Actually, Stonebraker did say, and I quote the original article that you went back and read (with a dereferenced pronoun in []),
[The current major relational DBMSs] should be considered legacy technology, more than a quarter of century in age and "long in the tooth".
He called the existing major RDBMSs legacy and long in the tooth for not implementing the feature he is trumpeting, column storage, as an option when setting up a DB for use. He laments the fact that these vendors don't give you the option of setting up your DB in a way that provides huge performance gains for some usages that are becoming more common everyday, and says that there will be a revolution.
He is not saying that we don't still need row-oriented RDBMSs...which makes me wonder, does Vertica support both row and column stores?
Your winnings aren't taxed if the government never knows you made money gambling online, but your gambling winnings are supposed to be taxed, online or otherwise.
You are supposed to report your winnings on the tax forms.
If you don't and the government finds out, you will owe them taxes and fees, and possibly also get tried for tax fraud.
This applies to the US; I don't know about other countries' laws on gambling income.
I love webcomics, but I get hooked by stumbling into them and reading the archive. If there are two webcomics I am interested in, and for one I have to pay 15 cents to get started and the other is free, guess which one I am going to read? If there is some reason I am pushed to try the one with the micropayments ok...but a small flash ad from Keenspot is not going to hook me for even 1 cent.
I have been very tempted by premium subscriptions for extra content or by special x page episodes for a buck or two from comics that I already read, but I'm not likely to pay for one that I haven't read yet.
Also, I am one of those webcomic readers that will purchase merch...even if it's a little overpriced...to support a comic I read regularly.
I like my product information pulled by myself, not pushed by doubleclick, mediaplex or webmasterplan.
Sometimes it's hard to tell whether the information you are reading on The Web was pushed by some company and is an advertisement, or is an honest review of product information.
Their definition of "auction" seems somewhat different from mine...a system that will tell you which of your ad networks will pay you the most for displaying their ad
So each advertiser enters an amount (bid) they are willing to pay for a site to impress their ad (product). When an ad impression opportunity comes in, a subset of all the bids in the system match the site's rating/info/conversion rate/etc. The highest matching bid wins the ad impression.
Just because the bids exist before the seller says that the site is ready to serve the ad doesn't mean it isn't an auction.
There won't be bidding wars per impression, but then a single ad impression is not worth enough to try to outbid the competition. However, if an advertiser isn't serving enough ads, or if the advertiser keeps buying ad space on sites with low clickthrough rates, maybe it's time to up the bid or change the matching criteria.
I refuse to buy a phone that is based on MS or Symbian. I do NOT trust either of them, at all.
I DO trust Linux.
What makes you trust a phone with Linux more than one with Windows or Symbian?
Are you planning on reloading the software on your phone? If you get, say, a T-Mobile phone running Linux, T-Mobile could have made whatever modifications they wanted to to the operating system.
I don't see why you should trust it more when it is easier for the wireless company to do whatever they want with your phone. Then again, they may be doing the same with phones with Windows or Symbian.
Hoiem found the computer often discerned which surfaces were vertical or horizontal, and whether a vertical surface faced left, right or toward the viewer.
Faces have a number of vertical and horizontal surfaces, like the sides of your nose, bottom of your chin, cheeks, etc. And cars have plenty of horizontal and vertical sides. And not all roofs are peaked.
As someone else commented, this will give you very blocky representations, but there is plenty of use to those blocky representations. For example, you may not be able to generate a model of the chimpanzee's face, but you could figure out that the primate shaped thing is hanging onto the limb shaped thing sticking off of the tree shaped thing.
This quote also explains why this tech isn't really all that applicable to the DARPA grand challenge. Offroad driving doesn't often run into vertical and horizontal surfaces besides cliffs and roads and maybe fences. And there are much easier ways for a vehicle in the grand challenge to find those.
We don't exactly need data mining to realize that people that buy diapers also buy baby food.
Ah, but I know of a data mining study of super market receipts where they found that people who buy diapers also buy beer.
Now, a lot of people are going to look at that sentence and not believe it.
Together, we have given examples that cover what I think is one of the greater problems with adoption of data mining: the results often fit in two categories, obvious or hard to believe. So when PHB spends a bunch of money on data mining and gets some results, half of which his boss laughs at because he already knew and half of which he isn't willing to act on because doesn't believe there is a connection, does PHB even still have a job?
Users who configured McAfee to delete files are left with using backups
I hope anyone who sets up their virus scanner to delete files automatically really trusts their antivirus program. In this case, it looks like that trust was misplaced.
I have never let any program with an option to delete my files without asking me do so.
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Actually, Stonebraker did say, and I quote the original article that you went back and read (with a dereferenced pronoun in []),
He called the existing major RDBMSs legacy and long in the tooth for not implementing the feature he is trumpeting, column storage, as an option when setting up a DB for use. He laments the fact that these vendors don't give you the option of setting up your DB in a way that provides huge performance gains for some usages that are becoming more common everyday, and says that there will be a revolution.
He is not saying that we don't still need row-oriented RDBMSs...which makes me wonder, does Vertica support both row and column stores?
Your winnings aren't taxed if the government never knows you made money gambling online, but your gambling winnings are supposed to be taxed, online or otherwise. You are supposed to report your winnings on the tax forms. If you don't and the government finds out, you will owe them taxes and fees, and possibly also get tried for tax fraud. This applies to the US; I don't know about other countries' laws on gambling income.
Hear, Hear!
I love webcomics, but I get hooked by stumbling into them and reading the archive. If there are two webcomics I am interested in, and for one I have to pay 15 cents to get started and the other is free, guess which one I am going to read? If there is some reason I am pushed to try the one with the micropayments ok...but a small flash ad from Keenspot is not going to hook me for even 1 cent.
I have been very tempted by premium subscriptions for extra content or by special x page episodes for a buck or two from comics that I already read, but I'm not likely to pay for one that I haven't read yet.
Also, I am one of those webcomic readers that will purchase merch...even if it's a little overpriced...to support a comic I read regularly.
Sometimes it's hard to tell whether the information you are reading on The Web was pushed by some company and is an advertisement, or is an honest review of product information.
Take TFA, for instance.
Ok, sometimes it's not so hard to tell...
So each advertiser enters an amount (bid) they are willing to pay for a site to impress their ad (product). When an ad impression opportunity comes in, a subset of all the bids in the system match the site's rating/info/conversion rate/etc. The highest matching bid wins the ad impression.
Just because the bids exist before the seller says that the site is ready to serve the ad doesn't mean it isn't an auction.
There won't be bidding wars per impression, but then a single ad impression is not worth enough to try to outbid the competition. However, if an advertiser isn't serving enough ads, or if the advertiser keeps buying ad space on sites with low clickthrough rates, maybe it's time to up the bid or change the matching criteria.
I refuse to buy a phone that is based on MS or Symbian. I do NOT trust either of them, at all. I DO trust Linux.
What makes you trust a phone with Linux more than one with Windows or Symbian?
Are you planning on reloading the software on your phone? If you get, say, a T-Mobile phone running Linux, T-Mobile could have made whatever modifications they wanted to to the operating system.
I don't see why you should trust it more when it is easier for the wireless company to do whatever they want with your phone. Then again, they may be doing the same with phones with Windows or Symbian.
From TFA:
Faces have a number of vertical and horizontal surfaces, like the sides of your nose, bottom of your chin, cheeks, etc. And cars have plenty of horizontal and vertical sides. And not all roofs are peaked.
As someone else commented, this will give you very blocky representations, but there is plenty of use to those blocky representations. For example, you may not be able to generate a model of the chimpanzee's face, but you could figure out that the primate shaped thing is hanging onto the limb shaped thing sticking off of the tree shaped thing.
This quote also explains why this tech isn't really all that applicable to the DARPA grand challenge. Offroad driving doesn't often run into vertical and horizontal surfaces besides cliffs and roads and maybe fences. And there are much easier ways for a vehicle in the grand challenge to find those.
You forgot: 2.5 ????
Ah, but I know of a data mining study of super market receipts where they found that people who buy diapers also buy beer.
Now, a lot of people are going to look at that sentence and not believe it.
Together, we have given examples that cover what I think is one of the greater problems with adoption of data mining: the results often fit in two categories, obvious or hard to believe. So when PHB spends a bunch of money on data mining and gets some results, half of which his boss laughs at because he already knew and half of which he isn't willing to act on because doesn't believe there is a connection, does PHB even still have a job?
Users who configured McAfee to delete files are left with using backups
I hope anyone who sets up their virus scanner to delete files automatically really trusts their antivirus program. In this case, it looks like that trust was misplaced.
I have never let any program with an option to delete my files without asking me do so.