If you want to make it fit, you can take notice of the phone's useragent string and use that to return an image that fits, either prescaled or scaled on-the-fly. But that's of course a PITA, at least it was when I was in the mobile biz some years ago.
coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world Huh, and I read that as urinate and populate the world. Guess that with old age comes insanity. How intelligent is that design?
It sounds like a cool feature. And it seems like one that can easily be implemented with a traditional post form (of course I haven't gone and checked how they're doing this, that would be like RTFA).
Son! How many times have we told you not to mess with the heads of the primates from this era? Now get back to your own time and universe, your mother is worried sick! Oh, and can you bring some brain-snacks on the way home?
It must be either the Linux or BSD bashing that flamed you. The first two have seemed like fair targets here. Try two new bashings, and skip Linux in the first one and BSD in the second. Then we'll see which one is holy and not to be made fun of.
The currency is irrelevant. Many of the bigger companies here have Euros as their main currency, for accounting, income and costs. And what does the local bank rate have to do with anything? You think Microsoft will take a loan at 15% in an Icelandic bank? As far as political stability, business freedom, education status etc, look up any recent UN charts - we usually score quite well there, in many cases better than the US for example.
People from Iceland are known for speaking English very well.
Well, though I'm sometimes grammatically correct, I never make much sense (and not in icelandic either). Not sure where your definition of very well fits in there.
I think two things will stop these datacenters from going to Iceland: restrictive immigration laws and submarine data cable capacity.
I think you're wrong on both accounts. Iceland is a part of the EU common workforce/finance market - and has similar immigration laws as the rest of Europe. It also hasn't been any problem in the companies I've worked for here to get people from e.g. USA and India to come and work/live for longer or shorter periods. The data cable capacity thing is a real issue right now, but it is being worked on and we will have more bandwidth relatively soon. If you're planning something big that should stand for a long time, by the time you've made the necessary deals and plans, this problem will be already solved.
Way too much info to be remembered. Much simpler:
1. Pretend to agree with whatever nonsense she says
2. Don't give up before the goods are delivered
3. Goto 1
Threads in a web server might as well be entirely separate programs
The reason you can say this, is that most web servers/containers do a decent job of isolating one request from the other. All that's saying is that the hard part is mostly taken care of beforehand. That's not to say that I haven't seen people screw up, e.g. by using instance variables on re-entrant code...
I know that what you're getting at is that the single-threaded/synchronized/serial request/response model doesn't require the dev to think much about parallelism. That's not the only way to do the background work of SaaSes though. You can e.g. have multiple asynchronous processes communicating through message queues, adding jobs and doing those jobs as they see fit. Again, if done correctly, each process can do its work pretty much in isolation so it may not change your view. IMO it's still massively parallel even if the hard part is mostly taken care of.
SaaS can be great and so can parallelization. But they're not related.
Really? You say yourself:
A typical SaaS provider has a few dozen to a few thousand servers running a few hundred to a few million instances of his software. Since typically a single server will run many instances of the software, parallelization will "just happen" for free.
If that's not massively parallel, I don't know what is and someone has to code this end too. Even if you're mostly thinking about the client end, who's to say that you necessarily have to go through the typical browser as is most common now? Or that browsers can't be enhanced to do more work, more efficiently?
You don't even need to work in a place that does parallel programming to find that number low. It may also depend a bit on the programming languages used. I don't know many people that are good at C++ multithreading, while the majority of Java devs I know have at least some experience with it. That's not to say all of them are good, but many are - at least a much higher portion than 1%.
I blame silly english pronounciation for this joke problem. In my language (Icelandic), we say it like oor-an-ush. If you say it really fast and are lucky, it can sound like "you're an ass", which is way cooler than "your anus". And no, I'm not saying that the OPs are anii (that would be the plural form, similar to virii which I also know is wrong).
I dunno how this is in.net, but another big plus for core Java is that if you find the documentation ambigious or lacking, you can just view the source code and see for yourself what happens inside whatever you're looking at.
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This topic is old enough and long enough. Didn't we agree that in such circumstances, Microsoft bashing should be modded informative?
If you want to make it fit, you can take notice of the phone's useragent string and use that to return an image that fits, either prescaled or scaled on-the-fly. But that's of course a PITA, at least it was when I was in the mobile biz some years ago.
Just one question, do you have a car analogy for that?
Here's something interesting:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~anderson/JAVAclass/JavaInterface/JavaInterface.html
I've never considered combining this before, but now it seems like it could be a good idea.
It sounds like a cool feature. And it seems like one that can easily be implemented with a traditional post form (of course I haven't gone and checked how they're doing this, that would be like RTFA).
Son! How many times have we told you not to mess with the heads of the primates from this era? Now get back to your own time and universe, your mother is worried sick! Oh, and can you bring some brain-snacks on the way home?
What is BC? Are you posting from the distant past?
It must be either the Linux or BSD bashing that flamed you. The first two have seemed like fair targets here. Try two new bashings, and skip Linux in the first one and BSD in the second. Then we'll see which one is holy and not to be made fun of.
I'm not sure if I'm in the good or evil system - my dupe got rejected?
And the seeding isn't over yet. Take a look at this article:
Man 'targeted by aliens'
Looks like invasion of the body snatchers to me...
In fact, the proper term is twonique, or tonic as it's more commonly known.
The currency is irrelevant. Many of the bigger companies here have Euros as their main currency, for accounting, income and costs. And what does the local bank rate have to do with anything? You think Microsoft will take a loan at 15% in an Icelandic bank? As far as political stability, business freedom, education status etc, look up any recent UN charts - we usually score quite well there, in many cases better than the US for example.
Well, though I'm sometimes grammatically correct, I never make much sense (and not in icelandic either). Not sure where your definition of very well fits in there.
I think you're wrong on both accounts. Iceland is a part of the EU common workforce/finance market - and has similar immigration laws as the rest of Europe. It also hasn't been any problem in the companies I've worked for here to get people from e.g. USA and India to come and work/live for longer or shorter periods. The data cable capacity thing is a real issue right now, but it is being worked on and we will have more bandwidth relatively soon. If you're planning something big that should stand for a long time, by the time you've made the necessary deals and plans, this problem will be already solved.
Way too much info to be remembered. Much simpler:
1. Pretend to agree with whatever nonsense she says
2. Don't give up before the goods are delivered
3. Goto 1
The reason you can say this, is that most web servers/containers do a decent job of isolating one request from the other. All that's saying is that the hard part is mostly taken care of beforehand. That's not to say that I haven't seen people screw up, e.g. by using instance variables on re-entrant code...
I know that what you're getting at is that the single-threaded/synchronized/serial request/response model doesn't require the dev to think much about parallelism. That's not the only way to do the background work of SaaSes though. You can e.g. have multiple asynchronous processes communicating through message queues, adding jobs and doing those jobs as they see fit. Again, if done correctly, each process can do its work pretty much in isolation so it may not change your view. IMO it's still massively parallel even if the hard part is mostly taken care of.
Really? You say yourself:
A typical SaaS provider has a few dozen to a few thousand servers running a few hundred to a few million instances of his software. Since typically a single server will run many instances of the software, parallelization will "just happen" for free.
If that's not massively parallel, I don't know what is and someone has to code this end too. Even if you're mostly thinking about the client end, who's to say that you necessarily have to go through the typical browser as is most common now? Or that browsers can't be enhanced to do more work, more efficiently?
You don't even need to work in a place that does parallel programming to find that number low. It may also depend a bit on the programming languages used. I don't know many people that are good at C++ multithreading, while the majority of Java devs I know have at least some experience with it. That's not to say all of them are good, but many are - at least a much higher portion than 1%.
My understanding is that, the personal computers of insane, evil, world domination plotters - are not included in that 0%.
I blame silly english pronounciation for this joke problem. In my language (Icelandic), we say it like oor-an-ush. If you say it really fast and are lucky, it can sound like "you're an ass", which is way cooler than "your anus". And no, I'm not saying that the OPs are anii (that would be the plural form, similar to virii which I also know is wrong).
I think you meant Java && C++, I'm too scared to imagine what the bitwise AND outcome is
I dunno how this is in .net, but another big plus for core Java is that if you find the documentation ambigious or lacking, you can just view the source code and see for yourself what happens inside whatever you're looking at.
I guessed as much, was just nitpicking. I'm addicted to that kind of shit.