The enterprise sector is spectacular at painting itself into corners.
What are some of the alternatives? Is.Net not worse of a corner? And at ``enterprise'' level, pretty much everything turns to crap anyway, and as far as crap is concerned, Java is usually easier to deal with than say... poorly written Perl (I'm a big Perl fan, but I've seen the code written at a fortune500 corp, and... well... it's unmaintainable crap written by a cobol programmer).
Would C/C++ be a better alternative for internal apps? Unlikely!
Would Python? Perl? PHP? I doubt it. Primarily 'cause nobody who writes such enterprise apps would really know what they're doing (consider folks who've worked at a corp for last 15 years).
Yeah, everything most enterprises need should be web-based anyways---but the guts behind that would still be... what? VB.NET? Heh!
Obviously there are different definitions of ``enterprise.'' But if YOU had to pick a language for some internal app with a dozen or so existing developers (all of whom know Java, some of whom know other languages), which language would you pick? [throw in assumption that you need to run it on a unix-like platform]
Actually, you can estimate your attention value fairly easily. Google for a popular word, and click on the paylinks on google. Do that a dozen times, and you've just increased the GDP by $1, simply by clicking a few times... something you can do in one minute!
Hmm... you're looking at from the wrong point of view. The project is functioning perfectly! It's keeping so many consultants employed, it's amazing! I wish I was a consultant on such a project... Do nothing for a decade, make $500k a year, no accountability, sounds like a wonderful job!
It's not in consultant's best interests to ever finish a job. So why are they surprised that it's not finished? Well... d0h!
well, a ton of folks aren't even aware they're colorblind (I didn't learn until a few years ago when I went for a pilot's medical---apparently I can't fly at night). With cancer, there's a huge down side... with color-blindness, most folks can live their whole live and besides for (allegedly) mismatched clothing colors, never realize anything is wrong.
indeed. I'm just now learning to drive (I'm kinda old to just be learning it). In any case, I'm surprised some things haven't been automated yet. Like would it kill the car to signal me that stop sign is coming up? It can't be that big of a deal from image processing point of view... heck, it could even assist on breaking (if it notices I'm going too fast to stop at the right distance). Or how about breaking when the car is about to hit something? (like... a driving instructor would do?). These things aren't beyond the realm of reality for the car of next year... can probably be accomplished with a web-cam like thing pointing in all directions... yet I don't see it in the specs:-/
You're assuming that folks who believe in god follow logic---they don't. If they did, they wouldn't believe in god. So proving things via logic doesn't work (ie: what's totally contradictory and unreasonable to you is just a perfect illustration of the power of god and His mysterious ways---``you're just a puny human trying to understand the infinite being---of course things will seem crazy, but you must have faith!'').
...but a great financial decision. those companies that went out of business created plenty of millionaires that couldn't care less now---you start a company, pollute all you want, make millions, and when caught (or run out of resources), the corp goes under... you still keep your millions (as you're selling sky-flying stock over the years while corp is successful).
But chaotic systems are generally predictable short term... while markets aren't (otherwise everyone would make a ton of money trading within seconds of observations).
You're assuming AI will be programmed, or that we are capable of programming it. Chances are, AI will be evolved (and then self-evolve), with humans having little understanding of how or why. It will just be. Chances are, it will know more about us and itself better than we know about it.
It means we need error correction at every level---error correction at physical device (already in place, more or less) and error correction at file system level (so even if a few blocks from a file are missing, the file system auto-corrects itself and still functions---upto some point of course).
Depends. We've been using Netezza with ~100T of data, and... well... it takes seconds to search tables that are 30T in size. I'd imagine Teradata, greenplum and other parallel db's get similar performance---all while using standard SQL with all the bells and whistles you'd normally expect Oracle SQL to have (windowing functions, etc.).
I doubt folks with $80k loans went to a "state" university, so "gov making higher education more affordable" does not apply here. There's no reason gov should subsidise overpriced private universities.
Associate trader information (first/last/ss#) with every trade.
There *are* patterns. Problem now is: from regulation's perspective, there's no way to tie you to a trade. All an exchange/clearing sees is the firm you used (ie: when you buy shares, all a regulator sees is "bank of america" or something, but then that's the same info they see for thousands of other folks buying/selling in the same day).
From that pool, it's hard to get a pattern signal that regulators can go to firms with to actually request your information.
If they could identify *individuals* who sold short stock a week prior to horrible information coming out, and then bought it dirt cheap to cover their position... and have that similar pattern repeat over months/years over a certain account in a certain industry---that would be a case regulators might want to look into. As it is, it's pretty hard for anyone (SEC, etc.) to find individuals as there's no consolidated place that has personally identifiable info.
I find it more strange they included iTunes on supposedly educational laptops... are they educating them to be consumers? If kids want it, they can download it themselves---it shouldn't be part of the "standard software package for students".
a high school senior has fun during the spring break in april, and 9 months later you have a baby from a couple who probably didn't start college (or started and dropped out---and will probably never go back).
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The enterprise sector is spectacular at painting itself into corners.
What are some of the alternatives? Is .Net not worse of a corner? And at ``enterprise'' level, pretty much everything turns to crap anyway, and as far as crap is concerned, Java is usually easier to deal with than say... poorly written Perl (I'm a big Perl fan, but I've seen the code written at a fortune500 corp, and... well... it's unmaintainable crap written by a cobol programmer).
Would C/C++ be a better alternative for internal apps? Unlikely!
Would Python? Perl? PHP? I doubt it. Primarily 'cause nobody who writes such enterprise apps would really know what they're doing (consider folks who've worked at a corp for last 15 years).
Yeah, everything most enterprises need should be web-based anyways---but the guts behind that would still be... what? VB.NET? Heh!
Obviously there are different definitions of ``enterprise.'' But if YOU had to pick a language for some internal app with a dozen or so existing developers (all of whom know Java, some of whom know other languages), which language would you pick? [throw in assumption that you need to run it on a unix-like platform]
Actually, you can estimate your attention value fairly easily. Google for a popular word, and click on the paylinks on google. Do that a dozen times, and you've just increased the GDP by $1, simply by clicking a few times... something you can do in one minute!
Hmm... you're looking at from the wrong point of view. The project is functioning perfectly! It's keeping so many consultants employed, it's amazing! I wish I was a consultant on such a project... Do nothing for a decade, make $500k a year, no accountability, sounds like a wonderful job!
It's not in consultant's best interests to ever finish a job. So why are they surprised that it's not finished? Well... d0h!
...those red/green LEDs (and some street lights). Dangerous things.
well, a ton of folks aren't even aware they're colorblind (I didn't learn until a few years ago when I went for a pilot's medical---apparently I can't fly at night). With cancer, there's a huge down side... with color-blindness, most folks can live their whole live and besides for (allegedly) mismatched clothing colors, never realize anything is wrong.
I bought myself green glasses (my favorite color), which apparently turned out to be brown. I hate brown damn it!
Other colors are a lie! They don't exist! It's those hallucinogens in their koolaid making everyone imagine they're seeing green! or red! Ha!
...but if you're putting in gyros, computing power, and software in *anyway*, then the 3rd wheel is extra :-)
indeed. I'm just now learning to drive (I'm kinda old to just be learning it). In any case, I'm surprised some things haven't been automated yet. Like would it kill the car to signal me that stop sign is coming up? It can't be that big of a deal from image processing point of view... heck, it could even assist on breaking (if it notices I'm going too fast to stop at the right distance). Or how about breaking when the car is about to hit something? (like... a driving instructor would do?). These things aren't beyond the realm of reality for the car of next year... can probably be accomplished with a web-cam like thing pointing in all directions... yet I don't see it in the specs :-/
give'em approximate address? (like... corner house on your block).
In my case, it's the apartment building without apartment number.
You're assuming that folks who believe in god follow logic---they don't. If they did, they wouldn't believe in god. So proving things via logic doesn't work (ie: what's totally contradictory and unreasonable to you is just a perfect illustration of the power of god and His mysterious ways---``you're just a puny human trying to understand the infinite being---of course things will seem crazy, but you must have faith!'').
or some intern optimized a complicated piece of logic by noticing it's essentially an idle loop---a very important idle loop.
...but a great financial decision. those companies that went out of business created plenty of millionaires that couldn't care less now---you start a company, pollute all you want, make millions, and when caught (or run out of resources), the corp goes under... you still keep your millions (as you're selling sky-flying stock over the years while corp is successful).
But chaotic systems are generally predictable short term... while markets aren't (otherwise everyone would make a ton of money trading within seconds of observations).
You're assuming AI will be programmed, or that we are capable of programming it. Chances are, AI will be evolved (and then self-evolve), with humans having little understanding of how or why. It will just be. Chances are, it will know more about us and itself better than we know about it.
It means we need error correction at every level---error correction at physical device (already in place, more or less) and error correction at file system level (so even if a few blocks from a file are missing, the file system auto-corrects itself and still functions---upto some point of course).
Depends. We've been using Netezza with ~100T of data, and... well... it takes seconds to search tables that are 30T in size. I'd imagine Teradata, greenplum and other parallel db's get similar performance---all while using standard SQL with all the bells and whistles you'd normally expect Oracle SQL to have (windowing functions, etc.).
wonder if they'll consider this judgement as an asset on their books...
I doubt folks with $80k loans went to a "state" university, so "gov making higher education more affordable" does not apply here. There's no reason gov should subsidise overpriced private universities.
Associate trader information (first/last/ss#) with every trade.
There *are* patterns. Problem now is: from regulation's perspective, there's no way to tie you to a trade. All an exchange/clearing sees is the firm you used (ie: when you buy shares, all a regulator sees is "bank of america" or something, but then that's the same info they see for thousands of other folks buying/selling in the same day).
From that pool, it's hard to get a pattern signal that regulators can go to firms with to actually request your information.
If they could identify *individuals* who sold short stock a week prior to horrible information coming out, and then bought it dirt cheap to cover their position... and have that similar pattern repeat over months/years over a certain account in a certain industry---that would be a case regulators might want to look into. As it is, it's pretty hard for anyone (SEC, etc.) to find individuals as there's no consolidated place that has personally identifiable info.
and ``wow, what a wonderful keyboard'' never comes to my mind when I think of ASUS (Eee in particular).
I find it more strange they included iTunes on supposedly educational laptops... are they educating them to be consumers? If kids want it, they can download it themselves---it shouldn't be part of the "standard software package for students".
a high school senior has fun during the spring break in april, and 9 months later you have a baby from a couple who probably didn't start college (or started and dropped out---and will probably never go back).
How To Lie With Statistics (by Darrell Huff and Irving Geis) indeed.
setup POP to download but not delete email. Do that every so often, and you should be fine.