Many large new projects are in Java at companies like Google and Amazon. Google doesn't use Python for big projects, but instead picks C++, Java, or Go.
I also have no idea how India was brought into this.
From the article: One Democratic senator whose daughter has allergies has called for action and another Democratic senator's daughter is CEO of the company responsible for the price hike.
The AppleTV is a closed device. You cannot buy apps for it, therefore Netflix would have to work with Apple to support steaming, and Apple makes money by people renting movies on AppleTV, so I doubt they'll help.
I'm curious if "counting" could consist of a machine weighing each ballot and verifying that it's the proper weight, and then weighing each side. Then the weights could be aggregated to the state level. Only if they were close (within X%) would actual counting need to take place.
Stored procedures can improve performance by reducing the amount of data that needs to be returned from the DB. Instead of getting a ton of data from the DB, the application can make a call and only get the data it wants. This simplifies application development and improves performance. You can think of things like MAX, MIN, etc... as stored procedures (I don't know if they are or not)
I have been at places were the DBAs have found very expensive calls to turn into stored procedures and the net result has always been an increase in performance and resulted in a simpler application. Example: Get all shoes for each shoe {
get all skus for that particular shoe type (these would be different sizes/colors)
calculate the minimum and maximum price of the skus that are in stock } return shoe name, shoe desc, price range (This might be a bad example, since good SQL and a good DB might be able to speed this up...but I'm not an expert)
Note: I am an (C/C++/Java) application developer, not a DBA
In many states (such as Maryland) such policies are illegal since sharing salary information is one way for people to find out if they are getting equal pay for equal work.
It looks like the Paycheck Fairness Act is attempting to sharing salary information legal throughout the US.
The idea behind java is to prevent you from trying to do things like save memory by making items that are not fully portable. In C/C++ the size of short and int and ever char are not defined and the spec does not require integers to be represented by 2's compliment. For those reasons you should be using well defined sizes that are portable and not chars if you want to save the extra few bytes.
If you want to be lazy and not have a full class, then in java you can just create a byte array to represent ARGB, "byte[] argb = new byte[4];" since it doesn't waste much space (I think it takes 8 bytes, 4 for the data, and 4 for the length, but that depends on the implementation).
Or, you can wrap an int (that is defined as exactly 32 bits in Java) in a class and keep all the bitwise operations that you fear hidden as implementation details and nice helper functions can be used, such as "byte getA(); void setA(byte A);" That way people don't have to worry about the inner implementation. You could even have constructors that build the ARGB object from Strings, ints, byte arrays, and other ways.
I've never understood to legal logic behind retroactive copyright extensions. My understanding is that copyright is supposed to grant a limited monopoly to a content creator in order to encourage the creation of content. After the content has been created, extending the monopoly period retroactively does nothing to encourage new content.
Or they can just use your drivers license number as a key into a database and use the picture to deter fraud. This of course assumes that fake ids will be hard to make:-)
Why not have most (if not all) features as add-ons? Spell check, caching, pop-up blocker, even tabbed browsing can be considered add-ons.
Pros: People that just want a limited browser can get the limited browser. Casual computer users can get a "default install" which comes with a defined set of add-ons. More features can be updated independently of the main code base.
Pro or Con: Design & coding might become simpler or more difficult with a very modular approach.
Many OSs (linux, AIX, etc...) use a phantom process when the system is idle. It allows the OS designers to use fewer special cases in the scheduler and other places.
I'm currently between jobs (my new job doesn't start for another 2 weeks) and I find myself board out of my skull. I can't imagine living without having a job to keep me occupied. Remember, it's more then just work, a job often offers a significant amount of social interaction.
"the RIAA needs to realize that over the past 50 years they've gone to progressively cheaper physical formats, without even pretending to pass the savings along to their customers."
Why do those equations not take into account the inflation rate? If you normalize prices at a particular year I bet you'll notice that they are going down. The bulk of the price increases are occurring when people will most accept them, at a format change.
Why put 4 computers in the back of the room? You'll either split the class into a group of 4 who are using the computer and the rest, or have them sitting their idle.
The way I see it either every student/desk has a computer so that the computer can be used to replace books and for note taking and tests OR computers are limited to labs and libraries and one per class for presentations & administration stuff that teachers have to do.
Ideally with the OLPC concept hopefully we can replace expensive text books and school supplies with cheap laptops, but it'll take a few years.
So SoundExchange offers a service and it's deal sucks. It sounds like they have just created an opportunity for another company to do the negotiations with indie groups.
The only thing I don't understand is why the government has anything to do with this. The only reason I could see them involved is because SoundExchange is a monopoly and using it's position unfairly. There doesn't seem to be any good reason for congress to be involved.
I've read these articles and nothing has explained this very clearly yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Many large new projects are in Java at companies like Google and Amazon. Google doesn't use Python for big projects, but instead picks C++, Java, or Go.
I also have no idea how India was brought into this.
Good catch.
From the article: One Democratic senator whose daughter has allergies has called for action and another Democratic senator's daughter is CEO of the company responsible for the price hike.
The AppleTV is a closed device. You cannot buy apps for it, therefore Netflix would have to work with Apple to support steaming, and Apple makes money by people renting movies on AppleTV, so I doubt they'll help.
IBM has done some research into this: http://domino.watson.ibm.com/tchjr/journalindex.nsf/0/e7437d40ec477c7385257100007be30a?OpenDocument
Supposedly, it was even able to handle missiles crossing regions.
I'm curious if "counting" could consist of a machine weighing each ballot and verifying that it's the proper weight, and then weighing each side. Then the weights could be aggregated to the state level. Only if they were close (within X%) would actual counting need to take place.
unless all previous players support the extra layer(s), then 3-layer HD-DVD might as well be a new format.
Stored procedures can improve performance by reducing the amount of data that needs to be returned from the DB. Instead of getting a ton of data from the DB, the application can make a call and only get the data it wants. This simplifies application development and improves performance. You can think of things like MAX, MIN, etc... as stored procedures (I don't know if they are or not)
I have been at places were the DBAs have found very expensive calls to turn into stored procedures and the net result has always been an increase in performance and resulted in a simpler application.
Example:
Get all shoes
for each shoe {
get all skus for that particular shoe type (these would be different sizes/colors)
calculate the minimum and maximum price of the skus that are in stock
}
return shoe name, shoe desc, price range
(This might be a bad example, since good SQL and a good DB might be able to speed this up...but I'm not an expert)
Note: I am an (C/C++/Java) application developer, not a DBA
IBM still sells mainframes. The market is smaller, but it is still alive.
And we should pass a law requiring some sort of safety equipment when jumping out of a plane.
In many states (such as Maryland) such policies are illegal since sharing salary information is one way for people to find out if they are getting equal pay for equal work.
It looks like the Paycheck Fairness Act is attempting to sharing salary information legal throughout the US.
Or it's because their competitor did it and they don't want to be left behind.
1) Without breeders, society will die off
2) The non-breeders came from breeders who mooched off the previous generations non-breeders.
The idea behind java is to prevent you from trying to do things like save memory by making items that are not fully portable. In C/C++ the size of short and int and ever char are not defined and the spec does not require integers to be represented by 2's compliment. For those reasons you should be using well defined sizes that are portable and not chars if you want to save the extra few bytes.
r y/pa-ctypes3/index.html
Source: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/libra
I especially like the line: "Among the more interesting are 60-bit systems (CDC Cyber) which are only addressable by full words; on such a system, char is 60 bits."
If you want to be lazy and not have a full class, then in java you can just create a byte array to represent ARGB, "byte[] argb = new byte[4];" since it doesn't waste much space (I think it takes 8 bytes, 4 for the data, and 4 for the length, but that depends on the implementation).
Or, you can wrap an int (that is defined as exactly 32 bits in Java) in a class and keep all the bitwise operations that you fear hidden as implementation details and nice helper functions can be used, such as "byte getA(); void setA(byte A);" That way people don't have to worry about the inner implementation. You could even have constructors that build the ARGB object from Strings, ints, byte arrays, and other ways.
I've never understood to legal logic behind retroactive copyright extensions. My understanding is that copyright is supposed to grant a limited monopoly to a content creator in order to encourage the creation of content. After the content has been created, extending the monopoly period retroactively does nothing to encourage new content.
Or they can just use your drivers license number as a key into a database and use the picture to deter fraud. This of course assumes that fake ids will be hard to make :-)
Why not have most (if not all) features as add-ons? Spell check, caching, pop-up blocker, even tabbed browsing can be considered add-ons.
Pros:
People that just want a limited browser can get the limited browser.
Casual computer users can get a "default install" which comes with a defined set of add-ons.
More features can be updated independently of the main code base.
Pro or Con:
Design & coding might become simpler or more difficult with a very modular approach.
Cons:
Performance might suffer
Many OSs (linux, AIX, etc...) use a phantom process when the system is idle. It allows the OS designers to use fewer special cases in the scheduler and other places.
Most places up north, snow is not an excuse to skip work.
Which may include working in a field other then IT. I think we're agreeing here :-)
I'm currently between jobs (my new job doesn't start for another 2 weeks) and I find myself board out of my skull. I can't imagine living without having a job to keep me occupied. Remember, it's more then just work, a job often offers a significant amount of social interaction.
If he can afford to retire now, why not get a job that he enjoys even if the pay is crap? Why spend 10 more years hating the job?
"the RIAA needs to realize that over the past 50 years they've gone to progressively cheaper physical formats, without even pretending to pass the savings along to their customers."
Why do those equations not take into account the inflation rate? If you normalize prices at a particular year I bet you'll notice that they are going down. The bulk of the price increases are occurring when people will most accept them, at a format change.
Why put 4 computers in the back of the room? You'll either split the class into a group of 4 who are using the computer and the rest, or have them sitting their idle.
The way I see it either every student/desk has a computer so that the computer can be used to replace books and for note taking and tests OR computers are limited to labs and libraries and one per class for presentations & administration stuff that teachers have to do.
Ideally with the OLPC concept hopefully we can replace expensive text books and school supplies with cheap laptops, but it'll take a few years.
Thank you for explaining.
I still see this as more of an opportunity for non-RIAA bands.
So SoundExchange offers a service and it's deal sucks. It sounds like they have just created an opportunity for another company to do the negotiations with indie groups.
The only thing I don't understand is why the government has anything to do with this. The only reason I could see them involved is because SoundExchange is a monopoly and using it's position unfairly. There doesn't seem to be any good reason for congress to be involved.
I've read these articles and nothing has explained this very clearly yet.