Happened on one of the tables of one of my company's customer's systems just the other week - not that there were 2 billion rows at any one time, but deleting and inserting into the table made the primary key sequence run out. (They were in a kind of an atypical, degenerate case, though).
When I asked about this in the last few articles about GPS tracking, inquiring "What do you do if you, a perfectly innocent individual, find one of these on your car?" and the replies I got were all like "Hey, if you find one of these on your car, it's basically because you're a terrible person, and you're probably only concerned about running for the border. And they'll put one on next time that's harder to find."
You guys all still feel the same way about this stuff, hmm?
"What we currently have" is often a tiny little 2-by-3 inch thumbnail in the Art History textbook, or an 800x600 (if you're lucky) version on $website. You just can't have masterpieces to more than one museum at a time. Yeah, it won't be the real thing, and I wouldn't write a Ph.D. on it or anything, but said that it would be "a boon" (a blessing or desirable state), not a panacea.
Yeah; there's really no good reason that something like this shouldn't eventually be available for anything painted before copyrights started to be obnoxious, and it would be a real boon to students of the arts.
Does anyone wonder... why blanket calls for "more regulation!!" can stifle the economy and economic growth?
(Obligatory disclaimer. Significant portions of regulation in the US are in fact valuable and useful and this comment is not intended as a blanket call for the repeal of regulation. Also, this comment may contain substances known to the state of California to cause cancer. Do not consume this comment with alcohol, if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or may become pregnant. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.)
Where are you getting a 12-month CD that earns 3% in this interest rate environment? I'm seeing rates more like 0.70%. Admittedly, this is in the US and not the UK (since I can't figure out where to get any quotes for CDs in the UK) but I'm not hopeful. Remember that you've got to pay taxes on it, and deal with the inflation.
Shorting stock costs you money, though (when borrowing shares, they charge you interest) and the market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.
"Drive innovation in public transportation" was one of the five winning ideas, voted on by the public. Google Inc. subsequently searched the globe and selected Shweeb as the organisation with the most forward looking transportation vision and with the relevant expertise to implement such an idea.
Seriously. That's the best you can come up with? I agree that it's completely oblivious to reality, if that's what you meant by "the most forward-looking vision".
The nice thing about something like bicycling is that it's not very capital-intensive (you don't need to build a lot of junk to make it work). The nice thing about something capital-intensive like a monorail is that it's high-speed, high-capacity, and effective.
It looks like Schweeb has managed to avoid all of these virtues. So, uh, what's left? The bubble might make an okay windshield in the rain, maybe.
Seriously, what is this "story" doing here? *sigh* Next thing you know, we'll see tabloidy pseudo-populist, mostly-right-wing takes on all the major news headlines, too.
Well, when you file the patent application, the algorithm X itself can't be patented, so you file it for "a machine that accomplishes Y with algorithm X". The machine is just a generic computer.
I dunno about "billionaires". I bet many of their better software engineers are making close to that much, and many of them in 2-income families (I assume the threshold there is higher but still present). That marginal rate is half of California's. And unlike Seattle, Silicon Valley has pleasant weather. All of a sudden Seattle is going to look a little less attractive, and a little less competitive a location to do business.
The Wall Street Journal also had analysis; they said that Apple can afford to lose a chunk of market share (in a growing market) and instead should worry about the competition driving the price down. Here's the story (do the google-the-URL thing to get a good Referer: if it doesn't show the whole thing).
Having Mars as a pristine monument to the universe's beauty would be nice.
Ultimately, though, it may easily mean giving up many trillions of dollars' worth of economic activity annually - trillions of dollars of the things people need or value - for tens of thousands of years on end, and that's a pretty steep price to pay for a monument. We have a 30,000 light-year monument to the universe's beauty called the "Milky Way" of which humans have affected approximately 0.000%. What makes Mars special? Is it that people can enjoy it more? Trillions of dollars' worth of enjoyment and moral satisfaction at its unblemished state every year? That's a hell of a trade-off.
(Unless you're pushing a sort of conscientious asceticism spirituality agenda or what-not, which is all well and good, but I don't think you get to speak for the rest of Humanity to make that decision, even if they are a bunch of vapid hedonists).
On a tangentially related note, I hear that peas are one of the prime candidates for farming on the Moon (which has month-long day/night cycles and plenty of cold).
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Hooray for 64-bit integers, in any event.
Yeah, call the ACLU and the Libertarian party.
When I asked about this in the last few articles about GPS tracking, inquiring "What do you do if you, a perfectly innocent individual, find one of these on your car?" and the replies I got were all like "Hey, if you find one of these on your car, it's basically because you're a terrible person, and you're probably only concerned about running for the border. And they'll put one on next time that's harder to find."
You guys all still feel the same way about this stuff, hmm?
Yeah..... that is one of the many reasons the US put "freedom of speech" in a Constitutional amendment and wrote very loose slander/libel laws.
Burn the trees!
"What we currently have" is often a tiny little 2-by-3 inch thumbnail in the Art History textbook, or an 800x600 (if you're lucky) version on $website. You just can't have masterpieces to more than one museum at a time. Yeah, it won't be the real thing, and I wouldn't write a Ph.D. on it or anything, but said that it would be "a boon" (a blessing or desirable state), not a panacea.
Yeah; there's really no good reason that something like this shouldn't eventually be available for anything painted before copyrights started to be obnoxious, and it would be a real boon to students of the arts.
Does anyone wonder... why blanket calls for "more regulation!!" can stifle the economy and economic growth?
(Obligatory disclaimer. Significant portions of regulation in the US are in fact valuable and useful and this comment is not intended as a blanket call for the repeal of regulation. Also, this comment may contain substances known to the state of California to cause cancer. Do not consume this comment with alcohol, if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or may become pregnant. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.)
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Where are you getting a 12-month CD that earns 3% in this interest rate environment? I'm seeing rates more like 0.70%. Admittedly, this is in the US and not the UK (since I can't figure out where to get any quotes for CDs in the UK) but I'm not hopeful. Remember that you've got to pay taxes on it, and deal with the inflation.
(seriously, what I first thought when I read the title.)
Shorting stock costs you money, though (when borrowing shares, they charge you interest) and the market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.
You *can't* base it off "profit" for an individual work ; didn't we learn anything from Hollywood accounting?
Idunno, tethering to a cell phone might save you $40/mo on a second data plan.
Seriously. That's the best you can come up with? I agree that it's completely oblivious to reality, if that's what you meant by "the most forward-looking vision".
It looks like Schweeb has managed to avoid all of these virtues. So, uh, what's left? The bubble might make an okay windshield in the rain, maybe.
Seriously, what is this "story" doing here? *sigh* Next thing you know, we'll see tabloidy pseudo-populist, mostly-right-wing takes on all the major news headlines, too.
Well, when you file the patent application, the algorithm X itself can't be patented, so you file it for "a machine that accomplishes Y with algorithm X". The machine is just a generic computer.
I haven't had my coffee yet. "Doubling it for joint returns" negates my parenthetical. ksorrybye.
I dunno about "billionaires". I bet many of their better software engineers are making close to that much, and many of them in 2-income families (I assume the threshold there is higher but still present). That marginal rate is half of California's. And unlike Seattle, Silicon Valley has pleasant weather. All of a sudden Seattle is going to look a little less attractive, and a little less competitive a location to do business.
The Wall Street Journal also had analysis; they said that Apple can afford to lose a chunk of market share (in a growing market) and instead should worry about the competition driving the price down. Here's the story (do the google-the-URL thing to get a good Referer: if it doesn't show the whole thing).
Blizzard doesn't really try to hide it.
It's not like Google didn't know what they were getting themselves into. I'm sure they're doing just fine over there.
Having Mars as a pristine monument to the universe's beauty would be nice.
Ultimately, though, it may easily mean giving up many trillions of dollars' worth of economic activity annually - trillions of dollars of the things people need or value - for tens of thousands of years on end, and that's a pretty steep price to pay for a monument. We have a 30,000 light-year monument to the universe's beauty called the "Milky Way" of which humans have affected approximately 0.000%. What makes Mars special? Is it that people can enjoy it more? Trillions of dollars' worth of enjoyment and moral satisfaction at its unblemished state every year? That's a hell of a trade-off.
(Unless you're pushing a sort of conscientious asceticism spirituality agenda or what-not, which is all well and good, but I don't think you get to speak for the rest of Humanity to make that decision, even if they are a bunch of vapid hedonists).
On a tangentially related note, I hear that peas are one of the prime candidates for farming on the Moon (which has month-long day/night cycles and plenty of cold).
Demanding access to all the corporate VPNs is a great way to make companies more skittish about outsourcing there!