leaving behind water as a main byproduct Obviously 100 % pure sugar won't be going in, given that there will be enzymes this device may vary its byproducts a little- how will it handle excretion ? Will we have to clean it ? Could it get infected (moulds etc) ?
Further, we believe the Internet.s shortcomings will not be resolved by the conventional incremental and.backward-compatible. style of academic and industrial networking research Ok if they were modelling a theoretical utopia & a promised phase2 was then a series of iterations to look at what might be practically achieved but they have the conceit of presenting a viable green field solution ?
Fact is that the existing internet is massive & anarchic - I can't see any viable big bang transition model & parallel running would be fantasy. We've known for decades that the Dvorak keyboard beats the Qwerty but because of transition cost it's not a runner. Ipv4 vs Ipv6 is a struggle even...
For a transformational change project to suceed it would have to be many, many X better than the as-is & this benefit would have to be readily realisable otherwise buy in would be nada.
I'dve no objection if this was a thought experiment/deep research but they are couching it as though it is practical or realistic, methinks they need to add some clinical psycholgists to their staff.
And I reckon that it was simply checking the browser history, whilst this evidence is circumstantial (eg was she using computer at time etc) it really is a kicker regards proving intent/pre meditation:-)
Problem is this will require a small band of fanatics to do the editing. Now for the "central/core-cultural" stuff that you might expect in an encyclopedia this model may work but web searches are probably more long tail/niche. Not sure that the editing group could ever be representative. Furthermore the risk of bias on small sample size gets even larger. Some of the bias mightn't even be conscious: e.g. exhibiting a preference for a rigourous page over a "dummies guide" (which might be more popular/widely useful).
Much better would be a behaviour based search engine that inferred when users were un/happy with results- e.g. user doesn't come back for more searches or click more links on existing return.Also even say if a user does a "poor" search firstly & then uses "clearer" terms then engine ought in future suggest the "clearer" terms as alt search or even return some of the results. Indeed even better the engine might "cluster" you with other similar users & retunr more relavant results (e.g. effectively inferring that you prefer rigourous complete guides rather than dummies intros).
This would be simpler & actually rely on the wisdom of masses rather than some central command editors, in fact this type of thinking was behind PageRank.
I use & develop for Hyperion extensively, the front end Analyzer is a very powerful GUI, even I as a SQL developer gladly use it as it saves "handcoding" SQL... in fact with response times of 5 seconds from conception of grouping to execution & data return it is a no brainer for me, let alone end users.
However the Hyperion suite is very much end of the food chain, after the fact. It relies on other operational/transactional systems to produce the data. Thus its independence was an advantage. Its ETL is somewhat weak & support patchy so possibly Oracle can help there. However Oracle are a direct competitor to the other operational/transactional systems (e.. Teradata,IBM, SAP etc)... thus the possible market for Hyperion is limited by this takeover. I'm not sure on the value add... people who would have bought Hyperion alongside some Oracle system still will. Any other combo is going to be a harder sell...
Why do you trust say your IT department not to lose data ? In fact if Google loses your data they risk losing tens of thousands of customers so they're going to try harder. Email, collaboration tools etc are at this point commodity software: pretty obvious what they do , pretty low down the food chain on value add. They are perfect for outsourcing.
This isn't like Y2K at all, with Y2K there was a "physical level" risk of overflow from 2 digits to 3 digits, this isn't the case here. Also in Y2K there was a fear that say 1900 would get displayed as year, this is only an hour wrong so at worst it will be transactions around midnight that might cross the day/month/year boundary but fact is that very few automated programs rely on such precise datetime stamps (& those that do probably use UTC at storgae lvele). As is most servers are quite a few minutes off so a whoele 60 won't be catastrophic.
But does it reduce revenue ? 2nd slot after Google is worth more than 2nd slot after a direct competitor surely ? Also how transparent are their auction allocation rules: have we seen the detail published in order taht we can ensure ourselves that the bidding is fair when Google is in play ?
One of the key features of competitive stock markets is transparency.
I wonder could the paper be made more robust, the primary problem is curling or small pieces of dirt (spills, chewing gum etc would be a lot less common). So they could try plasticising the paper- yes that would produce problems re heat , & possibly make paper less susceptible to ink... whole set up is beginning to sound as far away as e-paper:-)
He's not a nice guy and I could easily see him overlooking a raise if he knew I voted Democrat in the last two presidential elections. He could, of course, claim it was something else even if it wasn't. Do you want me to suffer for my political views?
Actually publishing your vote leads to worse problems than that. For example consider the amount spent by election candidates... they could then try buying votes, considering voter turnout is ony 50% I reckon there's a large untapped swing market;-)
The reduction to 25% filesize is being achieved by compression. This is meant to be good as it saves disk space. However I suspect the network resource saving may be greater. For corporate use you'll have say 1,000 users on a 50 GB file server, just think about the auto save & recovery options... every 10 minutes trying to say say 5MB of open files ?
It will cut down on read/write network traffic as well as saving time/resources server side. 75% overnight would grab you an extra 3 years on your volume capacity lifespan (assuming current volume nearly full & growth rate of 60% p/a).
There may actually be an infrastructural business case to upgrade...
Anyone working in a large mature company will encounter many DBs. Presently I'm in a bank- I'm doing a lot of work in SQL Server& Teradata, I come from an Oracle background so good to have that in the mix. Also I've to read/QA code for both DB2 & MYSQL.
I'd jump at a book like that bar the fact that it is missing Teradata. This is peculiar as:
1) Teradata is only used as a DW in mature environments
2) These environments will have lots of cross overs as above
3) Not being start ups/free/hobbies educational spend power is HIGH
A missed oppurtunity...
I'm not sure I get this filling-in business ? In essence the PVC covers the media layer. When the PVC is scratched it becomes partially opaque as it scatters the laser. For deep scratches my solution is a very sharp knife & a magnifying glass. I excavate/remove the "impacted/crushed" material in the scratch. Then voila the media layer is readable again.
1GB RAM will turn your laptop into a toaster !
Seriously 1GB RAM is just too high for most laptop batteries. As penance for their plan to turn my laptop into a culinary device could msft please re-divert say $1B from the Google war-chest to battery research?
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Fact is that the existing internet is massive & anarchic - I can't see any viable big bang transition model & parallel running would be fantasy. We've known for decades that the Dvorak keyboard beats the Qwerty but because of transition cost it's not a runner. Ipv4 vs Ipv6 is a struggle even...
For a transformational change project to suceed it would have to be many, many X better than the as-is & this benefit would have to be readily realisable otherwise buy in would be nada.
I'dve no objection if this was a thought experiment/deep research but they are couching it as though it is practical or realistic, methinks they need to add some clinical psycholgists to their staff.
And I reckon that it was simply checking the browser history, whilst this evidence is circumstantial (eg was she using computer at time etc) it really is a kicker regards proving intent/pre meditation :-)
Problem is this will require a small band of fanatics to do the editing. Now for the "central/core-cultural" stuff that you might expect in an encyclopedia this model may work but web searches are probably more long tail/niche. Not sure that the editing group could ever be representative. Furthermore the risk of bias on small sample size gets even larger. Some of the bias mightn't even be conscious: e.g. exhibiting a preference for a rigourous page over a "dummies guide" (which might be more popular/widely useful).
Much better would be a behaviour based search engine that inferred when users were un/happy with results- e.g. user doesn't come back for more searches or click more links on existing return.Also even say if a user does a "poor" search firstly & then uses "clearer" terms then engine ought in future suggest the "clearer" terms as alt search or even return some of the results. Indeed even better the engine might "cluster" you with other similar users & retunr more relavant results (e.g. effectively inferring that you prefer rigourous complete guides rather than dummies intros).
This would be simpler & actually rely on the wisdom of masses rather than some central command editors, in fact this type of thinking was behind PageRank.
I use & develop for Hyperion extensively, the front end Analyzer is a very powerful GUI, even I as a SQL developer gladly use it as it saves "handcoding" SQL... in fact with response times of 5 seconds from conception of grouping to execution & data return it is a no brainer for me, let alone end users.
... thus the possible market for Hyperion is limited by this takeover. I'm not sure on the value add... people who would have bought Hyperion alongside some Oracle system still will. Any other combo is going to be a harder sell...
However the Hyperion suite is very much end of the food chain, after the fact. It relies on other operational/transactional systems to produce the data. Thus its independence was an advantage. Its ETL is somewhat weak & support patchy so possibly Oracle can help there. However Oracle are a direct competitor to the other operational/transactional systems (e.. Teradata,IBM, SAP etc)
Why do you trust say your IT department not to lose data ? In fact if Google loses your data they risk losing tens of thousands of customers so they're going to try harder. Email, collaboration tools etc are at this point commodity software: pretty obvious what they do , pretty low down the food chain on value add. They are perfect for outsourcing.
This isn't like Y2K at all, with Y2K there was a "physical level" risk of overflow from 2 digits to 3 digits, this isn't the case here. Also in Y2K there was a fear that say 1900 would get displayed as year, this is only an hour wrong so at worst it will be transactions around midnight that might cross the day/month/year boundary but fact is that very few automated programs rely on such precise datetime stamps (& those that do probably use UTC at storgae lvele). As is most servers are quite a few minutes off so a whoele 60 won't be catastrophic.
But does it reduce revenue ? 2nd slot after Google is worth more than 2nd slot after a direct competitor surely ? Also how transparent are their auction allocation rules: have we seen the detail published in order taht we can ensure ourselves that the bidding is fair when Google is in play ?
One of the key features of competitive stock markets is transparency.
This is a February 2006 article.... slow news day ? Also the artcile is highly speculative , eventhe 20% isn't certain...
I wonder could the paper be made more robust, the primary problem is curling or small pieces of dirt (spills, chewing gum etc would be a lot less common). So they could try plasticising the paper- yes that would produce problems re heat , & possibly make paper less susceptible to ink... whole set up is beginning to sound as far away as e-paper
Actually publishing your vote leads to worse problems than that. For example consider the amount spent by election candidates... they could then try buying votes, considering voter turnout is ony 50% I reckon there's a large untapped swing market
The reduction to 25% filesize is being achieved by compression. This is meant to be good as it saves disk space. However I suspect the network resource saving may be greater. For corporate use you'll have say 1,000 users on a 50 GB file server, just think about the auto save & recovery options... every 10 minutes trying to say say 5MB of open files ?
It will cut down on read/write network traffic as well as saving time/resources server side. 75% overnight would grab you an extra 3 years on your volume capacity lifespan (assuming current volume nearly full & growth rate of 60% p/a).
There may actually be an infrastructural business case to upgrade...
Anyone working in a large mature company will encounter many DBs. Presently I'm in a bank- I'm doing a lot of work in SQL Server& Teradata, I come from an Oracle background so good to have that in the mix. Also I've to read/QA code for both DB2 & MYSQL. I'd jump at a book like that bar the fact that it is missing Teradata. This is peculiar as: 1) Teradata is only used as a DW in mature environments 2) These environments will have lots of cross overs as above 3) Not being start ups/free/hobbies educational spend power is HIGH A missed oppurtunity...
I'm not sure I get this filling-in business ? In essence the PVC covers the media layer. When the PVC is scratched it becomes partially opaque as it scatters the laser. For deep scratches my solution is a very sharp knife & a magnifying glass. I excavate/remove the "impacted/crushed" material in the scratch. Then voila the media layer is readable again.
1GB RAM will turn your laptop into a toaster ! Seriously 1GB RAM is just too high for most laptop batteries. As penance for their plan to turn my laptop into a culinary device could msft please re-divert say $1B from the Google war-chest to battery research? CyP