The test performance against apache using a different test program for each server. Furthermore, it looks like Boa is designed for one thing... speed. Apache is designed to be feature complete. It's like comparing apples and pumpkins.
I work for the company who makes Home Movies... kind of.
We used to be Tom Snyder Productions (www.tomsnyder.com) and we had a division called Soup 2 Nuts (www.soup2nuts.com). We were owned by Harlequin (you know... the cheesy romance novel guys) but then we got bought by Scholastic (www.scholastic.com) (surely you filled out those book-club forms when you were a kid) and now Tom Snyder and Soup 2 Nuts are divisions of Scholastic.
So... I guess a cool adult cartoon is being made by a book-club company:)
Sampling x number of sensors with y bits of precision 1000 times a second? Um yeah, that's pretty damned high bandwith.
Figure you need a fairly high value of x to determine things like woody / fleshy material, lets say 100 per square inch. (I have no idea if 100 is really reasonable, it may be more like 1000.)
Then you also need some decent resolution of those sensors, say 8 bits worth.
Then we get 100 * 1000 * 8 = 800000 b/s or around 800 kb/s (would that be 781?)
Now, my hand has more than 1 square inch of surface area, so scale appropriatly.
Subtract compression, add TCP overhead, and that's still several megabit at a minimum... for just the sensor info of the handshake. If it is more like 1000 per square inch, then we talking even more.
And I always thought you only needed 3 TCP packets to make a handshake:)
When you sign the contract, you agree to the terms of the contract, not every single term that may have flashed accross your screen. If you don't get a chance to read them, then you can't be held to those terms.
Even if the contract said something like "You agree to all the terms of the software too", unless it explicitly listed all the places where you can read those terms, it's a non-issue.
Sincere choice isn't saying microsoft should have to change, they're suggesting that people buying software prefer venders who support the Sincere Choice goals instead of choosing a proprietary vendor who will lock them into using that vender's products, thus removing all hopes of choice.
But that's what sincere choice is about... choosing vendors who use open standards. If tomorrow, the US government said "Starting next year, we will only buy software with open file formats that anyone is free to use", we would see the specs for word & excel published within the next 11 months.
If you want to work within the system, you need to fit in. Wearing t-shirts & jeans and holding up signs during an official Commerce Department isn't going to help. When the panel memebers see even a couple people like that, they will tend to label the entire group as someone they don't want to listen to. It's no wonder that barely any of "us" got to speak up on the issues. I know it sucks, but that's how these things work.
That being said: If every slashdot reader were to write a simple letter to their senators & congressmen about fair use, there'd be no stopping us. So go... right now... and write your letter, I plan to. If you don't, don't bitch about losing your fair use rights when it does happen.
WPIDalamar recently filed a patent that covers "Determining people's location from their postal address". No prior art was found on this, and he intends to charge royalties to anyout who uses an address to travel to, ship items to, or explain directions.
I've used CVS and Visual Source Safe (ick) before. But at my current job we use Perforce (a commercial product) and it rocks. There's clients for just about every known platform, a slick graphical GUI for windows (and they're working on a linux one), and there's this local webserver gui that works for all the platforms if you need something graphical to look at. The interfact to it rocks, the merging and branching rocks, and it is super flexible. We have some scripts set up so we can close bugs in our bugzilla database from some special tags in the description of a changelist (a changelist is what gets submitted when you check stuff back in).
That's all fine and dandy, but only if a few equipment manufacturers have a monopoly on the digital broadcasting equipment with a high barrier to entry. We have a free market in the US, so if one company is keeping the prices artificially high, they're just asking for some low-price competition that will hang them out to dry.
That being said, I don't know how high the barrier is for new manufacturers, and I don't know how many there are right now.
Even if it isn't feasible for more guys to get in the markey, the DOJ would be all over the current manufacturers with anti-trust laws.
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A while back I made a business trip, and when my dialup wouldn't work, I just signed up for a free month of earthlink. After I got back, I hopped on their website, and went the the support page, and then to the "Support by chat" link. This popped up an IM style window where I was able to wait for a rep without being on the phone. When they finally got around to me (10 or so minutes later) I informed the person I wanted to quit, they asked me why, I replied "I don't need it anymore", and that was it, got my account canceled right there on the web.
They do enforce this for *some* online stuff. A while back, I started running an online consignment store. (A Place where I would sell other people's stuff and take a cut) Unfortunatly, I ran into the factoring clause, and from then on I had to actualy have the merchants ship the product to me, and then for me to ship the products to the customer (instead of a drop-shipment type deal). Soon after that, we closed up shop.
This is how subs can track objects with a 'ping'... (well, part of it). Not quite... a sub can determine distance AND direction, something significantly harder to do in wireless applications. With two moving points, it becomes much harder to triangulate with only distance readings.
You guys are all focusing on the "Don't do anything wrong, and don't worry" attitude. There are many "good" companies out there with "bad" employees. Sometimes these employees can send email that may make the company liable.
Example: Sexual Harrasement. Bob and Sue get along great together. They always joke about sexual stuff and one day Bob sends Sue an explicit joke via email. Another day Sue gets fired and sues the company for sexual harrasement as a way to get back at them. Since it was consenting, there is NO real harrasement there. They supena the emails, and BAMN she gets a chunk of cash.
Or another reason: Say a "bad" company sues the "good" company. They supena ALL the "good" company's emails. Would the "good" company really want company secrets from years ago getting out?
Email is such an informal medium, but it's treated like any other written medium. It's real easy to accidently be liable in email.
The web needs to find a way to make money or even more sites are going to go under. Nobody wants to pay for content... I know, my company tried to sell content on the web, but retreated back to our profitable CDROM business when 3 products failed. If this method will bring real advertisers (coke, pepsi, GM, etc) to the web, then so be it! These are a WHOLE lot better than the pop-[up/under] ads that have been growing in popularity. This I can live with!
A new game, shattered galaxy, came out a while back. I pre-ordered 2 copies, and got 2 of the "Special bonus" cards that lets you buy a special unit in the game. So I did what any red-blooded geek would do... put it on ebay. Last I checked this card I got for free, that only give you the ability to buy a special unit, was up to $51!
Robbert Goddard launched his rockets from a farm in Auburn MA... I live in Worcester right now, and I've been to the site in Auburn. Right now the Pakachoag Golf Course is there. On the 9th fairway there is a small monument dedicating the event. Goddard did go to school at Clark University in Worcester, but they kicked him out before he launched his first rocket because he scorched one of the labs. Little known history facts.
So yahoo (and anyone working there) can read your email just like always. But now these new guys can read your email. Plus anyone sniffing your connection when your sending it. Plus anyone who can figure out how to appear to be the recipient.
That sounds worse, not better to me.
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The test performance against apache using a different test program for each server. Furthermore, it looks like Boa is designed for one thing... speed. Apache is designed to be feature complete. It's like comparing apples and pumpkins.
So someone says "please don't slashdot us" and we slashdot them on the same day. That's just low. Come on editors, we need a little responsibility!
I work for the company who makes Home Movies... kind of.
... I guess a cool adult cartoon is being made by a book-club company :)
We used to be Tom Snyder Productions (www.tomsnyder.com) and we had a division called Soup 2 Nuts (www.soup2nuts.com). We were owned by Harlequin (you know... the cheesy romance novel guys) but then we got bought by Scholastic (www.scholastic.com) (surely you filled out those book-club forms when you were a kid) and now Tom Snyder and Soup 2 Nuts are divisions of Scholastic.
So
P.S. S2N also made Dr. Katz a while back.
Sampling x number of sensors with y bits of precision 1000 times a second? Um yeah, that's pretty damned high bandwith.
... for just the sensor info of the handshake. If it is more like 1000 per square inch, then we talking even more.
:)
Figure you need a fairly high value of x to determine things like woody / fleshy material, lets say 100 per square inch. (I have no idea if 100 is really reasonable, it may be more like 1000.)
Then you also need some decent resolution of those sensors, say 8 bits worth.
Then we get 100 * 1000 * 8 = 800000 b/s or around 800 kb/s (would that be 781?)
Now, my hand has more than 1 square inch of surface area, so scale appropriatly.
Subtract compression, add TCP overhead, and that's still several megabit at a minimum
And I always thought you only needed 3 TCP packets to make a handshake
Bull.
When you sign the contract, you agree to the terms of the contract, not every single term that may have flashed accross your screen. If you don't get a chance to read them, then you can't be held to those terms.
Even if the contract said something like "You agree to all the terms of the software too", unless it explicitly listed all the places where you can read those terms, it's a non-issue.
Sincere choice isn't saying microsoft should have to change, they're suggesting that people buying software prefer venders who support the Sincere Choice goals instead of choosing a proprietary vendor who will lock them into using that vender's products, thus removing all hopes of choice.
Not what I see...
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Maybe I'm just being dumb, but I don't see any fancy menus or DHTML on the sincere choice page.
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http://sincerechoice.com/
Looking at the source, I see what looks to me like standard HTML:
<a href="Information/Join.html">Join</a>< br
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(There's no semi-colons in what I just typed, but I'm seeing them in the preview... slashcode bug?)
Am I missing something?
I'm using IE on windows right now
But that's what sincere choice is about... choosing vendors who use open standards. If tomorrow, the US government said "Starting next year, we will only buy software with open file formats that anyone is free to use", we would see the specs for word & excel published within the next 11 months.
The problem is the bandwidth.
Small, 8bit color uncompressed movie at 300x300 pixels would require something like 8 billion bits per second. (300 * 300 * 12000 * 8)
Now we probably want more resolution & a higher bit depth, so multiply apporpriatly.
What are we going to use to transfer that much data around a cluster? Or even just from the camera to the cluster?
If you want to work within the system, you need to fit in. Wearing t-shirts & jeans and holding up signs during an official Commerce Department isn't going to help. When the panel memebers see even a couple people like that, they will tend to label the entire group as someone they don't want to listen to. It's no wonder that barely any of "us" got to speak up on the issues. I know it sucks, but that's how these things work.
That being said: If every slashdot reader were to write a simple letter to their senators & congressmen about fair use, there'd be no stopping us. So go... right now... and write your letter, I plan to. If you don't, don't bitch about losing your fair use rights when it does happen.
WPIDalamar recently filed a patent that covers "Determining people's location from their postal address". No prior art was found on this, and he intends to charge royalties to anyout who uses an address to travel to, ship items to, or explain directions.
I've used CVS and Visual Source Safe (ick) before. But at my current job we use Perforce (a commercial product) and it rocks. There's clients for just about every known platform, a slick graphical GUI for windows (and they're working on a linux one), and there's this local webserver gui that works for all the platforms if you need something graphical to look at. The interfact to it rocks, the merging and branching rocks, and it is super flexible. We have some scripts set up so we can close bugs in our bugzilla database from some special tags in the description of a changelist (a changelist is what gets submitted when you check stuff back in).
Is it an internet companies place to stand up? I would tend to think there are far better organizations for that.
And in related news... Element 142 nicknamed CowboyNealium has been discovered by a crack team of wallruses in antarctica.
That's all fine and dandy, but only if a few equipment manufacturers have a monopoly on the digital broadcasting equipment with a high barrier to entry. We have a free market in the US, so if one company is keeping the prices artificially high, they're just asking for some low-price competition that will hang them out to dry.
That being said, I don't know how high the barrier is for new manufacturers, and I don't know how many there are right now.
Even if it isn't feasible for more guys to get in the markey, the DOJ would be all over the current manufacturers with anti-trust laws.
A while back I made a business trip, and when my dialup wouldn't work, I just signed up for a free month of earthlink. After I got back, I hopped on their website, and went the the support page, and then to the "Support by chat" link. This popped up an IM style window where I was able to wait for a rep without being on the phone. When they finally got around to me (10 or so minutes later) I informed the person I wanted to quit, they asked me why, I replied "I don't need it anymore", and that was it, got my account canceled right there on the web.
They do enforce this for *some* online stuff. A while back, I started running an online consignment store. (A Place where I would sell other people's stuff and take a cut) Unfortunatly, I ran into the factoring clause, and from then on I had to actualy have the merchants ship the product to me, and then for me to ship the products to the customer (instead of a drop-shipment type deal). Soon after that, we closed up shop.
This is how subs can track objects with a 'ping'... (well, part of it). ... a sub can determine distance AND direction, something significantly harder to do in wireless applications. With two moving points, it becomes much harder to triangulate with only distance readings.
Not quite
You guys are all focusing on the "Don't do anything wrong, and don't worry" attitude. There are many "good" companies out there with "bad" employees. Sometimes these employees can send email that may make the company liable.
Example: Sexual Harrasement. Bob and Sue get along great together. They always joke about sexual stuff and one day Bob sends Sue an explicit joke via email. Another day Sue gets fired and sues the company for sexual harrasement as a way to get back at them. Since it was consenting, there is NO real harrasement there. They supena the emails, and BAMN she gets a chunk of cash.
Or another reason: Say a "bad" company sues the "good" company. They supena ALL the "good" company's emails. Would the "good" company really want company secrets from years ago getting out?
Email is such an informal medium, but it's treated like any other written medium. It's real easy to accidently be liable in email.
The web needs to find a way to make money or even more sites are going to go under. Nobody wants to pay for content... I know, my company tried to sell content on the web, but retreated back to our profitable CDROM business when 3 products failed. If this method will bring real advertisers (coke, pepsi, GM, etc) to the web, then so be it! These are a WHOLE lot better than the pop-[up/under] ads that have been growing in popularity. This I can live with!
A new game, shattered galaxy, came out a while back. I pre-ordered 2 copies, and got 2 of the "Special bonus" cards that lets you buy a special unit in the game. So I did what any red-blooded geek would do... put it on ebay. Last I checked this card I got for free, that only give you the ability to buy a special unit, was up to $51!
e m& item=1635716579
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
Robbert Goddard launched his rockets from a farm in Auburn MA... I live in Worcester right now, and I've been to the site in Auburn. Right now the Pakachoag Golf Course is there. On the 9th fairway there is a small monument dedicating the event. Goddard did go to school at Clark University in Worcester, but they kicked him out before he launched his first rocket because he scorched one of the labs. Little known history facts.
I've gone a step better, I send thos business reply envelopes back with stuff in them!
http://www.wpidalamar.com/fun/telemarketer
So yahoo (and anyone working there) can read your email just like always. But now these new guys can read your email. Plus anyone sniffing your connection when your sending it. Plus anyone who can figure out how to appear to be the recipient. That sounds worse, not better to me. I'll stick to this: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org hQIOA3skEMHtFrktEAgAzdQ87bKLuCLrxJYP23Xl28zdohZPqM IL1xn9FtS/pU6F
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