Fry's is actually the one store where my conviction against this wavers.
At least half of their product is tagged as having been returned, and I have yet to buy something with that tag that hasn't been missing something or other.
Hell, I once saw a tagged Logitech keyboard/mouse on the shelf, for full price -- the returned tag said "missing keyboard".
Tell your kids that they're supposed to use the mouse on the desk, not hold it up to the monitor. Then they'll be able to see their icons, and solve the dropping problem to boot!;-)
No, a 33% speed increase at boot will most definitely NOT translate into a 33% speed increase at run-time. Much of the OS is loaded at boot time, especially where Windows is concerned.
You will see speed improvements during run-time as the remaining components are demand-loaded, but the difference will likely be minimal if it is perceptable at all. There are exceptions to this rule, but they're few and far between.
On SQL Server:
If you haven't seen many copies of SQL Server Enterprise, you must not be working in large business environments. It really isn't that rare.
On swap issues:
What a slimy way of trying to get out of being proven wrong... If you have some solid reasoning, then let's have it. My guess is, you don't. His solution sounds pretty reasonable to me.
I'll sell you a pin if you'd like to deflate your head a bit. Chances are that most of these "non-technical" users that you're railing against actually know much more than you do about things that really matter.
I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusions, but I thought I would point out that sensor artifacts on digital cameras most certainly *can* be diagonal, depending on the cause.
As a simple example, somewhere in my archives I have a shot of city lights that I took with my 10D with a 30 second exposure; the result was 16-point star effect on all of the point sources. The only filter on the lens was a standard UV filter that I use to protect the lens from getting scratched.
One possibility is that there was an extremely bright point source that was polarized in such a way that it caused a similar effect, but only partially...
I posted my opinion. Remember, having a different opinion does not mean that you have to be a condescending jackass.
If I felt strongly enough to enter a *holy war* on Eclipse vs. IDEA, rather than entering my opinion, you can bet your ass Id've backed it up. The sad fact, however, is that I have better things to do than fight holy wars over text editors or development environments.
And if you can't afford $500 for a kickass IDE that you'll use constantly, then get your employer to buy it for you. Works for me.
Oh, it might surprise you to know that I use both emacs *and* vi.
You get what you pay for, in this case. Based on the brief experiences I've had with Eclipse, IDEA flattens it.
Of course, my favorite thing about it isn't all the refactoring tools, it's that it properly supports emacs editing keys (after being tweaked in a couple of places)... But that's just me;)
Quote: "The video card has two outputs, and when I switch it around with the CRT as the main monitor, the lag is still visible..."
It should be noted that some video cards have been known to automatically switch up which port they consider "primary" based on what kind of monitor is connected.
It should also be noted that, even with a GeForce 6800GT, the nVidia-produced drivers, and Linux 2.6, block move performance under X11 completely sucks. Windows remains considerably faster in that respect.
Funny, I feel the same way about CRT's as you do about LCD's. One of the following is probably true:
(a) You've been running the panels in non-native resolutions. Yes, a 1600x1200 LCD does like like absolute shit at 1280x1024.
(b) You've been using a poorly adjusted VGA-connected LCD panel. I have had analogue panels where I couldn't get rid of the ghosting (though my 15" Multisync 1530v looks fine). DVI makes all the difference in the world. The 21.3" Samsung that's sitting next to the multisync looks better than any monitor ever could.
Fuzzy? Not on your life. Oh, and turn that ClearText crap off. It'll help. A lot.
It's not a question of nice or not nice, it's a question of productivity. My multi-mon setup saves me truckloads of time that would otherwise be spent searching for windows.
Of course, I also use virtual desktops on the multi-monitor setup...
Well, having previously worked at Healthnet in Woodland Hills (and having a family member that still does), I can tell you that (a) Woodland Hills is hardly BFE, and (b) The company is *definitely* not going to dry up any time soon.
So look it up.
Since it's a health insurance company, however, don't expect stellar free health benefits (never have figured that one out...). Decent, but not stellar. Damned insurance companies;);)
Given that they are running Apache 1.3.x, they're probably fine on CPU. They're probably either (a) running out of connection slots due to keepalives, or (b) running out of memory. That's assuming that they have their connection limits set high enough to get to that point, and that they haven't discovered already just how nasty keepalives can be...
What you describe is a combination of the loopback and md drivers under Linux -- RAID1 (or 5 or...) on loopback devices pointing at files living on NFS disks. Or something.
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I take it you've never heard of "operating expenses"...
--S
Fry's is actually the one store where my conviction against this wavers.
At least half of their product is tagged as having been returned, and I have yet to buy something with that tag that hasn't been missing something or other.
Hell, I once saw a tagged Logitech keyboard/mouse on the shelf, for full price -- the returned tag said "missing keyboard".
No joke.
Fry's is annoying that way.
--S
If there were more people with that fantasy in the world, we might have a higher percentage of moral people in the world. Just food for thought.
Errr, you mean the cost of training people to READ? The vast majority of products seem to have names and model numbers stamped on them somewhere...
(Note that this post is not intended to suggest that the retailer is at fault for fraud committed against it. Your post is just silly, that's all.)
--S
Tell your kids that they're supposed to use the mouse on the desk, not hold it up to the monitor. Then they'll be able to see their icons, and solve the dropping problem to boot! ;-)
It's way too early in the morning for me to wrap my brain around that statement, esp. considering I haven't slept yet...
I've been here for a long time and never managed to snap up the claim to first post.
:-)
I guess there's a First Post for everything
On speed increases:
No, a 33% speed increase at boot will most definitely NOT translate into a 33% speed increase at run-time. Much of the OS is loaded at boot time, especially where Windows is concerned.
You will see speed improvements during run-time as the remaining components are demand-loaded, but the difference will likely be minimal if it is perceptable at all. There are exceptions to this rule, but they're few and far between.
On SQL Server:
If you haven't seen many copies of SQL Server Enterprise, you must not be working in large business environments. It really isn't that rare.
On swap issues:
What a slimy way of trying to get out of being proven wrong... If you have some solid reasoning, then let's have it. My guess is, you don't. His solution sounds pretty reasonable to me.
I'll sell you a pin if you'd like to deflate your head a bit. Chances are that most of these "non-technical" users that you're railing against actually know much more than you do about things that really matter.
--S (grumpy this morning...)
Not to mention, I think OCaml is one of the few languages with a "tie fighter" operator. Everywhere I look it's (this :=:*/+ the other thing)...
:-)
I was asked to maintain an OCaml program once. I refused.
--S
Not so old-time. I still do this with PIC microcontrollers on a fairly regular basis. Though they're probably faster than the 1802... :-)
--S
Do I *really* need to suffix all of my messages with disclaimers for the humor-impaired?
--S
Tell that to SCO. :-)
I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusions, but I thought I would point out that sensor artifacts on digital cameras most certainly *can* be diagonal, depending on the cause.
As a simple example, somewhere in my archives I have a shot of city lights that I took with my 10D with a 30 second exposure; the result was 16-point star effect on all of the point sources. The only filter on the lens was a standard UV filter that I use to protect the lens from getting scratched.
One possibility is that there was an extremely bright point source that was polarized in such a way that it caused a similar effect, but only partially...
Just food for thought.
--ZS
Oooooh, school me, why don't you.
I posted my opinion. Remember, having a different opinion does not mean that you have to be a condescending jackass.
If I felt strongly enough to enter a *holy war* on Eclipse vs. IDEA, rather than entering my opinion, you can bet your ass Id've backed it up. The sad fact, however, is that I have better things to do than fight holy wars over text editors or development environments.
And if you can't afford $500 for a kickass IDE that you'll use constantly, then get your employer to buy it for you. Works for me.
Oh, it might surprise you to know that I use both emacs *and* vi.
--ZS
You get what you pay for, in this case. Based on the brief experiences I've had with Eclipse, IDEA flattens it.
;)
Of course, my favorite thing about it isn't all the refactoring tools, it's that it properly supports emacs editing keys (after being tweaked in a couple of places)... But that's just me
For
--ZS
Quote: "The video card has two outputs, and when I switch it around with the CRT as the main monitor, the lag is still visible..."
It should be noted that some video cards have been known to automatically switch up which port they consider "primary" based on what kind of monitor is connected.
It should also be noted that, even with a GeForce 6800GT, the nVidia-produced drivers, and Linux 2.6, block move performance under X11 completely sucks. Windows remains considerably faster in that respect.
--ZS
Funny, I feel the same way about CRT's as you do about LCD's. One of the following is probably true:
(a) You've been running the panels in non-native resolutions. Yes, a 1600x1200 LCD does like like absolute shit at 1280x1024.
(b) You've been using a poorly adjusted VGA-connected LCD panel. I have had analogue panels where I couldn't get rid of the ghosting (though my 15" Multisync 1530v looks fine). DVI makes all the difference in the world. The 21.3" Samsung that's sitting next to the multisync looks better than any monitor ever could.
Fuzzy? Not on your life. Oh, and turn that ClearText crap off. It'll help. A lot.
--ZS
It's not a question of nice or not nice, it's a question of productivity. My multi-mon setup saves me truckloads of time that would otherwise be spent searching for windows.
Of course, I also use virtual desktops on the multi-monitor setup...
--ZS
Well, having previously worked at Healthnet in Woodland Hills (and having a family member that still does), I can tell you that (a) Woodland Hills is hardly BFE, and (b) The company is *definitely* not going to dry up any time soon.
;) ;)
So look it up.
Since it's a health insurance company, however, don't expect stellar free health benefits (never have figured that one out...). Decent, but not stellar. Damned insurance companies
Ten Digit Computing? WTF is that?
You can't seriously tell me that these people have only now learned how to count on their fingers?!
--ZS
Given that they are running Apache 1.3.x, they're probably fine on CPU. They're probably either (a) running out of connection slots due to keepalives, or (b) running out of memory. That's assuming that they have their connection limits set high enough to get to that point, and that they haven't discovered already just how nasty keepalives can be...
--ZS
Your monitor runs Windows 98?
That's because all of the *real* Galactica nerds know that it's actually spelled with a K in the series ;-)
--ZS
Hmmmm.... How does it perform with small operations?
--ZS
What you describe is a combination of the loopback and md drivers under Linux -- RAID1 (or 5 or...) on loopback devices pointing at files living on NFS disks. Or something.
--ZS