Take a look at neo4j.com. When you organize graph-like data as a graph instead of the typical set of relational tables, you can vastly speed up certain kinds of queries, and thinking about the solution becomes much clearer.
This is generic technology with uses far outside military applications. My own needs are for event correlation, and finding the cause in amongst a lot of data telling you the effects of a systems outage.
Marry graph databases to a CPU that is specially tailored for this kind of work and you get a powerhouse.
Cloud providers such as AWS can then bring in these machines, virtualization them, and in a cost effective manner rent them out to everyday developers.
I've been waffling a long time on which way to invest in upgrading my pc's. win 7 or 8? I like 7's stability and am not excited about metro, but don't want to have to pay the Microsoft tax too soon again. I finally made a decision.
I bought a Mac. Arrives tomorrow.
Yes, it will be more expensive over time. At least the upgrades are priced half what windows are.
One of the barriers to this technology will be API support. Many APIs provide the IP address (on both sides) with the connection object. Implementors will have to make a choice about which ip to expose and remain backward compatible.
The patent office would not need to inspect the reports, just file them. The reports would be inspected as a part of the legal case brought against the offenders. If they lie, then they pay all court costs and hopefully get thrown in jail.
I'm reading a book now called 'Aftermath' wherein Alpha Century goes supernova and sends a massive EM Pulse through Earth's atmosphere, killing all microchips. (I'm just assuming the science is well researched and correct here.)
Would these hardened chips be able to withstand that?
Congress really didn't spend all that much time on this provision. It was a minor vote to add this to the Energy Bill in a committee. The bill as a whole was then voted on in Congress without much further thought to the DST provision. This whole mess was actually brought about with very little deliberation.
When I submitted the first Slashdot story on the topic, I was hoping that it might elicit some kind of outcry from the community that might have stopped this provision before the Energy bill as a whole got approved. I had way too much faith in this place.
That is one of the more naive posts I have yet seen. So you contend that the Federal government was actually trying to achieve ethical business practices with SOX? Quaint, but quite impossible. What they hoped to do was provide laws that they could find companies violating so that they could convict them and impose huge fines, thus generating more money for the Federal Government.
Well, actually I didn't say anything about what the Federal Government intended. I do mean that those huge fines have become incentive for companies to avoid ethical lapses, because the consequences of those ethical lapses can literally mean closing up shop. I am not a fan of SOX by any means. SOX, Enron's collapse, and other securities laws changes have had an effect as a whole.
With the advent of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) honesty became literally the best policy for not losing gobs of money. SOX and the related securities law changes has made corporate ethics a very big thing. I hear a lot about how ethics violations have the potential of ruining a company. Corporations now go to great lengths to create ethics and business conduct policies and make sure every employee is well trained on them.
I'm not sure why Microsoft hasn't gotten the message.
No Highlander has already done this. The series spun off from the story of the first Highlander movie, there were a few more movies, and then Adrian Paul's Highlander had a movie called 'Endgame'. Last I heard there is another one in the works called 'The Source'.
I only use CSS rarely. Whenever I do, half the time I give up and try something else. My problem is that it tends to not do anything at all when you make changes, usually because you've got a bit of syntax wrong. It just fails silently. What CSS needs to solve this is a compiler. Something that will check the CSS against the page and verify that all the references are valid. I'd love to see an HTML editor which did this, and have it also built into the browsers. Then at least I'd have a good shot at getting it to work when I do use it. Code completion would be nice too.
Yes, and a person has to fire it. There is no automated weapon control here.
And to the grandparent, yes, there will always be a person around. The point is that there will be fewer people around. The RGator follows in convoy mode, so you don't have to have drivers for all the vehicles in a convoy, just some of them. Those people can also be off at a distance from the action while the gator moves into more dangerous territory.
The cap should be on the submissions sent, instead of a cap on how many are accepted. This will force submitters to 1) not spam the editors, and 2) only send their highest quality submissions.
I've always wondered why noone bothered to create a firefox extension for bittorrent. I also have wondered about an extension for freenet. I kept expecting to one day be able to put freenet://whatever in the URL bar. Without that I've never even bothered to see what is there (which I understand isn't much anymore).
One 'call home' feature Gosling mentioned this morning is the ability to download a different language for the movie that may not have been included originally.
For that matter, you might get streaming media related to the movie updated over time. This one probably won't happen though since I don't see a good business model for it. Unless, of course, it is used for advertisements for additional media you have to pay for.
The important innovation here is that each of these players will also include a network port. Together with Java, this will mean a huge amount of stuff that we can with these players.
One idea I'm not so sure about is that it could become a small game platform. DVDs tend to come with little built in games. In the future, they'll be networked. I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceburg.
So take this figure and compare it to how much it will cost to upgrade every computer in the US and every computer and program accross the globe that cares about US DST, and we have the answer to the question I posed.
Here are some of the things I was thinking about when I wrote this submission:
* Old Operating Systems users that never get updated with the patch. There are still a bunch of Windows 95 machines out there. * User confusion when the wrong time is showing on their system clock (even though system time is still correct) or any other system that shows the current local time. * Think of all of the Java Virtual Machines that will need to be updated. How many do you have on your system? I have several. At least upgrading these upgrade a bunch of other programs at the same time.
And yes, I now know that it is daylight saving time without the 's'. Thank you everyone for correcting me. You can stop now. My only consolation appears to be that Commander Taco got it wrong too. The title on the story isn't the one I submitted.
Here's what I want to know: Is downloading a torrent of a TV show off of a free network considered legal? Is this legally the same as if you had recorded to the show to your VCR/DVD?
No, I haven't read the rules. However, this is the common understanding of the rules that has been given to the public via the media. Thus it is a good question to have answered here, is it not?
I'm surprised this flight is eligible for the X-Prize, since it is only carrying 1 person. Don't the X-Prize rules state there must be 3 people on board? There is more to carrying out a flight for three people than just boosting their weight into orbit. There are safety concerns as well. I thought the goal of the X-Prize was providing safe commercial space travel, not just space travel that a stunt pilot is willing to risk.
There has been much hubbub about the LGPL beging viral for Java code because of how it links. The GNU Classpath project had this very issue and this is why they changed their license to the GPL with the following exception:
As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
I suggest that this should be the standard GPL license for any Java project when you intend it not to be viral.
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Take a look at neo4j.com. When you organize graph-like data as a graph instead of the typical set of relational tables, you can vastly speed up certain kinds of queries, and thinking about the solution becomes much clearer.
This is generic technology with uses far outside military applications. My own needs are for event correlation, and finding the cause in amongst a lot of data telling you the effects of a systems outage.
Marry graph databases to a CPU that is specially tailored for this kind of work and you get a powerhouse.
Cloud providers such as AWS can then bring in these machines, virtualization them, and in a cost effective manner rent them out to everyday developers.
So what can YOU do with it?
now anyone can see their Mona Lisa smile!
For the same reason speed cameras with automated fines should be unconstitutional too, but we still have them.
I've been waffling a long time on which way to invest in upgrading my pc's. win 7 or 8? I like 7's stability and am not excited about metro, but don't want to have to pay the Microsoft tax too soon again. I finally made a decision.
I bought a Mac. Arrives tomorrow.
Yes, it will be more expensive over time. At least the upgrades are priced half what windows are.
One of the barriers to this technology will be API support. Many APIs provide the IP address (on both sides) with the connection object. Implementors will have to make a choice about which ip to expose and remain backward compatible.
The patent office would not need to inspect the reports, just file them. The reports would be inspected as a part of the legal case brought against the offenders. If they lie, then they pay all court costs and hopefully get thrown in jail.
I'm reading a book now called 'Aftermath' wherein Alpha Century goes supernova and sends a massive EM Pulse through Earth's atmosphere, killing all microchips. (I'm just assuming the science is well researched and correct here.)
Would these hardened chips be able to withstand that?
Congress really didn't spend all that much time on this provision. It was a minor vote to add this to the Energy Bill in a committee. The bill as a whole was then voted on in Congress without much further thought to the DST provision. This whole mess was actually brought about with very little deliberation.
When I submitted the first Slashdot story on the topic, I was hoping that it might elicit some kind of outcry from the community that might have stopped this provision before the Energy bill as a whole got approved. I had way too much faith in this place.
Well, actually I didn't say anything about what the Federal Government intended. I do mean that those huge fines have become incentive for companies to avoid ethical lapses, because the consequences of those ethical lapses can literally mean closing up shop. I am not a fan of SOX by any means. SOX, Enron's collapse, and other securities laws changes have had an effect as a whole.
I'm not sure why Microsoft hasn't gotten the message.
No Highlander has already done this. The series spun off from the story of the first Highlander movie, there were a few more movies, and then Adrian Paul's Highlander had a movie called 'Endgame'. Last I heard there is another one in the works called 'The Source'.
I only use CSS rarely. Whenever I do, half the time I give up and try something else. My problem is that it tends to not do anything at all when you make changes, usually because you've got a bit of syntax wrong. It just fails silently. What CSS needs to solve this is a compiler. Something that will check the CSS against the page and verify that all the references are valid. I'd love to see an HTML editor which did this, and have it also built into the browsers. Then at least I'd have a good shot at getting it to work when I do use it. Code completion would be nice too.
I don't really want my neighbor's code showing up on my terminal.
Yes, and a person has to fire it. There is no automated weapon control here.
And to the grandparent, yes, there will always be a person around. The point is that there will be fewer people around. The RGator follows in convoy mode, so you don't have to have drivers for all the vehicles in a convoy, just some of them. Those people can also be off at a distance from the action while the gator moves into more dangerous territory.
The cap should be on the submissions sent, instead of a cap on how many are accepted. This will force submitters to 1) not spam the editors, and 2) only send their highest quality submissions.
I've always wondered why noone bothered to create a firefox extension for bittorrent. I also have wondered about an extension for freenet. I kept expecting to one day be able to put freenet://whatever in the URL bar. Without that I've never even bothered to see what is there (which I understand isn't much anymore).
One 'call home' feature Gosling mentioned this morning is the ability to download a different language for the movie that may not have been included originally.
For that matter, you might get streaming media related to the movie updated over time. This one probably won't happen though since I don't see a good business model for it. Unless, of course, it is used for advertisements for additional media you have to pay for.
The important innovation here is that each of these players will also include a network port. Together with Java, this will mean a huge amount of stuff that we can with these players.
One idea I'm not so sure about is that it could become a small game platform. DVDs tend to come with little built in games. In the future, they'll be networked. I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceburg.
So take this figure and compare it to how much it will cost to upgrade every computer in the US and every computer and program accross the globe that cares about US DST, and we have the answer to the question I posed.
Here are some of the things I was thinking about when I wrote this submission:
* Old Operating Systems users that never get updated with the patch. There are still a bunch of Windows 95 machines out there.
* User confusion when the wrong time is showing on their system clock (even though system time is still correct) or any other system that shows the current local time.
* Think of all of the Java Virtual Machines that will need to be updated. How many do you have on your system? I have several. At least upgrading these upgrade a bunch of other programs at the same time.
And yes, I now know that it is daylight saving time without the 's'. Thank you everyone for correcting me. You can stop now. My only consolation appears to be that Commander Taco got it wrong too. The title on the story isn't the one I submitted.
-Avery
Here's what I want to know: Is downloading a torrent of a TV show off of a free network considered legal? Is this legally the same as if you had recorded to the show to your VCR/DVD?
Thank you. This is exactly the kind of discussion I was hoping to get.
How do they expect to get anyone to pay to be in one of those extra seats if only a single stunt pilot will risk going up in the thing for pay?
No, I haven't read the rules. However, this is the common understanding of the rules that has been given to the public via the media. Thus it is a good question to have answered here, is it not?
I'm surprised this flight is eligible for the X-Prize, since it is only carrying 1 person. Don't the X-Prize rules state there must be 3 people on board? There is more to carrying out a flight for three people than just boosting their weight into orbit. There are safety concerns as well. I thought the goal of the X-Prize was providing safe commercial space travel, not just space travel that a stunt pilot is willing to risk.
I suggest that this should be the standard GPL license for any Java project when you intend it not to be viral.