SO it's kind of like a virtual table on disk. Or a pre-joined join.
What's the advantage? You're spending runtime (disk i/o, data varification )joining every row together as you load the tables. Not knowing if you're going to need every row joined later on.
As opposed to just doing a join for what you need later when you're pulling data out of the tables.
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
Well written post. I agree with every point you make.
But I will say that I think that for now NASA should keep launching the shuttle, finish the missions that they have planned, and maintain the ISS. While at the same time, they need to look at stopping in at the Home Depot for a different variety of tools. AKA, they need to think long and hard about new designs, and what they need to accomplish. Not limited by what the STS can accomplish.
...Is to just freakin put the Atlantis into space.
Some may say that this is irresponsible. I disagree. What happened to the Columbia was a freak accident, it won't happen again. At least for another 40->50 flights.
That should be enough time for Nasa and whoever else is involved to rethink their plans and design a couple of different types of craft.
In the meantime, they should stop acting like a bunch of pussies and just fly the shuttle. Let them run their investigations, which I realize are important, while the flights continue.
The FAA and NTSB don't stop commercial flights after a crash do they?
Can you tell more about the wires? I know the nanosecond story, but where does the wire fit in? Is 11.98 inches the length that an electron travels in a nanosecond?
>>Yet all of the "I.T." jobs that are being outsourced that the article mentions are for -call centers-. Tech support. The bottom of the barrel for I.T.
Thay're sending development jobs over there. And I'm not talking about "whip up a generic database app in VB" kind of coding. I'm seeing senior level analysis and design projects going overseas. Business critical, proprietary kind of stuff. 2+ year projects are being sent without a second thought.
The complexity of the work being outsourced is increasing by the week.
Look at the JP Morgan/IBM deal. Morgan cut loose 85% of it's IT staff. They're now IBM employeees, and 90% of them will eventually be cut after they train their Indian replacements. They contracted IBM to do almost all their mission critical work. Think about this.
I'm a senior level guy, and I'm good at what I do. And I'm worried.
I've seen some comments that say things to the effect of "well you're worried because you're not good" or "you're an overpaid college dropout". Sorry, but that's not valid. People are losing their jobs based on economics now. Not skill/competency.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: I'm not one to hope for war, but when something bad happens in India or Lithuania or wherever, these big companies are going to be damned sorry that they let their intellectual property out of the house. Then they're going to need guys like us to clean up the mess. These thoughts bring me a little comfort.
1. Please mod the parent as insightful. (Or even funny). This is the best description of the problem I've ever heard.
2. It's an antiquated system. Back in the day, before massive amounts of information were available on computer, you'd occasionally hear about a guy who's number was stolen. It's a bad thing, but it was a rarity. The system worked because your number was secret, and there were few real ways to get it.
These days, SSN's are being compromised by thousands at a time. This is a broken system, and it should be fixed.
Perhaps thumbprints or retinal scans as a system of identification. But if you think about it, this leaves us with the same problem. The retinal or thumb image needs to be kept somewhere for the purposes of comparison. The files can be stolen just as easily as SSN's.
>>It seems that American companies are trashing their R&D divsions and trying to cover up for it by making themselves "more efficient."
Don't forget SDLC (measuring function points) and micromanaging and documenting every stage of the devlopment process. 3 business requirements docs... 3 project estimates.... technology feasability study.... project plan.... actual development (only 45%) of actual project time... implementation plan.... disaster recovery plan..... post project review document.....
This makes us more efficient.
God, what I wouldn't do to get a spec on the back of a take out menu. I miss those days.
>>Whenever I hear people gripe about H1B workers, they are basically saying "I suck at my job so I need labor protectionism to get rid of my competition".
Not always true. Maybe "I cost more than an H1B, so I need labor protectionism to get rid of my competition" is a better description.
>>In some places (Connecticut [geocities.com], and Britain, I think, and surely others) it is illegal to flash your headlights at another motorist to warn him of a speed trap.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, it went to the Moon in a GI Joe cartoon too. Or was it The Superfriends? Maybe Scooby-Doo?
SO it's kind of like a virtual table on disk. Or a pre-joined join.
What's the advantage? You're spending runtime (disk i/o, data varification )joining every row together as you load the tables. Not knowing if you're going to need every row joined later on.
As opposed to just doing a join for what you need later when you're pulling data out of the tables.
Maybe I just don't understand.....
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
Well written post. I agree with every point you make.
But I will say that I think that for now NASA should keep launching the shuttle, finish the missions that they have planned, and maintain the ISS. While at the same time, they need to look at stopping in at the Home Depot for a different variety of tools. AKA, they need to think long and hard about new designs, and what they need to accomplish. Not limited by what the STS can accomplish.
...Is to just freakin put the Atlantis into space.
Some may say that this is irresponsible. I disagree. What happened to the Columbia was a freak accident, it won't happen again. At least for another 40->50 flights.
That should be enough time for Nasa and whoever else is involved to rethink their plans and design a couple of different types of craft.
In the meantime, they should stop acting like a bunch of pussies and just fly the shuttle. Let them run their investigations, which I realize are important, while the flights continue.
The FAA and NTSB don't stop commercial flights after a crash do they?
Grace Hopper invented COBOL. :)
I hear that the WTC was designed to stand for at least 1000 years.
:(
Guess we'll never find out for sure.
You met her?
I envy you. I hear that she was a fantastic lady.
Can you tell more about the wires? I know the nanosecond story, but where does the wire fit in? Is 11.98 inches the length that an electron travels in a nanosecond?
>>Yet all of the "I.T." jobs that are being outsourced that the article mentions are for -call centers-. Tech support. The bottom of the barrel for I.T.
Thay're sending development jobs over there. And I'm not talking about "whip up a generic database app in VB" kind of coding. I'm seeing senior level analysis and design projects going overseas. Business critical, proprietary kind of stuff. 2+ year projects are being sent without a second thought.
The complexity of the work being outsourced is increasing by the week.
Look at the JP Morgan/IBM deal. Morgan cut loose 85% of it's IT staff. They're now IBM employeees, and 90% of them will eventually be cut after they train their Indian replacements. They contracted IBM to do almost all their mission critical work. Think about this.
I'm a senior level guy, and I'm good at what I do. And I'm worried.
I've seen some comments that say things to the effect of "well you're worried because you're not good" or "you're an overpaid college dropout". Sorry, but that's not valid. People are losing their jobs based on economics now. Not skill/competency.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: I'm not one to hope for war, but when something bad happens in India or Lithuania or wherever, these big companies are going to be damned sorry that they let their intellectual property out of the house. Then they're going to need guys like us to clean up the mess. These thoughts bring me a little comfort.
You know what happens when the guy in the red hat beams down to the planet right?
>>I think Wordperfect 5.2 had that
No version of WP up to 7 had any HTML features at all.
Yeah, but you don't have to write that way.
There's more than one way to do it.
You can write totally obfuscated/clever crap in any language. Or not. It's up to you.
What good is a search engine if you can't get to it?
If they can be slashdotted this easily, well... they need to think a little harder about their setup.
Yeah OK. Sounds good.
But for gods sake, why does the government need to get their fingers involved in this? It couldn't possibly lead to any good.
Could it?
Slashdot:
4's and 5's in the foreground
2's & 3's in the 'near' background
1's just behind 2's & 3's
0's & -1's on the surface of the moon
You mean Windows?
Yeah, but they're working on this technology using the work done at Lake Vostok as an example.
Yeah great, so now my users and I will be able to look at all their boring spreadsheets and poorly written word documents in 3D.
Whoop - De - Do
1. Please mod the parent as insightful. (Or even funny). This is the best description of the problem I've ever heard.
2. It's an antiquated system. Back in the day, before massive amounts of information were available on computer, you'd occasionally hear about a guy who's number was stolen. It's a bad thing, but it was a rarity. The system worked because your number was secret, and there were few real ways to get it.
These days, SSN's are being compromised by thousands at a time. This is a broken system, and it should be fixed.
Perhaps thumbprints or retinal scans as a system of identification. But if you think about it, this leaves us with the same problem. The retinal or thumb image needs to be kept somewhere for the purposes of comparison. The files can be stolen just as easily as SSN's.
Maybe there is no solution.
You must know this book front and back.
Well, if you're not satisfied, you should grab a source distro and start coding.
I'm sure the teams would welcome good new ideas and a helping hand.
That's what OSS is all about.
>>It seems that American companies are trashing their R&D divsions and trying to cover up for it by making themselves "more efficient."
Don't forget SDLC (measuring function points) and micromanaging and documenting every stage of the devlopment process. 3 business requirements docs... 3 project estimates.... technology feasability study.... project plan.... actual development (only 45%) of actual project time... implementation plan.... disaster recovery plan..... post project review document.....
This makes us more efficient.
God, what I wouldn't do to get a spec on the back of a take out menu. I miss those days.
I thought the future is always arriving... And the present keeps slipping into the past.
>>Whenever I hear people gripe about H1B workers, they are basically saying "I suck at my job so I need labor protectionism to get rid of my competition".
Not always true. Maybe "I cost more than an H1B, so I need labor protectionism to get rid of my competition" is a better description.
It's not about skill. It's about money.
Damned lag.
>>In some places (Connecticut [geocities.com], and Britain, I think, and surely others) it is illegal to flash your headlights at another motorist to warn him of a speed trap.
Also illegal in the state of New Jersey.