Actually it's the reverse: as soon as an alternative method has been proven to work, it's taken into "regular" medicine and stops being called alternative.
One thing I'm not seeing in the comments yet: don't forget that most NoSQL solutions are written for commodity hardware, which also makes them very suitable for cloud solutions. To get the same kind of performance out of a relational DB, you need expensive hardware.
Cassandra can also be made aware of the rack or data center the nodes are running in, so it can lay out its data replica's for regional data safety (think EC2 data center failures, all too common) but still offer optimal local data access.
I don't know what kind of bread you make and how you store it, but mine lasts for at least 4 or 5 days, without any preservatives (except for some salt). It might be a bit dry after 2 days, but if you only slice it when you're going to eat it, it's not too bad.
Well, that's a typo in the original article. It should be "klinkklare nonsens", which google translates as "sheer nonsense". But I guess you don't like that better....
Here in Belgium the rule of thumb is 30 years before you need major renovations, typically including a new roof, kitchen, heating, windows,... Some parts may last a little longer with proper maintenance, but like you say technology gets outdated too.
We bought a 40 years old house and basically stripped it down to the walls. The electric installation was minimal, in the bedrooms there was just one socket each. Otherwise it was outright dangerous.
Or just the classical scaling issues when adding more cores and more threads, such that the threads are waiting for each other on locks. It's usually worse because multi core processors are typically clocked slower. So you have more threads but they execute slower each, causing the lock to be held longer by each thread, causing more lock contention...
Sun changed to ZFS as the default file system in one of their last Solaris 10 updates. I can't believe they would do that if it wasn't completely ready according to them.
Over here almost everybody has a laptop. The recommendation is to take it home every day, the alternative is to put it in your locker. Don't leave it on your desk because security will confiscate it because it might be stolen otherwise. Everybody knows how safe Kensington locks are (not at all). If you really need overnight jobs to run you can still get a fixed desktop pc next to your laptop.
Guess how many computers don't get turned off at night?
On top of that it's more efficient in every single way. Laptops use less energy, you can carry them with you in meetings (wifi rules), we can work from home over vpn when it suits you and so on. They're not that much more expensive compared to desktops either.
Way easier to manage: only 2 commands! While now with an LVM you have to place your disks in the desired topology inside your LVM (RAID0, 1, 5,...), format them, put a filesystem on, mount, file check, repair, whatever. With zfs you place disks in your pool and kinda mount part of it, that's it.
There are some other things you could complain about: it makes less sense on hardware RAIDs with good management tools. They missed a chance to make it a distributed or clusterable file system (though they bought Lustre lately, who knows) and it's not possible to boot from it yet, but all in all it's a major step forward.
Like this reg article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/23/sun_no_sun w_java/ is giving the example of VA Linux profiting from the Linux hype with their LNUX ticker, I guess Sun wants to confuse coffee drinkers and profit from that. People think with the global warming that they should stop investing in the sun anyway!
That's the key: we're supposed to. Maybe as individuals we can be very smart, but as a herd we act very stupid, consuming all resources. Everybody wants to be rich and spend money. Those 1% that don't, will not count in the end result. We're doomed. Or we should conquer the universe, that will take us a little longer to consume.
That's exactly the point: what will the people there do with the money they just earned? They won't spend it at the same place, but probably by a car with it or whatever. In the end: they'll consume more energy!
There's another idea about this gaining attention. Suppose people do care and start conserving energy. They pay less for their energy bill, so that means they own more money. What do they do with this money? Spend it on other things of course! So that means other people are earning more money, for example in other parts of the world that are currently using less energy. What will they do with this extra money? Yes, spend it and in that process use more energy than they would have before!
Net result? 0
Maybe this is just a general law in nature: a species will use up all resources it can find. The only real solution would be a real clean source of energy. Your alternative would work too, but is way less attractive;-)
What about concrete? There are some designs that make a concrete chamber placed half under water. When a wave rises, it compresses the air in the chamber, which in turn drives a regular turbine. If the water level sinks again, it pulls air in via the turbine, so you profit from both directions.
That way you avoid at least direct contact with the salt water. I can imagine the air carries enough salt water to corrode the turbine too, but much slower, plus it stays better accessible for maintenance.
I think you will find that Italian toppings are not that varied, and generally they don't overload pizza's with them. But the difference in taste is mainly made with an excellent mix of the right tomato sauce with the right (fresh) herbs. Heavenly!
I personally never found such excellent pizza's in the US. The crust might be a bit different too, but they definitely miss the right sauce.
The best ones can still be found in Italy itself, but also in the rest of Europe you have pretty good versions if you go to a real Italion restaurant, unfortunately there are quite some fakes.
We should as it is the official standard in Europe, but still most car magazines our quoting both KW and HP. We also grew up using HP for cars here. For electrical equipment like microwaves or vacuum cleaners the standards is KW.
Most people haven't got a clue about computers or cars. Most people don't have the expert braking skills you need without ABS. ABS is in an improvement for most people in most situations, but of course an expert driver can do better with normal brakes in allmost all situations. More cars are sold to "normal" drivers than to experts. Follow the money!
As far as I know there are some tilting mechanisms built in to the rotor, so that each time the rotor goes backwards, it is tilted a bit more, giving it more lift. At the side going forwards, the tilt is lowered. When you balance this carefully, you should get equal lift at both sides.
Complex but it works, still causing lots of shaking. That's why copters need much more maintenance than planes.
It is vulnerable, but not when you open the link in a new tab, only when you open a new window. So when you enable Single Window mode, you should be pretty safe.
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Actually it's the reverse: as soon as an alternative method has been proven to work, it's taken into "regular" medicine and stops being called alternative.
One thing I'm not seeing in the comments yet: don't forget that most NoSQL solutions are written for commodity hardware, which also makes them very suitable for cloud solutions. To get the same kind of performance out of a relational DB, you need expensive hardware.
Cassandra can also be made aware of the rack or data center the nodes are running in, so it can lay out its data replica's for regional data safety (think EC2 data center failures, all too common) but still offer optimal local data access.
I don't know what kind of bread you make and how you store it, but mine lasts for at least 4 or 5 days, without any preservatives (except for some salt). It might be a bit dry after 2 days, but if you only slice it when you're going to eat it, it's not too bad.
Yeah, hence it's nickname: Chronic Boozer.
Well, that's a typo in the original article. It should be "klinkklare nonsens", which google translates as "sheer nonsense". But I guess you don't like that better....
Here in Belgium the rule of thumb is 30 years before you need major renovations, typically including a new roof, kitchen, heating, windows, ... Some parts may last a little longer with proper maintenance, but like you say technology gets outdated too.
We bought a 40 years old house and basically stripped it down to the walls. The electric installation was minimal, in the bedrooms there was just one socket each. Otherwise it was outright dangerous.
Or just the classical scaling issues when adding more cores and more threads, such that the threads are waiting for each other on locks. It's usually worse because multi core processors are typically clocked slower. So you have more threads but they execute slower each, causing the lock to be held longer by each thread, causing more lock contention...
Sun changed to ZFS as the default file system in one of their last Solaris 10 updates. I can't believe they would do that if it wasn't completely ready according to them.
Over here almost everybody has a laptop. The recommendation is to take it home every day, the alternative is to put it in your locker. Don't leave it on your desk because security will confiscate it because it might be stolen otherwise. Everybody knows how safe Kensington locks are (not at all). If you really need overnight jobs to run you can still get a fixed desktop pc next to your laptop. Guess how many computers don't get turned off at night? On top of that it's more efficient in every single way. Laptops use less energy, you can carry them with you in meetings (wifi rules), we can work from home over vpn when it suits you and so on. They're not that much more expensive compared to desktops either.
Don't tell us you're reading /. from home, we don't believe you. That will cost you at least 10 minutes a day as well...
Way easier to manage: only 2 commands! While now with an LVM you have to place your disks in the desired topology inside your LVM (RAID0, 1, 5, ...), format them, put a filesystem on, mount, file check, repair, whatever. With zfs you place disks in your pool and kinda mount part of it, that's it.
There are some other things you could complain about: it makes less sense on hardware RAIDs with good management tools. They missed a chance to make it a distributed or clusterable file system (though they bought Lustre lately, who knows) and it's not possible to boot from it yet, but all in all it's a major step forward.
Like this reg article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/23/sun_no_sun w_java/ is giving the example of VA Linux profiting from the Linux hype with their LNUX ticker, I guess Sun wants to confuse coffee drinkers and profit from that. People think with the global warming that they should stop investing in the sun anyway!
That's the key: we're supposed to. Maybe as individuals we can be very smart, but as a herd we act very stupid, consuming all resources. Everybody wants to be rich and spend money. Those 1% that don't, will not count in the end result. We're doomed. Or we should conquer the universe, that will take us a little longer to consume.
That's exactly the point: what will the people there do with the money they just earned? They won't spend it at the same place, but probably by a car with it or whatever. In the end: they'll consume more energy!
There's another idea about this gaining attention. Suppose people do care and start conserving energy. They pay less for their energy bill, so that means they own more money. What do they do with this money? Spend it on other things of course! So that means other people are earning more money, for example in other parts of the world that are currently using less energy. What will they do with this extra money? Yes, spend it and in that process use more energy than they would have before!
Net result? 0
Maybe this is just a general law in nature: a species will use up all resources it can find. The only real solution would be a real clean source of energy. Your alternative would work too, but is way less attractiveWhat about concrete? There are some designs that make a concrete chamber placed half under water. When a wave rises, it compresses the air in the chamber, which in turn drives a regular turbine. If the water level sinks again, it pulls air in via the turbine, so you profit from both directions.
That way you avoid at least direct contact with the salt water. I can imagine the air carries enough salt water to corrode the turbine too, but much slower, plus it stays better accessible for maintenance.
I think you will find that Italian toppings are not that varied, and generally they don't overload pizza's with them. But the difference in taste is mainly made with an excellent mix of the right tomato sauce with the right (fresh) herbs. Heavenly!
I personally never found such excellent pizza's in the US. The crust might be a bit different too, but they definitely miss the right sauce.
The best ones can still be found in Italy itself, but also in the rest of Europe you have pretty good versions if you go to a real Italion restaurant, unfortunately there are quite some fakes.
We should as it is the official standard in Europe, but still most car magazines our quoting both KW and HP. We also grew up using HP for cars here. For electrical equipment like microwaves or vacuum cleaners the standards is KW.
Most people haven't got a clue about computers or cars. Most people don't have the expert braking skills you need without ABS. ABS is in an improvement for most people in most situations, but of course an expert driver can do better with normal brakes in allmost all situations. More cars are sold to "normal" drivers than to experts. Follow the money!
As far as I know there are some tilting mechanisms built in to the rotor, so that each time the rotor goes backwards, it is tilted a bit more, giving it more lift. At the side going forwards, the tilt is lowered. When you balance this carefully, you should get equal lift at both sides. Complex but it works, still causing lots of shaking. That's why copters need much more maintenance than planes.
It is vulnerable, but not when you open the link in a new tab, only when you open a new window. So when you enable Single Window mode, you should be pretty safe.
That means they passed the 3.x long ago, so soon we will see NT and XP versions coming ;-)