There were some significant political issues here. Most relevant was that the move from coal to gas meant that the coal miners power over the government was significantly reduced. I'm old enough to just about remember the 3-day week as well as the regular power cuts. I'm not saying I approve or otherwise of the actions of the government of the day, but one of the motives to move to gas was to break the miners. In this respect, it has succeeded. If there was a miners strike today, no one would notice or care.
I suspect that if we knew in the mid-19th century what we know today, Britain would not have got away with the expansion that you've described. It doesn't change the facts we have today. Are you suggesting that all countries that haven't had the chance to pollute the environment should be able to get in line and have a go?
I do agree that there should be some sort of aid though and would have hoped this sort of thing would have come out of the Paris climate agreement.
Britain does have a history of providing aid but one of the problems faced when donating to African countries has been the the donated funds have often been diverted by dictators towards palaces and armies.
That is an inelegant way of doing it to be honest. Application s/w should be running on different hosts. The database server (or cluster) should be running the database and nothing else. However, to get the benefits of running database code in the right place, being able to run Python inside the database would be the right way to achieve this. Oracle has included a JVM inside the database for many years. It gets the database related code into the right place but you still need to keep the rest of the application (web server, app server, non DB related application code) at arms length (another server). Ultimately being able to use Python is no different to being able to run PL/SQL, JAVA, TransactSQL inside the database.
You bring up a very good point there. There is a second or two between hitting the on switch and being able to start coding. This was an issue that the raspberry pi was supposed to address. To a degree this is true but does not get you to that immediate prompt.
For me, the first language was also BASIC but on a ZX-81 very quickly followed by a VIC-20. It's worth noting that with both computers, the manuals that came with them were almost totally geared toward programing immediately as well. Advanced stuff, like dealing with floppy disks, came much later if at all. The computer was a BASIC computer straight away.
I also remember the joy after having following the instructions in the manual for a while when I started to realize that I understood what I was doing and what the computer was doing as well.
Whilst I've done plenty of programming since and in many languages, given that my current role is a DBA, I think that learning BASIC was very useful given that most of my programming today is scripting rather than using compiled languages.
DVD is also associated with DRM and has been very successful.
In practical terms, Kodi has been supportive to a degree of piracy in one way or another given that many users would have had ripped local media. The issue here is as much about PR and perception as anything else. Kodi is allowing the totally tech illiterate consumers to have very easy access to pirated or otherwise protected media and that is where the problem lies. This was bound to become an issue when Kodi moved from being used by people who were at least slightly tech savy (installing s/w, connecting storage or NAS, dealing with connectivity issues) onto consumer devices that are very simple to get going and using s/w that's virtually identical to the one they're running on their phone or tablet.
I would like to know where Plex is better than Kodi? I've only used Plex a little (TV supports it, not Kodi), but I disliked the fact that I needed to register my client with Plex before I could use it. Also, performance using my NAS does not seem to be as good as Kodi.
Another area that I like with Kodi is that it supports good integration with my PVR (myththv) in this case. Does Plex support something similar? I'm also able to play my multi-region DVDs and Blu-Rays from within Kodi. The only thing missing is the Blu-Ray menus but I'm not particularly bothered about that.
I'm always interested in something better. I certainly can't imagine going back to using something like xine any more.
N64 was probably the most powerful console of its generation. It was certainly more powerful than a PS. The edge the PS had however was the CD based s/w delivery whilst nintendo went the cart route.
It's likely as well that civilisations rise and fall all on their own. There wasn't any natural disaster that caused the end of the Roman Empire. Yes, parts of it survived but that was not enough to prevent the dark ages. I actually think that, if we survive, we're likely to become increasingly insular and introverted, both as a species and in our communities as well. In fact I see this starting off already. The only empire actually moving forward right now is the Chinese and they're doing so by bulldozing both their people and the planet. Every other empire has peaked and is falling right now. China is reliant on being able to capitalise on investment of one kind or another to keep it going and that's starting to wane. Not wanting to sound too pessimistic, we're probably already on the downhill slide. If we're lucky, people like Elon Musk might be able to achieve something in terms of colonising space and continuing our expansion but I'm not convinced it will happen. If we're not growing, we're shrinking and that's been happening for quite some time. A Financial system that seems to exist solely to serve itself is a good example of this. Banks that gamble with huge sums of 'money' that somehow generates wealth out of no where is another. Expansion isn't really happening at all and the only way to achieve this now is to work out how to exploit space, starting with the major planets. This is a message from science fiction but I do think it's remarkably sound where we are today.
The great thing about this sort of automation is that the people most likely to eat at somewhere like Wendys are low paid. At some point they will realize that the market for their product is reducing simply because the people who would choose to eat there no longer have the money to do so.
I do think your comment re smart grid size is very country centric. It's entirely plausible that a grid of smart grids could exist across the whole of mainland Europe.
You're supposed to use the drier AFTER you've washed your hands. In other words, you've just washed with soap and water and therefore have no germs on your hand to be blown around the room. Maybe I'm wrong and some people use the driers between using the loo and washing there hands but I certainly don't.
TV and the internet do a great job of exposing children to the wonders of the world. We also don't need to close zoos entirely but there are many animals that find even a large cage to be too constrictive.
Firstly, all farmed cattle have been bred to be farmed. They are similar to bovines from several thousand years ago but certainly not the same any more. Breeding will have included selection for being relatively sedentary and not needing to roam a great deal. Cattle in fields do not suffer from the kind of mental issues that afflict Orcas.
The tank for an orca is significantly smaller than the equivalent field for a cow. Tanks have got bigger but they are still small for a fast moving and powerful animal.
Orcas are predators, cows are not.
Ultimately, whilst cows do have a short life, they are generally treated quite well until the point at which they are killed.
To be honest, a comparison between the way we treat cattle and the way we treat orcas is not great as they are really quite different animals.
I don't think you should worry. The organisation I work for (a truely massive multinational) is only putting Linux and Windows servers on the floor (with the occasional AIX box). If you're running any enterprise s/w, with the exceptions of the obvious ones that need windows (Lync, Outlook etc), everything has to be on Linux. FreeBSD and OPenBSD don't have the support of enough support third-parties. Things like ZFS really aren't of interest at our level and if you need something like that, RHEL and Oracle have options. Its worth remembering as well that whilst windows might be making steps forward, it just doesn't tick the right HA and disaster abilities of a well configured cluster.
In one other respect, Linux is also very successful - smartphones and other mobile devices. Sure, it's not the GNU/Linux we were expecting but the far is that Linux is in the palm of a lot of hands and this is still increasing.
I decided the parent was being sarcastic but I do think your questions are valid. I'm sure there is some issue of contamination from mining uranium-rich ore but this is no different to coal/tin/gold/silver mining and we don't reject those in favor of a a significantly more polluting alternative.
Many of your points are right but we will have to get a hell of a lot better at capturing natural sources before we have a real impact. Wind turbines would need to be far more densely placed to have any substantial impact on local climate. Its also worth appreciating the fringe benefits to certain options. For example, collecting wave power could reduce coastal errosion.
Merge is not really the same as upsert. Merge (using the dual psuedo table) is a potential solution to the problem as are a number of options using pl/sql. I think the real truth here is that oracle haven't seen the need to implement an upsert command. Its not difficult to code and would be easy to build a solution without the need of a special command.
is there a difference between big media and the government in the US these days? They all seem to be goverment propaganda machines to me. You'd be so much better off with a strong broadcaster like the BBC that is a constant thorn in the side of the government.
May be I have misunderstood (I'm not an American), but surely the issue regarding ID is that being able to provide one helps to determine if you have the right to free travel? If I was in the USA on vacation, would I not be expected to show my ID for all internal travel?
I've bad news for you. Most western countries still use paper ballots. The US is unusual (although probably no unique) for going down the automation route.
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There were some significant political issues here. Most relevant was that the move from coal to gas meant that the coal miners power over the government was significantly reduced. I'm old enough to just about remember the 3-day week as well as the regular power cuts. I'm not saying I approve or otherwise of the actions of the government of the day, but one of the motives to move to gas was to break the miners. In this respect, it has succeeded. If there was a miners strike today, no one would notice or care.
Given the point being discussed, it would be good if the power from the Sahara could provide energy for the whole of Africa but I do see your point :-)
I do agree that there should be some sort of aid though and would have hoped this sort of thing would have come out of the Paris climate agreement.
Britain does have a history of providing aid but one of the problems faced when donating to African countries has been the the donated funds have often been diverted by dictators towards palaces and armies.
That is an inelegant way of doing it to be honest. Application s/w should be running on different hosts. The database server (or cluster) should be running the database and nothing else. However, to get the benefits of running database code in the right place, being able to run Python inside the database would be the right way to achieve this. Oracle has included a JVM inside the database for many years. It gets the database related code into the right place but you still need to keep the rest of the application (web server, app server, non DB related application code) at arms length (another server). Ultimately being able to use Python is no different to being able to run PL/SQL, JAVA, TransactSQL inside the database.
For me, the first language was also BASIC but on a ZX-81 very quickly followed by a VIC-20. It's worth noting that with both computers, the manuals that came with them were almost totally geared toward programing immediately as well. Advanced stuff, like dealing with floppy disks, came much later if at all. The computer was a BASIC computer straight away.
I also remember the joy after having following the instructions in the manual for a while when I started to realize that I understood what I was doing and what the computer was doing as well.
Whilst I've done plenty of programming since and in many languages, given that my current role is a DBA, I think that learning BASIC was very useful given that most of my programming today is scripting rather than using compiled languages.
In practical terms, Kodi has been supportive to a degree of piracy in one way or another given that many users would have had ripped local media. The issue here is as much about PR and perception as anything else. Kodi is allowing the totally tech illiterate consumers to have very easy access to pirated or otherwise protected media and that is where the problem lies. This was bound to become an issue when Kodi moved from being used by people who were at least slightly tech savy (installing s/w, connecting storage or NAS, dealing with connectivity issues) onto consumer devices that are very simple to get going and using s/w that's virtually identical to the one they're running on their phone or tablet.
Another area that I like with Kodi is that it supports good integration with my PVR (myththv) in this case. Does Plex support something similar? I'm also able to play my multi-region DVDs and Blu-Rays from within Kodi. The only thing missing is the Blu-Ray menus but I'm not particularly bothered about that.
I'm always interested in something better. I certainly can't imagine going back to using something like xine any more.
The article (which I did read), states the display still requires a backlight.
N64 was probably the most powerful console of its generation. It was certainly more powerful than a PS. The edge the PS had however was the CD based s/w delivery whilst nintendo went the cart route.
What you should probably do is install it on a PC and not just a graphics card :-)
It's likely as well that civilisations rise and fall all on their own. There wasn't any natural disaster that caused the end of the Roman Empire. Yes, parts of it survived but that was not enough to prevent the dark ages. I actually think that, if we survive, we're likely to become increasingly insular and introverted, both as a species and in our communities as well. In fact I see this starting off already. The only empire actually moving forward right now is the Chinese and they're doing so by bulldozing both their people and the planet. Every other empire has peaked and is falling right now. China is reliant on being able to capitalise on investment of one kind or another to keep it going and that's starting to wane. Not wanting to sound too pessimistic, we're probably already on the downhill slide. If we're lucky, people like Elon Musk might be able to achieve something in terms of colonising space and continuing our expansion but I'm not convinced it will happen. If we're not growing, we're shrinking and that's been happening for quite some time. A Financial system that seems to exist solely to serve itself is a good example of this. Banks that gamble with huge sums of 'money' that somehow generates wealth out of no where is another. Expansion isn't really happening at all and the only way to achieve this now is to work out how to exploit space, starting with the major planets. This is a message from science fiction but I do think it's remarkably sound where we are today.
The great thing about this sort of automation is that the people most likely to eat at somewhere like Wendys are low paid. At some point they will realize that the market for their product is reducing simply because the people who would choose to eat there no longer have the money to do so.
I do think your comment re smart grid size is very country centric. It's entirely plausible that a grid of smart grids could exist across the whole of mainland Europe.
You're supposed to use the drier AFTER you've washed your hands. In other words, you've just washed with soap and water and therefore have no germs on your hand to be blown around the room. Maybe I'm wrong and some people use the driers between using the loo and washing there hands but I certainly don't.
Is this significantly different to MS and J++? I realise that MS would have had a non-open license but does this amount to the same issue?
Oracle is producing hardware products. The most obvious is Exadata but they also produce cloud servers and analytics servers as well.
TV and the internet do a great job of exposing children to the wonders of the world. We also don't need to close zoos entirely but there are many animals that find even a large cage to be too constrictive.
Firstly, all farmed cattle have been bred to be farmed. They are similar to bovines from several thousand years ago but certainly not the same any more. Breeding will have included selection for being relatively sedentary and not needing to roam a great deal. Cattle in fields do not suffer from the kind of mental issues that afflict Orcas.
The tank for an orca is significantly smaller than the equivalent field for a cow. Tanks have got bigger but they are still small for a fast moving and powerful animal.
Orcas are predators, cows are not.
Ultimately, whilst cows do have a short life, they are generally treated quite well until the point at which they are killed.
To be honest, a comparison between the way we treat cattle and the way we treat orcas is not great as they are really quite different animals.
In one other respect, Linux is also very successful - smartphones and other mobile devices. Sure, it's not the GNU/Linux we were expecting but the far is that Linux is in the palm of a lot of hands and this is still increasing.
I decided the parent was being sarcastic but I do think your questions are valid. I'm sure there is some issue of contamination from mining uranium-rich ore but this is no different to coal/tin/gold/silver mining and we don't reject those in favor of a a significantly more polluting alternative.
Many of your points are right but we will have to get a hell of a lot better at capturing natural sources before we have a real impact. Wind turbines would need to be far more densely placed to have any substantial impact on local climate. Its also worth appreciating the fringe benefits to certain options. For example, collecting wave power could reduce coastal errosion.
Merge is not really the same as upsert. Merge (using the dual psuedo table) is a potential solution to the problem as are a number of options using pl/sql. I think the real truth here is that oracle haven't seen the need to implement an upsert command. Its not difficult to code and would be easy to build a solution without the need of a special command.
is there a difference between big media and the government in the US these days? They all seem to be goverment propaganda machines to me. You'd be so much better off with a strong broadcaster like the BBC that is a constant thorn in the side of the government.
May be I have misunderstood (I'm not an American), but surely the issue regarding ID is that being able to provide one helps to determine if you have the right to free travel? If I was in the USA on vacation, would I not be expected to show my ID for all internal travel?
I've bad news for you. Most western countries still use paper ballots. The US is unusual (although probably no unique) for going down the automation route.