The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were delayed reactions to an act of terror. At least Obama's reactions dont cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.

It sucks that 'the help' only did the wash on weekends.

I'm not again alternative energy. But these storms would have ripped solar panels off of roofs. And you can go to youtube and see videos of wind turbines ripping themselves apart in high winds. But power plants dont get destroyed in a storm and power lines can be put in the ground.

I think that the corporate-owned leaders in the USA want *exactly* the same things that China wants...

They dont. You rerun test suites after making a change because you cant be sure that the code still works. The only reason to keep testing is because changes keep being made.

That's an informative reply, thanks for taking the time to post it.

Yes, traditional joins run in a single process but AFAIK there no reason why a join could not be distributed across many processes by implementing the join with Map/Reduce. Right?

I see this comment a lot and I don't get it. Somehow Map/Reduce is considered *webscale* and joins are not. But I can implement a join with Map/Reduce so why don't the webscale databases provide join functionalty that is built on top of Map/Reduce and save us all the trouble of reinventing the wheel?

like he said, you end up doing joins in your application

This statement from the judge was used as an axiom for making his judgment...

However, I doubt that the statement "assigning digits to musical notes and playing those notes in the sequence of pi is an idea that can only be expressed in a finite number of ways" is true. Certainly, the judge cannot prove that statement. Therefore I think his ruling is not logically sound.

For instance, I could take any sufficiently long sequence of digits in pi and come up with a mapping of those digits to notes to produce the song "Beat It". A corollary: the legal system in the US is complete shit.

Maybe that's true, and maybe is not, but suppose I write a program that searches pi for existing material, then can I use that material without violating copyright?

Discuss....

That video looks like an instruction manual on how to develop repetitive strain injury.

Step 1: Bend your wrist to type on tablet. Step 2: Move your fingers rapidly.

While your at it you can get yourself a neck injury too, just spend half the day staring down at your iPhone or iPad.

Thanks for the tips, I will do all that...

two comments....

I have built both a CNC router and a 3D printer. It is *much* harder to build a milling machine because of the mechanical stiffness that the machine requires.

Take a look at the printed parts used to build a reprap - the parts have very sophisticated shapes that are *impossible* to make on the typical sub-$1000 2.5D CNC machine.

I assembled a RepRap Prusa in a weekend but it took me 8 weekends to figure out... ...what software to use to drive the machine (RepSnapper). ...what driver to use on the electronics (Sprinter), and how to configure and recompile it for my machine ...what slicing software to use (Skeinforge), and how to configure it (properly configuring Skeinforge can be a fulltime job). ...what 3d design software to use (current using OPENscad)