It's really impressive to see a child prodigy, but do they go on to achieve more in life than the "average" smart crowd that goes through a more normal progression?
I read somewhere that statistically, airplanes are safer than cars, you're more likely to die in a car accident.
Airplanes are not safer than cars. You're more likely to die in a car accident because you spend more of your life in cars than to you do airplanes. If airplanes were safer then insurance companies wouldn't require impaired risk waivers on life insurance policies for people that fly them for a living.
The current L4D was very light in content as is and the devs have been promising more would be added to the game. More maps, more weapons, more infected boss types. So I guess now instead of doing that, they're just going to wrap all that new content up, call it a sequal and charge 50 bucks for it. Very sleazy.
Joking aside, even "modern" MMOs have been around since the 90's. The formula has not changed much since Everquest. Perhaps the MMO producers are just too dense to actually think beyond their quarterly report.
Yeah, that's pretty much the problem. "Game X made it big, let's make ours just like it!"
So we get the same sort of grind fest treadmills over and over.
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Look out for some significant changes to MySQL licensing and pricing. It's my guess that databases just got a whole load more expensive.
Eh, no. MySQL is GPL. Oracle can't make it more expensive and if they try to kill it, someone will just fork it and take the project away from them.
That happened with X11 a couple years ago and today Xorg is the standard X windows server for Linux.
1. Traffic lights being shut down, which can grind traffic and thus commerce to a halt. 2. Crime. 3. Panicking people who don't have the sense to just wait it out.
Florida has had several hurricanes that've taken out power to the entire southern part of the state. One that went through Ft Lauderdale took out all but 1 stoplight in the county.
You don't even have to spend much money to be properly prepared. You can just start to buy, store and cycle through long term storable food items. Rice, beans, potatoes, dried pasta, canned goods, bottled water, etc. You just buy it in bulk, store it, and use it regularly to keep a fresh mix coming in.
Then when something happens, a bad storm hits, you lose your job, etc, you'll have a nice store of foods piled up you normally eat anyway.
Trivia or not, it doesn't change the fact that is "basic scientific information". Or at least, basic knowledge of the world that is useful, or at least interesting, to have.
But that's the point, it's not useful information to have. In no way is knowing how much of the earth is covered in water useful for the average American.
What's useful stuff like "is it going to rain tomorrow", "are my taxes going to go up", "will I have a job next week", "do these jean make my ass look fat".
More work I know, but more control if you implement it properly.
I seriously doubt you're going to get your average user to use FTP successfully and I doubt most companies could "implement it properly".
What Google offers instead:
Jane goes to http://docs.mycompany.com, creates the document. Clicks on sharing and shares it with Bob in accounting. Simple and easy.
Is this solution open to bugs in Google Docs? Sure is. But your web/ftp server solution is also open to exploits in both pieces of software AND since it's more complex it's more open to user error.
How does Jane upload it so only Bob and not Bill in accounting can edit it? How does she make it so only Mark, Matt and Jessie in development can view it?
Google Docs makes that trivial to do. Also Bob and Jane can work on the document at the same time and any changes go out instantly to the viewers. Plus the document has versioning built in.
I'd say the security for SAAS is still probably better than most company/home built installations out there.
I mean, is the HR finances spreadsheet really more secure on the file server for most businesses out there? I doubt it.
At least with Cloud Computing the patches are automatically rolled out to everyone. No "this server hasn't been patched in 2 years because of X, Y, Z" issues.
Buy two good quality machines and keep one as a hot spare and just backup every night.
This.
I work with HA clusters. Build and design them. Work with the devs so the code can work with them. By their very nature it's not simple. It gets real hard real fast when you start to play the "eliminate single points of failure" game.
If you just have a spare machine ready to take over and, most importantly, have good solid backups you'll be way ahead of the curve for most installations out there. And it's not complex to do that.
The reason people like it is because it's convenient. Most people don't buy books to resell or give away to friends. With the Kindle they can buy the book and it goes with them forever. If they lose the device, the books are still on their amazon account and can be re-downloaded.
I personally have several boxes full of books in my garage. I only have those because I sold off the other 5 huge boxes. It'd be awesome if I was able to have all of those always available to me where ever I went on a device that's smaller and lighter than 1 book.
I owned the iPhone for a year and now the G1 for a couple of months, the G1 is comparable to the iPhone as far as being "good".
The battery life is worse, but the battery life doesn't drain in 7 hours of standby either.
The GUI is fine. Very intuitive, doesn't crash. I like the visual front phone LED that flashes on notifications as well as the notification top bar in the GUI interface. Works very well.
PF Voicemail is a great visual voicemail app.
The Marketplace lets you return apps within 24 hours for a full refund if you don't like them.
Google Apps integration is heads above what's available on the iPhone. I update my calendar and contacts on the web, it pushes to my phone. I never need to sync with a desktop.
The SD card is upgradeable. 16 gig ones cost, what, 50 bucks?
And the mini-USB slot looks like is going to be the standard on phones now for everything.
That doesn't mean the phone doesn't need some polish. I really think the new ones coming out will be more to be excited about. But the G1 is a solid product.
We have both. We have alligators in most of the state and some crocodiles in the southern part of the state.
The alligators are pretty benign. I encounter them all the time when I'm kayaking and they leave you alone. They're pretty scared of people and about the only time they'd attack is if they mistook you for food or if you got between a mama and her babies.
Crocodiles are supposedly territorial though and much more aggressive.
The same reason you see some girls in male dominated sports, they like to be around areas where there's so few girls that the ones there get a lot of attention from the guys.
Be a cute girl. Go to a comic book convention. Bask in the attention.
No, they were binary copying their 500 gig database across firewire. The database got corrupted, which copied over into the backup, and that corruption eventually took out the database.
Replication would've likely prevented this issue since corruption like that usually doesn't copy over.
Periodic mysqldumps would've also given them a solid backup, although 500 gig mysqldumps would take awhile. Probably not a bad idea to do it once a week on the slave though so you at least have something for a worst case scenario.
The solution is to tie content to online experiences that require a valid verified user account.
This is why MMO's are never pirated. The game content is useless without an online paid for account.
Other games could follow a similar strategy. Create additional content or a community that really enhances the game experience and require valid keys to access that content.
I have a friend that's looking into getting into the growing business. The legal side of it, which exists in California for sales of medical marijuana.
It's not at all easy to grow quality weed. It's extremely high tech, everything is computer controlled and there's a big difference in quality(or so I'm told).
So while anyone could grow it in their backyard the quality is going to be a lot less than what you'd be able to buy from dedicated grower that's licensed and taxed by the government.
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It's really impressive to see a child prodigy, but do they go on to achieve more in life than the "average" smart crowd that goes through a more normal progression?
I read somewhere that statistically, airplanes are safer than cars, you're more likely to die in a car accident.
Airplanes are not safer than cars. You're more likely to die in a car accident because you spend more of your life in cars than to you do airplanes. If airplanes were safer then insurance companies wouldn't require impaired risk waivers on life insurance policies for people that fly them for a living.
The current L4D was very light in content as is and the devs have been promising more would be added to the game. More maps, more weapons, more infected boss types. So I guess now instead of doing that, they're just going to wrap all that new content up, call it a sequal and charge 50 bucks for it. Very sleazy.
I may be overreacting, but in the matter of a child's life it's far better to overreact than under react.
No, it's not better, it's just as bad and can do just as much harm.
Joking aside, even "modern" MMOs have been around since the 90's. The formula has not changed much since Everquest. Perhaps the MMO producers are just too dense to actually think beyond their quarterly report.
Yeah, that's pretty much the problem. "Game X made it big, let's make ours just like it!"
So we get the same sort of grind fest treadmills over and over.
Look out for some significant changes to MySQL licensing and pricing. It's my guess that databases just got a whole load more expensive.
Eh, no. MySQL is GPL. Oracle can't make it more expensive and if they try to kill it, someone will just fork it and take the project away from them.
That happened with X11 a couple years ago and today Xorg is the standard X windows server for Linux.
You cannot evacuate cities for long periods just to find out that it was a false alarm.
Perhaps not, but tell that to people who lost loved ones in the earthquake.
Maybe so, but tell that to the loved ones that'll die in car accidents as your cities are being evacuated constantly all the time for no good reason.
1. Traffic lights being shut down, which can grind traffic and thus commerce to a halt.
2. Crime.
3. Panicking people who don't have the sense to just wait it out.
Florida has had several hurricanes that've taken out power to the entire southern part of the state. One that went through Ft Lauderdale took out all but 1 stoplight in the county.
We got through it just fine.
You don't even have to spend much money to be properly prepared. You can just start to buy, store and cycle through long term storable food items. Rice, beans, potatoes, dried pasta, canned goods, bottled water, etc. You just buy it in bulk, store it, and use it regularly to keep a fresh mix coming in.
Then when something happens, a bad storm hits, you lose your job, etc, you'll have a nice store of foods piled up you normally eat anyway.
Being rude to co-workers on a regular basis is a pretty serious offense IMO.
It creates a hostile work environment for them and any new employees. That will brain drain your company more than firing a single genius would.
Knowing that 70% of the earth is covered with water is essential information for realizing that overpopulation is an issue
Actually you exemplify the problem. Issues like overpopulation aren't "known" at all.
This is why critical thinking trumps "knowing" crap. People who know things also know the wrong things.
Trivia or not, it doesn't change the fact that is "basic scientific information". Or at least, basic knowledge of the world that is useful, or at least interesting, to have.
But that's the point, it's not useful information to have. In no way is knowing how much of the earth is covered in water useful for the average American.
What's useful stuff like "is it going to rain tomorrow", "are my taxes going to go up", "will I have a job next week", "do these jean make my ass look fat".
More work I know, but more control if you implement it properly.
I seriously doubt you're going to get your average user to use FTP successfully and I doubt most companies could "implement it properly".
What Google offers instead:
Jane goes to http://docs.mycompany.com, creates the document. Clicks on sharing and shares it with Bob in accounting. Simple and easy.
Is this solution open to bugs in Google Docs? Sure is. But your web/ftp server solution is also open to exploits in both pieces of software AND since it's more complex it's more open to user error.
How does Jane upload it so only Bob and not Bill in accounting can edit it? How does she make it so only Mark, Matt and Jessie in development can view it?
Google Docs makes that trivial to do. Also Bob and Jane can work on the document at the same time and any changes go out instantly to the viewers. Plus the document has versioning built in.
I'd say the security for SAAS is still probably better than most company/home built installations out there.
I mean, is the HR finances spreadsheet really more secure on the file server for most businesses out there? I doubt it.
At least with Cloud Computing the patches are automatically rolled out to everyone. No "this server hasn't been patched in 2 years because of X, Y, Z" issues.
Buy two good quality machines and keep one as a hot spare and just backup every night.
This.
I work with HA clusters. Build and design them. Work with the devs so the code can work with them. By their very nature it's not simple. It gets real hard real fast when you start to play the "eliminate single points of failure" game.
If you just have a spare machine ready to take over and, most importantly, have good solid backups you'll be way ahead of the curve for most installations out there. And it's not complex to do that.
It does support PDF and plaintext:
Kindle (AZW), TXT, Audible (formats 4, Audible Enhanced (AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.
The reason people like it is because it's convenient. Most people don't buy books to resell or give away to friends. With the Kindle they can buy the book and it goes with them forever. If they lose the device, the books are still on their amazon account and can be re-downloaded.
I personally have several boxes full of books in my garage. I only have those because I sold off the other 5 huge boxes. It'd be awesome if I was able to have all of those always available to me where ever I went on a device that's smaller and lighter than 1 book.
I owned the iPhone for a year and now the G1 for a couple of months, the G1 is comparable to the iPhone as far as being "good".
The battery life is worse, but the battery life doesn't drain in 7 hours of standby either.
The GUI is fine. Very intuitive, doesn't crash. I like the visual front phone LED that flashes on notifications as well as the notification top bar in the GUI interface. Works very well.
PF Voicemail is a great visual voicemail app.
The Marketplace lets you return apps within 24 hours for a full refund if you don't like them.
Google Apps integration is heads above what's available on the iPhone. I update my calendar and contacts on the web, it pushes to my phone. I never need to sync with a desktop.
The SD card is upgradeable. 16 gig ones cost, what, 50 bucks?
And the mini-USB slot looks like is going to be the standard on phones now for everything.
That doesn't mean the phone doesn't need some polish. I really think the new ones coming out will be more to be excited about. But the G1 is a solid product.
Wrong. The alligator was taken off the endangered list in 1987.
This isn't about alligators, it's about crocs. They're different and Florida has both.
We have both. We have alligators in most of the state and some crocodiles in the southern part of the state.
The alligators are pretty benign. I encounter them all the time when I'm kayaking and they leave you alone. They're pretty scared of people and about the only time they'd attack is if they mistook you for food or if you got between a mama and her babies.
Crocodiles are supposedly territorial though and much more aggressive.
The same reason you see some girls in male dominated sports, they like to be around areas where there's so few girls that the ones there get a lot of attention from the guys.
Be a cute girl. Go to a comic book convention. Bask in the attention.
No, they were binary copying their 500 gig database across firewire. The database got corrupted, which copied over into the backup, and that corruption eventually took out the database.
Replication would've likely prevented this issue since corruption like that usually doesn't copy over.
Periodic mysqldumps would've also given them a solid backup, although 500 gig mysqldumps would take awhile. Probably not a bad idea to do it once a week on the slave though so you at least have something for a worst case scenario.
The so called Apple Tax comes with second-to-none customer support.
So called Apple Tax? Dude, just deal that you're paying a huge premium on the machine. Nothing wrong with that.
But then there's also nothing wrong with buying a $300 EEEPC Laptop and pocketing the extra 2k.
Wow, almost $200 to replace a dead battery? We use Macs in our office and the batteries die all the time.
That has to be a nice little profit item for them.
The solution is to tie content to online experiences that require a valid verified user account.
This is why MMO's are never pirated. The game content is useless without an online paid for account.
Other games could follow a similar strategy. Create additional content or a community that really enhances the game experience and require valid keys to access that content.
I have a friend that's looking into getting into the growing business. The legal side of it, which exists in California for sales of medical marijuana.
It's not at all easy to grow quality weed. It's extremely high tech, everything is computer controlled and there's a big difference in quality(or so I'm told).
So while anyone could grow it in their backyard the quality is going to be a lot less than what you'd be able to buy from dedicated grower that's licensed and taxed by the government.