The only metric being optimised is profit for $BIGCO's owners; the wellbeing and prosperity of Iowans is irrelevant. Ask Indian farmers how Coca-Cola bottling plants (and bottled water plants) are helping THEM.
You're aware that data centres like this employ about 50 people, right? This is not a business that sustains the local economy.
Slashdot's libertarian reptile brain really should try harder.
That post is not very useful or informative. While I would like to believe that MariaDB has done clever things with query planning and execution, it would need a much more rigorous investigation than posed here. For example, he doesn't even explain the form of his queries and the nature of his schema.
It would also require benchmarking against, say, PostgreSQL, which looks very attractive versus versions of MySQL, for both technical and licensing reasons.
Concrete is much more practical than carpet, and often more attractive. I have parquet here, but concrete would work just as well. Carpet would be yuck. It's also not used in tropical climates (i.e. much of Mexico) because it would quickly rot.
Carpet is just an unintelligent bourgeois meme that got out of control, just like the personal automobile, TV, and cell phones.
If *ZFS* isn't proof against bad RAM, imagine how poorly conventional filesystems fare. ECC memory is advisable in situations demanding integrity anyway.
Anybody who has tried it knows this is true. I game on Pentium 4 (circa 7 years old) with a newer card (Radeon HD 5450 and GeForce GT8800).
GTA IV, Crysis, Crysis 2 all play perfectly well.
I won't be buying any more Apple products (I have only bought used for years anyway; saves thousands) until they change their supply chain to be environmentally sustainable and not abusive of workers (a problem which is not unique to Apple, of course). Which is unlikely to ever be resolved in China. So...
As a neocon, his nutty ideological BS helped provide fake justifications for the attack on Iraq. Back in the 1940s this sort of thing was considered a crime. Where is the new Nuremberg trial for last decade's war criminals?
OS X has had hardware accelerated Quartz, "Quartz Extreme" since 10.2 Jaguar, available August 2002, so close enough to 10 years.
And yeah, as another replier notes, NEXTSTEP had hardware accelerated blitting in the 1980s. The window manager on a NeXT Cube is not noticeably less snappy moving windows around than a Mac of today.
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The only metric being optimised is profit for $BIGCO's owners; the wellbeing and prosperity of Iowans is irrelevant. Ask Indian farmers how Coca-Cola bottling plants (and bottled water plants) are helping THEM.
You're aware that data centres like this employ about 50 people, right? This is not a business that sustains the local economy.
Slashdot's libertarian reptile brain really should try harder.
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Bwahahahahahaa
" I think smoking crack is extremely out-of-character for him"
—bwahahahhahah
"video of drunken bumblingness, ..., or just general belligerence"
—it has that *as well*, including slurs against Justin Trudeau, gays, and the kids he spends his afternoons coaching instead of working.
"kudos to the epic trolls who started the rumour"
—The video is not a "rumour". It's out there and has been seen by journalists who didn't have the $200K on them at the time.
That post is not very useful or informative. While I would like to believe that MariaDB has done clever things with query planning and execution, it would need a much more rigorous investigation than posed here. For example, he doesn't even explain the form of his queries and the nature of his schema.
It would also require benchmarking against, say, PostgreSQL, which looks very attractive versus versions of MySQL, for both technical and licensing reasons.
The abuse-of-monopoly and lock-in tactics are applied to Microsoft's enterprise markets, as has been repeatedly found by courts.
If they can't both exist and adhere to the law, then...
Concrete is much more practical than carpet, and often more attractive. I have parquet here, but concrete would work just as well. Carpet would be yuck. It's also not used in tropical climates (i.e. much of Mexico) because it would quickly rot.
Carpet is just an unintelligent bourgeois meme that got out of control, just like the personal automobile, TV, and cell phones.
If *ZFS* isn't proof against bad RAM, imagine how poorly conventional filesystems fare. ECC memory is advisable in situations demanding integrity anyway.
Just use it. Write in place filesystems are obsolete from an integrity point of view.
Didn't Seymour Hersh blow the lid off this in his book The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House? http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=hersh&sts=t&tn=power
Actually the serious crackdown on VPNs began as far back as 2005.
+1,000,000
It's that simple.
Anybody who has tried it knows this is true. I game on Pentium 4 (circa 7 years old) with a newer card (Radeon HD 5450 and GeForce GT8800). GTA IV, Crysis, Crysis 2 all play perfectly well.
Don't use SharePoint or CodePlex. Try this: http://github.com/ or this http://launchpad.net/ or this http://bitbucket.org/
I'm a Mac user for about 27 years, but I LOL'd.
I won't be buying any more Apple products (I have only bought used for years anyway; saves thousands) until they change their supply chain to be environmentally sustainable and not abusive of workers (a problem which is not unique to Apple, of course). Which is unlikely to ever be resolved in China. So...
Maybe they should worry about literacy as well.
It's a basic civilised social service.
2) Reiser4 is alive and well, and should be in mainline "real soon now".
+50 Insightful.
As a neocon, his nutty ideological BS helped provide fake justifications for the attack on Iraq. Back in the 1940s this sort of thing was considered a crime. Where is the new Nuremberg trial for last decade's war criminals?
OS X has had hardware accelerated Quartz, "Quartz Extreme" since 10.2 Jaguar, available August 2002, so close enough to 10 years.
And yeah, as another replier notes, NEXTSTEP had hardware accelerated blitting in the 1980s. The window manager on a NeXT Cube is not noticeably less snappy moving windows around than a Mac of today.
Could this be the year of Windows 8 on the desktop??
Chernobyl was a big ball of s**t that only proved the US had better procedures, precautions, and design than the Russians
Wow. Go look up hubris in a dictionary.