware.;-)
Ya, it's actually pretty funny if he's intending the 'lessor known' artist to be the beneficiary considering, you know, the exposure they need. If you can't commoditize an infinitely, freely reproducible item then it's time to shift focus onto what it is you can commoditize. Worst case scenario is the market refuses to support artists and musicians rolling around in money and the landscape will have to change. But within any society there will be some kind of reward structure for things we find value in and in art, like science people sometimes do amazing things for no tangible reason.
Maybe the problem is artists like Bono have been over-rewarded for so long they've acquired a disproportionate sense of entitlement.
You're right, if we can't find a way to make a flexible enough UI to reasonably accomplish this we deserve exactly what we get.
But back to reality, just because you *can* do the same type of work on a workstation or on a 3" screen doesn't make it easy or even a really good idea. I'm just saying that the only really good reason we lug around (and constantly replace) so many processor limited portable devices is because of temporary limits in regard to latency and bandwidth. A PC is really just a terminal whether you put a hard drive and processor in it or not. Just because you and I are accustomed to it being a big, hot, power eating device doesn't mean in 10 or 15 years kids will expect the same things.
As they say: 'we have the technology'. A bit less latency and more bandwidth and there's no reason I couldn't game on my mobile like I would on my desktop, it would just be kind of frustrating.;-)
Exactly why I mention hybrid thin/bootable devices. I find it exceedingly unlikely that network connectivity will not continue to mature and become more widely adopted at a rate as good as or better then it is currently. That said, no matter how ubiquitous or robust a technology is, shit happens. A hybrid thin client/netboot device could certainly store everything it needs to be functional off-line, including a non-netboot copy of it's own operating system. I don't see any reason that not to trust network available storage in the near term, or even the present. Nobody will make you decide how to use network storage and I imagine the same best practices that apply today will apply perfect to this: 1) keep local copies if it's important 2) if it's private use something like truecrypt to protect your data.
As for your mining concerns, if I'm looking at shifting my computing costs from a box model to a more network-centric service model I imagine I get to choose who provides it and what that service is. If I value my data and my rights I imagine I'll be able to continue to use strong encryption and reputable vendors.
All of these technologies can be considered stop-gaps until we have enough bandwidth to support either thin or hybrid thin/network-bootable clients. The only difference between a smart-phone and a laptop (or workstation) should be it's dimensions and form. If I store my data and environment on the network I can be almost device agnostic. I can use any workstation and access all my data, applications and any running processes. I can upgrade my system or expand/add capacity without needing to replace a single device. If you have the money why not carry a super computer in your pocket? Just don't carry the super computer parts.
Is a property to carry ads. Most people either don't understand this fact or want to ignore it. It's part of a portfolio owned by a major online advertiser like a lot of similar sites. It's branded advertising.
And it's exactly this kind of hostile inability to understand our users that would lead to a free platform not being popularly embraced.
People right now have 3 main choices in platform: Apple and Microsoft's offerings, which focus on usability first, then technology and then various Linux offerings, which focus on technology first, then usability.
Are we really supposed to believe that people that excel at a kind of looping, repetitive, analytic logic are really going to believe in the Great Spaghetti Monster? A God-game is only going to be fun as fantasy or history.
I bought a Curve for myself, as a personal phone (out of work baby!). I can tell you at least 3 reasons I bought it none of which involve c-level thinking: 1) it's not tied to either Verizon or AT&T (I cause enough bullshit in my own life without the help of these service providers) 2) it looks/feels nice to use and carry 3) decent media player (although I use flipside mostly as my media player) 4) lots of useful application (two of my favorites are midpssh and logicmail).
To make the bb phone even more usable try operamini. Oh, and I've just installed google voice which looks like fun.
Naturally I'll be moving to an android when 1) they look/work a little more iphone/blackberry slick (am I the only one who hates HTC phones?) 2) I can actually afford one.
I agree about the HA and if you've got a highly transactional application and need enterprise grade fail-over Oracle RAC or some variation of PostgreSQL might work great for you. But for many people MySQL is still a good option and has some nice/useful features (online fs-based backups sans datapump, previously mentioned replication). There's also an amazing amount of information available about MySQL tailored to just about any skill-level, including a number of alternative approaches to HA.
My current project is taking advantage of sphinx, which makes nice use of MySQL and my previous project involved using a combination of replication and sharding to improve reliability and write throughput. Oracle scales nicely across multiple cpus, but because of licensing eventually our growth was limited by database costs. Both Postgre and MySQL have been welcome solutions with my personal preference being MySQL mostly for familiarity and built-in replication.
You know, like most things in life, depending on the context (or project) either can be true.
But either way I'm sure if you take the time to make suggestions like this to closed source projects you'll see the only consistent difference is with open source projects if you feel strongly enough about [insert thing] you can dig in and start to do it yourself.
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Let the proprietary geeks have their fun!
Who profits from freedom? Maybe fear simply drives economics more successfully?
Yes but it's important and THAT makes it American! ;-)
Maybe we could just build a great wall or something?
Sure, then we could just randomly detonate certain passengers from certain destinations. Maybe competing oil-bearing countries. We'll call them terrorists...
What could possibly go wrong!
Get off my lawn! You kids and your fancy-shmancy calculatamigigs. ;-)
You know he'd started the Maria engine because of concerns regarding InnoDB's ownership (Oracle bought Innobase Oy in October 2005) in 2007.
It'll happen but not a second sooner then it absolutely has to. Think about it, if there's no driving force to roll out a new technology, as a company why would you? What's the return on a philosophic investment for a service provider? Customers don't want it, eventually they'll simply need it. Not to mention it's really a chicken/egg thing where early adopters (like the parent) will be tunneling anyway.
But just think, if it works passably only 90% of the time in reasonably stable/updated areas, isn't it still worth it? And lets not forget that no matter what our near future computing paradigm processors are going to continue getting smaller and more energy efficient, a thin client still has something to process with. I'm just saying that if we see a increase in available bandwidth and a reasonable drop in latency any time in the near future there's no good reason I shouldn't be able to (sorry for the market-speak) cloud-base my computing.
;-)
The advantage is that my processing is no long tied the the size or even cost of my device, I can upgrade one system and have that effect all my systems immediately, I can add processing power or memory on the fly and I can access the same data and application stack from anywhere. Keep authentication device neutral and I can even log in from a friends device/mobile/terminal and peruse or share data. Wanna listen to some music? Play a game? Help me with homework? Just bring the session. We've been doing it at home for ages with things like ssh, screen, rdp, vnc or remote X so even today it's possible to have a beowulf cluster run from your under-powered portable device, just maybe not on that exact hardware.
Ya, it's actually pretty funny if he's intending the 'lessor known' artist to be the beneficiary considering, you know, the exposure they need. If you can't commoditize an infinitely, freely reproducible item then it's time to shift focus onto what it is you can commoditize. Worst case scenario is the market refuses to support artists and musicians rolling around in money and the landscape will have to change. But within any society there will be some kind of reward structure for things we find value in and in art, like science people sometimes do amazing things for no tangible reason.
Maybe the problem is artists like Bono have been over-rewarded for so long they've acquired a disproportionate sense of entitlement.
Damn you and your Norwegian logic! *burble* Socialists!
You're right, if we can't find a way to make a flexible enough UI to reasonably accomplish this we deserve exactly what we get.
;-)
But back to reality, just because you *can* do the same type of work on a workstation or on a 3" screen doesn't make it easy or even a really good idea. I'm just saying that the only really good reason we lug around (and constantly replace) so many processor limited portable devices is because of temporary limits in regard to latency and bandwidth. A PC is really just a terminal whether you put a hard drive and processor in it or not. Just because you and I are accustomed to it being a big, hot, power eating device doesn't mean in 10 or 15 years kids will expect the same things.
As they say: 'we have the technology'. A bit less latency and more bandwidth and there's no reason I couldn't game on my mobile like I would on my desktop, it would just be kind of frustrating.
Exactly why I mention hybrid thin/bootable devices. I find it exceedingly unlikely that network connectivity will not continue to mature and become more widely adopted at a rate as good as or better then it is currently. That said, no matter how ubiquitous or robust a technology is, shit happens. A hybrid thin client/netboot device could certainly store everything it needs to be functional off-line, including a non-netboot copy of it's own operating system. I don't see any reason that not to trust network available storage in the near term, or even the present. Nobody will make you decide how to use network storage and I imagine the same best practices that apply today will apply perfect to this: 1) keep local copies if it's important 2) if it's private use something like truecrypt to protect your data.
As for your mining concerns, if I'm looking at shifting my computing costs from a box model to a more network-centric service model I imagine I get to choose who provides it and what that service is. If I value my data and my rights I imagine I'll be able to continue to use strong encryption and reputable vendors.
All of these technologies can be considered stop-gaps until we have enough bandwidth to support either thin or hybrid thin/network-bootable clients. The only difference between a smart-phone and a laptop (or workstation) should be it's dimensions and form. If I store my data and environment on the network I can be almost device agnostic. I can use any workstation and access all my data, applications and any running processes. I can upgrade my system or expand/add capacity without needing to replace a single device. If you have the money why not carry a super computer in your pocket? Just don't carry the super computer parts.
Is a property to carry ads. Most people either don't understand this fact or want to ignore it. It's part of a portfolio owned by a major online advertiser like a lot of similar sites. It's branded advertising.
High enough to measure it's effects against a placebo.
And it's exactly this kind of hostile inability to understand our users that would lead to a free platform not being popularly embraced.
People right now have 3 main choices in platform: Apple and Microsoft's offerings, which focus on usability first, then technology and then various Linux offerings, which focus on technology first, then usability.
Are we really supposed to believe that people that excel at a kind of looping, repetitive, analytic logic are really going to believe in the Great Spaghetti Monster? A God-game is only going to be fun as fantasy or history.
I bought a Curve for myself, as a personal phone (out of work baby!). I can tell you at least 3 reasons I bought it none of which involve c-level thinking: 1) it's not tied to either Verizon or AT&T (I cause enough bullshit in my own life without the help of these service providers) 2) it looks/feels nice to use and carry 3) decent media player (although I use flipside mostly as my media player) 4) lots of useful application (two of my favorites are midpssh and logicmail).
To make the bb phone even more usable try operamini. Oh, and I've just installed google voice which looks like fun.
Naturally I'll be moving to an android when 1) they look/work a little more iphone/blackberry slick (am I the only one who hates HTC phones?) 2) I can actually afford one.
God is a security conscious douche?
I agree about the HA and if you've got a highly transactional application and need enterprise grade fail-over Oracle RAC or some variation of PostgreSQL might work great for you. But for many people MySQL is still a good option and has some nice/useful features (online fs-based backups sans datapump, previously mentioned replication). There's also an amazing amount of information available about MySQL tailored to just about any skill-level, including a number of alternative approaches to HA.
My current project is taking advantage of sphinx, which makes nice use of MySQL and my previous project involved using a combination of replication and sharding to improve reliability and write throughput. Oracle scales nicely across multiple cpus, but because of licensing eventually our growth was limited by database costs. Both Postgre and MySQL have been welcome solutions with my personal preference being MySQL mostly for familiarity and built-in replication.
Something most slashdotters should be intimately familiar with (myself l;sdkjfaiosuoas included).
So what you're saying is although they tested it, they didn't test it. ;-)
You know, like most things in life, depending on the context (or project) either can be true.
But either way I'm sure if you take the time to make suggestions like this to closed source projects you'll see the only consistent difference is with open source projects if you feel strongly enough about [insert thing] you can dig in and start to do it yourself.
Losing something can be considered negligent. A DoD wipe would be criminal. Which action do you think you'd be more likely to order?