mod_php doesn't cost anything. Apache doesn't cost anything. FastCGI on the other hand is a product which has upgrades and a server product that costs. So it sounds more like FastCGI and Microsoft have more to sell Er... no? FastCGI is an open protocol (not product) with scads of free implementations that's compatible with a pile of webservers. As for "having something to sell", I meant Zend, who have a big hand in PHP, and are clearly interested in selling you something.
mod_perl is indeed known to suck (or at least to require a lot of tuning and babysitting), but slow it isn't. Point is, it's just not necessary (or very beneficial) to have an Apache module if the only place your app is going to run is the Request phase. If the PHP devs disagree then IMHO they don't know what they're talking about. Or it's got something to do with that product they're trying to sell you.:)
In my testing (Perl, not PHP, but I don't think it particularly matters here), a "real world app" ran 98% as fast under FastCGI as under mod_perl -- and FastCGI is easier to deploy, easier to maintain, and (in the simple case) better on memory. Is it really worth chasing that extra 2%?
Of course, in the case of PHP, there's an extra incentive. I don't trust PHP's security or sanity for shit. So I'd much rather have it running in its own process with its own permissions than have it dynamically linked directly into my webserver:)
Now that's not fair. Yes, you're right, science needs "advertising" -- but it doesn't have to compromise the science. The problem is, as far as I know, what science needs is something that can't be made, only born. We need more Carl Sagans and Dick Feynmans and even Bill Nyes. It's not about the "genius factor" (though those three are/were all bright guys, and Feynman qualifies for "true genius" in my book), it's about 1) believing in science -- not just understanding and embracing the scientific method but truly living in awe of the universe, and 2) having the skills to communicate that belief and awe to other people, to teach them that (to paraphrase Einstein) the world is a wonderful and complex thing, but the most wonderful thing about is is that we can understand it. Yes, it's publicity, yes, it involves belief. But it doesn't have to be dishonest:)
Lower the skill of doctors? How can allowing a doctor to try and treat anything they come across be detrimental? What the fuck? Where does "allowing" come into play? You don't need laws to allow things. Laws restrict; laws punish; laws force; laws do not "allow". And indeed, by increasing the demand for doctors while eliminating the natural sign of that demand, an increase in price, any "universal" health care system must compromise the quality of care.
No system is perfect, but a system that denies treatment based on financial criteria is one that it inherently unfair. That system is called the universe. It's called the laws of fucking physics. It's called you can't get something from nothing, and it's called "scarcity exists." It's called life, and life is unfair (Flansburgh et all 2000).
There aren't many choices on this issue, really. Considering Bush's "no child left behind" was absurdly underfunded when it was passed, there are pretty much only two choices: Increase the funding to where it should be (and be attacked for spending too much) Kill it completely where it stands (and be attacked for being anti-child) Why is "kill it completely where it stands (and be hailed for saving children from that horrific fucking monstrosity)" not an option?
Yeah, I did some testing on my own a while back and my theory is that it's a token-bucket sort of thing, implemented in the modem. Whenever your aggregate bandwidth is less than X for more than a certain amount of time, it allocates a "token" and resets your cap to 2*rated. The longer your connection is non-busy, the more tokens you get, up to a certain point (when the bucket is full). Then, when you start moving some data, and you go over your rated limit (which, after all, is half of what the modem is giving you), it starts taking tokens out of the bucket. When the bucket is empty, it re-caps you at your rated speed, and no more boost until you start collecting tokens again, which means a period of inactivity.
And yes, as the other commenter pointed out, this is actually an entirely sensible way to deal with "bursty" internet use and improve user experience without actually buying any more bandwidth. It would be really sweet if Comcast didn't do other stupid shit;)
Anyone tried getting a java applets to work in firefox on a 64-bit AMD linux platform? Yes, it's called "go to a page that uses java, and when the little box comes up that asks if you want to install Java, say yes. Wait a few minutes, and then it works".
Or how about sending audio to a TV over an HDMI connection? How about it? It just looks like another soundcard.
How about video overlay on an ATI x1250 video card (on a motherboard with the AMD 690 chipset)? Has worked in general for countless years. If ATi/AMD broke it with their newest card, perhaps you should take it up with them.:)
"That's not the only way" -- it's just the only way that happens in significant amounts on the Earth. Titan, on the other hand, is a very different place, and has a methane-rich atmosphere; every now and then, those methanes get zapped by a passing UV photon and start forming longer carbon chains, which then "rain" out of the atmosphere due to their density. Or so we think, anyway -- obviously we're still working on figuring out what the place is all about.
Flying is not a right. You are free to take the bus, train or drive. Bullshit. That's no argument. One, you understand nothing about rights whatsoever. Two, you have exactly as much right to fly as to walk, drive, or take a bus. You don't have the right to demand that transportation be provided you, but you should have the right to contract with a third party for carriage without mandated screenings, "no-fly lists", or identity documents. The carriers themselves are perfectly capable of providing for safety, and they would have an interest in actually getting it right that the government doesn't possess.
The God-less ID theory is that the life on this planet originated in a similar way. And how, precisely, did the smart (and missing) aliens with the great biotech come about? They must have been created too, ID "theory" clearly says so. So either they owe their existence to God, or you have infinite regress. (Or, if you ask me, God is nothing more than an excuse to dodge infinite regress arguments...)
Just because the bad authors who do this have succeeded in making the term utilization standard does not change the AC's point in any way. Of course it does, because it's a fucking useful word, and it has a distinct shade of meaning. You can't blindly replace "utilize" by "use" in a given sentence and leave the meaning intact. You should use the best word available (taking into account tone, target audience, and medium); and whenever you're tempted to criticize others' diction without understanding, you should shoot yourself in the head instead. The urge will go away on its own.
Side note: one advantage of "utilize" is that it inflects decently. It's still deficient, but not as bad as "use".
A modern computer is like a car -- it's a complicated piece of engineering, sometimes it needs to be tended to by a pro (or a highly dedicated amateur), and it requires a certain amount of skill to use without crashing. Matter of fact, a computer is more complex than a car (it's easier to add complexity to software objects than real ones), but people are less inclined to take a clueful approach to operating them. Nothing fucking "just works". Windows sure has hell doesn't. Anyone who's actually used OSX knows that it doesn't either (yes, it's a nice system, but there are still times when it has wholly unexpected and complicated behavior). A modern Linux system is no worse. If you treat it nicely it will break as often or less often than anything else, and I happen to think it's a whole lot less hostile to the tech trying to fix it than Windows. The problem is just one of familiarity -- people have had years to learn, mostly subconsciously, how not to piss of Windows, and that knowledge doesn't apply to a Linux system, so they get the impression that it's complicated and prone to breaking. Well, it is, a bit. So is Windows. So's a car.
As to the issue of "what do you get to make it worthwhile", the thousands of apps installable at a single command through apt/yum/ports/etc. have to constitute at least one reason.
Perhaps you're too young to remember, but in the ancient days of the 1990s, we didn't actually have the technical prowess to make "black and white" LCDs. Instead, STN LCDs came in such festive color schemes as "gray and green" and my favorite, "blue and a slightly different blue".
I've got to agree... 4.0 really disappointed me. I guess it's a balancing act -- do you delay the release and risk people losing interest, or do you release unfinished product and risk people getting a bad impression? Personally, I wish they would have waited. I looked at 4.0 and there's some cool stuff in there, but it's definitely not good enough for me to use regularly. I would have gone to check out 4.0 even if it came out in January of 2009 instead of January of 2008.
About the TV band again. I started reading up on it and learned that Japan had gone digital TV quite some time ago, but was still using the same airspace; they just managed to use compression to fit around two digital channels into the same bandwidth as one of our analogues. Why didn't America ever go into that same system, given how much Americans love both television and varieties? Uh... what do you think we've been doing? If you said "the same thing", you'd be right...
Therefore, the number of delegates is what matters. In fact, it's the only number that matters. No, it's not. New Hampshire owns less than 1% of the delegates that go to convention. Yes, of course that has an effect, but it's not nearly as big as the effect of the media event, which goes on to influence the remaining 97+% of the process.
Probably because Clinton won in the way that matters. Look, nobody cares about the delegates. They matter, but they're really insignificant on a large scale. What the primary is about is the media event, the chance to establish momentum, and all that. If one candidate gets a couple percentage points more than another and the primary process says that comes to the same number of delegates, that's fine. But if the media event wants to call that a victory, that's fine as well. They're two separate playing fields that happen to depend on the same votes.
Well... vaguely, yes. If you get more light in the front end and you keep everything else the same then you can look at dimmer objects. Or you can capture an image in a shorter period of time. Or you can boost SNR to produce less-noisy images. Or, equipment permitting, you can produce higher-resolution images. Or some combination of the above so long as the numbers all add up.
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Somewhat offtopic, but I still don't think you should name any space project "Orion" unless it involves nuclear propulsion! It's... misleading.
mod_perl is indeed known to suck (or at least to require a lot of tuning and babysitting), but slow it isn't. Point is, it's just not necessary (or very beneficial) to have an Apache module if the only place your app is going to run is the Request phase. If the PHP devs disagree then IMHO they don't know what they're talking about. Or it's got something to do with that product they're trying to sell you. :)
the math gets a lot easier when you factor in the GWB inflation curve as well...
In my testing (Perl, not PHP, but I don't think it particularly matters here), a "real world app" ran 98% as fast under FastCGI as under mod_perl -- and FastCGI is easier to deploy, easier to maintain, and (in the simple case) better on memory. Is it really worth chasing that extra 2%?
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Of course, in the case of PHP, there's an extra incentive. I don't trust PHP's security or sanity for shit. So I'd much rather have it running in its own process with its own permissions than have it dynamically linked directly into my webserver
They still sell them, they just don't make them. They're selling off existing stock, which is expected to run out before the end of 2009.
Now that's not fair. Yes, you're right, science needs "advertising" -- but it doesn't have to compromise the science. The problem is, as far as I know, what science needs is something that can't be made, only born. We need more Carl Sagans and Dick Feynmans and even Bill Nyes. It's not about the "genius factor" (though those three are/were all bright guys, and Feynman qualifies for "true genius" in my book), it's about 1) believing in science -- not just understanding and embracing the scientific method but truly living in awe of the universe, and 2) having the skills to communicate that belief and awe to other people, to teach them that (to paraphrase Einstein) the world is a wonderful and complex thing, but the most wonderful thing about is is that we can understand it. Yes, it's publicity, yes, it involves belief. But it doesn't have to be dishonest :)
Dammit, typo. "et al" before someone spelling-nazis me from here to Timbuktu.
Formants? So it has speech recognition then?
Increase the funding to where it should be (and be attacked for spending too much)
Kill it completely where it stands (and be attacked for being anti-child) Why is "kill it completely where it stands (and be hailed for saving children from that horrific fucking monstrosity)" not an option?
Clearly you never used Netmeeting or any of the various crap softphones that came out back in the dialup days. :)
Yeah, I did some testing on my own a while back and my theory is that it's a token-bucket sort of thing, implemented in the modem. Whenever your aggregate bandwidth is less than X for more than a certain amount of time, it allocates a "token" and resets your cap to 2*rated. The longer your connection is non-busy, the more tokens you get, up to a certain point (when the bucket is full). Then, when you start moving some data, and you go over your rated limit (which, after all, is half of what the modem is giving you), it starts taking tokens out of the bucket. When the bucket is empty, it re-caps you at your rated speed, and no more boost until you start collecting tokens again, which means a period of inactivity.
;)
And yes, as the other commenter pointed out, this is actually an entirely sensible way to deal with "bursty" internet use and improve user experience without actually buying any more bandwidth. It would be really sweet if Comcast didn't do other stupid shit
"That's not the only way" -- it's just the only way that happens in significant amounts on the Earth. Titan, on the other hand, is a very different place, and has a methane-rich atmosphere; every now and then, those methanes get zapped by a passing UV photon and start forming longer carbon chains, which then "rain" out of the atmosphere due to their density. Or so we think, anyway -- obviously we're still working on figuring out what the place is all about.
Side note: one advantage of "utilize" is that it inflects decently. It's still deficient, but not as bad as "use".
As to the issue of "what do you get to make it worthwhile", the thousands of apps installable at a single command through apt/yum/ports/etc. have to constitute at least one reason.
Perhaps you're too young to remember, but in the ancient days of the 1990s, we didn't actually have the technical prowess to make "black and white" LCDs. Instead, STN LCDs came in such festive color schemes as "gray and green" and my favorite, "blue and a slightly different blue".
I've got to agree... 4.0 really disappointed me. I guess it's a balancing act -- do you delay the release and risk people losing interest, or do you release unfinished product and risk people getting a bad impression? Personally, I wish they would have waited. I looked at 4.0 and there's some cool stuff in there, but it's definitely not good enough for me to use regularly. I would have gone to check out 4.0 even if it came out in January of 2009 instead of January of 2008.
Probably because Clinton won in the way that matters. Look, nobody cares about the delegates. They matter, but they're really insignificant on a large scale. What the primary is about is the media event, the chance to establish momentum, and all that. If one candidate gets a couple percentage points more than another and the primary process says that comes to the same number of delegates, that's fine. But if the media event wants to call that a victory, that's fine as well. They're two separate playing fields that happen to depend on the same votes.
Well... vaguely, yes. If you get more light in the front end and you keep everything else the same then you can look at dimmer objects. Or you can capture an image in a shorter period of time. Or you can boost SNR to produce less-noisy images. Or, equipment permitting, you can produce higher-resolution images. Or some combination of the above so long as the numbers all add up.