I really don't think you've worked in a telco that big and specially with a pre-paid system, which is the most adopted in my country.
There's strict regulations for this kind of system:
- once the costumer charges credit for the phone, it must be available for use in less then 3 minutes;
- when a costumer makes a call (or sends an sms, mms, uses the data network etc), the amount of credit available must be validated in less than half a second, no calls should be dropped because of inability of the system to validate credit;
- and there's the DW, which has to show graphics in real time (and I mean, if someone wants to know how many calls where issued in the last 30 minutes, this information must be available);
- and many other stuff, I won't write it all down in a post at/.:P
Do you have any idea how many charges a day this specific telco receives? How many calls? The amount of transactions in the databases is at the very least one or two orders of magnitude higher than the amount twitter has to deal with.
I've worked in a big telecom with 40mi+ clients and I've seen an 8 nodes Oracle RAC responsible for the whole pre-paid client database handle far, far more transactions and queries than Twitter says it does.
Each regional server responsible for authorizing the calls has a 2 node Oracle RAC and it too handles far more transactions and queries than Twitter.
So, there you go... The excuse to use NoSQL was that it is quicker in some cases. It's not, time to move back to RDBMS.
I used to like the Marvel "Ultiverse", but it's amazing how they've managed to screw it up in a matter of months. A few new writers and it's just ruined. The Ultiverse should be a complete reboot of the traditional Marvel Universe, away from the continuity problems, but there you go.
Venezuela's defense spending is just over $2B/year. Their oft-foe, Colombia, spends about $6B/year. And the US spends over $400B/year.
IF those numbers are true, and I think those $2B/year spent on Venezuela is quite low, Colombia spends that much per year because they're fighting narco-terrorists (FARC). Terroristst with wich Chavez has friendship, terrorists who received same bazoocas and a few dozen rockets from Venezuela's army.
And, FYI, your "peaceful marches" involved a freaking coup.
Even those made by high school studants in the last couple of years?
it's not ethanol itself, it's just the way US produce it... none of those arguments would apply to sugar cane.
about the engines, brazil is using pure ethanol for quite sometime and it just doesn't destroy the engines the way tfa implies. if it's happening on US, maybe you should take another look at the auto industries.
The SQL statement itself scans through all of the tables in the database
correct me if i'm wrong...
but even if the programmer is in fact an idiot, the sql injection attack shouldn't be able to scan the data dictionary and retrieve all tables, so it could be able do corrupt the data in each and every one of them. this piece, i think, is MS fault.
The thing is... tecnobrega is a plague! It spreads like shit! It's that kind of shitty music that, once you hear it, you won't get it out of your head unless you shoot your head off.
It is a shitty music and it's not that difficult to produce tecnobrega:
You just put a monkey hitting a keyboard or the guitar, some random remixed music in the background and a whore dancing on the stage... there you go, you've got a tecnobrega music.
And that's the secret of tecnobrega... the cost to produce this kind of music is 0, because they keep keep remixing someone else music to use as background, adding some salsa or whatever and crappy lyrics.
Most public servants have a pretty decent salary over here and even so they want to have their bribe. Tax agents are specially well paid, getting over R$ 8k a month, that's about US$ 4k. I think that's a decent amount of money even if you live in US and it's even better if you live in Brazil (keep in mind that eletronics are expensive, but all the rest is not. I always see americans eating like it's their last meal in restaurants in Brazil, because food here is really cheap).
I just wanted to make this correction, because someone might think that public servants over here want their bribe because their salary is low, but their salary is not low... they want their bribe because they're dishonest, because corruption is endemic, it's in the government from the senate to the tax agent.
Now... the federal police is another matter... I think they're the only few public servents that are not corrupt by default.
And just to keep the jokes going...
About internet going down in Brazil because of Cisco closing operations in here, that's totally bullsh **** NO CARRIER ****
- First one, that I don't see any mention on the big media. In Brazil, agriculturists have this habit of burning the sugar cane before the harvest, to make the harvest easier. So they don't have to buy expensive machines to do the job, they just set fire on the plantation and contract cheap man power to do the harvest manually. Somehow, I think that the green-fuel isn't so green anymore, when you have to burn the plantation to be able to do the harvest.
- I've already lived in 3 cities with sugar cane plantation nearby. The air get so fucking dry, that sometimes your nose just start bleeding. This used to appear in the news every once in a while, when in the dry season, when the air was very dry and the smoke made a lot of people go to the hospital.
- Since president Lulla decided that Brazil would become the new Arabia, this news just stopped showing on the news. Suddenly, it's all about the green fuel and nobody talks about this odd harvest habits...
And that's why threats are called "threats" and "harm", you just never now when or if they'll become true. IF they become true, they are not threats anymore and you won't be able do anything about it.
And that's why threats are threats, you just never now when or if they'll become true. IF they become true, they are not threats anymore and you won't be able do anything about it.
Your population can't grow because people don't die
"My" population grows because there's less deaths then births... If the numbers of biths remains the same or even fall a bit, but the numbers of deaths falls even more, there WILL be population growth. And that's exactly what happens in many many countries.
Yes. because all those 18 million 8 year olds and under are guaranteed to be the key consumers of Casino Royale.
Yeah but how many 8 years old were there back when DVD was released?
You know, on many developed countries it's the number of OLD PEOPLE that gets %lly higher as time goes by. That's why so many government are getting in trouble to pay old people retirement.
You can't just say that this 20% growth on population is just because of the births, it's also because many people just didn't die.
I didn't find any Wikipidia entry on this disease, so I'll just try to explain..
The hemoglobins in this case aren't biconcave, they're more like a scythe... So the parasites just can't infect them... It's quite usual on areas where malaria is widely spread... Makes me think: wouldn't it be easier to let nature takes its course and select the adaptable humans?
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I really don't think you've worked in a telco that big and specially with a pre-paid system, which is the most adopted in my country.
/. :P
There's strict regulations for this kind of system:
- once the costumer charges credit for the phone, it must be available for use in less then 3 minutes;
- when a costumer makes a call (or sends an sms, mms, uses the data network etc), the amount of credit available must be validated in less than half a second, no calls should be dropped because of inability of the system to validate credit;
- and there's the DW, which has to show graphics in real time (and I mean, if someone wants to know how many calls where issued in the last 30 minutes, this information must be available); - and many other stuff, I won't write it all down in a post at
Do you have any idea how many charges a day this specific telco receives? How many calls? The amount of transactions in the databases is at the very least one or two orders of magnitude higher than the amount twitter has to deal with.
Any telecom does way more than that.
I've worked in a big telecom with 40mi+ clients and I've seen an 8 nodes Oracle RAC responsible for the whole pre-paid client database handle far, far more transactions and queries than Twitter says it does.
Each regional server responsible for authorizing the calls has a 2 node Oracle RAC and it too handles far more transactions and queries than Twitter.
So, there you go... The excuse to use NoSQL was that it is quicker in some cases. It's not, time to move back to RDBMS.
I used to like the Marvel "Ultiverse", but it's amazing how they've managed to screw it up in a matter of months. A few new writers and it's just ruined. The Ultiverse should be a complete reboot of the traditional Marvel Universe, away from the continuity problems, but there you go.
Venezuela's defense spending is just over $2B/year. Their oft-foe, Colombia, spends about $6B/year. And the US spends over $400B/year.
IF those numbers are true, and I think those $2B/year spent on Venezuela is quite low, Colombia spends that much per year because they're fighting narco-terrorists (FARC). Terroristst with wich Chavez has friendship, terrorists who received same bazoocas and a few dozen rockets from Venezuela's army.
And, FYI, your "peaceful marches" involved a freaking coup.
Even those made by high school studants in the last couple of years?
it's not ethanol itself, it's just the way US produce it... none of those arguments would apply to sugar cane. about the engines, brazil is using pure ethanol for quite sometime and it just doesn't destroy the engines the way tfa implies. if it's happening on US, maybe you should take another look at the auto industries.
In Brazil, the movie "Tropa de Elite" was leaked many weeks before it was released and it was still a huge success, because the film was good.
Dude am I the only one who has noticed a "Scientology Get the Facts Video Channel" add on Slashdot?!
:|
I do have a screen shot of that
It points out straight to scientology.org
The SQL statement itself scans through all of the tables in the database
correct me if i'm wrong...
but even if the programmer is in fact an idiot, the sql injection attack shouldn't be able to scan the data dictionary and retrieve all tables, so it could be able do corrupt the data in each and every one of them. this piece, i think, is MS fault.
have you ever considered that, maybe, you shouldn't use computers at all?
The inflation is being pushed to the real world.
There's a guy from my guild that would sell 1000G for, let's say, $150 4 months ago. Today, he can't get $100 for the same amount of gold.
So, there's inflation, just not in the way you would expect.
Don't forget /. readers... they know everything about any subject, that's why they never RTFA.
The thing is... tecnobrega is a plague! It spreads like shit! It's that kind of shitty music that, once you hear it, you won't get it out of your head unless you shoot your head off.
It is a shitty music and it's not that difficult to produce tecnobrega:
You just put a monkey hitting a keyboard or the guitar, some random remixed music in the background and a whore dancing on the stage... there you go, you've got a tecnobrega music.
And that's the secret of tecnobrega... the cost to produce this kind of music is 0, because they keep keep remixing someone else music to use as background, adding some salsa or whatever and crappy lyrics.
Hm... I don't think you know Brazil.
Most public servants have a pretty decent salary over here and even so they want to have their bribe. Tax agents are specially well paid, getting over R$ 8k a month, that's about US$ 4k. I think that's a decent amount of money even if you live in US and it's even better if you live in Brazil (keep in mind that eletronics are expensive, but all the rest is not. I always see americans eating like it's their last meal in restaurants in Brazil, because food here is really cheap).
I just wanted to make this correction, because someone might think that public servants over here want their bribe because their salary is low, but their salary is not low... they want their bribe because they're dishonest, because corruption is endemic, it's in the government from the senate to the tax agent.
Now... the federal police is another matter... I think they're the only few public servents that are not corrupt by default.
And just to keep the jokes going...
About internet going down in Brazil because of Cisco closing operations in here, that's totally bullsh **** NO CARRIER ****
you wanna know something funny? really funny?
- First one, that I don't see any mention on the big media. In Brazil, agriculturists have this habit of burning the sugar cane before the harvest, to make the harvest easier. So they don't have to buy expensive machines to do the job, they just set fire on the plantation and contract cheap man power to do the harvest manually. Somehow, I think that the green-fuel isn't so green anymore, when you have to burn the plantation to be able to do the harvest.
- I've already lived in 3 cities with sugar cane plantation nearby. The air get so fucking dry, that sometimes your nose just start bleeding. This used to appear in the news every once in a while, when in the dry season, when the air was very dry and the smoke made a lot of people go to the hospital.
- Since president Lulla decided that Brazil would become the new Arabia, this news just stopped showing on the news. Suddenly, it's all about the green fuel and nobody talks about this odd harvest habits...
These days, Brazil is no longer just on the map for it's fine coffee and martial arts.
There's also corruption, prostitution...
Note that it's a bit like the WoW equipment sets too: you need all pieces to get the big bonus.
/.
Sex explanation with World of Warcraft metaphores, things You only see at
First of all, as a disclaimer, I'm not intersexual myself, but I'm interested in inter- and transsexuality
You mean like watching bizzar porn hu?
Pervert...
And that's why threats are called "threats" and "harm", you just never now when or if they'll become true. IF they become true, they are not threats anymore and you won't be able do anything about it.
And that's why threats are threats, you just never now when or if they'll become true. IF they become true, they are not threats anymore and you won't be able do anything about it.
Your population can't grow because people don't die
"My" population grows because there's less deaths then births... If the numbers of biths remains the same or even fall a bit, but the numbers of deaths falls even more, there WILL be population growth. And that's exactly what happens in many many countries.
Yes. because all those 18 million 8 year olds and under are guaranteed to be the key consumers of Casino Royale.
Yeah but how many 8 years old were there back when DVD was released?
You know, on many developed countries it's the number of OLD PEOPLE that gets %lly higher as time goes by. That's why so many government are getting in trouble to pay old people retirement.
You can't just say that this 20% growth on population is just because of the births, it's also because many people just didn't die.
I'll just stop here and go get some cofdee.
Ow crap! I misspelled coffee.
I was going to try to explain that to you... then I realized it was a joke...
/. readers, that would explain it anyway just to be modded insightful, I'll just stop here and go get some cofdee.
And unlike other
I didn't find any Wikipidia entry on this disease, so I'll just try to explain..
The hemoglobins in this case aren't biconcave, they're more like a scythe... So the parasites just can't infect them... It's quite usual on areas where malaria is widely spread... Makes me think: wouldn't it be easier to let nature takes its course and select the adaptable humans?
Or....
Did You know that humans with a genetic disease that causes the production of Hemoglobin S (wich has a bad formation), don't get malaria?
We could make genetic modified humans that have only Hemoglobin S and then malaria would be gone.
One side effect would be anemy...