"Photog" was to fit within the space limitations of Slashdot headline requirements. And "litho" was the word used in TechDirt; people use the term "litho" all the time to refer to lithographs.
Yes and they are actually artists who make them, not some Internet reader passing off the jargon as if they are in that particular industry.
Seeing that Engineering is basically the application of Pure & Applied Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics, I find it odd that they don't clarify that a lot of Engineering Research is Pure Scientific Research, then phase II is designing practical application of such research. I'll cite the very recent Positron Research for Anti-Matter at WSU [Washington State University] where a Professor of Mechanical Engineering who is also a Professor of Particle Physics with his team are on the verge of making anti-matter a practical reality. That work covers my prior statement to a tee. The area between Scientist and Engineer is far more grayer than this black and white categorization.
$18 million to redesign a website? WTF are they doing with it?
From TFA, they're going to spend $9.5 million over the next 6 months or so. Assuming $75k salaries for the web developers/DBAs/etc (generous), they'd be hiring 250 people to design a website.
And Americans wonder why they have such a big deficit.
I'm guessing this isn't just build the web site, it's to build and run it through January 2014 (See the GSA press release). Remember, they have to buy equipment and bandwidth too, although I'm betting the biggest issue is collecting, entering and sorting the massive amounts of data related to all the projects. Still sounds like a lot of money.
Add to the fact it's going to be a distributed center app that will pull information from various databases, utilize CRM and will most certainly go through a series of sign-off tiers before updates are published in an automated fashion.
The only parts that changed were minute portions and the choice of language he used was replaced by less forceful language for fear of being too alienating to the common man.
If only it were. Jefferson condemns slavery, in his draft, for one. The omission of a prohibition on slavery from the Country's final documents was one he warned would be paid for in blood. And it was, terribly.
Very true, but I was referring to the rightful and just angst against Christianity that was mellowed. The slavery was not only axed but a deal breaker, so he being a diplomat compromised for the greater benefit of the revolution and made it clear his positions for history to research and restore.
He wrote the entire draft. The only parts that changed were minute portions and the choice of language he used was replaced by less forceful language for fear of being too alienating to the common man. The WSJ cites him as a contributor. The author needs to read Jefferson's letters. It's right in there. I suppose Stephen King or any other author should be called a contributor to their work after an Editor comes in and helps modify it.
So you're not going to upgrade because one specific feature that's not available in the version you currently run won't be available in the new version? I mean... lack of jit in 3.5 on x86_64 is no worse than lack of jit in 3.0 on x86_64 (and elsewhere). Meanwhile, there were various non-jit performance improvements and features added that you're missing out on.
Am I missing something here?
You're missing the idea of having a 64 bit platform without 32 bit libs.
The Tracemonkey JIT doesn't work on x86_64 in the Firefox 3.5 release. Apparently it works in trunk, but for those on x86_64 machines, you either have to run the 32 bit version or just deal with no JIT.
"They changed the default behavior, but you change it back from about:config (type about:config in your url bar):
set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false."
Nope..didn't work.
I can close and open and whatever with all the other tabs I have open. But that one that opened when it restarted, I cannot seem to close it by any means.
If nothing prevails you can always get your money back.
Devolution is indeed still evolution in some way.
But I think by evolution we mean progress too something 'better' and devolution too something 'worse'.
While I'll leave defining better and worse as an excercise to the reader (try finding a concencus on thatone).
Evolution doesn't make any value judgement other than: if it survives and reproduces, it's good. If it dies before reproduction, it's bad. In that sense, there's no such thing as evolution towards something worse. No matter how degenerate an organism may seem to you, it's like that because that's what works in that particular niche.
If it survives and produces, it's prospers. If it dies before reproduction, it fails.
If that's his argument, then it would seem that the real conclusion is that Facebook can't build systems as good as Google's, even though they are using the same processor technology.
Google does have approximately 30x as many employees as Facebook, so it's not implausible that they've got a much greater ability to build in-house custom tech.
NeXT Software came to Apple with 300 Employees, including HR and Accounting. Let's just say the quality of talent at NeXT was much greater than at Facebook.
To build servers for companies like Facebook, and Amazon, and other people who are operating fairly homogeneous applications, the servers have to be cheap, and they have to be super power-efficient.
Hm, lets see... perhaps because Facebook and Amazon are niche markets? The average server isn't going to even need all the computing horsepower and the power efficiency is simply a drop in the bucket for most companies electrical bills. The average server is going to be much more I/O intensive than CPU intensive unless you do cluster computing or render a lot of stuff. The average server such as a web server or a file server doesn't use that much CPU and usually you are running 1-3 servers, not the hundreds that Facebook or Amazon would run.
And really, why is a VP complaining about this stuff? That he can't either afford custom solutions or spend the money buying more servers?
Agreed. Imagine this guy deploying regional Telco solutions. Facebook doesn't touch the level of tiering required for what people bitch about regarding their 3G options. Enterprise Data Centers, Call Center Suites, etc., are massive and when we really start moving everything to parallel blocks of code he might want to look at the architecture of the actual software.
Chrome falls into the "proprietary or whatever" category because it's made by Google. Basically, open source projects that weren't initiated by a commercial vendor suck.
The rendering engine used by Chrome and Safari (webkit) wasn't made by any company. In fact, its origins are KHTML. the rendering engine used by KDE.
99% of what started as KHTML/KJS is gone. The rest is all WebKit. Let's put it in perspective. The updates to KHTML/KJS are from WebKit being folded back into Kdelibs.
Firefox is still my browser of choice, due to the plug-ins I use daily. I have to wonder how Flash intensive the sites loaded were.
Not many:
4. Alexa sites
Because every user has a different selection of sites he uses, the sites tested programmatically in this examination were taken directly from the Alexa top sites CSV file at http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip. This list is the property of the Alexa service and will not be made available on dotnetperls.com. The CSV used was downloaded on June 19, 2009.
I'm more appalled at the size of this spread sheet file listing. What an abortion. Could they have just skimmed it down to the top 150?
I'd love to see the memory management for Chrome, FF3.5, Safari 4 and Opera 10 when Snow Leopard arrives. Then I'd love to see how they compare to Windows 7 and see where work needs to be improved on both platforms.
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"Photog" was to fit within the space limitations of Slashdot headline requirements. And "litho" was the word used in TechDirt; people use the term "litho" all the time to refer to lithographs.
Yes and they are actually artists who make them, not some Internet reader passing off the jargon as if they are in that particular industry.
Seeing that Engineering is basically the application of Pure & Applied Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics, I find it odd that they don't clarify that a lot of Engineering Research is Pure Scientific Research, then phase II is designing practical application of such research. I'll cite the very recent Positron Research for Anti-Matter at WSU [Washington State University] where a Professor of Mechanical Engineering who is also a Professor of Particle Physics with his team are on the verge of making anti-matter a practical reality. That work covers my prior statement to a tee. The area between Scientist and Engineer is far more grayer than this black and white categorization.
$18 million to redesign a website? WTF are they doing with it?
From TFA, they're going to spend $9.5 million over the next 6 months or so. Assuming $75k salaries for the web developers/DBAs/etc (generous), they'd be hiring 250 people to design a website.
And Americans wonder why they have such a big deficit.
I'm guessing this isn't just build the web site, it's to build and run it through January 2014 (See the GSA press release). Remember, they have to buy equipment and bandwidth too, although I'm betting the biggest issue is collecting, entering and sorting the massive amounts of data related to all the projects. Still sounds like a lot of money.
Add to the fact it's going to be a distributed center app that will pull information from various databases, utilize CRM and will most certainly go through a series of sign-off tiers before updates are published in an automated fashion.
You have to be brain dead if you think an Executive Branch project is going to contact 1on1.com and rent space.
The only parts that changed were minute portions and the choice of language he used was replaced by less forceful language for fear of being too alienating to the common man.
If only it were. Jefferson condemns slavery, in his draft, for one. The omission of a prohibition on slavery from the Country's final documents was one he warned would be paid for in blood. And it was, terribly.
Very true, but I was referring to the rightful and just angst against Christianity that was mellowed. The slavery was not only axed but a deal breaker, so he being a diplomat compromised for the greater benefit of the revolution and made it clear his positions for history to research and restore.
He wrote the entire draft. The only parts that changed were minute portions and the choice of language he used was replaced by less forceful language for fear of being too alienating to the common man. The WSJ cites him as a contributor. The author needs to read Jefferson's letters. It's right in there. I suppose Stephen King or any other author should be called a contributor to their work after an Editor comes in and helps modify it.
Or exchange it for something of the same price, like Opera or Internet Explorer.
Hence my sarcasm about his whining for an external feature issue [HIG] and not the performance of the application to present Web Content.
So you're not going to upgrade because one specific feature that's not available in the version you currently run won't be available in the new version? I mean... lack of jit in 3.5 on x86_64 is no worse than lack of jit in 3.0 on x86_64 (and elsewhere). Meanwhile, there were various non-jit performance improvements and features added that you're missing out on.
Am I missing something here?
You're missing the idea of having a 64 bit platform without 32 bit libs.
The Tracemonkey JIT doesn't work on x86_64 in the Firefox 3.5 release. Apparently it works in trunk, but for those on x86_64 machines, you either have to run the 32 bit version or just deal with no JIT.
No upgrade for moi.
(...) but if you read the article you'll see they have a pretty graph, so I think the data is good.
Yes, because a picture lies more than a thousand words or something like that...
Which show how both unknowledgeable on the subject the average person may be and/or how piss poor the average person's memory may as well be.
We're #3 - wow that's something to boast about.
Number three always gets the chicks in high school!
"Hey baby, I'm on the bench!"
Sloppy thirds just doesn't have that great a ring.
"They changed the default behavior, but you change it back from about:config (type about:config in your url bar): set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false."
Nope..didn't work.
I can close and open and whatever with all the other tabs I have open. But that one that opened when it restarted, I cannot seem to close it by any means.
If nothing prevails you can always get your money back.
Devolution is indeed still evolution in some way. But I think by evolution we mean progress too something 'better' and devolution too something 'worse'. While I'll leave defining better and worse as an excercise to the reader (try finding a concencus on thatone).
Evolution doesn't make any value judgement other than: if it survives and reproduces, it's good. If it dies before reproduction, it's bad. In that sense, there's no such thing as evolution towards something worse. No matter how degenerate an organism may seem to you, it's like that because that's what works in that particular niche.
If it survives and produces, it's prospers. If it dies before reproduction, it fails.
There are more seeders for porn.
Gives new meaning to the passage entitled, ``THE WAY TO SUCCEED--AND THE WAY TO SUCK EGGS!
He did. Several of them in fact.
If that's his argument, then it would seem that the real conclusion is that Facebook can't build systems as good as Google's, even though they are using the same processor technology.
Google does have approximately 30x as many employees as Facebook, so it's not implausible that they've got a much greater ability to build in-house custom tech.
NeXT Software came to Apple with 300 Employees, including HR and Accounting. Let's just say the quality of talent at NeXT was much greater than at Facebook.
128 threads per CPU is meaningless if the code isn't designed to leverage those threads.
Your math skills are crap.
To build servers for companies like Facebook, and Amazon, and other people who are operating fairly homogeneous applications, the servers have to be cheap, and they have to be super power-efficient.
Hm, lets see... perhaps because Facebook and Amazon are niche markets? The average server isn't going to even need all the computing horsepower and the power efficiency is simply a drop in the bucket for most companies electrical bills. The average server is going to be much more I/O intensive than CPU intensive unless you do cluster computing or render a lot of stuff. The average server such as a web server or a file server doesn't use that much CPU and usually you are running 1-3 servers, not the hundreds that Facebook or Amazon would run. And really, why is a VP complaining about this stuff? That he can't either afford custom solutions or spend the money buying more servers?
Agreed. Imagine this guy deploying regional Telco solutions. Facebook doesn't touch the level of tiering required for what people bitch about regarding their 3G options. Enterprise Data Centers, Call Center Suites, etc., are massive and when we really start moving everything to parallel blocks of code he might want to look at the architecture of the actual software.
Chinese? We invented Pebble bed Carbon Helium Nuclear Energy.
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/feb08/features/pebbles/pebbles.html
http://www.pbmr.co.za/
Westinghouse is working with South Africa on it.
Firefox isn't slower because of ubuntu, it's slower because the microsoft's C compiler is better than gcc.
Very soon they can leveraged LLVM where it makes sense.
Chrome falls into the "proprietary or whatever" category because it's made by Google. Basically, open source projects that weren't initiated by a commercial vendor suck.
The rendering engine used by Chrome and Safari (webkit) wasn't made by any company. In fact, its origins are KHTML. the rendering engine used by KDE.
99% of what started as KHTML/KJS is gone. The rest is all WebKit. Let's put it in perspective. The updates to KHTML/KJS are from WebKit being folded back into Kdelibs.
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7330/picture1uo4.png
Firefox is still my browser of choice, due to the plug-ins I use daily. I have to wonder how Flash intensive the sites loaded were.
Not many:
I'm more appalled at the size of this spread sheet file listing. What an abortion. Could they have just skimmed it down to the top 150?
I'd love to see the memory management for Chrome, FF3.5, Safari 4 and Opera 10 when Snow Leopard arrives. Then I'd love to see how they compare to Windows 7 and see where work needs to be improved on both platforms.