I have not heard of Google abusing its market position like Microsoft.
They're making it difficult for mediocre companies to compete, damn it! In fact, the Fed should step in and use tax dollars to help those companies compete. Or use legislation to make Google less competitive.
...what is worse is the knee jerk reaction to not teach it.
Because it's -not- science. Can it be disproved???
Also, what is there to teach? 6-days of work and 1-day of rest? The self satisfaction as things just happened? I mean really, what -is- there to teach? The order in which things were magically created (and documented in the Bible)? How planets wouldn't be orbiting the sun (err, wasn't that also debated before?) without the great plan of the omnipotent master creator?
Well, it works for Apple, and they seem to be successful (and popular!). Why not Dell?
You're right of course, such things will eventually come back and hurt the company long term (I mean, their contractors are effectively becoming their competition in their local markets---think of Lenovo---unless you're into corp IT consulting, nobody even hears ``IBM'' these days---they seem to be doing ok financially though).
It's also easy to ignore that google has gotten much worse than it was back in 1999-2002-ish period. Maybe it's the blogs or SEOs or something, but their results are not impressing me as they did in 1999.
I too own Eee (and dropped it plenty of times), but I'm not impressed with SSD's power `saving' (nor heat!)---as much as everyone seems to say they're ``better'' than real HDs... I think my Thinkpad is more energy efficient than the Eee.
Votes? Democracy? What the heck are you talking about? Letting who vote? Does someone ask you to vote every time you get a pay check? Heck no. You have a choice of not working, and not get paid. No politics involved.
...thanks to medical science and the quality of your life has improved so you live longer, and will require more money.
Similarly, now that folks cannot afford those things past their retirement, their quality of life and the medical care they get should decrease---ensuring they work themselves to death `on time' within 10-15 years after their retirement age.
There's no fundamental reason why healthcare should cost a lot. I mean, nurses and doctors don't make -that- much money; so where does all that money go these days?
I suspect that this, rather than SQL compatibility, is the road to success with MapReduce processes.
Why not both?:-)
A lot of distributed databases already implicitly support functionality that's equivalent to mapreduce, especially greenplumb and netezza.
ie: map operation is just:
create table output as select [cols] from [table] where [condition] distribute on (key1,key2,key3);
Which will scan the table stored on all nodes, and deposit the data across all the nodes in netezza distributed on key1,key2,key3---ie: implicit ``map''.
One can then apply aggregate functions to do a ``reduce'' (possibly group by key1,key2,key3?)
The upshot? It's a lot more flexible in SQL than pretty much any weird language structure I've seen.
same here (I'm not religious myself, but just to play the devil's advocate)
I think the whole point boils down to Occam's razor. One can certainly imagine a God that fits in with science, but one doesn't -have- to.
Now, not to be outdone, scientists are guilty of this imagination-gone-wild phenomenon too: superstrings! (or dark energy, dark matter, etc.). Just because YOUR mathematical model predicts dark energy (or superstrings, etc.) and doesn't work without it, doesn't mean that the universe has it---more likely the model is simply wrong or incomplete (works in all small cases, except at galaxy scales). Yet many scientists are happy to go off invent particles and claim they're real without any physical evidence.
(granted they were at times successful in predicting some particles that were later detected---unfortunately theories turn out to be wrong more often than the universe).
Thing is, Jobs thinks buttons are stupid. So no screen, and no buttons... makes for a rather interesting interface (unless you `talk' numbers into the phone).
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I have not heard of Google abusing its market position like Microsoft.
They're making it difficult for mediocre companies to compete, damn it! In fact, the Fed should step in and use tax dollars to help those companies compete. Or use legislation to make Google less competitive.
sending a text message is about 4 times as expensive (per kilobyte) as retrieving data from the Hubble.
Well then... given it's tax dollars, they probably implemented the wifi link via text messages :-)
Even if it does say a lot about her integrity, beliefs, etc.,
Isn't this what the presidential race is all about?
...what is worse is the knee jerk reaction to not teach it.
Because it's -not- science. Can it be disproved???
Also, what is there to teach? 6-days of work and 1-day of rest? The self satisfaction as things just happened? I mean really, what -is- there to teach? The order in which things were magically created (and documented in the Bible)? How planets wouldn't be orbiting the sun (err, wasn't that also debated before?) without the great plan of the omnipotent master creator?
My guess is that over time the design expertise will migrate to the outsourced factories.
As it has in IBM and Lenovo case.
Well, it works for Apple, and they seem to be successful (and popular!). Why not Dell?
You're right of course, such things will eventually come back and hurt the company long term (I mean, their contractors are effectively becoming their competition in their local markets---think of Lenovo---unless you're into corp IT consulting, nobody even hears ``IBM'' these days---they seem to be doing ok financially though).
It's also easy to ignore that google has gotten much worse than it was back in 1999-2002-ish period. Maybe it's the blogs or SEOs or something, but their results are not impressing me as they did in 1999.
Nah, I think the cake is a lie.
(a game company going after folks? is the recording industry idling?)
I too own Eee (and dropped it plenty of times), but I'm not impressed with SSD's power `saving' (nor heat!)---as much as everyone seems to say they're ``better'' than real HDs... I think my Thinkpad is more energy efficient than the Eee.
Durable, yes, but not altogether better.
Yes. Maybe we can call it the UnitedDivided!
Votes? Democracy? What the heck are you talking about? Letting who vote? Does someone ask you to vote every time you get a pay check? Heck no. You have a choice of not working, and not get paid. No politics involved.
Same story here. I'd also like to add that Firefox installs and runs just fine.
'cause we still have buying power---and it will be a while before the rest of the world catches up?
...thanks to medical science and the quality of your life has improved so you live longer, and will require more money.
Similarly, now that folks cannot afford those things past their retirement, their quality of life and the medical care they get should decrease---ensuring they work themselves to death `on time' within 10-15 years after their retirement age.
So... lets outsource the caregiving to countries with young populations...
And the reasons for skyhigh health case?
There's no fundamental reason why healthcare should cost a lot. I mean, nurses and doctors don't make -that- much money; so where does all that money go these days?
...and speak english no less.
Eh, by 2010, $200 might be worth about as much as $20 are today.
I suspect that this, rather than SQL compatibility, is the road to success with MapReduce processes.
Why not both? :-)
A lot of distributed databases already implicitly support functionality that's equivalent to mapreduce, especially greenplumb and netezza.
ie: map operation is just:
create table output as
select [cols] from [table] where [condition] distribute on (key1,key2,key3);
Which will scan the table stored on all nodes, and deposit the data across all the nodes in netezza distributed on key1,key2,key3---ie: implicit ``map''.
One can then apply aggregate functions to do a ``reduce'' (possibly group by key1,key2,key3?)
The upshot? It's a lot more flexible in SQL than pretty much any weird language structure I've seen.
At least Duke Nukem 3D is done!
The moon sure is a harsh mistress.
same here (I'm not religious myself, but just to play the devil's advocate)
I think the whole point boils down to Occam's razor. One can certainly imagine a God that fits in with science, but one doesn't -have- to.
Now, not to be outdone, scientists are guilty of this imagination-gone-wild phenomenon too: superstrings! (or dark energy, dark matter, etc.). Just because YOUR mathematical model predicts dark energy (or superstrings, etc.) and doesn't work without it, doesn't mean that the universe has it---more likely the model is simply wrong or incomplete (works in all small cases, except at galaxy scales). Yet many scientists are happy to go off invent particles and claim they're real without any physical evidence.
(granted they were at times successful in predicting some particles that were later detected---unfortunately theories turn out to be wrong more often than the universe).
with open source, nobody can pay off politicians.
Thing is, Jobs thinks buttons are stupid. So no screen, and no buttons... makes for a rather interesting interface (unless you `talk' numbers into the phone).
That explains why politicians are rarely harassed at the border, eh.