Its incredible, this person has actually proven that LOAD BALANCING MULTIPLE SERVERS INCREASES YOUR LOAD CAPACITY! This is incredible news! Wow, I am sure glad it made it as an article, stunning.
Every medium to large website out there will be pleased to know that what they have been doing for the last 8 years is actually VALID, thanks guys!
I think the only reason this made it to the front page is the slashdot self-reference.
In typical Apple fashion they will probably make a big splash at WWDC with it but there will be no availability for the next 6 months while they figure out their production issues.
Poor Apple, always trying to play catch-up and forever burning themselves with products they can not deliver on.
But hey, Steve Jobs gets to strut his stuff and look all cool and stuff. Isnt that the real purpose of Apple?
This idea of 'professional voyeurs' and the ability to release avatars to buy and sell footage in real-time from a variety of public, private and hidden sources factors very large in 'Kiln People' (reviewed a few weeks ago here).
The idea being that if you have a permanent record of time-space from a specific vantage point and you have overlapping areas of coverage its a natural to allow for time-tracking people across multiple geographic points.
The owners of these units can barter their images with people who require them. Its quite an interesting concept.
I went to emusic yesterday, they didn't have much of interest to me.
I guess I am a Corporate Rock Scumbag.
Their UI sucks, is barely functional, based in 1999 and totally uneasy to use.
Once Applemusic.com goes windows and someone writes a linux client for the same places like emusic will shutdown entirely. There is no reason for it to exist other then 'Its not apple'.
'Yea its cool and all but I want DRM free music for $0.19'
[Tracks drop to $0.19, DRM free]
'Sure, thats cool and all but I want to be able to buy multiple tracks with a complex pricing algorithm that determines how mcuh to charge be based on my average usage across a limited period of time, plus the moon phase'
[Tracks do the above]
'Ok ok, I give up, I am just shooting holes in anything that is out there because its easier then admitting that someone MAY have gotten something right.'
I can not even count how many people, WITHOUT EVEN SEEING THE SERVICE, have sat around bitching about it. Its hilarious. Now, days later, they are all using it quietly.
One thing people rarely talk about is the fact that using a tool like Tivo actually subtly changes your outlook on yourday to day life.
Local news, TV advertising, radio advertising and the like play to our basest insticts, vanity, sex and fear. We naturally pick up on these things and they use it to their fullest advantage. Tivo, NPR and other methods of controlling advertisings impact are hugely valuable.
I'd go into the benefits but it would sound to Ra Ra Ra. I would most likely stop watching TV without my Tivo. Watching TV without Tivo is a completely depressing and morbid experience that, overtime, leads to depression, anxiety and even MORE consumerism.
Its also putting a nail into the 3G telco spending boom coffin. These telco's are freaking out, they paid BILLIONS for 3G licenses and now a disruptive technology has emerged that threatens to make those investments nearly useless in the short to mid-term which is all the market cares about in these troubled times.
In Europe the big 3G telco license owners are frantically trying to find a way to either control the genie or put it back in the bottle. It will be interesting to see what occurs.
Finally something that ISNT a beowulf cluster
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Barebones Notebook
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Finally, something I don't WANT to make into a Beowulf cluster..
You obviously have not used one of these phones
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Symbian Signs on Samsung
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We had one in for dev purposes for this event and it is seriously awesome. Pop a chip in it and its good to go in the US.
We do a lot of wireless development and this is the best I have seen by far. The screen is incredible, the form factor comfortable and the functionality is good. The UI is slightly unintuitive at times but since its CE based its fairly easy to extend and develop for. Pop a ram card in and your good to go.
iVillage, long known as an innovator of portal technology and the first portal to adopt a 'no pop-up ad' filed for bankruptcy today when it was discovered that by eliminating pop-up advertising removed what little ad revenue that was remaining. While 95% of the users felt pop-up's to be the most annoying part of the internet, 100% were annoyed when they ceased operations.
IE multipart/form-data bug
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If you set a form to multipart/form-data IE won't send the coordinates of the click if you use a type of image for your submit button.
Works fine in Netscape/Mozilla, just not IE. Took awhile to find that one.
When I was in upper management at a small startup during the boom times went sour and the first thing management did was try to cut salaries. We all knew we were doomed but the need to survive outweighed any kind of ethics or morality. 'Take the salary cut now and we will make it through this time'. Bullshit, we were never going to make it.
As the VP of Engineering I felt a particularly close bond to these people who slaved with me on 16 hour days without complaint and with a smile. I damn well made sure that management understood, you either pay these people a full salary and then let them go find new jobs, tell them the truth about the situation or do without your technology group because I was not going to do this to these people.
My point, this is not about how people spend money etc, its about managements need to survive without consideration for the people who got them there.
If I am ever in a position where I am asked to take a salary cut I am out. Its a sign of impending doom.
I remember once, for no real scientific reason, NASA went to the moon. And like, we went multiple times and like we played golf and drove cars and stuff.
But then like, we stopped going you know. And like all that money was wasted and the manned space program like ceased to basically exist..
Meanwhile, the Russians has a more or less permanent outpost in orbit for the last 15-20 years for a fraction of the money we spent getting to the moon.
Nasa needs to slow down and take baby steps. Orbit, Moon then Mars. See Ben Bova's book 'Moon Base'. Being that NASA is the construct of a profit driven society each step needs to have a mid-term commerical value. This 'In 300 years people could live here if we radically develop new technologies that are as of yet unknown' speech is ridiculous. Lets make orbit and the moon profitable and jump from there.
MP3-CD's are USELESS for those of us who are remotely active. Try taking your MP3-CD unit on a 4 mile run or to the gym or anywhere else that you are moving about and being physical.
I have a car mp3 player in my car. Its good for driving. I have a Rio for exercise, its good for motion. My rio only holds 128 megs. Enter the iPod, it replaces my Rio.
Whats the big deal? The Rio has two lines of display, the iPod has 6. The Rio has 128 megs,the iPod as 5GB. The Rio does USB, the iPod does Firewire.
Seems like a valid replacement to me. I've already ordered...
The minute WRS acquired FreeBSD my subscriptions stopped coming in but they KEPT CHARHING ME. All the numbers were disconnected or permanent hold patterns. Eventually I got through to someone who said they 'fixed it' when all they actually did was charge me AGAIN and never send me shit.
WRS has fucked up FBSD beyond belief. Its a sad thing.
YOUR GRANDMOTHER IS SMART IF SHE DOESNT UNDERSTAND THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST.
Back to your normally scheduled lunacy.
my grandmother for instance was a smart woman, but she never understood half of the technical stuff they were saying and so after loyally watching TOS and then TNG for 30 years she gave up. This is a chance to recapture those people.
Last week it was the IIS overflow bug, now its a low level password left behind.
I love showing this stuff to potential clients, it always swings them from competitors to our lovely web farm...
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I was an A/B level honors student as well as being in the JROTC program etc at a school where Jerry Davis was principal. Generally a smart and responsible guy. But because i refused to 'play ball' many times my record was marked by Jerry Davis and the other administrators.
I would go against the administration whenever I had a chance and they hated it. I would write letters to the editor of the school paper and make other statements when the moment was right. Never disruptive or disrespectful but always pointed.
The result? I was labelled as a problem child and under suspicion. They even told me once 'Just do not publically go against the administration and everything will be fine.' It even went so far as to them threatening to not let me graduate!( As if it were in their power, a fact I pointed out many times ).
Overall, this school district ( Jerry Davis and others ) do not so much hate individuals but rather hate individuals who do not agree with their social program. These are schools that literally have barbed wire fencing around them to keep students in, that discourage any kind of free discussion of school policy etc and are so patronizing to their student bodies that it makes one want to puke.
Until public educators understand that students are PARTNERS in this process we call learning and not SUBJECTS, these sorts of incidents will continue to happen and the truly smart seeds will flee to home schools and private schools. We treat our children like criminals, give them no say in their daily lives and then wonder why they disdain participatory democracy. Its ridiculous.
Anyhow, as someone who has actually EXPERIENCED Jerry Davis I will say that this story, while awesome in that it is getting so much attention, is nothing in comparison to the daily things the thhis administration does in the name of 'education'.
'Lets go to a flat tax and give the government less money, that will reduce its size'.
Guess you havent heard of a little thing called the deficit. Since when has LACK of money stopped the government from SPENDING that money. Answer , hardly ever.
The real answer is to trim government spending, take the surplus, use to to reduce the deficit and, as the reduction in spending stabilizes and the surplus shows to be truly long lasting, begin reducing the tax burden.
Reducing taxes before controlling spending will spin the economy off into Truly Bad Places.
I remember F-16 Strike Eagle and Chuck Yeagers Air Combat supporting up to 5 monitors on my mac circa 1993 or so.
Granted, driving multiple monitors on a 68040 chip with 16 megs of RAM and MacOS behind it was no ones idea of playable but it impressed the chicks.;)
Spekaing of Lucas, what the hell is up with the Indiana Jones movies? I'd pay through the nose for a 3 DVD collectors edition with additional footage, directors commentary etc. Its angering in a way, I know, they are his movies etc but in a way these movies are part of our cultural heritage and not releasing them / not taking advantag of the formats capabilities does a disservice to us all. Just my thoughts, I want Indy on DVD with commentary, behind the scenes footage and bloopers:)
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400 billion yen is $3,383,236,065 USD, not $50 billion USD. Its many yen to the dollar, not the other way around.
Its incredible, this person has actually proven that LOAD BALANCING MULTIPLE SERVERS INCREASES YOUR LOAD CAPACITY! This is incredible news! Wow, I am sure glad it made it as an article, stunning.
Every medium to large website out there will be pleased to know that what they have been doing for the last 8 years is actually VALID, thanks guys!
I think the only reason this made it to the front page is the slashdot self-reference.
In typical Apple fashion they will probably make a big splash at WWDC with it but there will be no availability for the next 6 months while they figure out their production issues.
Poor Apple, always trying to play catch-up and forever burning themselves with products they can not deliver on.
But hey, Steve Jobs gets to strut his stuff and look all cool and stuff. Isnt that the real purpose of Apple?
This idea of 'professional voyeurs' and the ability to release avatars to buy and sell footage in real-time from a variety of public, private and hidden sources factors very large in 'Kiln People' (reviewed a few weeks ago here).
The idea being that if you have a permanent record of time-space from a specific vantage point and you have overlapping areas of coverage its a natural to allow for time-tracking people across multiple geographic points.
The owners of these units can barter their images with people who require them. Its quite an interesting concept.
Read the book, its fun.
This site is wrong a majority of the time and their specs/benchmarks do not ring true.
Go to http://www.macrumors.com/ for a detailed analysis in the forums of why these are fake benchmarks.
Beyond that, the release dates they give are insane, apple is still producing G4 desktops.
Call me when the G5 desktops stop rolling off the line and apple starts depleting inventory.
Emusic emusic emusic.
I went to emusic yesterday, they didn't have much of interest to me.
I guess I am a Corporate Rock Scumbag.
Their UI sucks, is barely functional, based in 1999 and totally uneasy to use.
Once Applemusic.com goes windows and someone writes a linux client for the same places like emusic will shutdown entirely. There is no reason for it to exist other then 'Its not apple'.
[Tracks drop to $0.49]
'Yea its cool and all but I want DRM free music for $0.19'
[Tracks drop to $0.19, DRM free]
'Sure, thats cool and all but I want to be able to buy multiple tracks with a complex pricing algorithm that determines how mcuh to charge be based on my average usage across a limited period of time, plus the moon phase'
[Tracks do the above]
'Ok ok, I give up, I am just shooting holes in anything that is out there because its easier then admitting that someone MAY have gotten something right.'
I can not even count how many people, WITHOUT EVEN SEEING THE SERVICE, have sat around bitching about it. Its hilarious. Now, days later, they are all using it quietly.
They bill you on daily usage. I got a single charge to my bill for 3 songs.
This seems like a reasonable compromise.
One thing people rarely talk about is the fact that using a tool like Tivo actually subtly changes your outlook on yourday to day life.
Local news, TV advertising, radio advertising and the like play to our basest insticts, vanity, sex and fear. We naturally pick up on these things and they use it to their fullest advantage. Tivo, NPR and other methods of controlling advertisings impact are hugely valuable.
I'd go into the benefits but it would sound to Ra Ra Ra. I would most likely stop watching TV without my Tivo. Watching TV without Tivo is a completely depressing and morbid experience that, overtime, leads to depression, anxiety and even MORE consumerism.
Its also putting a nail into the 3G telco spending boom coffin. These telco's are freaking out, they paid BILLIONS for 3G licenses and now a disruptive technology has emerged that threatens to make those investments nearly useless in the short to mid-term which is all the market cares about in these troubled times.
In Europe the big 3G telco license owners are frantically trying to find a way to either control the genie or put it back in the bottle. It will be interesting to see what occurs.
Finally, something I don't WANT to make into a Beowulf cluster..
We had one in for dev purposes for this event and it is seriously awesome. Pop a chip in it and its good to go in the US.
We do a lot of wireless development and this is the best I have seen by far. The screen is incredible, the form factor comfortable and the functionality is good. The UI is slightly unintuitive at times but since its CE based its fairly easy to extend and develop for. Pop a ram card in and your good to go.
Stable? Says who? I the reverse proxy is broken.
Search bugzilla for 'proxy rewrite chunk'
iVillage, long known as an innovator of portal technology and the first portal to adopt a 'no pop-up ad' filed for bankruptcy today when it was discovered that by eliminating pop-up advertising removed what little ad revenue that was remaining. While 95% of the users felt pop-up's to be the most annoying part of the internet, 100% were annoyed when they ceased operations.
If you set a form to multipart/form-data IE won't send the coordinates of the click if you use a type of image for your submit button.
Works fine in Netscape/Mozilla, just not IE. Took awhile to find that one.
When I was in upper management at a small startup during the boom times went sour and the first thing management did was try to cut salaries. We all knew we were doomed but the need to survive outweighed any kind of ethics or morality. 'Take the salary cut now and we will make it through this time'. Bullshit, we were never going to make it.
As the VP of Engineering I felt a particularly close bond to these people who slaved with me on 16 hour days without complaint and with a smile. I damn well made sure that management understood, you either pay these people a full salary and then let them go find new jobs, tell them the truth about the situation or do without your technology group because I was not going to do this to these people.
My point, this is not about how people spend money etc, its about managements need to survive without consideration for the people who got them there.
If I am ever in a position where I am asked to take a salary cut I am out. Its a sign of impending doom.
I remember once, for no real scientific reason, NASA went to the moon. And like, we went multiple times and like we played golf and drove cars and stuff.
But then like, we stopped going you know. And like all that money was wasted and the manned space program like ceased to basically exist..
Meanwhile, the Russians has a more or less permanent outpost in orbit for the last 15-20 years for a fraction of the money we spent getting to the moon.
Nasa needs to slow down and take baby steps. Orbit, Moon then Mars. See Ben Bova's book 'Moon Base'. Being that NASA is the construct of a profit driven society each step needs to have a mid-term commerical value. This 'In 300 years people could live here if we radically develop new technologies that are as of yet unknown' speech is ridiculous. Lets make orbit and the moon profitable and jump from there.
MP3-CD's are USELESS for those of us who are remotely active. Try taking your MP3-CD unit on a 4 mile run or to the gym or anywhere else that you are moving about and being physical.
,the iPod as 5GB. The Rio does USB, the iPod does Firewire.
I have a car mp3 player in my car. Its good for driving. I have a Rio for exercise, its good for motion. My rio only holds 128 megs. Enter the iPod, it replaces my Rio.
Whats the big deal? The Rio has two lines of display, the iPod has 6. The Rio has 128 megs
Seems like a valid replacement to me. I've already ordered...
The minute WRS acquired FreeBSD my subscriptions stopped coming in but they KEPT CHARHING ME. All the numbers were disconnected or permanent hold patterns. Eventually I got through to someone who said they 'fixed it' when all they actually did was charge me AGAIN and never send me shit.
WRS has fucked up FBSD beyond belief. Its a sad thing.
Umm..
ITS NOT REAL
ITS A TV SHOW
YOUR GRANDMOTHER IS SMART IF SHE DOESNT UNDERSTAND THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST.
Back to your normally scheduled lunacy.
my grandmother for instance was a smart woman, but she never understood half of the technical stuff they were saying and so after loyally watching TOS and then TNG for 30 years she gave up. This is a chance to recapture those people.
Last week it was the IIS overflow bug, now its a low level password left behind. I love showing this stuff to potential clients, it always swings them from competitors to our lovely web farm...
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I was an A/B level honors student as well as being in the JROTC program etc at a school where Jerry Davis was principal. Generally a smart and responsible guy. But because i refused to 'play ball' many times my record was marked by Jerry Davis and the other administrators.
I would go against the administration whenever I had a chance and they hated it. I would write letters to the editor of the school paper and make other statements when the moment was right. Never disruptive or disrespectful but always pointed.
The result? I was labelled as a problem child and under suspicion. They even told me once 'Just do not publically go against the administration and everything will be fine.' It even went so far as to them threatening to not let me graduate!( As if it were in their power, a fact I pointed out many times ).
Overall, this school district ( Jerry Davis and others ) do not so much hate individuals but rather hate individuals who do not agree with their social program. These are schools that literally have barbed wire fencing around them to keep students in, that discourage any kind of free discussion of school policy etc and are so patronizing to their student bodies that it makes one want to puke.
Until public educators understand that students are PARTNERS in this process we call learning and not SUBJECTS, these sorts of incidents will continue to happen and the truly smart seeds will flee to home schools and private schools. We treat our children like criminals, give them no say in their daily lives and then wonder why they disdain participatory democracy. Its ridiculous.
Anyhow, as someone who has actually EXPERIENCED Jerry Davis I will say that this story, while awesome in that it is getting so much attention, is nothing in comparison to the daily things the thhis administration does in the name of 'education'.
Oh I love this argument
'Lets go to a flat tax and give the government less money, that will reduce its size'.
Guess you havent heard of a little thing called the deficit. Since when has LACK of money stopped the government from SPENDING that money. Answer , hardly ever.
The real answer is to trim government spending, take the surplus, use to to reduce the deficit and, as the reduction in spending stabilizes and the surplus shows to be truly long lasting, begin reducing the tax burden.
Reducing taxes before controlling spending will spin the economy off into Truly Bad Places.
I remember F-16 Strike Eagle and Chuck Yeagers Air Combat supporting up to 5 monitors on my mac circa 1993 or so. Granted, driving multiple monitors on a 68040 chip with 16 megs of RAM and MacOS behind it was no ones idea of playable but it impressed the chicks. ;)
Spekaing of Lucas, what the hell is up with the Indiana Jones movies? I'd pay through the nose for a 3 DVD collectors edition with additional footage, directors commentary etc. Its angering in a way, I know, they are his movies etc but in a way these movies are part of our cultural heritage and not releasing them / not taking advantag of the formats capabilities does a disservice to us all. Just my thoughts, I want Indy on DVD with commentary, behind the scenes footage and bloopers :)