Windows shops need software now, but they might the software to last a while. They also might like there software to run on some iPads that the Sales team are buying. So perhaps they might look at other options, like HTML UI's for applications where that is appropriate.
Isn't this the point though? Every real, valuable service can be delivered over high quality copper now, and over wireless soon, so the NBN is not valuable from a technical standpoint. Its value in creating a democratically controlled network is a different question.
If I was in power I would invest heavily in the postal system on the expectation that online sales will increase, and that while some online purchases, like games, books, videos, and music do not require physical delivery others do.
No-one from IT touches the iPads owned in my team.
As for advantages, iPads turn on instantly, and 3G is more common than it is with Laptops.
One person I know from an IT department loves iPads. It is a tool their users love, that get stuff done at lower prices, with a much lower cost of ownership than laptops. But they do also write application that run on the iPad.
Exponential growth is where growth is a factor of the current economic size. So say we keep investing a good % of our income in increasing our income, I think we will get exponential economic growth.
Of course we won't and can't get exponential use of energy. But the quality of our iPhone software can increase exponentially for a long time.
Exponential growth in energy usage stopped a while ago as the author stated. His point about the agricultural sector is of course wrong. Agriculture is about to experience a boom. People want better wine and food. Not more just better.
I find that the annoying thing about HTML/JavaScript are that they are not brittle. Errors that in other languages would provoke an exception are siliently ignored.
To a certain extent the errors you outline are ameliorated by tools and experience. JQuery is a tool which helps provide consistecy. Tere are tools/documentation which describes the behavoir between the various environments. Good developers know the pitfalls and don't go overboard with CSS.
Good Web Developers win by writing applications that don't do everything correctly out of the gate, but find it easy to deploy new version and to evolve towards a successful solution.
> The more interesting aspect of all of this 'NoSQL' movement is how they believe that if they achieve some speed improvement against some relational databases, how that makes them so much better.
Or the most interesting aspect of the NoSQL movement is that many of the most successful web companies have rejected the SQL orthodoxy and achieved great success. As someone in a conservative, SQL only, environment this is interesting.
> Is there really a huge issue with rdbms speeds?
There has always been issues with database speed, we have plenty. Some are best solved by adding an index, caching some results or re-writing a query. Some might be best solved by switching to Cassandra or using the file system.
RDBMS systems did not invent ACID. There were solid ACID databases on mainframes before SQL or the relational model were thought of. The non-relational ACID databases were faster than relational databases then, and they still are after 40 years of work on relational databases.
You seem to be conflating ACID and RDBMS. ACID is not free. However there are many issues with the relational model and with the SQL implementations that additionally negatively impact performance.
The relational model provides a logical model for data. This model if sometimes less convenient than other models (Object Oriented etc.). This model is frequently harder to provider an efficient implementation for than other models (key/value etc.).
It is likely that the SQL vendors will respond by claims. Claims are free. They won't respond with a low cost, fully scalable, Oracle App Engine with an SQL backend, running on low cost commodity hardware, with low administration costs. They won't because they can't.
From what I can tell Google's Big Table is more ACID than your banks Oracle. Big Table commits on two node before it considers its write successful. Your banks Oracle commits on one and schedules replication to Arizona for as soon as possible.
Certainly indicates that the value of the audio quality is low for some non-zero subset of people under those circumstances. Perhaps before you lay down some cash you should find out if you are one of them.
It is pretty hard to see how Perl relates to Scala.
Scala has static types for a start.
Scala does not just enable functional programming and OO, it assumes you want to use those, and burdens the language with tools to push you in those directions.
Perl hardly pushes you anywhere.
For example Scala has ways two different keywords to create identifiers, one that allows rebinding, and a standard, *functional* one, which does not.
You are attacking a symptom. The disease is the lack of respect and value for women and girls.
The government can deliver positive economic outcomes for having girls. Girls in these countries can get a baby bonus, subsidized heath care, and priority access to education, and work.
If Intel gets more expensive then more customers will buy AMD.
Intel does not want AMD to increase their share of the market, so they will cut their profit by 1 billion dollars, and think about the tactics they use.
The USA today gives freedom for homosexuals, blacks, women, native Americans and everyone else that the the founding fathers could not even dream of.
European social democrats have not turned most of Europe into third world states. In fact they have ensured Europeans have higher levels of freedom than those in the USA, with less restrictions on Alcohol, Drugs, prostitution, lower levels of incarceration, etc. Parts of Europe are also wealthier than the US also.
Both of the scenarios you outlined are way beyond unlikely.
Speaking as a citizen who has responsibilities for determining laws, I won't prioritize the needs of authors, I will prioritize the quality and accessibility of books.
So far you have not convinced me your books worthwhile (See other replies to your work message on Slashdot).
Speaking as a consumer I can't find your book and won't buy it.
Speaking as a potential author, one reason potential rewards are low is the inefficiency of the publishing system, which google will improve with this service.
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I think the business model is different.
Intel makes complete CPU products and sells them. ARM sells chip designs which customer then use in custom chips for their phones.
Maybe Intel would be better trying to compete with Apple and Samsung rather than with ARM.
Windows shops need software now, but they might the software to last a while. They also might like there software to run on some iPads that the Sales team are buying. So perhaps they might look at other options, like HTML UI's for applications where that is appropriate.
The only real work for me is developing software. Others do different things than me and feel they are doing real work.
Isn't this the point though? Every real, valuable service can be delivered over high quality copper now, and over wireless soon, so the NBN is not valuable from a technical standpoint. Its value in creating a democratically controlled network is a different question.
If I was in power I would invest heavily in the postal system on the expectation that online sales will increase, and that while some online purchases, like games, books, videos, and music do not require physical delivery others do.
> 1.) iPads are not replacements for PCs.
iPads are not a replacement for this PC. But they are for some people who use their PC's for different things than me.
So the question is what % of PCs can be replaced by iPads.
Many business applications run via a web page.
No-one from IT touches the iPads owned in my team.
As for advantages, iPads turn on instantly, and 3G is more common than it is with Laptops.
One person I know from an IT department loves iPads. It is a tool their users love, that get stuff done at lower prices, with a much lower cost of ownership than laptops. But they do also write application that run on the iPad.
Exponential growth is where growth is a factor of the current economic size. So say we keep investing a good % of our income in increasing our income, I think we will get exponential economic growth.
Of course we won't and can't get exponential use of energy. But the quality of our iPhone software can increase exponentially for a long time.
Exponential growth in energy usage stopped a while ago as the author stated. His point about the agricultural sector is of course wrong. Agriculture is about to experience a boom. People want better wine and food. Not more just better.
I think this is the difference between Trade Mark law and other infringements on freedom.
Trademark law can prevent these cables being marketed as HDMI. Other laws prevent them being made and sold.
I find that the annoying thing about HTML/JavaScript are that they are not brittle. Errors that in other languages would provoke an exception are siliently ignored.
To a certain extent the errors you outline are ameliorated by tools and experience. JQuery is a tool which helps provide consistecy. Tere are tools/documentation which describes the behavoir between the various environments. Good developers know the pitfalls and don't go overboard with CSS.
Good Web Developers win by writing applications that don't do everything correctly out of the gate, but find it easy to deploy new version and to evolve towards a successful solution.
> The more interesting aspect of all of this 'NoSQL' movement is how they believe that if they achieve some speed improvement against some relational databases, how that makes them so much better.
Or the most interesting aspect of the NoSQL movement is that many of the most successful web companies have rejected the SQL orthodoxy and achieved great success. As someone in a conservative, SQL only, environment this is interesting.
> Is there really a huge issue with rdbms speeds?
There has always been issues with database speed, we have plenty. Some are best solved by adding an index, caching some results or re-writing a query. Some might be best solved by switching to Cassandra or using the file system.
RDBMS systems did not invent ACID. There were solid ACID databases on mainframes before SQL or the relational model were thought of. The non-relational ACID databases were faster than relational databases then, and they still are after 40 years of work on relational databases.
You seem to be conflating ACID and RDBMS. ACID is not free. However there are many issues with the relational model and with the SQL implementations that additionally negatively impact performance.
The relational model provides a logical model for data. This model if sometimes less convenient than other models (Object Oriented etc.). This model is frequently harder to provider an efficient implementation for than other models (key/value etc.).
It is likely that the SQL vendors will respond by claims. Claims are free. They won't respond with a low cost, fully scalable, Oracle App Engine with an SQL backend, running on low cost commodity hardware, with low administration costs. They won't because they can't.
From what I can tell Google's Big Table is more ACID than your banks Oracle. Big Table commits on two node before it considers its write successful. Your banks Oracle commits on one and schedules replication to Arizona for as soon as possible.
Ocean acidification is a negative impact of CO2 pollution, but is it a direct result of CO2, rather than an indirect effect of climate change.
The best definition of species is evolving:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2009/2682256.htm
On the other hand I don't think Neanderthals were a different species.
Certainly indicates that the value of the audio quality is low for some non-zero subset of people under those circumstances. Perhaps before you lay down some cash you should find out if you are one of them.
It is pretty hard to see how Perl relates to Scala.
Scala has static types for a start.
Scala does not just enable functional programming and OO, it assumes you want to use those, and burdens the language with tools to push you in those directions.
Perl hardly pushes you anywhere.
For example Scala has ways two different keywords to create identifiers, one that allows rebinding, and a standard, *functional* one, which does not.
You are attacking a symptom. The disease is the lack of respect and value for women and girls.
The government can deliver positive economic outcomes for having girls. Girls in these countries can get a baby bonus, subsidized heath care, and priority access to education, and work.
If Intel gets more expensive then more customers will buy AMD.
Intel does not want AMD to increase their share of the market, so they will cut their profit by 1 billion dollars, and think about the tactics they use.
How about scaling to 100?
./f.py > /dev/null
#!/usr/bin/env python
def fib():
n = 0
f = 0
f_next = 1
while True:
yield (n, f)
n = n + 1
f , f_next = f_next, f + f_next
for n, f in fib():
if n > 100:
break
print(n,f)
$
$ time
real 0m0.100s
user 0m0.031s
sys 0m0.039s
$
The USA today gives freedom for homosexuals, blacks, women, native Americans and everyone else that the the founding fathers could not even dream of.
European social democrats have not turned most of Europe into third world states. In fact they have ensured Europeans have higher levels of freedom than those in the USA, with less restrictions on Alcohol, Drugs, prostitution, lower levels of incarceration, etc. Parts of Europe are also wealthier than the US also.
Both of the scenarios you outlined are way beyond unlikely.
http://www.enterprisedb.com/
ARM and IBM.
If he was making that point then it would take more than a few seconds to figure it out, so he should have made it more clear.
Speaking as a citizen who has responsibilities for determining laws, I won't prioritize the needs of authors, I will prioritize the quality and accessibility of books.
So far you have not convinced me your books worthwhile (See other replies to your work message on Slashdot).
Speaking as a consumer I can't find your book and won't buy it.
Speaking as a potential author, one reason potential rewards are low is the inefficiency of the publishing system, which google will improve with this service.