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  1. What does Fast & Furious + Star Trek Equal? on George Takei Opposes Gay Sulu In 'Star Trek Beyond' (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Shit.

  2. Duh

  3. Couch Potatoe Computing on The Great Tablet Gold Rush Is Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Good for surfing the web on the couch or reading a book. Anything that requires actual work, requires better I/O devices like actual keyboards and mice.

  4. Prevents loss of real rental property. on New York Senate Passes Bill That Bans Short-Term Apartment Listings On Airbnb (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In Vancouver BC, there is already a low vacancy rate for apartment rentals. AirBnB rentals have skyrocketed here and have been a significant factor driving availability for people who live and work here significantly lower. People are either buying condos to rent on AirBnB or people are renting and illegally subletting to AirBnB 'customers' as they can profit over what they pay in rent. I know of several who do this, some in the same building. And yes, living in a place where many are transient is not desirable. Even if some here don't believe it would attract more crime, the truth is, places where people are transient do have higher property and other crime. As well people who are not personally invested in a place will not as a whole treat it well. In condos and long term rental buildings, this can lead to a kind of negligent vandalism that decreases quality of life for the actual residents. AirBnB while a good idea for occasional use, is terrible when people build businesses with it in places that are meant to serve the community's housing needs.

  5. So should we have a new class of abandonware? Why should someone have to stop using software if the makers abandoned it? This sounds like a kind of legalized extortion or something.

  6. Purpose of Business Software on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    The purpose of business software is to support the business. Not vice versa. Businesses requirements have scope and deadlines. Software developers are responsible for telling the business how long it will take to achieve the scope, and work with the business to set the expectations and deliver on time and budget. Business needs almost always involve far more than just the development shop: advertising (which means customer expectations... which can kill a company when it doesn't deliver) and regulatory complianc are two big ones that come to mind. The original AT&T failed miserably to deliver software the FCC said was required to provide cell phone number portability which caused huge fines to be levied against them, backlash from customers, and their stock to drop so that Southwest Bell could buy them out and become the "New AT&T". Development supports the business and agile doesn't support hard set/business due dates.

  7. To tell the truth I don't upload photos there much anymore anyway. If it doesn't have some stupid meme written on it people on Facebook don't look at them much anyway. It's turned in to a rant machine from an empathy box. Can I get an amen and share to that?

  8. Delete them. I won't upload photos to Facebook anymore. End of issue.

  9. Not Sure About Democracy in Star Trek on What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein · · Score: 1

    I don't remember ever seeing elections on earth in the series. We see some big councils, but the current state in the Soviet Union, I mean Russia, shows that councils aren't necessarily voted in democratically.

  10. Re:What a coincidence... on Google Announces Support of the Controversial TPP (recode.net) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So you agree with the hashtag #killallmen? You know there is a difference between being a feminist and being a cunt. Most feminists conflate the two. You appear to be one of them. The Koch brothers endorse Clinton too. So google is in good company it seems. You wouldn't be a Koch Enterprises shill would you? I hear they pay well for right wing astroturfers ... I mean grassroots "volunteers."

  11. Re:No suprise on Google Announces Support of the Controversial TPP (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Simple minded troll.

  12. Re:In before Blackberry shills on BlackBerry Hands Over User Data To Help Police 'Kick Ass,' Insider Says (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then, they got lazy

    I call this "Novell Syndrome." Many people here might not remember that at one time Novell built the absolute best LAN server software around. But they got big heads and refused to improve. They wanted to keep LAN administration an arcane art and were killed by Microsoft. Microsoft was to area networks as Apple was to smartphones (and whether you hate Microsoft or not, their server software is now ubiquitous). People wanted certain features and Microsoft/Apple listened while [RIM|Blackberry]/Novell didn't. Now anytime I see a company die because they got too full of themselves, I call it Novell Syndrome.

  13. Enough with the retarded names on Python/Unix Hybrid Demoed at PyCon (xon.sh) · · Score: 1

    You want to pronounce it 'conch', then spell it that way. Not starting with a consonant pronounced like a 'z'. Enough with the cutesy brain damaged fucking names.

  14. The UK, Providing Dystopian Visions Everywhere on UK Gov't Creating Secret Mega Database On Citizens Without Informing Parliament (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The UK, providing inspiration to authors like George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, et al. A country driving dreams of dystopia everywhere. Even the USA eyes the UK with police state envy with respect to the scope of domestic surveillance of its citizenry. Does anyone know what temperature paper burns at?

  15. Re: 127 billion USD freed up to give people jobs on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    So you are saying this is trickle down economics for the 21rst century?

  16. Don't Want Drones Buzzing Neighborhood on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Thank you liveleak: Spear that drone.

  17. They could port Apple's File Finder to Android. It's awesome with an uppercase, no, lowercase 'a'.

  18. Re:Root Cause: Offshoring and Prioritizing Essenti on Sales Of PCs, Laptops, Tablets Continue to Fall, Hit Lowest Point Since 2011 (canalys.com) · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't followed the latest apple results. Even with smartphone makers trying build in forced obsolescence, sales are declining. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-26/apple-forecasts-another-sales-decline-as-iphone-demand-cools

  19. Root Cause: Offshoring and Prioritizing Essentials on Sales Of PCs, Laptops, Tablets Continue to Fall, Hit Lowest Point Since 2011 (canalys.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think this is a symptom of the ongoing economic issues in the world. People talk about the vicious circle that is expected as American companies offshore good paying jobs overseas for cheaper labour. Newsflash: It's here. Companies make more money at first, but who will be able to afford to buy their products in America? Home computers as much as we like to think them essential, aren't. People can get by without them. They can buy goods at stores, get books from the library (but don't we also complain that people aren't reading as much anymore anyway?), and do many things offline. Some people (me included) think that getting offline more is a good thing. If you are ditching your TV for Netflix, you don't need a powerful computer. Only something enough to run a browser (but heck, most TVs have streaming service clients built into them anyway). Other than games, computers from almost ten years ago are good enough to run a word processor. So who is going to buy a new computer or tablet (for hundreds of dollars) when their job has left for Bangladesh or China and McDonald's is putting in automated kiosks? This is no surprise.

  20. Re:no: That's stupid. on China Is On an Epic Solar Power Binge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    NO. You learn how steel is made. Iron is made with coke. There is a distinction if you are going to be a smart ass.

  21. They'd be right. What is Norway using China for anything that could be used in military equipment. Why are systems with military secrets on the WWW (or accessible by that route)? Quite frankly it is no wonder that the new Chinese fighters look like F-22s as well.

  22. Re:How does this compare with other databases? on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 1

    I'll take your word for it. But multithreaded isn't the same thing as multi-process, especially on *nix. And yeah, although I don't program so much now, I have seen people write Oracle queries with hints for running parallel queries when not needed. Since these grab processors it can impact other services on the server.

  23. Re:How does this compare with other databases? on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 2
    Blockquote from the MariaDB site (notice the terms 'sharded' and 'partition'). Also, I would hazard a guess that the PostgreSQL code for parallel queries is written in C, not something like PHP.

    Shard-Query is a high performance MPP (massively parallel processing) query engine for MariaDB and MySQL which offers increased parallelism compared to stand-alone servers. This increased parallelism is achieved by taking advantage of MariaDB/MySQL partitioning, sharding, common query clauses like BETWEEN and IN, or some combination of the above.

    Shard-Query is implemented with PHP and Gearman.

    Shard-Query is targeted mainly at big data problems, and OLAP queries in general. The primary goal of Shard-Query is to enable low-latency query access to extremely large volumes of data utilizing commodity hardware and open source database software. Shard-Query is a federated query engine which is designed to perform as much work in parallel as possible over a sharded dataset, that is one that is split over multiple servers (shards) or partitioned tables .

  24. Re:I miss pgsql on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 1

    I agree. It is the biggest issue for PostgreSQL. A straight forward native high availability solution should be one of the highest priorities if not the highest.

  25. Re:How does this compare with other databases? on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. "Sharding" is the MYSQL bunch's relabelling of the established RDBMS partitioning paradigm. What this is, is parallel processing of a query. Queries normally run in a single process on a single processor. Now PostgreSQL can have a query split into multiple possesses on two or more processors. Oracle has had this capability for at least a decade.