Isn't a census where you count every member of a population? Given that you can't really do that for every sea creature aren't they using the term as kind of a misnomer? Obviously a ten year multi-thousand scientist effort at getting an overwhelmingly good sampling needs to be called something, but a census of the fish in the sea it is not.
That only makes it scarier though, they aren't being honest out of some sense of altruism. They are admitting it like they don't think there is anything remotely unethical or wrong about it.
They probably think it would be like a water company building bigger pipes for premium customers so that they can get more water (though you would have to increase the pressure for the whole system).
Rather it would be like redirecting pressure to another customer because they paid a premium, and anyone under that tier would have to sacrifice their water pressure whenever the premium customer's demands are not being met.
Since making my public comments, I have heard—over and over again—that none of the above matters because Diaspora is in secret squirrel double-plus alpha unrelease and early adopters know not to put any data in it. False. As a highly anticipated project, Diaspora was guaranteed to (and did) have publicly accessible nodes available within literally hours of the code being available....
I would have released the code that they had with the registration pages elided, forcing people to only add new users via Rake tasks or the console. That preserves 100% of the ability of developers to work on the project, and for news outlets to take screenshots, without allowing technically unsophisticated people to successfully sign up to the Diaspora seed sites.
Because one involves a material change using a specialized printer and card stock (unless you're just going to gamble that the clerk won't look at what is actually printed on the card) and one is an electronic change that can be presumably used with a magnetic card reader/writer and a general purpose computer.
Both are doable, the latter can conceivably be easier as well as easier to start up.
If there is a combination of permanent lettering on the new type of electronic card, then things just stay the same, as you have observed.
Oracle's CONNECT BY is much much slower than a custom index based on nested sets...Tell me something about default SQL implementations...
Sure. Default SQL implementations are going to be more feature rich to accommodate for a larger set of use cases than a custom implementation which can make use of domain specific shortcuts for performance gains.
TMTOWTDI... just sayin'
"premature optimization is the root of all evil" -Knuth
There is more than one way to do Hierarchical Query's, it just depends on the RDMS. Oracle has had it for years and SQL Server implemented it in the 2005 edition. You don't need sub-selects.
Determinism solves many things in DB design that's why things like WITH SCHEMABINDING for views and user defined functions in MS SQL make things run so much faster. With over 40 years of RDMS design, it's odd that this path has never been gone down before. But the whole turning "out that the deterministic scheme performs horribly in disk-based environments" makes perfect sense if this is something that scales very well in high memory environments that didn't exist until now.
Now THIS is news for nerds, it's too bad I had to scroll through so many LSD/Acid (hurr hurr drugs) jokes to get down to a comment of someone who actually read this.
Really cool pictures, glad I got to scroll through them all before probably gets slashdotted, I'm definitely going to visit now. Seems like a lot of Museums have enigma machines it's cool to see that they have three different types there, along with a lot of cool 80's type spy gear.
There is also an Enigma Machine at the museum of science and industry in Chicago right next to the sub, I don't know of any other displays off the top of my head that could by at a museum solely dedicated to cryptography.
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Isn't a census where you count every member of a population? Given that you can't really do that for every sea creature aren't they using the term as kind of a misnomer? Obviously a ten year multi-thousand scientist effort at getting an overwhelmingly good sampling needs to be called something, but a census of the fish in the sea it is not.
Better site: http://whatport80.com/I_accidentally
That only makes it scarier though, they aren't being honest out of some sense of altruism. They are admitting it like they don't think there is anything remotely unethical or wrong about it.
They probably think it would be like a water company building bigger pipes for premium customers so that they can get more water (though you would have to increase the pressure for the whole system).
Rather it would be like redirecting pressure to another customer because they paid a premium, and anyone under that tier would have to sacrifice their water pressure whenever the premium customer's demands are not being met.
... but that rhymes with Libre ;)
sooo ... you call them ZEDbras?
From TFA:
Since making my public comments, I have heard—over and over again—that none of the above matters because Diaspora is in secret squirrel double-plus alpha unrelease and early adopters know not to put any data in it. False. As a highly anticipated project, Diaspora was guaranteed to (and did) have publicly accessible nodes available within literally hours of the code being available. ...
I would have released the code that they had with the registration pages elided, forcing people to only add new users via Rake tasks or the console. That preserves 100% of the ability of developers to work on the project, and for news outlets to take screenshots, without allowing technically unsophisticated people to successfully sign up to the Diaspora seed sites.
Because one involves a material change using a specialized printer and card stock (unless you're just going to gamble that the clerk won't look at what is actually printed on the card) and one is an electronic change that can be presumably used with a magnetic card reader/writer and a general purpose computer.
Both are doable, the latter can conceivably be easier as well as easier to start up.
If there is a combination of permanent lettering on the new type of electronic card, then things just stay the same, as you have observed.
Learn the difference between teasers, trailers, and publicly playable demos.
Here is Ars' compilation of those things you mentioned:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/09/the-death-and-rebirth-of-duke-nukem-forever-a-history.ars
Which is not what was at PAX
Gameplay footage at PAX:
http://kotaku.com/5629655/your-first-look-at-duke-nukem-forever-in-action
3/4's of the way down before some sense was made of this. Thank you.
Not going to get anywhere on that dead world without a molten spinning metallic core capable of shielding the planet from the solar winds.
Wait ... I thought registering to vote determined one's eligibility to serve on a jury. Not registered to vote? No jury duty.
Oracle's CONNECT BY is much much slower than a custom index based on nested sets...Tell me something about default SQL implementations...
Sure. Default SQL implementations are going to be more feature rich to accommodate for a larger set of use cases than a custom implementation which can make use of domain specific shortcuts for performance gains.
TMTOWTDI ... just sayin'
"premature optimization is the root of all evil"
-Knuth
There is more than one way to do Hierarchical Query's, it just depends on the RDMS. Oracle has had it for years and SQL Server implemented it in the 2005 edition. You don't need sub-selects.
Determinism solves many things in DB design that's why things like WITH SCHEMABINDING for views and user defined functions in MS SQL make things run so much faster. With over 40 years of RDMS design, it's odd that this path has never been gone down before. But the whole turning "out that the deterministic scheme performs horribly in disk-based environments" makes perfect sense if this is something that scales very well in high memory environments that didn't exist until now.
Now THIS is news for nerds, it's too bad I had to scroll through so many LSD/Acid (hurr hurr drugs) jokes to get down to a comment of someone who actually read this.
http://video.adultswim.com/metalocalypse/its-too-digital.html
Chad Ochocinco
Sunshine Megatron
eh ... SSDD
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1943
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1)#Sinking
we'll have peak helium.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/05/2159215/Price-Shocks-May-Be-Coming-For-Helium-Supply?from=rss
Really cool pictures, glad I got to scroll through them all before probably gets slashdotted, I'm definitely going to visit now. Seems like a lot of Museums have enigma machines it's cool to see that they have three different types there, along with a lot of cool 80's type spy gear.
There is also an Enigma Machine at the museum of science and industry in Chicago right next to the sub, I don't know of any other displays off the top of my head that could by at a museum solely dedicated to cryptography.
And Opel is a subsidiary of GM, a multi-national based in Detroit . What's your point?
Don't say that near any 6-Sigma guys :-)