Well, no, no I don't - his statement is self-evidently blitheringly stupid. But I will note that Microsoft use MediaWiki (the original PHP horror) internally, rather than a.NET thing.
"He also claimed that Facebook, Google, Ruby on Rails and Wikipedia could have been built using.NET."
Wikipedia? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. Really, no.
(Although the WMF Lucene search implementation was done in C# on Mono for a while, when Java wasn't yet sufficiently free software. It ran at half the speed of the Java version.)
It's really hard keeping the databases distributed. Basically, all WMF wikis are served from three large database clusters in Florida. The parallelisation is having those large DB servers feed lots and lots of Apaches (which run PHP and render the pages into HTML) and worldwide Squids for reverse proxying.
Wikileaks was mooting plans for a distributed MediaWiki backend - they have serious need for such a thing - but they haven't managed it either.
There are perennial experimental projects to put something like git as the back end instead of MySQL, but none of these are in any usable condition as yet.
Wikimedia is a charity. $8M to run a top 5 website is approximately NOTHING. My suggested slogan for the last fundraiser wasn't used: "Give us money. Or the homework GETS IT."
This is an insanely big deal. The siRNA mechanism got its discoverers a Nobel prize in 2006... but if this delivery mechanism works well, it'll warrant a Nobel for these guys too. There are all sorts of therapies that would theoretically zero in on a disease gene and take it out cleanly without side effects (e.g. for AIDS as well as cancers), but with no delivery mechanism - this could be a huge deal on the level of antibiotics.
Hugo Chavez has promised to speed up "the construction of true socialism" in Venezuela now that he can stand for re-election indefinitely. "We have exploded the barriers to a permanent socialist revolution."
Chavez has already taken control of the country's vast oil wealth, expropriated private landholdings and businesses and instituted a programme of deep social reforms. He has attacked the "distribution of wealth" problem by destroying as much of it as possible. After Chávez promised to nationalise the biggest power and phone companies, the Caracas Stock Exchange closed nearly 20% down, Electricidad de Caracas fell 25% and CA Nacional Telefonos was suspended from trading. The Venezuelan Bolivar has been replaced in common use with twigs and small rocks, which suddenly have much greater practical exchange value.
Chavez next wants to merge all his coalition partners into a single party, remove the opposition television channel, monitor the Internet "appropriately," nationalise key businesses and rule by decree for a year. However, construction of a one-hundred-metre tall gold statue of himself in the Caracas city square that turns to follow the sun will be delayed until next year, and renaming the days of the week and months of the year after himself and his mother can wait until the year after.
Chavez' good friend Fidel Castro expressed his confidence that Chavez was in no danger from the US. "This is the CIA we're talking about," said Castro. "They could fuck up a wet dream. Hey, maybe they'll try the exploding cigar trick again. That's a good one."
"hinders technological/scientific progress (hey let's have a bunch of philosophers and novelists take care of the economy )"
You realise of course that the current Chinese government is top-heavy with engineers and scientists? It's the technologists' dream: finally, technologists actually in charge! Thank fuck they aren't Objectivists.
It's instructive to look at the differences in what Clifford Stoll says versus what someone like Jaron Lanier says.
Clifford Stoll reminds us that technology is not a panacea, and to stay human.
Jaron Lanier is upset by "numb mobs composed of people who are no longer acting as individuals" - you know, that the peasants were let onto the ARPAnet. His main gripe with the Internet is that he doesn't get the attention any more.
Microsoft, of course, has done this with the Xbox 360 for a while. "Feature erosion" produces fans so dedicated, some are onto their second or third 360!
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has said "public concern" over 6 Music and the Asian Network may give the Trust a golden opportunity to throw director general Mark Thompson under a bus.
Plans to close the stations, available via download, DAB Radio, tooth fillings, necromancy and the rantings of schizophrenic tramps on street corners, have outraged millions of Britons (reported by Sky News as 80,000), approximately five times as many as have mastered the technical wizardry and sequence of Masonic handshakes necessary to actually listen to 6 Music.
The music industry has also spoken out, though 6 Music staff thanked Lily Allen for her comments in support and asked her to please stop trying to be "helpful."
The proposals will go through a public consultation before the Trust tells Thompson he is a drooling incompetent and that the Tories won't like a crawler either. "Like Murdoch will actually give the twat the Sky job he's after," said Sir Michael. "Christ, why didn't we keep Dyke."
Mr Thompson is expected to meet with union leaders later, who say 600 people could lose their jobs. There is concern that Marc Riley could start making records again.
In its annual supplier report, Apple has admitted that its Chinese factories have employed children to build its gadgets. "Ones with a particularly refined sense of aesthetics."
Apple revealed the sweatshop conditions inside the factories it uses. The child workers were found in a facility with high vaulted ceilings, elegantly crafted marble work benches and a classical quartet playing in the background in a corner of the floor. Young geniuses sat in their Aerons and levitated components into place with the powers of the mind, burning the famed Apple logo into the back of the assembled device with but a glance of terrifying but controlled power. Some lunches, with only an hour's break, would involve wines of less than ten years' vintage.
Competitors were outraged. "We are shocked, shocked to hear of Apple's ruthless exploitation of the chilll-drennn," said Steve Ballmer of Microsoft. "But then, what do you expect when they actually ask their suppliers about this stuff. Don't ask, don't tell! That's what made the 360 great!"
Apple's Chinese manufacturing facilities were the site of controversy last year when one young worker at Foxconn, who had teleported an iPhone home overnight, was found to have committed suicide by leaping from the top of the building, first breaking his own neck, and tearing out all his own fingernails on the way down. He was found with Apple logos carved into his back, obviously also self-inflicted. "A tragedy," said the report.
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Well, no, no I don't - his statement is self-evidently blitheringly stupid. But I will note that Microsoft use MediaWiki (the original PHP horror) internally, rather than a .NET thing.
Mono is a cheap imitation of .NET, which is a cheap imitation of Java. This is why Java rules on the server.
"He also claimed that Facebook, Google, Ruby on Rails and Wikipedia could have been built using .NET."
Wikipedia? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. Really, no.
(Although the WMF Lucene search implementation was done in C# on Mono for a while, when Java wasn't yet sufficiently free software. It ran at half the speed of the Java version.)
You realise of course that pretty much all of Wikipedia is multiply mirrored ... answers.com, Google cache, Bing ...
That's why a git backend is such a tempting idea. Leading to many abortive attempts to write such a thing.
It's really hard keeping the databases distributed. Basically, all WMF wikis are served from three large database clusters in Florida. The parallelisation is having those large DB servers feed lots and lots of Apaches (which run PHP and render the pages into HTML) and worldwide Squids for reverse proxying.
Wikileaks was mooting plans for a distributed MediaWiki backend - they have serious need for such a thing - but they haven't managed it either.
There are perennial experimental projects to put something like git as the back end instead of MySQL, but none of these are in any usable condition as yet.
This is literally true! But we swear we don't take the site down deliberately ;-)
This is on the press coverage bingo card.
It is actually true that downtime used to be by far our most profitable product ;-)
There's nothing quite as uplifting as the complaints of someone getting something for free. Not even for ads.
Wikimedia is a charity. $8M to run a top 5 website is approximately NOTHING. My suggested slogan for the last fundraiser wasn't used: "Give us money. Or the homework GETS IT."
Yep. The real win here is that this is an exciting new delivery mechanism.
This is an insanely big deal. The siRNA mechanism got its discoverers a Nobel prize in 2006 ... but if this delivery mechanism works well, it'll warrant a Nobel for these guys too. There are all sorts of therapies that would theoretically zero in on a disease gene and take it out cleanly without side effects (e.g. for AIDS as well as cancers), but with no delivery mechanism - this could be a huge deal on the level of antibiotics.
Peanuts are, of course, not nuts but legumes. You could theoretically make a nut-free peanut bar.
Hugo Chavez has promised to speed up "the construction of true socialism" in Venezuela now that he can stand for re-election indefinitely. "We have exploded the barriers to a permanent socialist revolution."
Chavez has already taken control of the country's vast oil wealth, expropriated private landholdings and businesses and instituted a programme of deep social reforms. He has attacked the "distribution of wealth" problem by destroying as much of it as possible. After Chávez promised to nationalise the biggest power and phone companies, the Caracas Stock Exchange closed nearly 20% down, Electricidad de Caracas fell 25% and CA Nacional Telefonos was suspended from trading. The Venezuelan Bolivar has been replaced in common use with twigs and small rocks, which suddenly have much greater practical exchange value.
Chavez next wants to merge all his coalition partners into a single party, remove the opposition television channel, monitor the Internet "appropriately," nationalise key businesses and rule by decree for a year. However, construction of a one-hundred-metre tall gold statue of himself in the Caracas city square that turns to follow the sun will be delayed until next year, and renaming the days of the week and months of the year after himself and his mother can wait until the year after.
Chavez' good friend Fidel Castro expressed his confidence that Chavez was in no danger from the US. "This is the CIA we're talking about," said Castro. "They could fuck up a wet dream. Hey, maybe they'll try the exploding cigar trick again. That's a good one."
They already told Conroy to just fuck off when he proposed they filter YouTube for him.
"hinders technological/scientific progress (hey let's have a bunch of philosophers and novelists take care of the economy )"
You realise of course that the current Chinese government is top-heavy with engineers and scientists? It's the technologists' dream: finally, technologists actually in charge! Thank fuck they aren't Objectivists.
Yep. Glass over map, good high-resolution camera mounted above (as far as possible), long steady exposure. Maybe some stitching afterwards.
Run a REAL operating system, like VISTA!
What, you mean the one I linked and wrote?
It's instructive to look at the differences in what Clifford Stoll says versus what someone like Jaron Lanier says.
Clifford Stoll reminds us that technology is not a panacea, and to stay human.
Jaron Lanier is upset by "numb mobs composed of people who are no longer acting as individuals" - you know, that the peasants were let onto the ARPAnet. His main gripe with the Internet is that he doesn't get the attention any more.
Didn't Sony recently try just this with the PS3?
Microsoft, of course, has done this with the Xbox 360 for a while. "Feature erosion" produces fans so dedicated, some are onto their second or third 360!
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has said "public concern" over 6 Music and the Asian Network may give the Trust a golden opportunity to throw director general Mark Thompson under a bus.
Plans to close the stations, available via download, DAB Radio, tooth fillings, necromancy and the rantings of schizophrenic tramps on street corners, have outraged millions of Britons (reported by Sky News as 80,000), approximately five times as many as have mastered the technical wizardry and sequence of Masonic handshakes necessary to actually listen to 6 Music.
The music industry has also spoken out, though 6 Music staff thanked Lily Allen for her comments in support and asked her to please stop trying to be "helpful."
The proposals will go through a public consultation before the Trust tells Thompson he is a drooling incompetent and that the Tories won't like a crawler either. "Like Murdoch will actually give the twat the Sky job he's after," said Sir Michael. "Christ, why didn't we keep Dyke."
Mr Thompson is expected to meet with union leaders later, who say 600 people could lose their jobs. There is concern that Marc Riley could start making records again.
But the rice! Each grain! Exquisite!
In its annual supplier report, Apple has admitted that its Chinese factories have employed children to build its gadgets. "Ones with a particularly refined sense of aesthetics."
Apple revealed the sweatshop conditions inside the factories it uses. The child workers were found in a facility with high vaulted ceilings, elegantly crafted marble work benches and a classical quartet playing in the background in a corner of the floor. Young geniuses sat in their Aerons and levitated components into place with the powers of the mind, burning the famed Apple logo into the back of the assembled device with but a glance of terrifying but controlled power. Some lunches, with only an hour's break, would involve wines of less than ten years' vintage.
Competitors were outraged. "We are shocked, shocked to hear of Apple's ruthless exploitation of the chilll-drennn," said Steve Ballmer of Microsoft. "But then, what do you expect when they actually ask their suppliers about this stuff. Don't ask, don't tell! That's what made the 360 great!"
Apple's Chinese manufacturing facilities were the site of controversy last year when one young worker at Foxconn, who had teleported an iPhone home overnight, was found to have committed suicide by leaping from the top of the building, first breaking his own neck, and tearing out all his own fingernails on the way down. He was found with Apple logos carved into his back, obviously also self-inflicted. "A tragedy," said the report.