If they get a few big guys like Google and Yahoo to favor IPv6 hosted content over IPv4 when it comes to page rank, I think you would see a mad scramble to IPv6 with customers placing a crushing amount of pressure on their providers to get them a presence on IPv6.
Not sure if I understand it right, but I *think* its not too difficult to serve content on both address spaces simultaneously?
If you jump off the roof of your house, you will hit the ground. If you have a really expensive house with like 5 stories, or a penthouse on 5th avenue, it may take you longer to hit the ground, but eventually.... splat.
You can create giant planet-sized data stores and find things in them with an RDBMS, its just not cheap or fast. I am not bashing NoSQL as a data store, I am pointing out that it's query language is not what makes it powerful. It's query language is limited compared to SQL, a compromise to be able to do queries that scale across many machines.
From what I have learned about the uses for and abilities of NoSQL, its a compromise you make when affordable scalability is required to stay in business. It is nowhere near as powerful as the RDBMS/SQL combination, however it is much cheaper to run. Don't believe anyone who tries to tell you there are things you can do with NoSQL that you can't do with SQL. That is complete bunk. Maybe it makes speed cheaper, and scaling easier, but those decisions should be forced by application demand and budget constraints, not application design.
I am most interested in NoSQL as a way to store denormalized data in a pre-cache for light write, heavy read applications. Any other use would probably be due to desperation to scale to keep up with demand.
Whatever kind of question it is does not change the risk involved in trying to profit from software, or any product for that matter. I would argue that the time invested to write the software is the same for either case. You are also gambling that someone will want to pay for your closed source software.
You asked a marketing question that I don't really know how to answer.
I make a full time living as a contractor developing and maintaining free open source software. All of my revenue comes from companies who find my code useful and are willing to pay for access to my talent to add features, fix bugs, give support, etc. I am not listed in the phone book, I don't pay for any advertising, etc. Free stuff gets around quickly and people seek me out.
Distribution is only part of it. The freedom to modify software that you rely on to perform your task better is what is at stake. Just like you have the freedom to modify your car to perform better.
Free as in free to turn you car in to a hot rod and re-sell it to someone else if you feel like it. Closed source software is a car with the hood welded shut that you aren't allowed to fix if the engine dies, or resell if you need the money to buy movie tickets.
The military has laws which make it very illegal to do what Manning allegedly did. At the time he allegedly released the documents, he was sworn to obey those laws. Assuming for a moment that he is indeed guilty, he should have to pay the price for his actions.
As for whether or not his act was noble, that is for history to decide. Most heros pay a high price to earn that label. Often the price is their life.
The title is so misleading. There is still a Ruby bundle for Netbeans 7.0. In fact you can download the beta now. What happened is they decided to stop paying employees to work on it and are handing it over to the community.
Unless your mom is your lawyer... and if that is the case, you have bigger problems than the FBI like having to sign a 12 page lease for the basement, and getting sued for leaving the seat up.
The argument in the article against using HTML5 due to interoperability issues with older browsers makes zero sense. No matter how much time passes, all of the new features of HTML5 will be broken in IE6 and the like. If on the other hand they are arguing that HTML5 breaks HTML4 features of IE6, then holy crap is the W3C incompetent.
Am I missing something here?
Other than that, the article reads like a Silverlight advertisement, so...
Same here. I get about 40 or 50 "negerian" type spams, 5 to 10 spams with what looks like asian characters in the title, 4 or 5 viruses and maybe 2 or 3 misc spams for things like Viagra and warez.
I think they intentionally left this loophole in the law so you can shoot hippies that are starting to congregate on your ranch before they form an inpenitrable drum circle.
They need to track down the first person ever to use the term 'interwebs' and give them a life time achievement award for comedy, because its funny every time.
I have tried unsuccessfully to get a wiki going at my company. Its very easy to get people excited about it, but very difficult to get them to actually contribute. Wiki syntax does have a learning curve, and most "non-technical" employees throw up their hands is short order.
I think to be successful you need to get management dedicated to allocating time for training, as well as come up with a real game plan for how to roll it out.
Just installing one and expecting people to start contributing knowledge is definitely naive, unless the users are all web developers or other techies that can pick up on wiki syntax quickly.
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If they get a few big guys like Google and Yahoo to favor IPv6 hosted content over IPv4 when it comes to page rank, I think you would see a mad scramble to IPv6 with customers placing a crushing amount of pressure on their providers to get them a presence on IPv6. Not sure if I understand it right, but I *think* its not too difficult to serve content on both address spaces simultaneously?
What lessons can I take from this?
If you jump off the roof of your house, you will hit the ground. If you have a really expensive house with like 5 stories, or a penthouse on 5th avenue, it may take you longer to hit the ground, but eventually.... splat.
You can create giant planet-sized data stores and find things in them with an RDBMS, its just not cheap or fast. I am not bashing NoSQL as a data store, I am pointing out that it's query language is not what makes it powerful. It's query language is limited compared to SQL, a compromise to be able to do queries that scale across many machines.
From what I have learned about the uses for and abilities of NoSQL, its a compromise you make when affordable scalability is required to stay in business. It is nowhere near as powerful as the RDBMS/SQL combination, however it is much cheaper to run. Don't believe anyone who tries to tell you there are things you can do with NoSQL that you can't do with SQL. That is complete bunk. Maybe it makes speed cheaper, and scaling easier, but those decisions should be forced by application demand and budget constraints, not application design. I am most interested in NoSQL as a way to store denormalized data in a pre-cache for light write, heavy read applications. Any other use would probably be due to desperation to scale to keep up with demand.
Whatever kind of question it is does not change the risk involved in trying to profit from software, or any product for that matter. I would argue that the time invested to write the software is the same for either case. You are also gambling that someone will want to pay for your closed source software.
You asked a marketing question that I don't really know how to answer. I make a full time living as a contractor developing and maintaining free open source software. All of my revenue comes from companies who find my code useful and are willing to pay for access to my talent to add features, fix bugs, give support, etc. I am not listed in the phone book, I don't pay for any advertising, etc. Free stuff gets around quickly and people seek me out.
Distribution is only part of it. The freedom to modify software that you rely on to perform your task better is what is at stake. Just like you have the freedom to modify your car to perform better.
Free as in free to turn you car in to a hot rod and re-sell it to someone else if you feel like it. Closed source software is a car with the hood welded shut that you aren't allowed to fix if the engine dies, or resell if you need the money to buy movie tickets.
Its kind of like owning a luxury car. You still get from A to B, but you feel better than everyone else because you wasted your money.
I don't get spam from Chase, but a ton from Capital One. Is that the one you meant?
and switching to a more reputable corporate behemoth like... hrmm... like... uhhh... doh!
The military has laws which make it very illegal to do what Manning allegedly did. At the time he allegedly released the documents, he was sworn to obey those laws. Assuming for a moment that he is indeed guilty, he should have to pay the price for his actions. As for whether or not his act was noble, that is for history to decide. Most heros pay a high price to earn that label. Often the price is their life.
The title is so misleading. There is still a Ruby bundle for Netbeans 7.0. In fact you can download the beta now. What happened is they decided to stop paying employees to work on it and are handing it over to the community.
There is a huge downside to being in the $1 club. When Jobs hits 65, his Social Security check is going to suck!
Nobody has ever lay on their death bed and uttered with their final breath, "I wish I had more money."
Its pretty obvious that you don't have kids.
Unless your mom is your lawyer... and if that is the case, you have bigger problems than the FBI like having to sign a 12 page lease for the basement, and getting sued for leaving the seat up.
I hope there is an option to disable this in case your account is hacked and someone wants to download all of your data, oh wait, doh....
The argument in the article against using HTML5 due to interoperability issues with older browsers makes zero sense. No matter how much time passes, all of the new features of HTML5 will be broken in IE6 and the like. If on the other hand they are arguing that HTML5 breaks HTML4 features of IE6, then holy crap is the W3C incompetent. Am I missing something here? Other than that, the article reads like a Silverlight advertisement, so...
You and Jesse James are both SOL
I hope you weren't interviewing for a position as the webmaster of a funeral home's website.
Same here. I get about 40 or 50 "negerian" type spams, 5 to 10 spams with what looks like asian characters in the title, 4 or 5 viruses and maybe 2 or 3 misc spams for things like Viagra and warez.
I think they intentionally left this loophole in the law so you can shoot hippies that are starting to congregate on your ranch before they form an inpenitrable drum circle.
They need to track down the first person ever to use the term 'interwebs' and give them a life time achievement award for comedy, because its funny every time.
I have tried unsuccessfully to get a wiki going at my company. Its very easy to get people excited about it, but very difficult to get them to actually contribute. Wiki syntax does have a learning curve, and most "non-technical" employees throw up their hands is short order.
I think to be successful you need to get management dedicated to allocating time for training, as well as come up with a real game plan for how to roll it out.
Just installing one and expecting people to start contributing knowledge is definitely naive, unless the users are all web developers or other techies that can pick up on wiki syntax quickly.