Shard your database and use compensating transactions instead of two-phase distributed commits. That's what telecom people do (for whom 2500 transactions per second is just a mild load).
Come on, COBOL is not hard. It's just another imperative language with horrible syntax.
Any good programmer will read COBOL code after spending several minutes reading COBOL tutorial. A little more time to get acquainted with data processing systems. And then several weeks to learn to write COBOL code (might require restraining programmers, so they won't kill their managers).
But COBOL itself is not a problem. It's application logic which is the main probme, it's usually obfuscated by the years of bolted-on fixes. So it might be easier sometimes just to write a completely new system and migrate old data from the legacy system.
I'll ask authors to correct this. BTW, SystemTap also works this way.
But there _are_ valid points in this table. For example, SystemTap probe language is much richer and LTTng is faster than DTrace (and SystemTap, though it's likely to change).
SystemTap and LTTng are actually more powerful than DTrace (no wonder, they benefited from the experience of DTrace). They're just not yet mainline-ready.
"Let me guess, you'll next claim Popov invented the radio (not Marconi, not Tesla, not Hertz) and the light bulb was invented by Lodygin (not Edison, not Davy, not Swan):)"
Popov invented the first practical coherer radio, certainly before Marconi.
Electric lamp was independently discovered by several inventors, not Edison as many people believed.
"Not directly, no, which is why I posed the question. I do however have enough soviet era textbooks to draw a conclusion from though, from your posts I guessed you're going by those, but if not then I guess the propaganda didn't die with the union."
"Oh, do tell. In which way are they mistreated and discriminated? Are the poor things being forced to pass a simple official language test as a part of becoming a citizen? Because you know, it's quite difficult to do so even after living in the country for the last N decades?:
Also: a Russian can not be a president of Latvia, also Russian language is _forbidden_ for certain things there. For example, it's against the law to send a bill in Russian (even if it is translated into Latvian).
And of course, Russian language is discriminated against.
In Estonia you can say that "The best Russian is a dead Russian", but saying the same about Estonians will land you in the prison.
Estonian committee on war crimes somehow overlooks all the war crimes committed by Estonians.
Etc.
But of course, that's a good thing! We can't let those stupid Russians maintain their culture. After all, USSR was the Evil Empire and the practice of Russification was universally condemned by the West. So it's a good thing that we preemptively destroy Russian culture.
"Is that really the russian school textbook version of the story? Because the rest of the world sure doesn't recognize it that way"
[citation needed]
"But hey, no surprise, during the soviet times, all major discoveries were apparently also made by russians and "stolen" by the big bad capitalists in the west."
Do you know that it's not Edisson who's invented the lightbulb? And not Marconi who's invented the radio.
Can you cite examples of unquestionably bad data from a recent (~15 years) Russian textbook?
"It's terrific that Russia runs to protect "minorities", except that it doesn't really care about minorities as a whole (witness the plight of the Maris in Russia itself as an example)"
Well, I congratulate you! You're a happy victim of propaganda.
During 90-s Russian government did almost exactly nothing for Russians in other countries. So Russians were (and still are) mistreated and discriminated against in several very 'free' xUSSR states.
Maybe you should stop quoting propaganda and read some history of the Russian Federation?
First there was a nice little civil war and genocide started by nationalists in Georgia (against Abkhazia and South Ossetia). Abkhazia was winning this war and it Ossetia managed to fight Georgia to a standstill.
Both parties fought mostly with light weapons, because Russian army remained neutral at first (due to Eltsin's policy of "take as much sovereignty as you can carry").
"I don't know if you've ever been to Moldova, but the Russians here live an easy and safe life, like everybody else. There is no discrimination, nobody kicks nobody's butt in the street for the fact that they are "!moldovan", etc."
Yes, I've been to Moldova. There's little discrimination there, you're right.
That's why Moldovan conflict is the only one which can still be resolved peacefully.
"I think that "prevent ethnical cleansing" is just a pretext to keep troops there."
There are no troops in Georgia. There are troops in Abkhazia and Ossetia. Read Wiki about conflicts between them and Georgia.
I just want to show that Russia is not absolute evil. Of course, it's also not a 100% angel (not even close).
"I've got enough "peace doves" to draw in school while dad at constant military retraining kept learning the best ways to "defensively" attack Denmark."
That's what military does. Be sure that US army is training to 'preemptively' attack China and other countries.
Comparing Soviet and Nazi occupations is just insane. It's way beyond bending of history.
But digital revolution taught us that precise duplication of information is easy. If this information is digital in its nature.
It might very well be that each neuron can be accurately characterized by several numbers (I'm not including connectivity information here). In this case it might be possible to accurately emulate brain.
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It's possible to use binary-only plugins in GPL music players. You just won't be able to distribute this combination.
My new SSD drive is 64 GB and 10 GB is NOT a small amount.
Ubuntu works just fine with a fraction of that space.
Shard your database and use compensating transactions instead of two-phase distributed commits. That's what telecom people do (for whom 2500 transactions per second is just a mild load).
Come on, COBOL is not hard. It's just another imperative language with horrible syntax.
Any good programmer will read COBOL code after spending several minutes reading COBOL tutorial. A little more time to get acquainted with data processing systems. And then several weeks to learn to write COBOL code (might require restraining programmers, so they won't kill their managers).
But COBOL itself is not a problem. It's application logic which is the main probme, it's usually obfuscated by the years of bolted-on fixes. So it might be easier sometimes just to write a completely new system and migrate old data from the legacy system.
I'd say, that a software which MUST process 2500 simultaneous transactions in the same database is flawed.
I know COBOL (had to learn it to write an interface with a legacy system).
There's NO WAY I'm going to write it if I can avoid it.
I'll ask authors to correct this. BTW, SystemTap also works this way.
But there _are_ valid points in this table. For example, SystemTap probe language is much richer and LTTng is faster than DTrace (and SystemTap, though it's likely to change).
Non-ferromagnetic metals or plastic.
SystemTap and LTTng are actually more powerful than DTrace (no wonder, they benefited from the experience of DTrace). They're just not yet mainline-ready.
http://ltt.polymtl.ca/?q=node/12
SystemTap or LTTng might very well appear in the Linux mainline this year. And now they also support use of DTrace tracepoints.
Uhm...
We already have bacterial treatments for malnourishment caused by disbateriosis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotics
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhumi_Massacre [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Abkhazia_(1992%E2%80%931993) [wikipedia.org]"
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Abkhazia_(1992%E2%80%931993)#Russian_role_in_the_conflict - role of Russian military forces during the first stages of the conflict was very minor.
"Let me guess, you'll next claim Popov invented the radio (not Marconi, not Tesla, not Hertz) and the light bulb was invented by Lodygin (not Edison, not Davy, not Swan) :)"
Popov invented the first practical coherer radio, certainly before Marconi.
Electric lamp was independently discovered by several inventors, not Edison as many people believed.
"Not directly, no, which is why I posed the question. I do however have enough soviet era textbooks to draw a conclusion from though, from your posts I guessed you're going by those, but if not then I guess the propaganda didn't die with the union."
So, no citations then?
"Oh, do tell. In which way are they mistreated and discriminated? Are the poor things being forced to pass a simple official language test as a part of becoming a citizen? Because you know, it's quite difficult to do so even after living in the country for the last N decades?:
Also: a Russian can not be a president of Latvia, also Russian language is _forbidden_ for certain things there. For example, it's against the law to send a bill in Russian (even if it is translated into Latvian).
And of course, Russian language is discriminated against.
In Estonia you can say that "The best Russian is a dead Russian", but saying the same about Estonians will land you in the prison.
Estonian committee on war crimes somehow overlooks all the war crimes committed by Estonians.
Etc.
But of course, that's a good thing! We can't let those stupid Russians maintain their culture. After all, USSR was the Evil Empire and the practice of Russification was universally condemned by the West. So it's a good thing that we preemptively destroy Russian culture.
"Is that really the russian school textbook version of the story? Because the rest of the world sure doesn't recognize it that way"
[citation needed]
"But hey, no surprise, during the soviet times, all major discoveries were apparently also made by russians and "stolen" by the big bad capitalists in the west."
Do you know that it's not Edisson who's invented the lightbulb? And not Marconi who's invented the radio.
Can you cite examples of unquestionably bad data from a recent (~15 years) Russian textbook?
"It's terrific that Russia runs to protect "minorities", except that it doesn't really care about minorities as a whole (witness the plight of the Maris in Russia itself as an example)"
Well, I congratulate you! You're a happy victim of propaganda.
During 90-s Russian government did almost exactly nothing for Russians in other countries. So Russians were (and still are) mistreated and discriminated against in several very 'free' xUSSR states.
Maybe you should stop quoting propaganda and read some history of the Russian Federation?
Wrong!
First there was a nice little civil war and genocide started by nationalists in Georgia (against Abkhazia and South Ossetia). Abkhazia was winning this war and it Ossetia managed to fight Georgia to a standstill.
Both parties fought mostly with light weapons, because Russian army remained neutral at first (due to Eltsin's policy of "take as much sovereignty as you can carry").
Probably, we'll soon be able to grow artificial organs from IPSC (Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells). So the whole question might become moot very fast.
As it happened in Niven's Universe :)
I was born in Russia. Currently I'm living in Ukraine.
"I don't know if you've ever been to Moldova, but the Russians here live an easy and safe life, like everybody else. There is no discrimination, nobody kicks nobody's butt in the street for the fact that they are "!moldovan", etc."
Yes, I've been to Moldova. There's little discrimination there, you're right.
That's why Moldovan conflict is the only one which can still be resolved peacefully.
"I think that "prevent ethnical cleansing" is just a pretext to keep troops there."
There are no troops in Georgia. There are troops in Abkhazia and Ossetia. Read Wiki about conflicts between them and Georgia.
I just want to show that Russia is not absolute evil. Of course, it's also not a 100% angel (not even close).
Yep, it would be much better to let Georgia wipe out and ethnically cleanse Ossetia and Abkhazia. After all, Georgia can't be bad, right?
Maybe NATO also should have helped Serbia to maintain its territorial integrity instead of helping Kosovo to secede.
Russian peacekeepers more or less stopped local conflicts, but they can't solve underlying problems.
"I've got enough "peace doves" to draw in school while dad at constant military retraining kept learning the best ways to "defensively" attack Denmark."
That's what military does. Be sure that US army is training to 'preemptively' attack China and other countries.
Comparing Soviet and Nazi occupations is just insane. It's way beyond bending of history.
But digital revolution taught us that precise duplication of information is easy. If this information is digital in its nature.
It might very well be that each neuron can be accurately characterized by several numbers (I'm not including connectivity information here). In this case it might be possible to accurately emulate brain.
"Under the applicable conventions, combatants need to be in uniform, under a military command. Otherwise they are spies and can be executed."
Combatants need not to be in uniform, they just need to be identifiable as military personnel (for example, they can carry a visible badge).
And if you keep calling terrorism is a warfare, then why not extend Geneva Convention?
No propaganda, please!
And now think _why_ Russian army had to support minorities. And why minorities greeted army with open arms.
That was hardly a full-scale civil war.