The reason that NoSQL is necessary is that ACID is not the only thing that developers need to think about. RDBMS was an innovative solution to the limitations of mainframe hierarchical databases circa 1970. Since then it has been the only game in town (At least for most enterprise software. Some of us do other things occasionally.)
It turns out that there are reasons to do things other ways, and having other options allows you to consider trade-offs. For many applications eventually consistent data scales just fine. For some applications, both big and small, an enterprise RDBMS is overkill. Why not just persist objects to a document store? Or even the file system?
The research is interesting, although I agree that we already knew we could scale the ACID paradigm. The conclusion is ridiculous. NoSQL has nothing to do with ACID, and it brings a richness to the conversation that has been missing for far too long. Like the Perl folks say, TMTOWTDI.
First we invented the cross-browser compatibility problem. Then we worked hard and spent millions of dollars to make sure it persisted for more than a decade. Now we have the ultimate solution!!!
$200 is too low. I want to be able to deduct my MacBook Pro...
Working on OSS won't pay for a MacBook either. You just have to devote a small amount of time to paid freelancing. Then you can write off the entire cost of the MacBook and still have plenty of time to use it for OSS development.
Here is the about page from the site you linked to. Essentially they publish anything from anyone.
The cause of Parkinson's is unknown. Furthermore, several of the details about Mr. Ali's brain anatomy described in the article could only be determined by dissection. AFAIK, an autopsy has never been performed on the *still living* former boxer.
Wikipedia has a list of famous Parkinson's sufferers here. You'll note that Mohammed Ail is not only the only boxer on the list but one of the few athletes. Most of the famous sufferers are artists, scientists, or politicians.
Muhammad Ali has Parkinson's which is rather a different thing from being "punch drunk" and is not related to boxing. His tremors make it difficult for him to speak in public. This is no reflection of his intelligence, his memory, or anything else related to higher mental function.
The interesting thing to me is that they avoided oversight even though they didn't need to. No one can cite a case where the NSA asked the FISA court to let it do something and was rejected. No one can cite it because it never happened. The Bush Administration didn't circumvent this oversight because they had to, they did it because they actually believed that the laws shouldn't apply to them.
Insects are certainly one of the oldest "foods" known to man. Many primates consume them, including our closest modern relative, the chimpanzee, for whom they constitute about 5-6% of the diet.
With your C++ background you should find java syntax intuitive. Your biggest challenge will be learning the standard library (Java SE SDK or simply JDK in Java parlance.) It is big, considerably bigger than the C++ STL, but it is also fairly powerful.
My advice, as someone who has walked a similar path (I have been programming professionally for about ten years, and using java for the last six):
1) Download Eclipse. It is the most popular IDE, and it is free. If you are going to look for a job you are going to want to know how to work with it.
2) Go on Amazon or Safari and look for a good core java book. You need to find one that suits your style of learning. I don't know what that is so I am not going to recommend a specific one.
3) Focus on core java. Don't worry about Java EE yet. You want a good foundation in the core language and common APIs. Don't spend a lot of time on IO or Swing for the same reason.
4) Read the job boards. When you find a position that looks interesting lookup the specific buzzwords they mention. Look at documentation, sample code, and API docs.
They were designed to. They don't because the entertainment industry has always had a strong lobby and litigious inclination. They've had the law changed more than once. The only thing that is different today is that the internet provides both a means of free distribution and a forum for people to discuss the practices.
Maybe it has something to do with the Navy base to the South, or the other Navy base to the East, or the Air National Guard base to the East, or the regional airport to the North...
Since potatoes grow well with hydroponics, seems like they would make a good choice for moon food. It takes a lot of potatoes to make vodka (And it's not how the Russians prefer to do it... potato vodka is more of a Polish thing.)
The real question is how much would a bottle of moon vodka go for if you could find a way to get it back to Earth?
Guns on a plane are a problem, because they can breach the pressure hull. Marshall's have them, but it is assumed that they know what they are doing.
My point is this: It takes a lot of balls to hijack a plane with box cutters. If the passengers felt empowered to defend themselves it would be impossible. Asking people to look out for their own security is always more effective than imposing it upon them. History is full of examples of when the former has succeeded and the latter failed.
I'll be more impressed by gamers who are also willing to advocate for the revocation of obscenity statutes and to advocate for the legal, unrestricted sale of pornography to minors.
I'm all for it. What kids see or don't see is a private issue for families. Besides, when was the last time you met a teenager who hadn't ever seen/heard/done stuff their parents didn't want them to? We got our hands on all the porn we wanted, and there was no internet! Not to mention alcohol, drugs, violent video games, and you name it. Making it illegal just forces it underground where *no one* gets to regulate it. (Don't forget about the billions of dollars we waste.)
My local Fry's had a gigantic sign over the blu-ray section the other day that said, "Blu-Ray discs require a Blu-Ray player." If there is enough confusion to justify that sign (Which just appeared there despite the fact that the Blu-Ray section has been there since late last year) then it is not surprising that many PS3 owners might be confused as well.
I watched the movie "The Messengers" this weekend, and was struck by the fact that while the film was rated PG-13 a game that approached the same material would certainly be rated M.
In case you don't know, it is a horror movie about a family that moves in to a house where the previous tenants had been brutally murdered and their ghosts haunt the home. Within the first five minutes three people die, two of them children. The first has her head splattered against a wall and the second is hurled down a staircase breaking the banister. Later in the film a man is attacked by a swarm of crows leaving bloody gashes all over his face and arms. It was a decent movie, and the rating is probably appropriate. However, many "violent," M-rated games are far less brutal.
I wasn't making a moral judgment. The TSA only knows who is on the list. They don't know who put you on the list or why. Yelling at the director of the TSA won't do you any good. They are like the doormen at the party. They have a list of who gets in, and if you are not on the list it is their job to not let you in. If you want to do something about it you have to find out who wrote the list and why you weren't invited. My post was intended to tell you who wrote the TSA's list.
Secondly, you don't have a Constitutional right to get on a plane any more than you do to attend a private party. What the Fed's role in this *should* be is a whole other worm of cans.
I've got another idea. How about if we ask Congress to stop making laws about things that the Constitution says they, "shall not." That would make everybody's life easier. If they could manage to support what they are "bound by oath or affirmation" to I'd be happy to let them right as many laws as they feel like.
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The reason that NoSQL is necessary is that ACID is not the only thing that developers need to think about. RDBMS was an innovative solution to the limitations of mainframe hierarchical databases circa 1970. Since then it has been the only game in town (At least for most enterprise software. Some of us do other things occasionally.)
It turns out that there are reasons to do things other ways, and having other options allows you to consider trade-offs. For many applications eventually consistent data scales just fine. For some applications, both big and small, an enterprise RDBMS is overkill. Why not just persist objects to a document store? Or even the file system?
The research is interesting, although I agree that we already knew we could scale the ACID paradigm. The conclusion is ridiculous. NoSQL has nothing to do with ACID, and it brings a richness to the conversation that has been missing for far too long. Like the Perl folks say, TMTOWTDI.
Right, because if history has taught us one thing it's that 600,000+ soldiers sitting around with nothing to do are entirely harmless. LOL
First we invented the cross-browser compatibility problem. Then we worked hard and spent millions of dollars to make sure it persisted for more than a decade. Now we have the ultimate solution!!!
$200 is too low. I want to be able to deduct my MacBook Pro...
Working on OSS won't pay for a MacBook either. You just have to devote a small amount of time to paid freelancing. Then you can write off the entire cost of the MacBook and still have plenty of time to use it for OSS development.
Be thankful, given the past history, I'm surprised they aren't charging sales tax on free software.
Sales tax in NYC is 8.375%, I believe. I would be happy to pay that same percentage on free software.
Nuts.
Here is the about page from the site you linked to. Essentially they publish anything from anyone.
The cause of Parkinson's is unknown. Furthermore, several of the details about Mr. Ali's brain anatomy described in the article could only be determined by dissection. AFAIK, an autopsy has never been performed on the *still living* former boxer.
Wikipedia has a list of famous Parkinson's sufferers here. You'll note that Mohammed Ail is not only the only boxer on the list but one of the few athletes. Most of the famous sufferers are artists, scientists, or politicians.
Muhammad Ali has Parkinson's which is rather a different thing from being "punch drunk" and is not related to boxing. His tremors make it difficult for him to speak in public. This is no reflection of his intelligence, his memory, or anything else related to higher mental function.
The interesting thing to me is that they avoided oversight even though they didn't need to. No one can cite a case where the NSA asked the FISA court to let it do something and was rejected. No one can cite it because it never happened. The Bush Administration didn't circumvent this oversight because they had to, they did it because they actually believed that the laws shouldn't apply to them.
Insects are certainly one of the oldest "foods" known to man. Many primates consume them, including our closest modern relative, the chimpanzee, for whom they constitute about 5-6% of the diet.
With your C++ background you should find java syntax intuitive. Your biggest challenge will be learning the standard library (Java SE SDK or simply JDK in Java parlance.) It is big, considerably bigger than the C++ STL, but it is also fairly powerful.
My advice, as someone who has walked a similar path (I have been programming professionally for about ten years, and using java for the last six):
1) Download Eclipse. It is the most popular IDE, and it is free. If you are going to look for a job you are going to want to know how to work with it.
2) Go on Amazon or Safari and look for a good core java book. You need to find one that suits your style of learning. I don't know what that is so I am not going to recommend a specific one.
3) Focus on core java. Don't worry about Java EE yet. You want a good foundation in the core language and common APIs. Don't spend a lot of time on IO or Swing for the same reason.
4) Read the job boards. When you find a position that looks interesting lookup the specific buzzwords they mention. Look at documentation, sample code, and API docs.
Only a ruby programmer would commit seppuku.
""Contracts expire.""
"Yes, but copyrights don't."
They were designed to. They don't because the entertainment industry has always had a strong lobby and litigious inclination. They've had the law changed more than once. The only thing that is different today is that the internet provides both a means of free distribution and a forum for people to discuss the practices.
But they all blink...
Maybe it has something to do with the Navy base to the South, or the other Navy base to the East, or the Air National Guard base to the East, or the regional airport to the North...
Me: I payed for "the Violence Channel" and "Crappy Network Jingles from the 80s." I'm not getting those, but I am getting "E! Entertainment News."
Minimum Wage Time Warner Employee: "Hold on a second while I check that, sir."
Me (to himself): CURSE YOU SLASHDOT!!!
+1
;-)
I have both. My main reason for getting the PS3, in addition to the "interesting things in the future" that you mention, is Blu-Ray.
Turned out to be a good decision, since, when my 360 bricked with a "Red Ring of Death" yesterday morning, it didn't entirely ruin my Memorial Day.
Since potatoes grow well with hydroponics, seems like they would make a good choice for moon food. It takes a lot of potatoes to make vodka (And it's not how the Russians prefer to do it... potato vodka is more of a Polish thing.)
The real question is how much would a bottle of moon vodka go for if you could find a way to get it back to Earth?
I'm detecting sarcasm, but I'll bite anyway ;-)
Guns on a plane are a problem, because they can breach the pressure hull. Marshall's have them, but it is assumed that they know what they are doing.
My point is this: It takes a lot of balls to hijack a plane with box cutters. If the passengers felt empowered to defend themselves it would be impossible. Asking people to look out for their own security is always more effective than imposing it upon them. History is full of examples of when the former has succeeded and the latter failed.
I'll be more impressed by gamers who are also willing to advocate for the revocation of obscenity statutes and to advocate for the legal, unrestricted sale of pornography to minors.
I'm all for it. What kids see or don't see is a private issue for families. Besides, when was the last time you met a teenager who hadn't ever seen/heard/done stuff their parents didn't want them to? We got our hands on all the porn we wanted, and there was no internet! Not to mention alcohol, drugs, violent video games, and you name it. Making it illegal just forces it underground where *no one* gets to regulate it. (Don't forget about the billions of dollars we waste.)
P.S. I live in California ;-)
You're sound system only costs $1300!? Geek pass revoked.
Yep, if they were really interested in protecting the passengers they would give everyone on the plane an knife rather than taking them away.
My local Fry's had a gigantic sign over the blu-ray section the other day that said, "Blu-Ray discs require a Blu-Ray player." If there is enough confusion to justify that sign (Which just appeared there despite the fact that the Blu-Ray section has been there since late last year) then it is not surprising that many PS3 owners might be confused as well.
I watched the movie "The Messengers" this weekend, and was struck by the fact that while the film was rated PG-13 a game that approached the same material would certainly be rated M.
In case you don't know, it is a horror movie about a family that moves in to a house where the previous tenants had been brutally murdered and their ghosts haunt the home. Within the first five minutes three people die, two of them children. The first has her head splattered against a wall and the second is hurled down a staircase breaking the banister. Later in the film a man is attacked by a swarm of crows leaving bloody gashes all over his face and arms. It was a decent movie, and the rating is probably appropriate. However, many "violent," M-rated games are far less brutal.
I wasn't making a moral judgment. The TSA only knows who is on the list. They don't know who put you on the list or why. Yelling at the director of the TSA won't do you any good. They are like the doormen at the party. They have a list of who gets in, and if you are not on the list it is their job to not let you in. If you want to do something about it you have to find out who wrote the list and why you weren't invited. My post was intended to tell you who wrote the TSA's list. Secondly, you don't have a Constitutional right to get on a plane any more than you do to attend a private party. What the Fed's role in this *should* be is a whole other worm of cans.
The TSA is not responsible for the no-fly list. They only enforce it. Your question should be directed to the FBI. Specifically, a little known office called the TSC. http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_02 46.shtm
I've got another idea. How about if we ask Congress to stop making laws about things that the Constitution says they, "shall not." That would make everybody's life easier. If they could manage to support what they are "bound by oath or affirmation" to I'd be happy to let them right as many laws as they feel like.