The decline in C++ is probably real. It's on the way out as an application-level programming language. Big, complex applications with serious performance requirements and elaborate internal data structures, like 3D CAD, benefit from being written in C++.
It's on its way back cause CPU cores are not getting anymore powerful and power cost of computation is increasing in mobile apps.
But there's no reason to write a routine desktop business app in it any more
Anymore? Seriously in the past 20 years who would choose C for writing boaring business apps?
Just moving windows and menus around and talking to the database can be done far more easily by other means.
This never changed. The trend you are assuming ever existed in modern times died ages ago with the advent of clarion and foxpro.
The CNN link is an opinion piece where the author dreams up a scenario of ISP content inspection not supported by any external evidence.
I can sit on my lazy ass all day and dream shit up too. This does not mean I should be expected to be taken seriously.
Where is the actual evidence this is being implemented or even seriously contemplated by any stakeholder?
In the interim I'm just going to sit back and wait for the lawsuits to start flying against ISPs for cutting off their paying customers without due process.
Could your technology be augmented to enable bistatic radar apps for our mobile phones?
Have you considered doing the same using earths magnetic field rather than RF? Local varience within buildings or geology, earth field lines or using a RLG/GPS reference to see parallax in declination as a basis for rough positioning?
I think the central problem is actually that I'm a certified idiot and I don't even understand what "mass" is. Look at the photon it is supposed to have no mass cause if it did its energy would be infinite.
Yet the photon convinently still has "momentum" so its not mass but it sure behaves like something that does anyway.
My understanding is if you bottled up a bazillion photons and put the bottle on a scale and weighted it... it would also be heavier and experience/exert the same gravitiational influence as matter thanks to E=MC^2.
So I'm confused as to how it is even possible to define "mass" in a way that does not also fit all the measurable properties of a photon.
Then we have neutrinos which change as they propogate so of course they must have mass yet nobody has ever been able to detect any difference in velocity between neutrinos and photons..including those ejected from infamous 1987 supermova having raced photons for 168k years.
While I'm sure the math works to make predictions I'm not so confident about the translation to english.
After reading headlines and wikipedia articles I'm no closer to understanding what the fuck higgs means that E=MC^2 already does not say.
If there is no coupling between photons and the higgs then photons have no mass... and the difference between having "mass" and not having "mass" is what?
Don't offer to sell them anything and point this out.
Tell them to contact their local computer support folks but don't make specific recommendations.
Give them a link to a page on the FBI's website and give them an 800-number to call. Give them an extension that they can dial from the FBI's main switchboard as well.
When something like this happens most peoples machines who had been compromised were compromised as a result of a user taking an action most of us would sigh and laugh at.
They did not have the awareness to keep from being suckered or con'd or whatever so what makes you think they will have the awareness to parse the difference between the FBI doing it and a real attacker?
It simply does not work to try and push the official message thing it only makes things worse because now the phishers are able to leverage FBI policy to maximum effect.
Besides if your machine is owned going to the FBI web site to check validity is a non-starter.
The 1-800 number is still a reference an attacker may control. They may even decide to sucker a few people into calling the "FBI switchboard" in order to rack up service charges on their phone bill.
If you want to do something like this the verification protocol needs to be out of band and well known to the public. Most importantly it needs to be in place before it is ever needed.
Personally I think a central method of verifying government actors and actions as legitimate in the sense it was not something made up by an imposter would have a lot of value outside this specific issue.
Send all the hosts to a website saying hey guess what you've been compromised. blah blah blah to fix. We used to do this to customers back in the old dialup dayz
Rather than people infected with shit knowing there is a problem and getting help before they get even more owned the FBI activly acted to cover up the problem by continuing to run the DNS service leaving users to remain clueless.
God knows I hate lawsuits yet on some level it would be awesome if someone filed one against the FBI anyway even if it had no chance of succeeding. It just might make them think twice before they decide to repeat this stunt.
You take a computer, shrink it into a device that fits in your pocket and it is a smartphone.
You take a computer shrink it to the length and width of a sheet of paper, throw out the keyboard and it is a tablet.
You take a computer shrink it to about the same size as the tablet but a little thicker and keep the keyboard and it is a notebook.
You take a computer and don't shrink it at all and it is a desktop.
Who the fuck cares it is all for the most part the same guts and shit. People should have the choice to use whatever form factor they are most comfortable with. The UI and underlying operating system should help accomodate the users choice.
If I want I should be able to hook up a full sized keyboard to my smartphone, tablet or notebook.
If I want to I should be able to hook up a full sized monitor and keyboard to my smartphone, tablet or notebook.
This is the problem with Windows 8 it does not properly accomodate people who decide a keyboard and mouse is their preferred input method. Neither does it accomodate the avaliability of large displays. Two apps max on screen at once is the definition of epic fail. I looked it up.
The problem with Windows 8 is not pandering to users who prefer tablet form factor. The issue is militiant instance users who prefer other form factors conform to the tablet perspective or pay the price with a nonsensical jarring UX that does not help the paying customer.
Microsoft could have very easily made different choices to respect ALL classes of users and preferences yet they decided not to.
From the looks of things (lack of Interest in win8 beta and overhemlingly negative reaction) they will pay for their insolence with a market hit to their bottom line and further erosion of market share.
When an ISP starts denying you access to service or curtailing service you are paying for based on having conducted their own investigations or making determinations of guilt the lawsuits will be filed, the plaintiffs will win and the ISPs will stop.
Remember kids SOPA failing has consequences. The most salient amoung them with regards to this plan was the immunity grant to ISPs for playing judge jury and executioner against its paying customers.
Is anyone else troubled that civilian planes use unencrypted GPS and are therefore susceptible to spoofing?
Just as troubled as I am that people think the use of encrypted signals will make any difference.
What does any GPS receiver do? It measures the propogation delay of radio signals. This means understanding those signals is not necessary to delay them sufficiently to fool them.
Am I supposed to be impressed? What drone was it? Why no pictures or any information other than the university owned the UAV. For all I know their "drone" is just a model airplane project a student jury rigged using a cellphone.
Just to be safe lets go with military drone images on all of these web sites parroting the same story and mention someone from DHS was present as well. What does that matter?
Was the drone using raim? Did it use other sensors like fluxgates, rlgs to confirm position? Is ANY useful information available?
Hey Microsoft when nobody buys Windows 8 and your market share is erroded by penguins and fruits... will there be anyone left to care about your telemetry?
Why would any business go for a platform intentionally designed for a passive consumer mass market over increasing user productivity?
The world is still recovering from the countless billions of hours of lost productivity caused by bundling mine sweeper and solitaire with windows no need to pour salt on our wounds with crap like metro.
By TFAs mention of 130 watts solar the boat will need to be quite a lot bigger than what I would quantify as a harmless toy reflected in the proof of concept work.
Please don't forget proper lights, active+passive radar reflectors and ais on the non-toy version. There are enough hazards out there to real people who are all required to keep a lookout at all times.
Instead of a larger boat with a large array, problems and power requirements to go with consider something creative... using wave motion, sails or ride out prevaling currents to keep the size down to where it would at least not be a danger to anyone.
Conformal coat all of your electronics before you cast them in toupperwear.
As an American businessman, I can understand what a collosal pain in the ass it is for business... but it's not the fault of ME or any other deaf person that Netflix chose to ignore us.
Again, I understand this costs money, but... if you did it in the first place, it wouldn't be an issue, would it? Or should be all be watching silent movies still?
In business special needs carries a special price.
How much money do you have? Are you willing to pay for production of a niche service or are you expecting everyone else to pay for you?
First of all whatever you do don't listen to those saying "to the cloud". When your ISP/Internet is not working it means your POS is not working which means your business is fucked -- at the total mercy of a working Internet connection. Most POS software is not optimized to minimize round trips either so expect pushing database to "the cloud" to be much slower.
The lowest cost easy to configure and manage approach is to setup a periodic backup task to backup entire database every few minutes and copy to the desktop machine, a usb stick..etc. With this you can quickly restore the backup file to sql server on the desktop if needed.
There are cooler and more automated approaches but they normally require another server or two.
With this approach you tolerate xx minutes average of lost data on failure and must take manual action to recover but copying the backup files.. is easy and cheap. Alternatly you can do differential backups of the transaction log if your database is big enough to where it would matter and tolerate many less minutes of dataloss.
Other approaches set up log shipping to a read only and promote the read only manually on failure. It requires two servers.
Database mirroring between database servers is another solution and it is awesome but requires three servers. You don't loose any transactions and it is 100% automatic. If the POS can reconnect to the database when the connection drops it will be able to failover.
Obviously having redundancy at the system level (mirrored disks) is important too. Having a transaction log and not just the "simple" recovery model is just as or even more important as it allows restore to point in time if your POS goes haywire, sabatoged by a disgruntled employee or the vendor botches an upgrade. Not all failures are system/physical, recognizing this before you learn the hardway.
Without thousands of dollars on fancy shared storage infustructure virtual machines do nothing to help you increase database uptime. They increase your resource requirements and restore time.
You can migrate vm's to your hearts content but the data contained within is all that really matters here. Migrating a transaction log or backup is easier, faster and less resource consuming than migrating an entire virtual machine containing the same or any differential scheme at the vm level.
Summary my advice if you don't want to spend money on more servers forget about vmware. Install sql server on the other (desktop) system and setup a script to periodically copy backups to the workstation so you will have it if you ever need it but see above comments.
This is all TFA is about. The same tired old shit of parents with mental issues needing their kid to be "better" than everyone elses.. Leading the coddeled comment speaks volumes.
If this is their parents vision of leadership my guess their kid will grow up being that stupid bossy little prick nobody likes and everyone ignores.
Nintendo's (and Sony's) mobile gaming market has be severely disrupted in both price and technology. Yes, a $30 Zelda game is probably a great game, but is it really 30x more fun than Angry Birds on a large iPad display? That's not even covering those freemium role playing games where you can pay $0 and spend hours enjoyably - again, on a much larger screen than the DS.
YES. Given the cost of the platforms I would gladly pay $30-60 for games that didn't take someone sitting in their moms basement a week to make.
The wario slingshot touch screen bomb defender mini game included with mario 64 port to the DS is a heck of a lot more fun to play than angry birds ever was.
again, on a much larger screen than the DS.
If size matters the xbox on the jumbotron in my living room is lightyears ahead of the iP****
Export restrictions only apply if you know what you are selling will be exported to an OFAC restricted destination or party.
Blame the customer for disclosing that they might or were intended to have the Apple product go back to Iran, thus an export violation?
What is the basis for the claim anyone mentioned in TFA said anything about export to Iran?
Point is, there is enough blame for everyone here.
I choose to blame store management and those responsible for employee training for failing to make making it clear country of origin alone is not an acceptable reason to deny a sale.
You've got to be kidding: this report needs to be retracted as it is completely wrong. Tifton 85 is a conventionally bred grass.
Tomato Tomato... Forgive me for not much caring about the difference between Hybrid and GM. People have been playing god and rolling the dice since they started selecting seeds for next season and simply importing shit from places that don't belong. All that matters is RESULTS. Any of these methods can and have lead to disasters. They have also lead to significant increases in yield.
It's incredibly irresponsible to print something this inflammatory and wrong. You've now aerated people all over the world with this misunderstanding, and it will continue to be flogged forever with this incorrect information.
Get your facts straight. Any native or hybrid (NOT GM) grass can create this condition!
The issue is not production it is increased production due to a specific mutation being investigated by the department of agriculture.
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Slightly offtopic but you won't be disappointed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE06ECcimb8
The decline in C++ is probably real. It's on the way out as an application-level programming language. Big, complex applications with serious performance requirements and elaborate internal data structures, like 3D CAD, benefit from being written in C++.
It's on its way back cause CPU cores are not getting anymore powerful and power cost of computation is increasing in mobile apps.
But there's no reason to write a routine desktop business app in it any more
Anymore? Seriously in the past 20 years who would choose C for writing boaring business apps?
Just moving windows and menus around and talking to the database can be done far more easily by other means.
This never changed. The trend you are assuming ever existed in modern times died ages ago with the advent of clarion and foxpro.
The CNN link is an opinion piece where the author dreams up a scenario of ISP content inspection not supported by any external evidence.
I can sit on my lazy ass all day and dream shit up too. This does not mean I should be expected to be taken seriously.
Where is the actual evidence this is being implemented or even seriously contemplated by any stakeholder?
In the interim I'm just going to sit back and wait for the lawsuits to start flying against ISPs for cutting off their paying customers without due process.
As technology improves the barrier to laser enrichment and plutonium implosion technology will continue to shrink dramatically over time.
M.A.D. is meaningless when you have nuke(s) and don't represent any state.
Could your technology be augmented to enable bistatic radar apps for our mobile phones?
Have you considered doing the same using earths magnetic field rather than RF? Local varience within buildings or geology, earth field lines or using a RLG/GPS reference to see parallax in declination as a basis for rough positioning?
I think the central problem is actually that I'm a certified idiot and I don't even understand what "mass" is. Look at the photon it is supposed to have no mass cause if it did its energy would be infinite.
Yet the photon convinently still has "momentum" so its not mass but it sure behaves like something that does anyway.
My understanding is if you bottled up a bazillion photons and put the bottle on a scale and weighted it ... it would also be heavier and experience/exert the same gravitiational influence as matter thanks to E=MC^2.
So I'm confused as to how it is even possible to define "mass" in a way that does not also fit all the measurable properties of a photon.
Then we have neutrinos which change as they propogate so of course they must have mass yet nobody has ever been able to detect any difference in velocity between neutrinos and photons..including those ejected from infamous 1987 supermova having raced photons for 168k years.
While I'm sure the math works to make predictions I'm not so confident about the translation to english.
After reading headlines and wikipedia articles I'm no closer to understanding what the fuck higgs means that E=MC^2 already does not say.
If there is no coupling between photons and the higgs then photons have no mass... and the difference between having "mass" and not having "mass" is what?
Don't offer to sell them anything and point this out.
Tell them to contact their local computer support folks but don't make specific recommendations.
Give them a link to a page on the FBI's website and give them an 800-number to call. Give them an extension that they can dial from the FBI's main switchboard as well.
When something like this happens most peoples machines who had been compromised were compromised as a result of a user taking an action most of us would sigh and laugh at.
They did not have the awareness to keep from being suckered or con'd or whatever so what makes you think they will have the awareness to parse the difference between the FBI doing it and a real attacker?
It simply does not work to try and push the official message thing it only makes things worse because now the phishers are able to leverage FBI policy to maximum effect.
Besides if your machine is owned going to the FBI web site to check validity is a non-starter.
The 1-800 number is still a reference an attacker may control. They may even decide to sucker a few people into calling the "FBI switchboard" in order to rack up service charges on their phone bill.
If you want to do something like this the verification protocol needs to be out of band and well known to the public. Most importantly it needs to be in place before it is ever needed.
Personally I think a central method of verifying government actors and actions as legitimate in the sense it was not something made up by an imposter would have a lot of value outside this specific issue.
Send all the hosts to a website saying hey guess what you've been compromised. blah blah blah to fix. We used to do this to customers back in the old dialup dayz
This is every phishers in the world wet dream.
Rather than people infected with shit knowing there is a problem and getting help before they get even more owned the FBI activly acted to cover up the problem by continuing to run the DNS service leaving users to remain clueless.
God knows I hate lawsuits yet on some level it would be awesome if someone filed one against the FBI anyway even if it had no chance of succeeding. It just might make them think twice before they decide to repeat this stunt.
This tablet vs "legacy" debate is quite amusing.
You take a computer, shrink it into a device that fits in your pocket and it is a smartphone.
You take a computer shrink it to the length and width of a sheet of paper, throw out the keyboard and it is a tablet.
You take a computer shrink it to about the same size as the tablet but a little thicker and keep the keyboard and it is a notebook.
You take a computer and don't shrink it at all and it is a desktop.
Who the fuck cares it is all for the most part the same guts and shit. People should have the choice to use whatever form factor they are most comfortable with. The UI and underlying operating system should help accomodate the users choice.
If I want I should be able to hook up a full sized keyboard to my smartphone, tablet or notebook.
If I want to I should be able to hook up a full sized monitor and keyboard to my smartphone, tablet or notebook.
This is the problem with Windows 8 it does not properly accomodate people who decide a keyboard and mouse is their preferred input method. Neither does it accomodate the avaliability of large displays. Two apps max on screen at once is the definition of epic fail. I looked it up.
The problem with Windows 8 is not pandering to users who prefer tablet form factor. The issue is militiant instance users who prefer other form factors conform to the tablet perspective or pay the price with a nonsensical jarring UX that does not help the paying customer.
Microsoft could have very easily made different choices to respect ALL classes of users and preferences yet they decided not to.
From the looks of things (lack of Interest in win8 beta and overhemlingly negative reaction) they will pay for their insolence with a market hit to their bottom line and further erosion of market share.
When an ISP starts denying you access to service or curtailing service you are paying for based on having conducted their own investigations or making determinations of guilt the lawsuits will be filed, the plaintiffs will win and the ISPs will stop.
Remember kids SOPA failing has consequences. The most salient amoung them with regards to this plan was the immunity grant to ISPs for playing judge jury and executioner against its paying customers.
Is anyone else troubled that civilian planes use unencrypted GPS and are therefore susceptible to spoofing?
Just as troubled as I am that people think the use of encrypted signals will make any difference.
What does any GPS receiver do? It measures the propogation delay of radio signals. This means understanding those signals is not necessary to delay them sufficiently to fool them.
Am I supposed to be impressed? What drone was it? Why no pictures or any information other than the university owned the UAV. For all I know their "drone" is just a model airplane project a student jury rigged using a cellphone.
Just to be safe lets go with military drone images on all of these web sites parroting the same story and mention someone from DHS was present as well. What does that matter?
Was the drone using raim? Did it use other sensors like fluxgates, rlgs to confirm position? Is ANY useful information available?
Hey Microsoft when nobody buys Windows 8 and your market share is erroded by penguins and fruits... will there be anyone left to care about your telemetry?
There is danger in conducting a search for what you expect to see because you WILL find what your looking for if you look hard enough.
What separates real scientists from crackpots is what you do next after you get a hit.
Why would any business go for a platform intentionally designed for a passive consumer mass market over increasing user productivity?
The world is still recovering from the countless billions of hours of lost productivity caused by bundling mine sweeper and solitaire with windows no need to pour salt on our wounds with crap like metro.
Actually, the way TFA is written, it's "why is your kid better than mine".
The same one titled "Why my child will be your child's boss" ?
Thanks for playing.
Likewise.
By TFAs mention of 130 watts solar the boat will need to be quite a lot bigger than what I would quantify as a harmless toy reflected in the proof of concept work.
Please don't forget proper lights, active+passive radar reflectors and ais on the non-toy version. There are enough hazards out there to real people who are all required to keep a lookout at all times.
Instead of a larger boat with a large array, problems and power requirements to go with consider something creative... using wave motion, sails or ride out prevaling currents to keep the size down to where it would at least not be a danger to anyone.
Conformal coat all of your electronics before you cast them in toupperwear.
As an American businessman, I can understand what a collosal pain in the ass it is for business... but it's not the fault of ME or any other deaf person that Netflix chose to ignore us.
Again, I understand this costs money, but... if you did it in the first place, it wouldn't be an issue, would it? Or should be all be watching silent movies still?
In business special needs carries a special price.
How much money do you have? Are you willing to pay for production of a niche service or are you expecting everyone else to pay for you?
First of all whatever you do don't listen to those saying "to the cloud". When your ISP/Internet is not working it means your POS is not working which means your business is fucked -- at the total mercy of a working Internet connection. Most POS software is not optimized to minimize round trips either so expect pushing database to "the cloud" to be much slower.
The lowest cost easy to configure and manage approach is to setup a periodic backup task to backup entire database every few minutes and copy to the desktop machine, a usb stick..etc. With this you can quickly restore the backup file to sql server on the desktop if needed.
There are cooler and more automated approaches but they normally require another server or two.
With this approach you tolerate xx minutes average of lost data on failure and must take manual action to recover but copying the backup files.. is easy and cheap. Alternatly you can do differential backups of the transaction log if your database is big enough to where it would matter and tolerate many less minutes of dataloss.
Other approaches set up log shipping to a read only and promote the read only manually on failure. It requires two servers.
Database mirroring between database servers is another solution and it is awesome but requires three servers. You don't loose any transactions and it is 100% automatic. If the POS can reconnect to the database when the connection drops it will be able to failover.
Obviously having redundancy at the system level (mirrored disks) is important too. Having a transaction log and not just the "simple" recovery model is just as or even more important as it allows restore to point in time if your POS goes haywire, sabatoged by a disgruntled employee or the vendor botches an upgrade. Not all failures are system/physical, recognizing this before you learn the hardway.
Without thousands of dollars on fancy shared storage infustructure virtual machines do nothing to help you increase database uptime. They increase your resource requirements and restore time.
You can migrate vm's to your hearts content but the data contained within is all that really matters here. Migrating a transaction log or backup is easier, faster and less resource consuming than migrating an entire virtual machine containing the same or any differential scheme at the vm level.
Summary my advice if you don't want to spend money on more servers forget about vmware. Install sql server on the other (desktop) system and setup a script to periodically copy backups to the workstation so you will have it if you ever need it but see above comments.
This is all TFA is about. The same tired old shit of parents with mental issues needing their kid to be "better" than everyone elses.. Leading the coddeled comment speaks volumes.
If this is their parents vision of leadership my guess their kid will grow up being that stupid bossy little prick nobody likes and everyone ignores.
Nintendo's (and Sony's) mobile gaming market has be severely disrupted in both price and technology. Yes, a $30 Zelda game is probably a great game, but is it really 30x more fun than Angry Birds on a large iPad display? That's not even covering those freemium role playing games where you can pay $0 and spend hours enjoyably - again, on a much larger screen than the DS.
YES. Given the cost of the platforms I would gladly pay $30-60 for games that didn't take someone sitting in their moms basement a week to make.
The wario slingshot touch screen bomb defender mini game included with mario 64 port to the DS is a heck of a lot more fun to play than angry birds ever was.
again, on a much larger screen than the DS.
If size matters the xbox on the jumbotron in my living room is lightyears ahead of the iP****
MySQL the worlds most popular open source database
memSQL the worlds fastest database
PostgresSQL the worlds most advance open source database
SQLite most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world
I just wish people would dispense with their childish marketing bullshit already.
Blame the US for export restrictions?
Export restrictions only apply if you know what you are selling will be exported to an OFAC restricted destination or party.
Blame the customer for disclosing that they might or were intended to have the Apple product go back to Iran, thus an export violation?
What is the basis for the claim anyone mentioned in TFA said anything about export to Iran?
Point is, there is enough blame for everyone here.
I choose to blame store management and those responsible for employee training for failing to make making it clear country of origin alone is not an acceptable reason to deny a sale.
You've got to be kidding: this report needs to be retracted as it is completely wrong. Tifton 85 is a conventionally bred grass.
Tomato Tomato... Forgive me for not much caring about the difference between Hybrid and GM. People have been playing god and rolling the dice since they started selecting seeds for next season and simply importing shit from places that don't belong. All that matters is RESULTS. Any of these methods can and have lead to disasters. They have also lead to significant increases in yield.
It's incredibly irresponsible to print something this inflammatory and wrong. You've now aerated people all over the world with this misunderstanding, and it will continue to be flogged forever with this incorrect information.
Get your facts straight. Any native or hybrid (NOT GM) grass can create this condition!
The issue is not production it is increased production due to a specific mutation being investigated by the department of agriculture.