If you read the article, this isn't about replacing SQL, but more about testing new ideas and languages that could replace SQL. This is better than just saying, "We have a better language. Switch now or be assimilated.", and I'm glad someone's finally taking this approach. Unfortunately, the article only mentions one specific problem with SQL, but I'm sure there are others that these people might eventually solve.
Well, I'll kind of work in reverse here.
Einstein disagreed with many things, the Uncertainty principle was one of them. He worked on many hidden variable theories, none of which panned out, to show that the information really was there, just undeterminable. He was wrong. I will grant you the position and momentum bit though.:-) And then with your first part, you are correct. I was arguing with something else, I guess it's mainly because of the anti-science nutheads I've been talking to recently.
Well, cheers.:-)
This is not true. While your example *seems* to contradict the principle, it is actually invalid as the events are *not* the same. Do you really think that if all the person's and the car's particles were in the exact same positions, with identical momentums that the event would unfold differently? If so, you must have somehow disproved determinism. I'm sure the scientific community would like to hear this argument.
You're not a scientist are you? Frankly, determinism has been *shown* to be false whenever you look down more deeply than just a car hitting a person. Learn about the uncertainty principle which states that the more you know about it's position, the less you know about it's velocity, and vice-versa. Einstein tried in his later years to disprove this, as have others, but time and time again, through experiment it is shown to be true.
What if the radio's broken? Like all current satellites, this problem becomes nearly unfixable without spending $500,000,000 for a space shuttle launch. If they came up with AI that could work out simple communication problems, it would be much cooler. It would still leave the real problems to the experts, but at least it wouldn't be a lost cause.
OK, whoever modified that as offtopic is an idiot. It is in line with my first comment, and also demonstrates a useless test which is what this whole FREAKING article is about.
Reminds me of Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams. The robots retrieve the backup computer core for the spaceship to fix the cracked one, and fall through an unknown hole into space carrying it, as an asteroid hit the ship, leaving a big hole and a cracked computer core.
Note, that probably could have been said better, but nothing can do proper justice to Douglas Adams but himself.
The 'they' you refer to is a tyrannical regime whose main military objective is to maintain its own power and privilege (and, maybe, gain South Korea if it ever gets the chance).
Isn't that the whole point of a military? To mantain power and privilege in the international community? I agree that they are a tyrannical regime, but, their desire to maintain power is a necessary part of being a state. Do you expect them to fold if the U.S. says 'boo'?
The U.S. military is around for the exact same reason. Don't give me any sort of 'elevated ideals' thing, the U.S. wants to maintain its power as well. And I'm not complaining, by the way, it's just by your measure, the U.S. is a tyrannical regime, although, some people might agree.:-)
They DON'T HAVE Mr. Icaza. They just don't. No matter how necessary that is for the rest of your post, it simply is not true.
He doesn't improve their ideas anyway, he debates with M$ employees on their ideas. Also, improving the ideas of the competition is a significant part of said competition. Competitors routinely improve on another company's products to steal their customers.
Nor has Novell *recently* announced any co-operation with Microsoft, as the two right now are essentially competing in the OS wars.
The thing is, they also have to put in the metadata. Same amount of work really. Just with directories, you don't have to repeat it as often. Once you have a movies directory, you just pop your movies into it. With the entering of metadata, you're typing it in everyone. Thank god for copy and paste.
I'll admit it, I overreacted. I've just been reading a bunch of junk about teaching, and I've just been posting away about how wrong they are. Sorry.:-)
Wow, I didn't think you were trolling before, but it's obvious now.
Just because something happened in your hometown does not mean it's prevelant across the country. That seems to be your biggest problem. Your experience defines the entire world, and anyone else who believes differently because of different experiences is inherently wrong.
I'll bet you that corporations spend a larger percentage of their paper budget on memos than schools do. There just isn't much for me to bet with right now.
1% might have been possible then, but it also wasn't necessarily ideal. You haven't proven that it's better either. I would go for 25% as being closer to the best than either, but 1% is ridiculous.
This is where you get really trolly: My pre-concieved notions? What about you? Because someone decided to raze a school and build a new one where you live, every single school district in the country has done the same stupid thing? Frankly, you don't seem to want to know more than what lets you be different. If you can take the high ground on something and use that as a place to whittle away everyone's resistance to your ill-formed ideals, you're a happy guy. You also seem to have taken something out of what I had said that I never did, which is not shocking, seeing as how you are so completely against anyone who might, just might, question a book you read. As to what you wrongly took out of what I said, you seem to have the impression that I disagree with Gatto. No, I don't. I only disagree with *you*, as you've written off as gospel everything you've read, and then labeled everyone who has a different opinion as some idiot with no free will. So, start thinking about the big picture, and about that you might not be then be all and end all of knowledge, before you become one big whiny hypocrite.
Uh, I'm sorry, but where was the funding provided by the NCLB? Because if it doesn't exist like you say it does, then it's not throwing money at the problem (I dislike the NCLB anyway, but...). Anyway, since when was teaching not an actual field of study? You do have to learn how to teach. It's not something you can do by watching a 30 minute video tape in an auditorium somewhere. You must learn how to do it.
Look, when you can go into a classroom and teach better than an average certified teacher, I'll listen, but for right now, your opinion doesn't mean much.
It is bad because knowing what is on the test is different from comprehending what is on the test. If you know what's on the test you can do well on it, but if given some special case of something you did learn, chances are you won't be able to do it as well as someone who actually comprehends it.
Sure, but what is a comprehensive test? It would have to cover a lot, since if you are only teaching to the tests, you are not teaching how to figure things out. Therefore, the tests would have to test pretty much every situation, or else that person could pass without being able to do something at all, as it wasn't taught. Now, I said this in an incredibly befuddled manner, so if anyone replies, I'll rewrite it better.
Where those books college textbooks, high school textbooks, or elementary school textbooks? Because the younger the students, the quicker they are destroyed. I have a feeling that the textbooks you are talking about are college level textbooks, which were probably only used for one year, and therefore would not have seen the wear and tear that they normally would experience. I've seen textbooks that were two years old that already had broken spines.
Revisions over the internet? Do you actually think kids are going to go on the internet to get the revisions? No way. Not gonna happen.
On the buildings bit, that was stupid, but hardly common. I have never heard about that at all actually.
OK, supplies *are* expensive. Since you've never done back to school shopping, you wouldn't know, but it is *bad*. When you are buying in the quantities schools are buying them in, it gets to be ridiculous.
51% administration? OK? What? Get rid of them and go back to the 1% bit? Think about that. Let's break that down into 80% teachers, 1% administration, 19% misc. Guess what? You have an 80:1 teacher:admin ratio. I'd hate to be in one of those meetings. I think you underestimate the difficulty in managing schools anyway.
Look, that book has more the ring of subjectivity than of truth.
But they were behind 5 years because of the bad leadership of XFree86. In just a few short months, Xorg made huge leaps forward that wouldn't have happened anywhere else.
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You're alluding to a hidden variables theory, which I'm pretty sure has been shown to be incorrect. :-)
Cheers. :-)
If you read the article, this isn't about replacing SQL, but more about testing new ideas and languages that could replace SQL. This is better than just saying, "We have a better language. Switch now or be assimilated.", and I'm glad someone's finally taking this approach. Unfortunately, the article only mentions one specific problem with SQL, but I'm sure there are others that these people might eventually solve.
Well, I'll kind of work in reverse here. Einstein disagreed with many things, the Uncertainty principle was one of them. He worked on many hidden variable theories, none of which panned out, to show that the information really was there, just undeterminable. He was wrong. I will grant you the position and momentum bit though. :-) And then with your first part, you are correct. I was arguing with something else, I guess it's mainly because of the anti-science nutheads I've been talking to recently.
Well, cheers. :-)
You're not a scientist are you? Frankly, determinism has been *shown* to be false whenever you look down more deeply than just a car hitting a person. Learn about the uncertainty principle which states that the more you know about it's position, the less you know about it's velocity, and vice-versa. Einstein tried in his later years to disprove this, as have others, but time and time again, through experiment it is shown to be true.
Ah, I forgot that solution. Silly me, I better go and read the manual. :-)
What if the radio's broken? Like all current satellites, this problem becomes nearly unfixable without spending $500,000,000 for a space shuttle launch. If they came up with AI that could work out simple communication problems, it would be much cooler. It would still leave the real problems to the experts, but at least it wouldn't be a lost cause.
OK, whoever modified that as offtopic is an idiot. It is in line with my first comment, and also demonstrates a useless test which is what this whole FREAKING article is about.
Yes, but the test finding mechanism is broken, therefore the test finding mechanism test worked, while it was broken. :-)
Reminds me of Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams. The robots retrieve the backup computer core for the spaceship to fix the cracked one, and fall through an unknown hole into space carrying it, as an asteroid hit the ship, leaving a big hole and a cracked computer core.
Note, that probably could have been said better, but nothing can do proper justice to Douglas Adams but himself.
Isn't that the whole point of a military? To mantain power and privilege in the international community? I agree that they are a tyrannical regime, but, their desire to maintain power is a necessary part of being a state. Do you expect them to fold if the U.S. says 'boo'?
The U.S. military is around for the exact same reason. Don't give me any sort of 'elevated ideals' thing, the U.S. wants to maintain its power as well. And I'm not complaining, by the way, it's just by your measure, the U.S. is a tyrannical regime, although, some people might agree. :-)
Korea is right below the northern and easternmost part of China, which is right below eastern Russia. It is parallel to Japan essentially.
I guess we slashdotted Coral! Uhoh. Next it's gonna be Akamai and Google. Soon, /. will need caches of caches. :-/
He doesn't improve their ideas anyway, he debates with M$ employees on their ideas. Also, improving the ideas of the competition is a significant part of said competition. Competitors routinely improve on another company's products to steal their customers.
Nor has Novell *recently* announced any co-operation with Microsoft, as the two right now are essentially competing in the OS wars.
The thing is, they also have to put in the metadata. Same amount of work really. Just with directories, you don't have to repeat it as often. Once you have a movies directory, you just pop your movies into it. With the entering of metadata, you're typing it in everyone. Thank god for copy and paste.
I'll admit it, I overreacted. I've just been reading a bunch of junk about teaching, and I've just been posting away about how wrong they are. Sorry. :-)
Just because something happened in your hometown does not mean it's prevelant across the country. That seems to be your biggest problem. Your experience defines the entire world, and anyone else who believes differently because of different experiences is inherently wrong.
I'll bet you that corporations spend a larger percentage of their paper budget on memos than schools do. There just isn't much for me to bet with right now.
1% might have been possible then, but it also wasn't necessarily ideal. You haven't proven that it's better either. I would go for 25% as being closer to the best than either, but 1% is ridiculous.
This is where you get really trolly: My pre-concieved notions? What about you? Because someone decided to raze a school and build a new one where you live, every single school district in the country has done the same stupid thing? Frankly, you don't seem to want to know more than what lets you be different. If you can take the high ground on something and use that as a place to whittle away everyone's resistance to your ill-formed ideals, you're a happy guy. You also seem to have taken something out of what I had said that I never did, which is not shocking, seeing as how you are so completely against anyone who might, just might, question a book you read. As to what you wrongly took out of what I said, you seem to have the impression that I disagree with Gatto. No, I don't. I only disagree with *you*, as you've written off as gospel everything you've read, and then labeled everyone who has a different opinion as some idiot with no free will. So, start thinking about the big picture, and about that you might not be then be all and end all of knowledge, before you become one big whiny hypocrite.
Look, when you can go into a classroom and teach better than an average certified teacher, I'll listen, but for right now, your opinion doesn't mean much.
It is bad because knowing what is on the test is different from comprehending what is on the test. If you know what's on the test you can do well on it, but if given some special case of something you did learn, chances are you won't be able to do it as well as someone who actually comprehends it.
Sure, but what is a comprehensive test? It would have to cover a lot, since if you are only teaching to the tests, you are not teaching how to figure things out. Therefore, the tests would have to test pretty much every situation, or else that person could pass without being able to do something at all, as it wasn't taught. Now, I said this in an incredibly befuddled manner, so if anyone replies, I'll rewrite it better.
Revisions over the internet? Do you actually think kids are going to go on the internet to get the revisions? No way. Not gonna happen.
On the buildings bit, that was stupid, but hardly common. I have never heard about that at all actually.
OK, supplies *are* expensive. Since you've never done back to school shopping, you wouldn't know, but it is *bad*. When you are buying in the quantities schools are buying them in, it gets to be ridiculous.
51% administration? OK? What? Get rid of them and go back to the 1% bit? Think about that. Let's break that down into 80% teachers, 1% administration, 19% misc. Guess what? You have an 80:1 teacher:admin ratio. I'd hate to be in one of those meetings. I think you underestimate the difficulty in managing schools anyway.
Look, that book has more the ring of subjectivity than of truth.
All I can say is cool! We don't disagree too much. You'll never convince me though that the GPS thing is good though. :-)
OK, here http://x.org/, start programming. Oh, what, you're not going to? Then stop ranting.
But they were behind 5 years because of the bad leadership of XFree86. In just a few short months, Xorg made huge leaps forward that wouldn't have happened anywhere else.
:-) I've noticed that they are commonly confused, so, no biggie. There is a good article on Ars Technica about it. :-)