No, the problem is that the "real issues" you are talking about are things that 99% of your typical DBAs will never see in their lifetime, because they work at a church or a pharmacy or a box factory.
It's great that Facebook and Google and eBay need map-reduce and Erlang and something more scalable than SQL Server Express or Berkeley DB. But they are the exception, not the rule. Excoriating people for pointing that out is, at best, irrelevant and at worst harmful to the idea of alternative data storage mechanisms.
I'm not picking on you directly, I see it as a larger symptom, that somehow because SQL/RBDMS is not ideal for certain projects, that it should be abandoned at all levels, sooner rather than later, even though there's 40+ years of RDBMS architecture manuals, best practices, knowledge bases, 3rd party apps, "SQL for Dummies", and so on to help the involuntary DBA succeed without having to figure out Cassandra.
I guess my concern is that a lot of small businesses and shops will see something like this, will think, "You know, our Access database sucks," and try to port themselves over to this, and guess what? The learning curve here is a lot steeper than SQL (the *academic* side of SQL-alternatives is just now getting into 3rd gear), the business case for it is pretty poor in most cases, and you'll end up with a lot of people wasting time trying to get Erlang processes going instead of just migrating to MySQL and keep on carrying on. There's way too much "Rah, Rah, Death to SQL" being attached to these new things, and to me it seems overblown.
But you know, I'm optimistic. 5 years from now, it may be a different ball game altogether, and then us DBAs just have more things to learn and to do.
First off, the major issue people have with video game violence is that it leads to desensitization - people who are less emotional about video game deaths tend to show less emotional response when presented with actual real-life violence. So, way to get the basic premise wrong.
Secondly, you get the other basic part of the premise wrong, which is that "brains making disconnects" between video games and real life is a formative experience - you aren't innately born with it - and that since video games are primarily played by children, they're worried that they are short-circuiting that very disconnect that most people develop.
Thirdly, way to co-opt their " the type of people that X" argumentation style, which makes your point just as invalid as theirs.
Fourthly, way to use yourself as a "plural of anecdote is data" fallacy.
C'mon, I know that I personally am not affected by video game violence (I generally avoid those types of games), but that doesn't mean no one else is, or that the CUMULATIVE effect of video game violence might (or might not) lead to increased real world violence.
Being dismissive of that sort of thing because you just can't see yourself doing it means we might as well not have the fields of anthropology or psychology or economics. Why bother trying to learn how other people act, right?
So... back to the original point (and the original article): for the most common of those "non-computer computers" (cellphone, camcorder, camera, GPS, music/video player) is 256MB sufficient?
Will a 250GB drive be sufficient in 2020? Most likely not, except as a kind of portable drive. Bandwidth expansion, data preservation, increased resolution and fidelity, customer demands, and the increasing integration and synchronization between devices that you directly acknowledge will push us towards bigger and bigger drives.
The transaction itself doesn't have to be held up, but if the EU rules it violates anti-trust, they won't be allowed to do business in the EU. Kind of a mood-killer, if you will.
Assuming that it was a standard sampling royalty contract, then no, whoever holds the copyright to Collins's song can do with it what they please, via physical or electronic media.
... And I and a lot of other non-idiots will be glad to take advantage of people in the dystopian future who believe hunks of metal have intrinsic value in a barter economy.
A) how often do you make those trips? B) Would you not agree that people whose relatives live more like 100-200 miles away visit them more often than you do yours because they are closer?
C'mon, man, don't extrapolate your anecdotal evidence into data.
You are the "With some rare exception" the GP is talking about. Can't you recognize that?
Really? For me, getting just the single service Internet was at laest $20 cheaper, even with all the ridiculous lock-in specials Comcast offers. Which saved me enough for a Netflix account, which with all the TV on Hulu is all I really need for entertainment.
Or even better, by this logic someone else witnessing the crime wouldn't be allowed because the actual act of committing the crime is a form of self-incrimination if someone observes you doing it without your permission.
Witness the original TECMO Bowl, which had rights with the NFLPA to use Walter Payton, Marcus Allen, Dan Marino, Lawrence Taylor's names, etc. but had to make up team names for them ("Cleveland Dragons" all the way!)
Umm... have you played an EA NCAA football game? They clearly use the exact players from the collegiate teams to make up their rosters (even the backups) - they get their hometowns right, their listed heights and weight, their skin color, even their hairstyles, and of course, their jersey numbers and positions. Then they name them "#15" instead of Tim Tebow and don't pay him anything for the privilege.
The chief issue here is whether or not it is legal for the NCAA (a non-profit organization presumably there to look out for the interests of its amateur athletes) to license out amateur players' images to video game companies.
Or more importantly why players aren't allowed to opt out of having their image recreated for the game if they so choose.
There are arguments for both sides, but don't demean Mr. Keller's arguments by calling this a nuisance suit.
People who plan pregnancies are not likely to try to target November - January, because it's cold and they won't want their babies birth close to Christmas and Thanksgiving.
(Score:3, Interesting)
I guess "random statement about planned pregnancies that makes no sense when you read it twice" is the same as "interesting" these days? Kind of like the beardy guy smelling like underpass spouting not-real-Bible-quotes at me. "Yes, yes, very interesting... please let go of my sweater. No, no more crazy, I am full, thanks."
Does "without concern" over the final cost also include a lack of concern for being hounded by collection agencies and driven into bankruptcy for failure to pay? Good luck buying a car to drive you to the ER next time!
Does "receive full treatment" mean waiting 12 hours and then dying in the ER lobby waiting for attention? (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/02/national/main4227468.shtml)
Do you go to the ER for cervical cancer screenings? No? So you arrive there with advanced treatment, they offer you no hope, and you go home to die, for want of some affordable-on-insurance preventive visits?
Are there both cheaper and more humane ways of getting health care? Holy fuck are there ever, my friend.
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No, the problem is that the "real issues" you are talking about are things that 99% of your typical DBAs will never see in their lifetime, because they work at a church or a pharmacy or a box factory.
It's great that Facebook and Google and eBay need map-reduce and Erlang and something more scalable than SQL Server Express or Berkeley DB. But they are the exception, not the rule. Excoriating people for pointing that out is, at best, irrelevant and at worst harmful to the idea of alternative data storage mechanisms.
I'm not picking on you directly, I see it as a larger symptom, that somehow because SQL/RBDMS is not ideal for certain projects, that it should be abandoned at all levels, sooner rather than later, even though there's 40+ years of RDBMS architecture manuals, best practices, knowledge bases, 3rd party apps, "SQL for Dummies", and so on to help the involuntary DBA succeed without having to figure out Cassandra.
I guess my concern is that a lot of small businesses and shops will see something like this, will think, "You know, our Access database sucks," and try to port themselves over to this, and guess what? The learning curve here is a lot steeper than SQL (the *academic* side of SQL-alternatives is just now getting into 3rd gear), the business case for it is pretty poor in most cases, and you'll end up with a lot of people wasting time trying to get Erlang processes going instead of just migrating to MySQL and keep on carrying on. There's way too much "Rah, Rah, Death to SQL" being attached to these new things, and to me it seems overblown.
But you know, I'm optimistic. 5 years from now, it may be a different ball game altogether, and then us DBAs just have more things to learn and to do.
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
Man, if we come up with one or two more anecdotes, we might have some data!
Yay, I hope a bunch of neighborhood amateurs can come up with Seven Samurai!
This type of thinking will eventually lead to the creation of things whose cost is zero and no higher.
Sounds great!
Wow.
First off, the major issue people have with video game violence is that it leads to desensitization - people who are less emotional about video game deaths tend to show less emotional response when presented with actual real-life violence. So, way to get the basic premise wrong.
Secondly, you get the other basic part of the premise wrong, which is that "brains making disconnects" between video games and real life is a formative experience - you aren't innately born with it - and that since video games are primarily played by children, they're worried that they are short-circuiting that very disconnect that most people develop.
Thirdly, way to co-opt their " the type of people that X" argumentation style, which makes your point just as invalid as theirs.
Fourthly, way to use yourself as a "plural of anecdote is data" fallacy.
C'mon, I know that I personally am not affected by video game violence (I generally avoid those types of games), but that doesn't mean no one else is, or that the CUMULATIVE effect of video game violence might (or might not) lead to increased real world violence.
Being dismissive of that sort of thing because you just can't see yourself doing it means we might as well not have the fields of anthropology or psychology or economics. Why bother trying to learn how other people act, right?
How fucking unscientific.
So ... back to the original point (and the original article): for the most common of those "non-computer computers" (cellphone, camcorder, camera, GPS, music/video player) is 256MB sufficient?
Will a 250GB drive be sufficient in 2020? Most likely not, except as a kind of portable drive. Bandwidth expansion, data preservation, increased resolution and fidelity, customer demands, and the increasing integration and synchronization between devices that you directly acknowledge will push us towards bigger and bigger drives.
Oh, I'm sorry, is 256MB good enough for a gaming console / mobile phone these days?
At least address the original point.
It's called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
The transaction itself doesn't have to be held up, but if the EU rules it violates anti-trust, they won't be allowed to do business in the EU. Kind of a mood-killer, if you will.
Winston loved Big Brother.
Do you not understand what the word "inalienable" means?
Assuming that it was a standard sampling royalty contract, then no, whoever holds the copyright to Collins's song can do with it what they please, via physical or electronic media.
... And I and a lot of other non-idiots will be glad to take advantage of people in the dystopian future who believe hunks of metal have intrinsic value in a barter economy.
A) how often do you make those trips?
B) Would you not agree that people whose relatives live more like 100-200 miles away visit them more often than you do yours because they are closer?
C'mon, man, don't extrapolate your anecdotal evidence into data.
You are the "With some rare exception" the GP is talking about. Can't you recognize that?
"(or something)." Nice trolling.
Really? For me, getting just the single service Internet was at laest $20 cheaper, even with all the ridiculous lock-in specials Comcast offers. Which saved me enough for a Netflix account, which with all the TV on Hulu is all I really need for entertainment.
Or even better, by this logic someone else witnessing the crime wouldn't be allowed because the actual act of committing the crime is a form of self-incrimination if someone observes you doing it without your permission.
Really? Condescending to Slashdot readers by assuming they haven't read 1984?
That's like asking Albert Einstein if he was aware of this so-called "atom" business.
Do you think games without DLC aren't functioning games?
Witness the original TECMO Bowl, which had rights with the NFLPA to use Walter Payton, Marcus Allen, Dan Marino, Lawrence Taylor's names, etc. but had to make up team names for them ("Cleveland Dragons" all the way!)
Actually, you couldn't be more wrong.
Umm ... have you played an EA NCAA football game? They clearly use the exact players from the collegiate teams to make up their rosters (even the backups) - they get their hometowns right, their listed heights and weight, their skin color, even their hairstyles, and of course, their jersey numbers and positions. Then they name them "#15" instead of Tim Tebow and don't pay him anything for the privilege.
The chief issue here is whether or not it is legal for the NCAA (a non-profit organization presumably there to look out for the interests of its amateur athletes) to license out amateur players' images to video game companies.
Or more importantly why players aren't allowed to opt out of having their image recreated for the game if they so choose.
There are arguments for both sides, but don't demean Mr. Keller's arguments by calling this a nuisance suit.
People who plan pregnancies are not likely to try to target November - January, because it's cold and they won't want their babies birth close to Christmas and Thanksgiving.
(Score:3, Interesting)
I guess "random statement about planned pregnancies that makes no sense when you read it twice" is the same as "interesting" these days? Kind of like the beardy guy smelling like underpass spouting not-real-Bible-quotes at me. "Yes, yes, very interesting ... please let go of my sweater. No, no more crazy, I am full, thanks."
First off: Coke and Pepsi own most fruit juice brands, too.
Secondly: Do you think giving your money to Anheuser-Busch, Guinness, or Ernest Gallo is some big improvement over Coke and Pepsi?
New boss, meet the old boss.
Does "without concern" over the final cost also include a lack of concern for being hounded by collection agencies and driven into bankruptcy for failure to pay? Good luck buying a car to drive you to the ER next time!
Does "receive full treatment" mean waiting 12 hours and then dying in the ER lobby waiting for attention? (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/02/national/main4227468.shtml)
Do you go to the ER for cervical cancer screenings? No? So you arrive there with advanced treatment, they offer you no hope, and you go home to die, for want of some affordable-on-insurance preventive visits?
Are there both cheaper and more humane ways of getting health care? Holy fuck are there ever, my friend.