So ban electronic devices from making sound on an airplane for "safety reasons". I.e. mandatory vibrate mode and/or headphones. That has at least some basis in truth and still allows people to sleep/relax without keeping us from our e-mail.
Honestly, I could go on about how much money and effort is really involved in supporting what is currently being advertised and sold to customers as "unlimited", but at the end of the day this is about false advertising. If you sell "unlimited" without any caveats and then renege without consideration for your customers you should be sued.
You're probably right, but that's not what this release is referring to. The NDBCLUSTER engine separates "API" nodes from Data nodes. A server running MySQL with NDBCLUSTER enabled is considered an API node, but you can also have a C++ or Java or whatever API node that isn't MySQL. Data nodes are provisioned in one or more "node groups" with one or more data nodes in each group, though it would be dumb to have a single node group or a single node in a node group. Each node group splits the data somehow. You can force tables to exist on just one group, but by default if you have three node groups you would have approximately a third of your data in each group.
Anyway -- prior to NDBCLUSTER 7.2 if you performed any join whatsoever the API node had to pull the complete tables from all data node groups prior to doing the join on itself and returning the result. This made join performance, simply put -- terrible. I've tested the same query on a standalone out of the box mysql server against a 7.1 cluster and had an 8 second query come back from the cluster in several minutes due to the join performance.
NDBCLUSTER 7.2 adds what was called "push down joins" in development -- basically the data nodes now do the joins within their own sub-sets of the data for certain joins resulting in a dramatic improvement in performance, since now the API nodes just get the result from the network instead of the entire dataset.
It really is an amazing improvement and is a result of the dynamic capabilities of MySQL. NDBCLUSTER was never designed for the type of data people are throwing at it, and with the recent improvements it might actually be viable for use on production web sites for more common usage scenarios.
What I do not see addressed yet with 7.2 is the reload time -- if you have a cluster loaded with several GB of data it can take upwards of 20 minutes to reload the data and indices across the cluster. While the cluster is designed to be up 24x7 (even through upgrades), a single bug or memory error that takes it down can result in a prolonged outage. There are several of these open in the bug tracker.
Android is free and newer versions tend to not only work better but provide more features. Windows upgrades tend to consume more resources and generally introduce new bugs. It's not really fair to compare the two.
That being said, it would be a completely different story if your new PC came with the promise that newer versions of windows would be made available at no charge over your existing internet connection. Why shouldn't you be upset when a new version is released and months go by without your upgrade coming through?
Personally I don't consider his polling at 12% in the early states as "nobody". He's only far from center because of how insane our contemporary center is. I suspect we could use a little more respect for the Constitution and a little more respect for our individual rights as human beings.
The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet
Honestly, they're lying from the get go on this. Haven't we established without a doubt that there is life outside of Earth in our own solar system, in the very least, with one celled organisms?
All they had to do was say "no evidence of intelligent life" and they would be good to go.
This whole versioning change is a really bone headed move on the part of mozilla. The old system worked well.
Any time your marketing department starts to influence product development it's a very bad sign for your business. Doesn't anyone at Mozilla read dilbert?
Because the trend these days is to patent any idea, especially if it's somewhat vague, like "An API for everything". I'm not implying it isn't novel, just that it seems like a target for abuse.
Wow, I already knew that people on Slashdot had a very tenuous understanding on economic or scientific topics, but damn, most of you have an awfully tenuous grasp of statistics too!...If it should, then it's not for the reasons you're thinking of.
Perhaps you could enlighten us with your genius. God forbid anyone has an opinion who doesn't have a PhD, right?
If you open your eyes and ears, some of the best ideas can come from people who sound like they don't know what they are talking about. No, I'm not going to go looking for examples for you, but I've seen enough idiots with advanced degrees on the news and the internet to realize it's prudent to listen to people who have something to say and not judge so quickly.
Yes, I responded with enough haste that I didn't stop to think of everyone who would be offended by my lack of statistics training. My sincerest apologies.
I was thinking the same thing. If they weren't tracking and testing all sexual partners I do not understand how they could come up with any statistically valid result. It seems that they are making a lot of assumptions as to the common behavior of all of the subjects. Considering how small of a percentage actually became infected (51 out of 8000 is about half a percent), I don't see how any assumptions could "even out" with the sample pool.
This news is certainly exciting, but IMO it should be taken with a grain of salt.
School bands, the orchestral and marching bands, all did the
same thing until Xerography became commonplace. Now I suspect
they buy ONE copy and burn as many copies as they need.
That would be a copyright violation, easily.
Some do that. Most of them actually purchase the music because the RIAA and similar groups have enormous fines for not having the originals. There are 800 numbers you can call to report suspected piracy and they will come out unannounced and search the school's music library to make sure they have purchased originals for all of their music.
Since kids tend to damage or lose the originals many directors keep them in their library and only hand out the photocopies -- which is entirely legal.
A side effect of this is why school music programs are always broke. They have to spend a lot of money on the music alone, and whatever is left over goes to instruments, uniforms, and eventually the students. IMO this is good example of everything that is wrong with the industry. Schools should get this stuff for free so they can spend the money on education and not have to worry about copyright.
I think the problem that they have, is a loss of control over the information.
If something goes wrong, intentional or otherwise, and the schedule that all these people look at through the phone is incorrect... who's gonna get the angry customer call? The train company.
That's the first thing I've read here that actually makes any sense as to why the MTA would be doing this, though I adamantly disagree. As was previously stated, this is the city transit authority -- by definition a public entity. They have no business doing anything with copyright, nevermind suing a tax payer for using the information!
This is almost as bad as the news that the tax payer "bailed out" banks are raking in record profits by increasing overdraft and other fees -- talk about biting the hand that feeds you...
...or you could have a relationship based upon mutual respect and either not have or care about Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 10. #9 would probably still bother me, but I'm more inclined to share interests with my wife so we would both host the literary guests and enjoy the experience together.
yes, I realize this was a joke, but since this is a serious thread i'd still like to make the counterpoint.
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So ban electronic devices from making sound on an airplane for "safety reasons". I.e. mandatory vibrate mode and/or headphones. That has at least some basis in truth and still allows people to sleep/relax without keeping us from our e-mail.
Honestly, I could go on about how much money and effort is really involved in supporting what is currently being advertised and sold to customers as "unlimited", but at the end of the day this is about false advertising. If you sell "unlimited" without any caveats and then renege without consideration for your customers you should be sued.
After all, that's how Eli got on the Destiny.
The system that lost user's data was aptly named "Danger".
You're probably right, but that's not what this release is referring to. The NDBCLUSTER engine separates "API" nodes from Data nodes. A server running MySQL with NDBCLUSTER enabled is considered an API node, but you can also have a C++ or Java or whatever API node that isn't MySQL. Data nodes are provisioned in one or more "node groups" with one or more data nodes in each group, though it would be dumb to have a single node group or a single node in a node group. Each node group splits the data somehow. You can force tables to exist on just one group, but by default if you have three node groups you would have approximately a third of your data in each group.
Anyway -- prior to NDBCLUSTER 7.2 if you performed any join whatsoever the API node had to pull the complete tables from all data node groups prior to doing the join on itself and returning the result. This made join performance, simply put -- terrible. I've tested the same query on a standalone out of the box mysql server against a 7.1 cluster and had an 8 second query come back from the cluster in several minutes due to the join performance.
NDBCLUSTER 7.2 adds what was called "push down joins" in development -- basically the data nodes now do the joins within their own sub-sets of the data for certain joins resulting in a dramatic improvement in performance, since now the API nodes just get the result from the network instead of the entire dataset.
It really is an amazing improvement and is a result of the dynamic capabilities of MySQL. NDBCLUSTER was never designed for the type of data people are throwing at it, and with the recent improvements it might actually be viable for use on production web sites for more common usage scenarios.
What I do not see addressed yet with 7.2 is the reload time -- if you have a cluster loaded with several GB of data it can take upwards of 20 minutes to reload the data and indices across the cluster. While the cluster is designed to be up 24x7 (even through upgrades), a single bug or memory error that takes it down can result in a prolonged outage. There are several of these open in the bug tracker.
Android is free and newer versions tend to not only work better but provide more features. Windows upgrades tend to consume more resources and generally introduce new bugs. It's not really fair to compare the two. That being said, it would be a completely different story if your new PC came with the promise that newer versions of windows would be made available at no charge over your existing internet connection. Why shouldn't you be upset when a new version is released and months go by without your upgrade coming through?
All of the suits want to pretend they're Steve Jobs
Personally I don't consider his polling at 12% in the early states as "nobody". He's only far from center because of how insane our contemporary center is. I suspect we could use a little more respect for the Constitution and a little more respect for our individual rights as human beings.
Honestly, they're lying from the get go on this. Haven't we established without a doubt that there is life outside of Earth in our own solar system, in the very least, with one celled organisms?
All they had to do was say "no evidence of intelligent life" and they would be good to go.
I guarantee text messages would reach everyone else.
I don't understand... can't you just remove the unity package and install KDE or Gnome?
or "I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave"
This whole versioning change is a really bone headed move on the part of mozilla. The old system worked well. Any time your marketing department starts to influence product development it's a very bad sign for your business. Doesn't anyone at Mozilla read dilbert?
Because the trend these days is to patent any idea, especially if it's somewhat vague, like "An API for everything". I'm not implying it isn't novel, just that it seems like a target for abuse.
this hasn't been patented already.
Shields and deflector arrays.
Wow, I already knew that people on Slashdot had a very tenuous understanding on economic or scientific topics, but damn, most of you have an awfully tenuous grasp of statistics too! ...If it should, then it's not for the reasons you're thinking of.
Perhaps you could enlighten us with your genius. God forbid anyone has an opinion who doesn't have a PhD, right?
If you open your eyes and ears, some of the best ideas can come from people who sound like they don't know what they are talking about. No, I'm not going to go looking for examples for you, but I've seen enough idiots with advanced degrees on the news and the internet to realize it's prudent to listen to people who have something to say and not judge so quickly.
Yes, I responded with enough haste that I didn't stop to think of everyone who would be offended by my lack of statistics training. My sincerest apologies.
I was thinking the same thing. If they weren't tracking and testing all sexual partners I do not understand how they could come up with any statistically valid result. It seems that they are making a lot of assumptions as to the common behavior of all of the subjects. Considering how small of a percentage actually became infected (51 out of 8000 is about half a percent), I don't see how any assumptions could "even out" with the sample pool.
This news is certainly exciting, but IMO it should be taken with a grain of salt.
Well, this is all linked to economy...
This is obvious that progress alone does not drive decisions. Money does.
So what you're saying is... in reality we are the Ferengi.
The attack was caused by Olivia Chow handing out an interview I did with EXCLAIM Magazine on how copyright changes could benefit independent Canadian bands.
School bands, the orchestral and marching bands, all did the same thing until Xerography became commonplace. Now I suspect they buy ONE copy and burn as many copies as they need.
That would be a copyright violation, easily.
Some do that. Most of them actually purchase the music because the RIAA and similar groups have enormous fines for not having the originals. There are 800 numbers you can call to report suspected piracy and they will come out unannounced and search the school's music library to make sure they have purchased originals for all of their music.
Since kids tend to damage or lose the originals many directors keep them in their library and only hand out the photocopies -- which is entirely legal.
A side effect of this is why school music programs are always broke. They have to spend a lot of money on the music alone, and whatever is left over goes to instruments, uniforms, and eventually the students. IMO this is good example of everything that is wrong with the industry. Schools should get this stuff for free so they can spend the money on education and not have to worry about copyright.
... except with all the additional features for half the disk space and twice the performance
3. Use the legal system to block everyone else from using said widely used system.
I think the problem that they have, is a loss of control over the information.
If something goes wrong, intentional or otherwise, and the schedule that all these people look at through the phone is incorrect... who's gonna get the angry customer call? The train company.
That's the first thing I've read here that actually makes any sense as to why the MTA would be doing this, though I adamantly disagree. As was previously stated, this is the city transit authority -- by definition a public entity. They have no business doing anything with copyright, nevermind suing a tax payer for using the information!
This is almost as bad as the news that the tax payer "bailed out" banks are raking in record profits by increasing overdraft and other fees -- talk about biting the hand that feeds you...
...or you could have a relationship based upon mutual respect and either not have or care about Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 10. #9 would probably still bother me, but I'm more inclined to share interests with my wife so we would both host the literary guests and enjoy the experience together. yes, I realize this was a joke, but since this is a serious thread i'd still like to make the counterpoint.