You must be bonkers and probably had experience with less critical small volume data.
Try processing 100 million records a day in a telecoms or a medium sized bank on those so called smaller systems.
Oracle and Sun are primarily catering to Enterprises, not necessarily start-ups. I have been in development for 12 years now.
Small companies always prefer open source and these smaller systems, and rightly so, who wants to pay couple of tens of thousand per CPU when Linux and MySql will do.
Enterprises where transaction are critical, government agencies monitoring them and auditors watching like a hawk, they can't risk these smaller systems. THEY HAVE TO GO BY THE BOOK. So if the database crashes and backups corrupt, they can at least say, "We got the best, what else you wanted us to do".
Europe has a larger population compared to US, yet it has a lesser amount of land to cover with cell sites.
As a result, people/tower ratio is quite good in Europe and partially contributes to better plans.
We have the exact opposite here in Canada, where the population is 10 times lesser than USA and land is larger. You should look at our plans. I am paying 25$/month for 500MB, plus anoter 45$ for voice (I'm rather lucky as I have a grand fathered plan which gives me unlimmited voice).
Today, for the kind of money (about 90$/month). I would get 1000 min and 500 MB and 250 SMS.
While working at another company we discovered we were infringing on a certain patent from palm from 1998 (I think).
Palm has an interesting patent from the days where Palm's could sync with internet content over com port or USB with a PC in the middle. This is exactly what iTunes and its Music store does to an iPod. If I was Palm AND Apple did not license this patent, I would sue Apple left, right and center. At the very least settle for Palm to inter-operate with Apple technology + get a huge sum of money from Apple just for the kicks.
I believe a lot of folks here have no Idea what Bell is doing.
Bell is not just doing it to its own customers but to Internet wholesellers who use Bell's infrastructure for the last mile to customer, something that used tax payers money to lay down in the first place.
What happened is bell was throttling their own customers, people started jumping ships, Bell was loosing customers like sand through a closed fist. When this happened they started throttling all other ISP who used Bell for the last mile. IT IS NOT BELL'S BANDWIDTH AT ALL THEY ARE THROTTLING. Beyond the last mile, the traffic is routed to the ISPs and uses ISPs bandwidth, yet Bell throttles them anyway.
This is a completely monopolistic move on Bell's part.
Bell could not compete on price or performance, so they leveled the playing feild by screwing every other ISPs performance.
Pretty much same thing happened when cell phones came around, all of a sudden, I couldn't remember anyone's phone number. I was used to look up the name in a contact list and click on dial.
Last year, my friend I went to a cottage , I reached first thanks to my tomtom, he got lost and called me for directions, I said "I dunno, the GPS got me here!". After struggling for an hour, he stepped into a big box store along the way in a small town and picked up a GPS, got there in about an hour after that.
So yah, we are becoming quite handicapped due to technology, not judging if this is a bad thing or a good thing, however if GPS were to dis-appear today, I have faith that we will recover quite soon, i.e. if GPS don't stick around long enough to effect our evolution.
If you read Koran, it is written like poetry. Idea was that it can be memorized. That idea worked out very well. People started memorizing it from day one, and there were enough people (even today) to catch any discrepancies. This has kept Koran unchanged.
Yes words in Arabic could have taken different meanings over time.
Before I criticize the iPhone, let me say, it is an excellent web browsing device and adequate for phone calls.
Now the criticism.
As a communication device, iPhone really sucks.
Nokia Phone calls: check Video calls: check Share pictures online: check Share live video feeds to website right from phone (Qik): check Send/Receive/Forward MMS: check/check/check Send/Receive/Forward SMS: check/check/check Load videos to youtube: check Many chat applications: check Webbrowsing: check
iPhone Phone calls: check Video calls: not supported Share pictures online: not supported Share live video feeds to website right from phone: not supported Send/Receive/Forward MMS: not supported/not supported/not supported Send/Receive/Forward SMS: check/check/not supported Load videos to youtube: not supported Many chat applications: only on jail broken iPhones Webbrowsing: check
What C programmers and programmers fail to realize it that there is something called time to Market, something called budget. An excellent example is iPhone. Even today, competitors have failed to relise why it sells and keep coming with iPhone killers. At the same time iPhone is gaining a market share that will give it dominance.
This is where low level languages suck.
I challenge you a bit differently, get 10 developers and code an enterprise level app with all the business/security requirement, do it in C, do it on budget and do it on time.
Ummmm... Doesn't this battery, even if vapourware defeat the purpose of going hybrid or pure electrical in cars.
Today, cars run very clean, they often emit cleaner air than they breath in. They do however produce Carbon Dioxide, a greenhouse gas. The goal is to reduce this green house gas.
What are we gaining here if we switch to electric yet still produce CO2, article claims, the battery takes in oxygen and reacts with carbon, I only know of two reaction between Carbon and Oxygen. One produces Carbon mono oxide, the other carbon dioxide. In all likely hood this produces CO2.
So whats the point of this battery!
We come a full circle and continue to screw up earth (i.e. if we really are screwing it up by CO2)
Actually I am kinda of a non-creationist believer in god.
My theory goes along the lines that god created a self adjusting system we know as universe.
Big-bang is one of the leading theories of how our universe came into existence, yet in this universe, as we see, energy matter can be converted from one to the other but no one has yet created it out of nothing.
Once we do, I will consider stop believing in god.
Further, at the end of a day, God is a superior entity if he creates a self evolving system instead of building the Universe like lego. For God to be truly superior, one master calculation and a go is enough to direct universe the way he wants. After all he is all powerful.
Slashdot Mirror
Jim So much for mirrors
...they used a Perl script to convert Python to Javascript.
I don't know if I should mark this Funny or Interesting
Don't underestimate the throughput of a wagon full of data tapes speeding down a freeway.
This story is Bullshit,.
I have been following a documentary where they found Atlantis in another Galaxy and there are life sucking aliens investation there.
But does it run Linux?
You must be bonkers and probably had experience with less critical small volume data.
Try processing 100 million records a day in a telecoms or a medium sized bank on those so called smaller systems.
Oracle and Sun are primarily catering to Enterprises, not necessarily start-ups. I have been in development for 12 years now.
Small companies always prefer open source and these smaller systems, and rightly so, who wants to pay couple of tens of thousand per CPU when Linux and MySql will do.
Enterprises where transaction are critical, government agencies monitoring them and auditors watching like a hawk, they can't risk these smaller systems. THEY HAVE TO GO BY THE BOOK. So if the database crashes and backups corrupt, they can at least say, "We got the best, what else you wanted us to do".
Its not Godo Frock..
Its Go Do Frock
Personally, every time I go do a Frock the neighbors complain.
And the finer point.
It costs money to put up these towers.
Europe has a larger population compared to US, yet it has a lesser amount of land to cover with cell sites.
As a result, people/tower ratio is quite good in Europe and partially contributes to better plans.
We have the exact opposite here in Canada, where the population is 10 times lesser than USA and land is larger. You should look at our plans. I am paying 25$/month for 500MB, plus anoter 45$ for voice (I'm rather lucky as I have a grand fathered plan which gives me unlimmited voice).
Today, for the kind of money (about 90$/month). I would get 1000 min and 500 MB and 250 SMS.
While working at another company we discovered we were infringing on a certain patent from palm from 1998 (I think).
Palm has an interesting patent from the days where Palm's could sync with internet content over com port or USB with a PC in the middle. This is exactly what iTunes and its Music store does to an iPod. If I was Palm AND Apple did not license this patent, I would sue Apple left, right and center. At the very least settle for Palm to inter-operate with Apple technology + get a huge sum of money from Apple just for the kicks.
I believe a lot of folks here have no Idea what Bell is doing.
Bell is not just doing it to its own customers but to Internet wholesellers who use Bell's infrastructure for the last mile to customer, something that used tax payers money to lay down in the first place.
What happened is bell was throttling their own customers, people started jumping ships, Bell was loosing customers like sand through a closed fist. When this happened they started throttling all other ISP who used Bell for the last mile. IT IS NOT BELL'S BANDWIDTH AT ALL THEY ARE THROTTLING. Beyond the last mile, the traffic is routed to the ISPs and uses ISPs bandwidth, yet Bell throttles them anyway.
This is a completely monopolistic move on Bell's part.
Bell could not compete on price or performance, so they leveled the playing feild by screwing every other ISPs performance.
What the grandparent is trying to say is "Yes".
Pretty much same thing happened when cell phones came around, all of a sudden, I couldn't remember anyone's phone number. I was used to look up the name in a contact list and click on dial.
Last year, my friend I went to a cottage , I reached first thanks to my tomtom, he got lost and called me for directions, I said "I dunno, the GPS got me here!". After struggling for an hour, he stepped into a big box store along the way in a small town and picked up a GPS, got there in about an hour after that.
So yah, we are becoming quite handicapped due to technology, not judging if this is a bad thing or a good thing, however if GPS were to dis-appear today, I have faith that we will recover quite soon, i.e. if GPS don't stick around long enough to effect our evolution.
At 110 kilograms, how far will it fly when it gets T-boned by a Hummer?
The entire car weighs less than an overweight American.
So it all depends if an overweight American is sitting in the Sahimo.
If you read Koran, it is written like poetry. Idea was that it can be memorized. That idea worked out very well. People started memorizing it from day one, and there were enough people (even today) to catch any discrepancies. This has kept Koran unchanged.
Yes words in Arabic could have taken different meanings over time.
Except Muslims eat Halal beef, McDonalds is still screwed.
http://xkcd.com/171/
I have a slogan for Apple devices, and I do use Apple products, but I did move from and iPhone to N95 and was more than pleasantly surprised.
What appeases people about apple is that it does two things only, but it is really user friendly at doing these two things.
N95 on the other hand has too much overwhelming functionality for Joe the plumber to handle.
That is also why iPhone has been successful.
Before I criticize the iPhone, let me say, it is an excellent web browsing device and adequate for phone calls.
Now the criticism.
As a communication device, iPhone really sucks.
Nokia
Phone calls: check
Video calls: check
Share pictures online: check
Share live video feeds to website right from phone (Qik): check
Send/Receive/Forward MMS: check/check/check
Send/Receive/Forward SMS: check/check/check
Load videos to youtube: check
Many chat applications: check
Webbrowsing: check
iPhone
Phone calls: check
Video calls: not supported
Share pictures online: not supported
Share live video feeds to website right from phone: not supported
Send/Receive/Forward MMS: not supported/not supported/not supported
Send/Receive/Forward SMS: check/check/not supported
Load videos to youtube: not supported
Many chat applications: only on jail broken iPhones
Webbrowsing: check
What C programmers and programmers fail to realize it that there is something called time to Market, something called budget. An excellent example is iPhone. Even today, competitors have failed to relise why it sells and keep coming with iPhone killers. At the same time iPhone is gaining a market share that will give it dominance.
This is where low level languages suck.
I challenge you a bit differently, get 10 developers and code an enterprise level app with all the business/security requirement, do it in C, do it on budget and do it on time.
This is where C is lagging behind.
Ummmm... Doesn't this battery, even if vapourware defeat the purpose of going hybrid or pure electrical in cars.
Today, cars run very clean, they often emit cleaner air than they breath in. They do however produce Carbon Dioxide, a greenhouse gas. The goal is to reduce this green house gas.
What are we gaining here if we switch to electric yet still produce CO2, article claims, the battery takes in oxygen and reacts with carbon, I only know of two reaction between Carbon and Oxygen. One produces Carbon mono oxide, the other carbon dioxide. In all likely hood this produces CO2.
So whats the point of this battery!
We come a full circle and continue to screw up earth (i.e. if we really are screwing it up by CO2)
is that me or is that a housefly on an orange.
Actually I am kinda of a non-creationist believer in god.
My theory goes along the lines that god created a self adjusting system we know as universe.
Big-bang is one of the leading theories of how our universe came into existence, yet in this universe, as we see, energy matter can be converted from one to the other but no one has yet created it out of nothing.
Once we do, I will consider stop believing in god.
Further, at the end of a day, God is a superior entity if he creates a self evolving system instead of building the Universe like lego. For God to be truly superior, one master calculation and a go is enough to direct universe the way he wants. After all he is all powerful.
I was thinking WoPho
but then figured MoPho is more catchy
Q: Hey whats the capital of Uganda?
A: Go MoPho.
The United states has money....
uhm....
The United states had money....
There Corrected it for ya
This is so ludicrous that not even Congress could pass it.
I think you are putting way too much trust in Congress.