Yes,.NET doesn't scale well because SQL server has issues. Sorry, try again. Architecture issues are not the same as a platform defficiency.
You have way too much time on your hands if this conversation is still bothering you. Besides, ranting at me won't change the reality of the situation.
I wouldn't recommend this; CardBus is painfully slow. Get a laptop with a built-in reader, and you'll be much better off (and yes, this is from experience, at least on HP laptops).
With the newer Express spec, you might get better performance -- but I couldn't find an ExpressCard CF adapter when I looked.
You keep on believing that, bro. Me, I know better, and I prefer to live in reality rather than inventing my own ideal world. Even if you *could* manage to provide respectable sources indicating that Java is "gaining ground" at MySpace, I guarantee you beyond the shadow of a doubt that I can canonically prove you (and said sources) completely wrong.
You can stand on your Java soapbox all you want, but claiming things that simply aren't true isn't going to help your case.
Care to try to come up with some sources? I'm game for shooting them down. Hell, at least say what part of MySpace it is that you think is written in Java!
--S (The thing I hate most about Java tends to be the closed-mindedness of the developers that come with it. Talk about drinking the kool-aid...)
No, GP was not correct, and neither are you. Yes, CF was originally Java based, and they used to use CF. No, they are not using CF on Java. I'll leave the rest for you to research and figure out, but I do know what I'm talking about here.
Aside from that, "Java app" != "CF app", whether or not CF runs on Java.
Seeing as I have 50 or 60 servers running similar drives (not including the blade systems that we have in-house that run SAS disk), I'm quite well aware that they're server drives. You must have missed the part of my post that said "Not that you'll find SAS in laptops, but hey, this is slashdot!".
Besides, he didn't say "laptop". He said "2.5 inch".
Read the whole thing before you try to "prove me wrong":P
On a side note, do you know what the difference between a "server drive" and a "laptop drive" is? There isn't much of one, aside from higher transfer rates, reliability, and cost.
(a) Whenever you suddenly apply power to a system, there exists the potential for spikes that could damage components. Rare case, since any half-baked modern power supply will protect against this.
(b) Fans, Hard Disks, and other non-solid-state components which contain electric motors, require a great deal more power at spin-up than they do at run speed (there are probably also more physical stresses involved at spin-up, but I'm not an ME, so I can't say). This places more stress on their components.
I'm sure there are other reasons, but these are the two I could think of in ten seconds flat.
Web sites (including straight HTTP file service) is certainly a thin-client application. Just because a system boots locally rather than over the network, does not mean it's a traditional "fat client". And this is coming from someone who builds primarily diskless systems for a living.;-)
I would venture to guess that outside of games, about 75% of what we do with computers these days as a society is not processed on our local machines. The other 25% is traditional business applications.
That's pretty serious displacement. I don't disagree that office applications are unlikely to go that way en masse, but the vast majority of what we consider "useful" with home and (to some extent) business computers involves the web.
Of course, when people realize that there's more to the internet than "the web", things will get much more interesting.
The article missed this: a reply from one of the open suse devs to the ubuntu=devel list.Wow... When did open source regress back to a high school mentality?
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Yes, .NET doesn't scale well because SQL server has issues. Sorry, try again. Architecture issues are not the same as a platform defficiency.
You have way too much time on your hands if this conversation is still bothering you. Besides, ranting at me won't change the reality of the situation.
--S
Like hard drives, most high-quality SSD's have spare sectors that the controllers will swap in if a bit goes out to lunch.
--S
I wouldn't recommend this; CardBus is painfully slow. Get a laptop with a built-in reader, and you'll be much better off (and yes, this is from experience, at least on HP laptops).
With the newer Express spec, you might get better performance -- but I couldn't find an ExpressCard CF adapter when I looked.
--S
You keep on believing that, bro. Me, I know better, and I prefer to live in reality rather than inventing my own ideal world. Even if you *could* manage to provide respectable sources indicating that Java is "gaining ground" at MySpace, I guarantee you beyond the shadow of a doubt that I can canonically prove you (and said sources) completely wrong.
You can stand on your Java soapbox all you want, but claiming things that simply aren't true isn't going to help your case.
Care to try to come up with some sources? I'm game for shooting them down. Hell, at least say what part of MySpace it is that you think is written in Java!
--S (The thing I hate most about Java tends to be the closed-mindedness of the developers that come with it. Talk about drinking the kool-aid...)
I rather like your link a lot better than the one I posted. :-) Thanks for that...
--S
I would *love* to know where you got that from. Care to provide a source?
--S
No shit, Sherlock.
c fm/ArticleID:4477
http://www.fusionauthority.com/Community/Article.
You're fighting a losing battle on this one. You might be surprised at what they run (and don't run) over there, in spite of appearances.
--S
No, GP was not correct, and neither are you. Yes, CF was originally Java based, and they used to use CF. No, they are not using CF on Java. I'll leave the rest for you to research and figure out, but I do know what I'm talking about here.
Aside from that, "Java app" != "CF app", whether or not CF runs on Java.
--S
And for the record:
I see no Java here.
--S
Sprint now offers no-charge roaming, or at least that's what they told me when I switched plans a couple of weeks ago.
--S
Seeing as I have 50 or 60 servers running similar drives (not including the blade systems that we have in-house that run SAS disk), I'm quite well aware that they're server drives. You must have missed the part of my post that said "Not that you'll find SAS in laptops, but hey, this is slashdot!".
:P
Besides, he didn't say "laptop". He said "2.5 inch".
Read the whole thing before you try to "prove me wrong"
On a side note, do you know what the difference between a "server drive" and a "laptop drive" is? There isn't much of one, aside from higher transfer rates, reliability, and cost.
--S
It's not about "warming up."
(a) Whenever you suddenly apply power to a system, there exists the potential for spikes that could damage components. Rare case, since any half-baked modern power supply will protect against this.
(b) Fans, Hard Disks, and other non-solid-state components which contain electric motors, require a great deal more power at spin-up than they do at run speed (there are probably also more physical stresses involved at spin-up, but I'm not an ME, so I can't say). This places more stress on their components.
I'm sure there are other reasons, but these are the two I could think of in ten seconds flat.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16822116156
Or maybe you are.
--S (not that you'll find SAS in laptops, but hey, this is slashdot.)
Hello, Mr. Record Man.
--S
It's a matter of perspective.
;-)
Web sites (including straight HTTP file service) is certainly a thin-client application. Just because a system boots locally rather than over the network, does not mean it's a traditional "fat client". And this is coming from someone who builds primarily diskless systems for a living.
I would venture to guess that outside of games, about 75% of what we do with computers these days as a society is not processed on our local machines. The other 25% is traditional business applications.
That's pretty serious displacement. I don't disagree that office applications are unlikely to go that way en masse, but the vast majority of what we consider "useful" with home and (to some extent) business computers involves the web.
Of course, when people realize that there's more to the internet than "the web", things will get much more interesting.
--S
And you call the web, what exactly?
Oh yeah... Thin-client computing...
--S
The article missed this: a reply from one of the open suse devs to the ubuntu=devel list.Wow... When did open source regress back to a high school mentality?
--S
On the other hand, I've met a lot of techies that don't understand that trust is earned, and respect easily lost.
--S
I always find posts like yours to be quite amusing. You oughta move to America, you'd fit right in with your perception of us evil Americans.
--S
Last I heard, PowerShell doesn't work on Vista...
--S
Yeah, but killing them isn't really an option. There are laws against that sort of thing, you know.
--S
MySpace has multiple colos in LA. It's quite possible that your friend isn't in the DC that was affected by the outage.
You have obviously never seen just how much Akamai can cost.
I have.
--ZS
Not if they work for Setec Astronomy.
--S
Array Bondage?
Is this some new fetish thing that I'm unaware of?