I noticed that the speech was given at a Security Council meeting, yet nowhere in TFA did they mention anything about security. President Medvedev talked about building better airplanes but it seems he glossed over the security concerns.
It's an incredibly huge security issue for them. If our supercomputers spank their supercomputers, then we can decrypt their traffic but they cannot decrypt ours. They might as well just blog their state secrets in clear text.
Always consider what they're not saying. That's the really important stuff.
"They're growing at an incredible rate,' said Kevin Schawinski, a postdoctoral associate at Yale and one of Galaxy Zoo's founders.
I'm just an ignorant computer geek, so I'd like to know how these galaxies are growing.
Are they simply superdense and spawn new stars as they expand? Or are they drawing material from some outside source?
Here's my totally crackpot theory: Green Pea galaxies are fed from "white holes" (tm) that spew raw material into the nascent galaxy. These "white holes" (tm) are connected via wormholes to black holes. The raw material gets sucked into the black hole, transits the connecting wormhole, and then gets spewed out the "white hole" (tm) into the center of the Green Pea. That's totally hot! No applause please, just hand me my honorary Ph. D. in astrophysics.
The single biggest factor driving health care costs in America is the corruption of doctors. Too many doctors are on the take from Big Pharma.
I personally know one who makes millions dispensing medicines pushed by the pharmaceutical companies. He owns a big house in the Westchester, a swank apartment on the Upper East Side, 2 BMW's, a Mercedes, pays hefty child support, alimony (which includes a third mortgage on his ex-wife's big house in Westchester), and he parties like a freak.
He's not even a surgeon. How does he make so much money? By accepting kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies for the medicines he prescribes and dispenses (his specialty allows him to dispense certain injections to relieve back pain.)
All this guy does is inject people's backs with something that is clearly ineffective, and then refers them on to his surgeon buddy when the injections don't work. What a scam!
He bragged to me on several occassions, while drunk, how the Big Pharma companies wined and dined him in super-expensive Manhattan restaurants, and how they paid for ultra-luxurious island vacations. I know there was more he wasn't telling me.
I met another "doctor" who actually just owned a bunch of clinics in NJ. He was the dumbest son-of-a-bitch I have ever met, and he walked, talked and dressed like a wiseguy. Yet he drove 2 Rolls-Royces and invested heavily in porn sites and strip clubs in FL. He was scary, really scary, yet he was a "leader in quality private health care in the greater NJ region". *shiver*
It's time we cracked down on medical waste and fraud.
Absolutely. That codeine is da bomb! It's the only cough syrup that really works.
When I get bronchitis, which is about once a year right at the end of winter/start of spring, I avoid antibiotics and hit the codeine cough syrup (sparingly) at night so I can sleep without a wracking cough.
Your health problems are most likely caused by your obsessive over-exercising. Running is overall bad for you. The high-impact shock is ballistic. Try backing off on the exercise a little and switching to something less ballistic, lower-impact.
And if you insist on running in cold weather, keep your throat covered.
I never saw the Huffington Post until today. I've heard of it of course but never read it until I saw it mentioned here on/.
I voted for Obama. I voted for Bush. You cannot call me biased on way or the other. Stupid perhaps, but never biased.
My first thought when I hit their main page was, "WTF?" It has to be the ugliest, most poorly designed and confusing "news" site I have ever seen. It looks absolutely crappy.
My second thought was, "are these all op-ed pieces or are there some actual news articles here?" At the very least it's terribly misleading.
My third thought was, "what exactly is their bias?" I had to come back here to/. and read the comments before I realized that it's a left-leaning site. Maybe that's a good thing but my gut tells me it's just more confusion.
Actually my first thought was that Ms. Huffington is not a very good writer. She uses phrases like "all the more" and leans way too heavily on the comma key.
Overall I would give the site a credibility rating of: poor. I don't expect to go back.
I stopped reading cnn.com because their editing is so poor. Plus it's written at the 2nd or 3rd-grade reading level, and their stories are so diluted that reading them is almost a complete waste of time.
I read the NYtimes.com because I'm a New Yorker, plus their writing and editing are decent. OK so they have a liberal bias but at least they try to represent both sides of the political fence. Some of their staff writers are hardcore conservatives.
So now where do I go for balanced journalism? The only thing worthwhile that I got out of Huffington was the list of links to news sites that appears at the bottom of the page. Maybe I'll find what I'm looking for among those links.
I only know Oracle but I've known it since version 5.0. Intimately. I haven't read the book but I read the review. Here are a few tips I've learned over the decades that you might find useful, just in case they aren't covered in the book:
1) You have to establish a general rule of thumb for each production db whereby any one sql that consumes more than x% of the db resources needs to be tuned. The value of x varies from db to db. If it cannot be tuned below x% then it needs to be refactored.
2) Learn to use stored outlines. If you can get them to work they will save your ass and make you look like a total hero.
3) Never turn your back on the optimizer. Really. Even for simple queries, even with the deepest stats.
4) Bind variables are a necessity for high-repetition sql. Bind variables are something you might want to avoid for reports queries for which the optimal plans depend on the user input values. This is because a sql's plan is cached along with it the first time it is parsed, and if you use bind variables then the first plan you get is the plan you will always get so long as the sql remains in the shared pool.
(You can sometimes work around this issue by turning off bind variable peeking, but consider doing it on a per-session basis instead of changing it system-wide. Scary!)
5) Nowadays a 32GB SGA is no big thing. Get yourselves a ton o' RAM and set up a keep pool in the buffer cache to pin your most important reporting indexes and tables. Partition your big reporting tables and maintain a sliding window of the most recent partition(s) in the keep pool.
6) No sorting to-disk. Ever. If you cannot let the session have the PGA it needs to sort the query in memory then the SQL needs to be "refactored".
7) Once you have eliminated most of the physical disk reads it then becomes all about the buffer gets (BG's). When disk reads are low the high-logical-BG queries immediately become the new top SQL. This is because logical BG's are all CPU and your db is now cpu-bound, which is right where you want it. So from this point it's back to item #1 and we prune and tune (thanks KG!)
I could go on all day. Perhaps I should write a book?
I tried to RTFA but it's slashdotted. How do I hook this cool new Gdrive into my Android apps that I'd like to write? It seems it would be really nice to be able to store an app's content on the web instead of on the PDA, where space is rather limited.
I understand that it is accessible via http, so I'm guessing that I simply broadcast an intent for the browser and it returns the file? But if it's an actual filesystem then how would I mount a drive on it via Android?
This post was "insightful"? It seems that most/.'ers know a whole lot about computers but not a whole lot about history.
Israel exists today because the Jews of Olde Palestine, after the end of WWII, defended themselves against an onslaught of poorly organized and underequipped Muslims whose sole stated purpose, widely published and publicized, was to "push all of the Jews of Palestine into the sea." This is a fact. Go to the libraries and check the microfiche. It's all there.
The British were pulling out, abandoning Palestine and leaving its Jewish population to hang. At the time everyone assumed that the Muslims would take advantage of the power vacuum, sweep in behind the retreating Brits and then wipe out the Jews. Again these opinions were well documented at the time.
Instead what happened is that the Jews organized themselves and fought back fiercely and in the end conquered Palestine.
It had nothing to do with any scripture. It had nothing to do with the UN or the US or the Native Americans. Your post is false. You have no idea what you are writing about.
People must wake up and realize that we allow the corps to employ us at OUR sufferance, not the other way around. Do not let them make you think they are doing you some huge favor by employing you. It's the other way around.
I think that, more fundamentally, a sense of pain is a human's and perhaps any creature's first step towards awareness. This seems to be what they have instilled in this new robot. All it takes from there is a decent AI to learn from the pain, et voila.
The process you are referring to is called chemical vapor deposition (CVD). I read about in on/. a couple of years ago (I think.) It's extremely cool. The chemicals involved are wicked.
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Oracle will probably package their own Linux distro along with their db software. They probably will not charge extra for their Oracle linux, and will probably only support it if you have an Oracle license.
It is a logical progression. They are already doing something similar with their ocfs, which they recommend for 10g clustered db's on Linux. You can download and play with ocfs all you want, just don't ask for help unless you have a db license.
Keep in mind that Oracle only "supports" Red Hat as far as the kernel. And only if you do not modify your kernel. They support nothing at all in userland outside of their own software. They don't even support lvm. And by "support" I mean they will answer your technical questions and try to help you troubleshoot kernel issues, but it does not mean they are going to distribute patches to the Red Hat kernels.
However if they do maintain their own kernel, then perhaps it would get patched as quickly as their db software. Plus, I would feel better running ocfs if I could be certain that Oracle really knows what it's doing with Linux.
I am not religious, so please don't take this the wrong way. But why must we assume that our theories of soft-tissue preservation are incorrect, rather than our theories of radio carbon-dating fossils?
Click fraud detection is not so difficult. You don't have to examine "...deep psychological processes, subtle nuances of human behavior and other considerations in the mind of the clicking person..." That's just a bunch of academic navel-gazing.
All you have to do is focus on the publishers who are profiting from click fraud. If a no-name site is getting a disproportionate amount of click traffic, then you know something is wrong. And it's only the no-name sites that commit click fraud. Large, well established websites have nothing to gain by click fraud.
Google's problem is that they do not screen their publishers. Screening would actually cost money, and would also limit their click revenue. So they let any sleazebag with a website sign up for their pay-per-click programs. That's why they have so much click fraud.
The article was not clear on exactly what kind of "support" Oracle will offer. I infer from Mr. Ellison's quote that they will be offering one-off patches or perhaps interim revs of Red Hat products. But is he referring to patching just the kernel, or everything in the RHEL distro, or perhaps only those tools and packages that are relevant for a database? Just how useful will this support be?
Oracle already "supports" any Linux kernel, so long as the kernel complies with Oracle's requirements. But they only go so far as allowing a customer to open a support request (SR) for an obvious kernel issue. If you have issues with anything in userland then you're on your own. Of course if you modify your kernel, Oracle will not spend any time helping you with kernel issues. Will any of this change when they start "supporting" Red Hat?
China's economy is propped up by their infinite supply of brutally cheap labor. If they were to open more colleges and allow more people to earn college degrees, then their cheap labor supply would become finite. A certain while after the labor pool becomes finite, its cheapness starts to evaporate. Eventually they would be forced to compete economically on a level playing field with the rest of the world, and they know they cannot do that. At least not yet.
Long term, China knows it must catch up with the west technologically, and soon, before the west's technological lead becomes insurmountable. In order to catch up, China is going to need a lot more science and engineering universities, with a lot of money pouring into them. It will be very interesting to watch how China addresses this dilemma.
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Or it could be good old disinformation. It's hard to believe that the Fed's firewalls allow P2P traffic.
I noticed that the speech was given at a Security Council meeting, yet nowhere in TFA did they mention anything about security. President Medvedev talked about building better airplanes but it seems he glossed over the security concerns.
It's an incredibly huge security issue for them. If our supercomputers spank their supercomputers, then we can decrypt their traffic but they cannot decrypt ours. They might as well just blog their state secrets in clear text.
Always consider what they're not saying. That's the really important stuff.
"They're growing at an incredible rate,' said Kevin Schawinski, a postdoctoral associate at Yale and one of Galaxy Zoo's founders.
I'm just an ignorant computer geek, so I'd like to know how these galaxies are growing.
Are they simply superdense and spawn new stars as they expand? Or are they drawing material from some outside source?
Here's my totally crackpot theory: Green Pea galaxies are fed from "white holes" (tm) that spew raw material into the nascent galaxy. These "white holes" (tm) are connected via wormholes to black holes. The raw material gets sucked into the black hole, transits the connecting wormhole, and then gets spewed out the "white hole" (tm) into the center of the Green Pea. That's totally hot! No applause please, just hand me my honorary Ph. D. in astrophysics.
That's so cool.
I totally agree. Endorphins mask pain, and aggression releases endorphins. Done!
The single biggest factor driving health care costs in America is the corruption of doctors. Too many doctors are on the take from Big Pharma.
I personally know one who makes millions dispensing medicines pushed by the pharmaceutical companies. He owns a big house in the Westchester, a swank apartment on the Upper East Side, 2 BMW's, a Mercedes, pays hefty child support, alimony (which includes a third mortgage on his ex-wife's big house in Westchester), and he parties like a freak.
He's not even a surgeon. How does he make so much money? By accepting kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies for the medicines he prescribes and dispenses (his specialty allows him to dispense certain injections to relieve back pain.)
All this guy does is inject people's backs with something that is clearly ineffective, and then refers them on to his surgeon buddy when the injections don't work. What a scam!
He bragged to me on several occassions, while drunk, how the Big Pharma companies wined and dined him in super-expensive Manhattan restaurants, and how they paid for ultra-luxurious island vacations. I know there was more he wasn't telling me.
I met another "doctor" who actually just owned a bunch of clinics in NJ. He was the dumbest son-of-a-bitch I have ever met, and he walked, talked and dressed like a wiseguy. Yet he drove 2 Rolls-Royces and invested heavily in porn sites and strip clubs in FL. He was scary, really scary, yet he was a "leader in quality private health care in the greater NJ region". *shiver*
It's time we cracked down on medical waste and fraud.
Absolutely. That codeine is da bomb! It's the only cough syrup that really works.
When I get bronchitis, which is about once a year right at the end of winter/start of spring, I avoid antibiotics and hit the codeine cough syrup (sparingly) at night so I can sleep without a wracking cough.
Your health problems are most likely caused by your obsessive over-exercising. Running is overall bad for you. The high-impact shock is ballistic. Try backing off on the exercise a little and switching to something less ballistic, lower-impact. And if you insist on running in cold weather, keep your throat covered.
I never saw the Huffington Post until today. I've heard of it of course but never read it until I saw it mentioned here on /.
I voted for Obama. I voted for Bush. You cannot call me biased on way or the other. Stupid perhaps, but never biased.
My first thought when I hit their main page was, "WTF?" It has to be the ugliest, most poorly designed and confusing "news" site I have ever seen. It looks absolutely crappy.
My second thought was, "are these all op-ed pieces or are there some actual news articles here?" At the very least it's terribly misleading.
My third thought was, "what exactly is their bias?" I had to come back here to /. and read the comments before I realized that it's a left-leaning site. Maybe that's a good thing but my gut tells me it's just more confusion.
Actually my first thought was that Ms. Huffington is not a very good writer. She uses phrases like "all the more" and leans way too heavily on the comma key.
Overall I would give the site a credibility rating of: poor. I don't expect to go back.
I stopped reading cnn.com because their editing is so poor. Plus it's written at the 2nd or 3rd-grade reading level, and their stories are so diluted that reading them is almost a complete waste of time.
I read the NYtimes.com because I'm a New Yorker, plus their writing and editing are decent. OK so they have a liberal bias but at least they try to represent both sides of the political fence. Some of their staff writers are hardcore conservatives.
So now where do I go for balanced journalism? The only thing worthwhile that I got out of Huffington was the list of links to news sites that appears at the bottom of the page. Maybe I'll find what I'm looking for among those links.
Sigh.
I only know Oracle but I've known it since version 5.0. Intimately. I haven't read the book but I read the review. Here are a few tips I've learned over the decades that you might find useful, just in case they aren't covered in the book:
1) You have to establish a general rule of thumb for each production db whereby any one sql that consumes more than x% of the db resources needs to be tuned. The value of x varies from db to db. If it cannot be tuned below x% then it needs to be refactored.
2) Learn to use stored outlines. If you can get them to work they will save your ass and make you look like a total hero.
3) Never turn your back on the optimizer. Really. Even for simple queries, even with the deepest stats.
4) Bind variables are a necessity for high-repetition sql. Bind variables are something you might want to avoid for reports queries for which the optimal plans depend on the user input values. This is because a sql's plan is cached along with it the first time it is parsed, and if you use bind variables then the first plan you get is the plan you will always get so long as the sql remains in the shared pool.
(You can sometimes work around this issue by turning off bind variable peeking, but consider doing it on a per-session basis instead of changing it system-wide. Scary!)
5) Nowadays a 32GB SGA is no big thing. Get yourselves a ton o' RAM and set up a keep pool in the buffer cache to pin your most important reporting indexes and tables. Partition your big reporting tables and maintain a sliding window of the most recent partition(s) in the keep pool.
6) No sorting to-disk. Ever. If you cannot let the session have the PGA it needs to sort the query in memory then the SQL needs to be "refactored".
7) Once you have eliminated most of the physical disk reads it then becomes all about the buffer gets (BG's). When disk reads are low the high-logical-BG queries immediately become the new top SQL. This is because logical BG's are all CPU and your db is now cpu-bound, which is right where you want it. So from this point it's back to item #1 and we prune and tune (thanks KG!)
I could go on all day. Perhaps I should write a book?
OMG Boston is the worst! Those Boston drivers are totally INSANE! Worse than Philly even.
I am only posting this so that I can check out my new sig. Check it out!
Oh, and $10 laptops? What does it use for network access, carrier pigeons? (Cue rimshot...)
Comparing cannons (3 n's) to atomic bombs is puerile. Otherwise your argument seems pertinent. Not that I know squat about this nuklear stuff.
I tried to RTFA but it's slashdotted. How do I hook this cool new Gdrive into my Android apps that I'd like to write? It seems it would be really nice to be able to store an app's content on the web instead of on the PDA, where space is rather limited.
I understand that it is accessible via http, so I'm guessing that I simply broadcast an intent for the browser and it returns the file? But if it's an actual filesystem then how would I mount a drive on it via Android?
This post was "insightful"? It seems that most /.'ers know a whole lot about computers but not a whole lot about history.
Israel exists today because the Jews of Olde Palestine, after the end of WWII, defended themselves against an onslaught of poorly organized and underequipped Muslims whose sole stated purpose, widely published and publicized, was to "push all of the Jews of Palestine into the sea." This is a fact. Go to the libraries and check the microfiche. It's all there. The British were pulling out, abandoning Palestine and leaving its Jewish population to hang. At the time everyone assumed that the Muslims would take advantage of the power vacuum, sweep in behind the retreating Brits and then wipe out the Jews. Again these opinions were well documented at the time. Instead what happened is that the Jews organized themselves and fought back fiercely and in the end conquered Palestine. It had nothing to do with any scripture. It had nothing to do with the UN or the US or the Native Americans. Your post is false. You have no idea what you are writing about.
People must wake up and realize that we allow the corps to employ us at OUR sufferance, not the other way around. Do not let them make you think they are doing you some huge favor by employing you. It's the other way around.
"the normal response of interferon, a protein that co-ordinates attacks against viral infections, became useless at blocking HIV infection."
That seems like a bad thing doesn't it?
I think that, more fundamentally, a sense of pain is a human's and perhaps any creature's first step towards awareness. This seems to be what they have instilled in this new robot. All it takes from there is a decent AI to learn from the pain, et voila.
The process you are referring to is called chemical vapor deposition (CVD). I read about in on /. a couple of years ago (I think.) It's extremely cool. The chemicals involved are wicked.
It is a logical progression. They are already doing something similar with their ocfs, which they recommend for 10g clustered db's on Linux. You can download and play with ocfs all you want, just don't ask for help unless you have a db license.
Keep in mind that Oracle only "supports" Red Hat as far as the kernel. And only if you do not modify your kernel. They support nothing at all in userland outside of their own software. They don't even support lvm. And by "support" I mean they will answer your technical questions and try to help you troubleshoot kernel issues, but it does not mean they are going to distribute patches to the Red Hat kernels.
However if they do maintain their own kernel, then perhaps it would get patched as quickly as their db software. Plus, I would feel better running ocfs if I could be certain that Oracle really knows what it's doing with Linux.
defamation != free_speech. protected(free_speech) == true. protected(defamation) == false. do the math (or the abstract algebra or whatever.)
I am not religious, so please don't take this the wrong way. But why must we assume that our theories of soft-tissue preservation are incorrect, rather than our theories of radio carbon-dating fossils?
All you have to do is focus on the publishers who are profiting from click fraud. If a no-name site is getting a disproportionate amount of click traffic, then you know something is wrong. And it's only the no-name sites that commit click fraud. Large, well established websites have nothing to gain by click fraud.
Google's problem is that they do not screen their publishers. Screening would actually cost money, and would also limit their click revenue. So they let any sleazebag with a website sign up for their pay-per-click programs. That's why they have so much click fraud.
Oracle already "supports" any Linux kernel, so long as the kernel complies with Oracle's requirements. But they only go so far as allowing a customer to open a support request (SR) for an obvious kernel issue. If you have issues with anything in userland then you're on your own. Of course if you modify your kernel, Oracle will not spend any time helping you with kernel issues. Will any of this change when they start "supporting" Red Hat?
Long term, China knows it must catch up with the west technologically, and soon, before the west's technological lead becomes insurmountable. In order to catch up, China is going to need a lot more science and engineering universities, with a lot of money pouring into them. It will be very interesting to watch how China addresses this dilemma.