I've heard the same from somebody whose brother in law was a diver for a couple days on the Ohio River. The guy said he as going to try to move this tree trunk away from the lock and when he put his arms around it, it swam away. That was his last day on the job. Note that the mud and silt in the river makes for very poor visibility, so it wasn't like he could easily see it was a giant fish. Visibility is only a couple feet or so down there.
It's good that your application performs well under your current load. However many times applications that perform well under minimal load perform terribly under higher loads. In your case you are grabbing a database connection and holding on to it far longer than you would need if you were able to cache even 50% of your list boxes 50% of the time. In server based applications you grab the resource when you need it and release it as soon as you can. You also try to prevent your app from doing as much work as possible. Caching can play a big role in this. It's a simple idea but can be tricky to implement, but well worth the time and effor for a high usage app. Slashdot does lots of caching. In fact much of their pages are pre-rendered. That's why you get the message that it may take a few minutes for your comment to appear after posting. One other thing that I have seen performance wise related to usage. Sometimes an app works great even under high load when it is first rolled out. Then as time goes by it gets slower and slower because of the volume of data that gets accumulated. Think how long a table scan takes against a 100 row table vs a 1 million row table. Tuning your data access code and database can really have high payouts. I don't think I would rely solely on my OS to provide a cache for me. What happens when you need to scale out and your database is no longer on the same box as your web server? The data may be cached but on the wrong box. You'll still have to take a trip over the wire to get it. The difference between the memory bus and the network is like the driving the audobon and a driving thru a school zone.
The rumor is that he is somewhere just outside of Bagdad airport. While he is physically in US custody he is technically in the legal custody of the Iraqi government. He won't be tried under US or international law. He will be tried under Iraqi law. So what were you saying?
Their behavior was found to be illegal in the EU with regards to using their OS monopoly and the media playing market. They don't yet have a monopoly in the Search business but you can certainly bet that they will try to leverage all of their assests (including those areas they are deemed to have a monopoly in) to get the largest piece of the pie that they can. When a business leverages a monopoly in one area to create a monopoly in another are that is illegal.
More like Ford making roads that favor GM cars. Should something like a road be made to favor one manufacturer over another? It doesn't sound proper to me. In this case it sounds more like MS leveraging its monopoly to gain market share in other industries. They've done it before and they're likely to do it again. Too bad it doesn't make it right or at the very least legal.
Is that 512kb typical household broadband speed upload or download? I guess for upload that makes sense since most broad band connections are not symmetrical. Download is a different story. I have about 3.5 on a dsl and that is fairly typical for the cable guys as well.
I've got to call you on that last statement. I've been gearing up for a.Net project in my company and have been looking at all the cool tools that have been ported to.Net. Of those you listed Maverick seems to be the only one that is complete and its a pretty bare bones mvc. NHibernate is still in beta and it has a mix of 2.0 and 2.1 features. Spring.NET is very immature yet. They're working on getting.6 out the door. It has some useful features implemented like the core IoC but it is nowhere near its java cousin. There are some good tools like NUnit that are complete and actually being rewritten to take specific advantage of the platform. Overall I have been really disappointed in the lack of maturity of OS on.Net. Especially in the mvc arena. Though after further research I found that to go with a front controller style (Struts) would pretty much force you to abandon most of ASP.Net. Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to contribute some patches as part of my job. Its so hard for me to get worked up about.Net that I know I won't be doing it in my spare time.
From what I've read ruby uses an internal threading implementation aka "green threads" This will of course lead to being bound to a single processor so without the use of forking a dual cpu box wouldn't really benefit much. I don't know if it suffers from the python equivalent of the GIL (Global Interpeter Lock). The gil in python effectively eliminates any meaningful multi-threaded capability since only one thread can process byte code at a time.
Another thing there was a comparison between hibernate and active record on theserverside a week or two ago. Active record can easily fall prey to the n+1 query problem where as hibernate is much more mature. You don't have to use active record. It's possible to plug in another orm implementation but the scaffolding code that is generated will use it.
Note this may not be entirely accurate but it should be close enough.
Are you trolling or just plain insane? Most competent dbas would balk at just a 25 table query. I've written some pretty hairy queries in my life and I shudder to think what the inner join syntax would look like for 150 tables. I also wonder just what you are storing in your database if the rows are 100M a piece. Perhaps you should think twice about using your database as a file server.
I can at least agree with you that MySQL is not an appropriate choice for anything but a trivial application.
You say that you get plenty of sleep but still can't get up. This would lead me to believe that you don't get quality sleep when you are sleeping. I noticed that when I dumped caffeine that I sleep much better at night. In fact I still wind up getting about the same amount of sleep but feel better than when I have had caffeine. Before I would only drink tea in the early morning or mid afternoon. But that stuff can stick around in your blood stream for a long time and affect the quality of your sleep. Also what you do before you go to bed will affect how easy it is to fall asleep. Playing games right before you go to bed is generally not advised as your brain is stimulated might have a hard time calming down. Lastly if you snore your sleep quality could be impacted. If as you say you are getting lots of sleep but can't wake up you should consider talking to your doctor about it. He may recommend a sleep study. There are a variety of things that can be done to help you sleep better. Some things are as simple as changing position. Sometimes even a minor corrective surgery can be done. Quality sleep is very important.
This is just another blatant plug for why trusted computing is necessary. It seems to be all to common of a practice these days. "They've got WMDs!", "Social Security is in a crisis!", "The bad guys can get your computer and there is nothing you can do!" To parrot an overworked phrase except with the middle filled in:
1. Scare public 2. Propose unpalitable solution 3. Profit!!
I'm sick of people threatening and trying to scare me.
You are worried about giving eweek a slashdotting? Thats like worrying about slashdotting NYT or news.com.com.com... or something. At least it makes it easy for the really lazy among us to not have to click the story link.
Depending on how the fan is mounted to the ceiling it may just pull down and the person would just end up with a sore neck and a light fixture to replace. Most ceiling fans aren't held up by much particularly ones that were put in after the house was built. Just to be safe, YMMV.
I've been getting calls from somewhere with a recording that says, "this is not a solicitation please call us at..." Isn't this a form of telemarketing and if I'm on the DNC should I not be getting these calls?
I noticed the other day that freshmeat started putting ads in their rss feed. It was a bit annoying because it was like every fifth element or so but my reaction was that scoop is like any of us and needs to make money. I imagine that the number of hits his rss feed gets has increased greatly with firefox recently supporting them as "live bookmarks" so he needs to recoup the cost of serving that content. Personally though I'm now more likely to go to there and view the content because of the rss feed than before because its so easy to see if there is something interesting I want to read about. Whereas before I didn't want to take the time and scan past all of the stuff I wasn't interested in.
Thats really to get around the censors. From an interview I heard on NPR the censors in India are very strict. You can't criticize the government or show any type of sex scene at all. So they add a bit of nudity with the wet blouse scene all the time. Hey it worked for Mary Jane in Spiderman 1. Uh what was her name again?
So are you willing to give up that 25K? If you take the current national debt and divide it by the current population you will still owe roughly $4000 more. If you're married then your household share of the nat'l debt jumps to nearly 60K. Got kids? The momement they were born their share of that debt was 29K a piece. For my household thats nearly as much as my house costs. My point is that it doesn't matter who owns the bonds whether they are foreign or American because none of them will want to give up their money for nothing. Also if you factor that with the weakening dollar europeans and many other foreign investors actually lose money when they buy US bonds these days. Eventually the government will take action to keep these people from dumping their bonds and further devaluing them. If we don't get our act together soon nobody will have any confidence in the dollar or US Bonds and your $25,000 dollar bond will be like a $2000 dollar bond in today's money.
I don't want to spoil it for you if it hasn't already aired there but FS: The Peacekeeper Wars wasn't one of their best. In fact I would rank it pretty low. While I'm grateful that they gave all of us loyal FS fans some closure it felt way too rushed and down right stupid at points. In fact I thought the whole baby sub-plot was just terrible. I know that they did what they had to because of the time constraints and not having a full season to play it out but it really just didn't work very well. But hey at least you have BSG. Its hard for me not to sound like a major fanboy whenever I talk about the episodes I've seen.
Actually you should worry more about the radiation levels you will be subjected to. A flight to Europe can subject you to as much as 3 CAT scans worth of radiation.
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I've heard the same from somebody whose brother in law was a diver for a couple days on the Ohio River. The guy said he as going to try to move this tree trunk away from the lock and when he put his arms around it, it swam away. That was his last day on the job. Note that the mud and silt in the river makes for very poor visibility, so it wasn't like he could easily see it was a giant fish. Visibility is only a couple feet or so down there.
He isn't new. He is like me where we are all so old that everything is new again.
It's good that your application performs well under your current load. However many times applications that perform well under minimal load perform terribly under higher loads. In your case you are grabbing a database connection and holding on to it far longer than you would need if you were able to cache even 50% of your list boxes 50% of the time. In server based applications you grab the resource when you need it and release it as soon as you can. You also try to prevent your app from doing as much work as possible. Caching can play a big role in this. It's a simple idea but can be tricky to implement, but well worth the time and effor for a high usage app. Slashdot does lots of caching. In fact much of their pages are pre-rendered. That's why you get the message that it may take a few minutes for your comment to appear after posting.
One other thing that I have seen performance wise related to usage. Sometimes an app works great even under high load when it is first rolled out. Then as time goes by it gets slower and slower because of the volume of data that gets accumulated. Think how long a table scan takes against a 100 row table vs a 1 million row table. Tuning your data access code and database can really have high payouts. I don't think I would rely solely on my OS to provide a cache for me. What happens when you need to scale out and your database is no longer on the same box as your web server? The data may be cached but on the wrong box. You'll still have to take a trip over the wire to get it. The difference between the memory bus and the network is like the driving the audobon and a driving thru a school zone.
The rumor is that he is somewhere just outside of Bagdad airport. While he is physically in US custody he is technically in the legal custody of the Iraqi government. He won't be tried under US or international law. He will be tried under Iraqi law. So what were you saying?
Their behavior was found to be illegal in the EU with regards to using their OS monopoly and the media playing market. They don't yet have a monopoly in the Search business but you can certainly bet that they will try to leverage all of their assests (including those areas they are deemed to have a monopoly in) to get the largest piece of the pie that they can. When a business leverages a monopoly in one area to create a monopoly in another are that is illegal.
More like Ford making roads that favor GM cars. Should something like a road be made to favor one manufacturer over another? It doesn't sound proper to me. In this case it sounds more like MS leveraging its monopoly to gain market share in other industries. They've done it before and they're likely to do it again. Too bad it doesn't make it right or at the very least legal.
Is that 512kb typical household broadband speed upload or download? I guess for upload that makes sense since most broad band connections are not symmetrical. Download is a different story. I have about 3.5 on a dsl and that is fairly typical for the cable guys as well.
I've got to call you on that last statement. I've been gearing up for a .Net project in my company and have been looking at all the cool tools that have been ported to .Net. Of those you listed Maverick seems to be the only one that is complete and its a pretty bare bones mvc. NHibernate is still in beta and it has a mix of 2.0 and 2.1 features. Spring.NET is very immature yet. They're working on getting .6 out the door. It has some useful features implemented like the core IoC but it is nowhere near its java cousin. There are some good tools like NUnit that are complete and actually being rewritten to take specific advantage of the platform. Overall I have been really disappointed in the lack of maturity of OS on .Net. Especially in the mvc arena. Though after further research I found that to go with a front controller style (Struts) would pretty much force you to abandon most of ASP.Net. Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to contribute some patches as part of my job. Its so hard for me to get worked up about .Net that I know I won't be doing it in my spare time.
From what I've read ruby uses an internal threading implementation aka "green threads" This will of course lead to being bound to a single processor so without the use of forking a dual cpu box wouldn't really benefit much. I don't know if it suffers from the python equivalent of the GIL (Global Interpeter Lock). The gil in python effectively eliminates any meaningful multi-threaded capability since only one thread can process byte code at a time.
Another thing there was a comparison between hibernate and active record on theserverside a week or two ago. Active record can easily fall prey to the n+1 query problem where as hibernate is much more mature. You don't have to use active record. It's possible to plug in another orm implementation but the scaffolding code that is generated will use it.
Note this may not be entirely accurate but it should be close enough.
Are you trolling or just plain insane? Most competent dbas would balk at just a 25 table query. I've written some pretty hairy queries in my life and I shudder to think what the inner join syntax would look like for 150 tables. I also wonder just what you are storing in your database if the rows are 100M a piece. Perhaps you should think twice about using your database as a file server.
I can at least agree with you that MySQL is not an appropriate choice for anything but a trivial application.
Strangely enough the MS Word grammar checker only flags the first phrase as being bad.
You say that you get plenty of sleep but still can't get up. This would lead me to believe that you don't get quality sleep when you are sleeping. I noticed that when I dumped caffeine that I sleep much better at night. In fact I still wind up getting about the same amount of sleep but feel better than when I have had caffeine. Before I would only drink tea in the early morning or mid afternoon. But that stuff can stick around in your blood stream for a long time and affect the quality of your sleep.
Also what you do before you go to bed will affect how easy it is to fall asleep. Playing games right before you go to bed is generally not advised as your brain is stimulated might have a hard time calming down.
Lastly if you snore your sleep quality could be impacted. If as you say you are getting lots of sleep but can't wake up you should consider talking to your doctor about it. He may recommend a sleep study. There are a variety of things that can be done to help you sleep better. Some things are as simple as changing position. Sometimes even a minor corrective surgery can be done. Quality sleep is very important.
This is just another blatant plug for why trusted computing is necessary. It seems to be all to common of a practice these days. "They've got WMDs!", "Social Security is in a crisis!", "The bad guys can get your computer and there is nothing you can do!" To parrot an overworked phrase except with the middle filled in:
1. Scare public
2. Propose unpalitable solution
3. Profit!!
I'm sick of people threatening and trying to scare me.
You are worried about giving eweek a slashdotting? Thats like worrying about slashdotting NYT or news.com.com.com... or something. At least it makes it easy for the really lazy among us to not have to click the story link.
Technically she would be six of 12 if the note that Adama got in the pilot was true.
Depending on how the fan is mounted to the ceiling it may just pull down and the person would just end up with a sore neck and a light fixture to replace. Most ceiling fans aren't held up by much particularly ones that were put in after the house was built. Just to be safe, YMMV.
I've been getting calls from somewhere with a recording that says, "this is not a solicitation please call us at ..." Isn't this a form of telemarketing and if I'm on the DNC should I not be getting these calls?
Better wait to look at this one when you are at home.
I noticed the other day that freshmeat started putting ads in their rss feed. It was a bit annoying because it was like every fifth element or so but my reaction was that scoop is like any of us and needs to make money. I imagine that the number of hits his rss feed gets has increased greatly with firefox recently supporting them as "live bookmarks" so he needs to recoup the cost of serving that content. Personally though I'm now more likely to go to there and view the content because of the rss feed than before because its so easy to see if there is something interesting I want to read about. Whereas before I didn't want to take the time and scan past all of the stuff I wasn't interested in.
Thats really to get around the censors. From an interview I heard on NPR the censors in India are very strict. You can't criticize the government or show any type of sex scene at all. So they add a bit of nudity with the wet blouse scene all the time. Hey it worked for Mary Jane in Spiderman 1. Uh what was her name again?
I would blame clippy "auto-correcting" it all the time. That or the XBox was designed by the VB guys that don't like camelCase.
So are you willing to give up that 25K? If you take the current national debt and divide it by the current population you will still owe roughly $4000 more. If you're married then your household share of the nat'l debt jumps to nearly 60K. Got kids? The momement they were born their share of that debt was 29K a piece. For my household thats nearly as much as my house costs. My point is that it doesn't matter who owns the bonds whether they are foreign or American because none of them will want to give up their money for nothing.
Also if you factor that with the weakening dollar europeans and many other foreign investors actually lose money when they buy US bonds these days. Eventually the government will take action to keep these people from dumping their bonds and further devaluing them. If we don't get our act together soon nobody will have any confidence in the dollar or US Bonds and your $25,000 dollar bond will be like a $2000 dollar bond in today's money.
I don't want to spoil it for you if it hasn't already aired there but FS: The Peacekeeper Wars wasn't one of their best. In fact I would rank it pretty low. While I'm grateful that they gave all of us loyal FS fans some closure it felt way too rushed and down right stupid at points. In fact I thought the whole baby sub-plot was just terrible. I know that they did what they had to because of the time constraints and not having a full season to play it out but it really just didn't work very well. But hey at least you have BSG. Its hard for me not to sound like a major fanboy whenever I talk about the episodes I've seen.
Actually you should worry more about the radiation levels you will be subjected to. A flight to Europe can subject you to as much as 3 CAT scans worth of radiation.
Better yet reply:
"No, honey it's the fat in your ass that makes it look big."