You know guys this is my very last post. Today you made that extremely annoying in your face ad next to the news sections the default. I had seen it off an on for the past week and I've got to say..never mind..goodbye.
To quote from the article: Do you have an idea for a story? We'd love to hear from you. How have you used Microsoft software to make your home or work life easier, more fun, faster, or simpler? Submit your ideas, and you could get published on the Insider Web site! Submit Your Idea Today!
Some how I don't think they'll publish a story on returning Windows for a refund and installing Linux. 8P
Diverging completely OT: For those using 1.4.x of gnucash there is a moderate learning curve going to 1.6.x. If you are thinking of skipping straight to 1.8.x (when it is out) from 1.4.x be patient and READ THE FINE (8^)) DOCUMENTATION more then once. This is because they changed the way accounts are handled for the better IMHO.
This is not a vendor who ignores Linux, they give Linux fantastic support at a level beyond any other hardware manufacturer due to the complexity of their effort. It also produces better results than the driver development models you espouse.
IMO, this statement is incorrect. NVIDIA does not give support at a level beyond any other hardware manufacturer. What they give is a different level of support because:
they DO NOT RELEASE specifications
they DO NOT RELEASE source code for the Linux driver
they DO SUPPORT DRIVERS for Linux
Now, since they do not release the source to their drivers this makes moving to different versions of XFree86 problematic until an update is released. This leaves you at the mercy of NVIDIA to fix this issue. Also, simple bugs related to installation and default configuration issues never get solved because there is no flock (think: open source development model here) of developers working towards a bullet proof driver under N configurations.
Also, since they do not release specs this makes a X11 hardware accelerated driver developed outside of NVIDIA of equal or better performance extremely difficult if not impossible. Case in point, the nv driver (for the nvidia chipsets) provided by XFree86 is far superior in quality but not in performance 8(.
Be warned, there will never be a solid (i.e. bullet proof) driver produced by NVIDIA until the source code is released and has gone through an open source development process.
The truth is much scarier than this... at the volumes these guys deal with ( >2Billion impressions/day) the batch processing systems have to be bulletproof and built to scale.
That's interesting I would have thought the number would be higher..more around 20Billion/day. They must have throttled back or limited who sends to their systems. In any event I am glad to see these global level systems go bye bye..at the site level I can live with that for now.
What does it really cost them to keep tracking this stuff, besides a few more boxes in back -- which they already own, btw?
Consider the amount of traffic this collection system gets. Lets just say 7 Billion people on the planet..and 1% are online at once (70 Million)..they all hit 10 pages in a 1 hour time period..all with double click ads..
Let's see that would be 70M*10 or 700 Million urls captured per hour..hmmm that's a lot of traffic..hope they have a nice Oracle cluster on the backend up 24x7.
However, since they only had 100 Million unique cookies at one point this would indicate they were dropping a ton of data and didn't shell out the $'s to get the right infrastructure.
To do it properly, I'm guessing you need load balancing equipment..a nice big pipe..5 or 10 front ends systems for batching data..a few systems for serving cookies..another 5 or 10 for scoring/iding the urls and then finally the monster database cluster for handling this..not to mention all the management, administrators and engineers to support these systems.
Now can you imagine how much money it would take
to support a system like this properly?
If the optimizer is better then GCC then add/merge those components into GCC to improve it. This will save your company maintenance resources and time in the long run (ie. $$$) if the GCC community picks it up.
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I want what Mr. Fountain is smoking. Seriously, if he can't see that Motif development will be dead in the not so near future well then that is his problem. Also, I guess he thinks all the rumors that Sun and HP are moving towards gnome in order to phase out CDE are just rumors. Oh no wait they aren't rumors
For your information Cygnus called it egcs and not gcc. Because of this, everyone knew it was a code fork. Egcs was the right way to do it. Eventually it did become gcc but that is another story. Now what RedHat has done is a code fork and called it GCC 2.96. This is just plain wrong. So please enlighten me why I should see it any other way.
Let me put it in these words: How would you like it if someone took your open source project (GCC) and decided to release a new version without your permission. I believe this is otherwise known as hijacking. This is essentially what RedHat has done like it or not. This type of action is not acceptable. Stop making excuses and fix the problem. I suggest you either release a blessed gcc from the gcc community or call what you have done something else like rgcc.
-Jet
You just don't get it. You can not defend the actions your company has taken. You NEVER EVER release a snapshot of GCC. This is fundamentally the most important piece of the whole system. Also, it is quite apparent if you (RedHat) want to do the right thing you will release an update to replace the current GCC for RH7 with a version of GCC that is blessed by the GCC community as a valid version. I hope you (RedHat) realize that the longer you wait before fixing this issue the more your user base will lose respect for your product. Come on RedHat do the right thing.
I feel an imbalance in the force...no that was redhat not thinking...
So when are we going to see the DC logo with a dunce cap as a slashdot topic image? I am really looking forward to the next story. Maybe DC will get a clue and sue the lawyers they hired that are sending these wonderful letters and spending all there money. Ah... only in America.
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You know guys this is my very last post. Today you made that extremely annoying in your face ad next to the news sections the default. I had seen it off an on for the past week and I've got to say..never mind..goodbye.
Gordy
Do you have an idea for a story? We'd love to hear from you. How have you used Microsoft software to make your home or work life easier, more fun, faster, or simpler? Submit your ideas, and you could get published on the Insider Web site! Submit Your Idea Today!
Some how I don't think they'll publish a story on returning Windows for a refund and installing Linux. 8P
-Gordy
Diverging completely OT: For those using 1.4.x of gnucash there is a moderate learning curve going to 1.6.x. If you are thinking of skipping straight to 1.8.x (when it is out) from 1.4.x be patient and READ THE FINE (8^)) DOCUMENTATION more then once. This is because they changed the way accounts are handled for the better IMHO.
IMO, this statement is incorrect. NVIDIA does not give support at a level beyond any other hardware manufacturer. What they give is a different level of support because:
Now, since they do not release the source to their drivers this makes moving to different versions of XFree86 problematic until an update is released. This leaves you at the mercy of NVIDIA to fix this issue. Also, simple bugs related to installation and default configuration issues never get solved because there is no flock (think: open source development model here) of developers working towards a bullet proof driver under N configurations.
Also, since they do not release specs this makes a X11 hardware accelerated driver developed outside of NVIDIA of equal or better performance extremely difficult if not impossible. Case in point, the nv driver (for the nvidia chipsets) provided by XFree86 is far superior in quality but not in performance 8(.
Be warned, there will never be a solid (i.e. bullet proof) driver produced by NVIDIA until the source code is released and has gone through an open source development process.
That's interesting I would have thought the number would be higher..more around 20Billion/day. They must have throttled back or limited who sends to their systems. In any event I am glad to see these global level systems go bye bye..at the site level I can live with that for now.
-Gordy
Consider the amount of traffic this collection system gets. Lets just say 7 Billion people on the planet..and 1% are online at once (70 Million)..they all hit 10 pages in a 1 hour time period..all with double click ads..
Let's see that would be 70M*10 or 700 Million urls captured per hour..hmmm that's a lot of traffic..hope they have a nice Oracle cluster on the backend up 24x7.
However, since they only had 100 Million unique cookies at one point this would indicate they were dropping a ton of data and didn't shell out the $'s to get the right infrastructure.
To do it properly, I'm guessing you need load balancing equipment..a nice big pipe..5 or 10 front ends systems for batching data..a few systems for serving cookies..another 5 or 10 for scoring/iding the urls and then finally the monster database cluster for handling this..not to mention all the management, administrators and engineers to support these systems.
Now can you imagine how much money it would take
to support a system like this properly?
-Gordy
Let them eat cake.
Admit it, your just a karma hore. 8)
-Gordy
One day, we will find it, the rainbow connection..
If the optimizer is better then GCC then add/merge those components into GCC to improve it. This will save your company maintenance resources and time in the long run (ie. $$$) if the GCC community picks it up.
I want what Mr. Fountain is smoking. Seriously, if he can't see that Motif development will be dead in the not so near future well then that is his problem. Also, I guess he thinks all the rumors that Sun and HP are moving towards gnome in order to phase out CDE are just rumors. Oh no wait they aren't rumors
Yet another convert..who's the borg now. 8-)
For your information Cygnus called it egcs and not gcc. Because of this, everyone knew it was a code fork. Egcs was the right way to do it. Eventually it did become gcc but that is another story. Now what RedHat has done is a code fork and called it GCC 2.96. This is just plain wrong. So please enlighten me why I should see it any other way.
Let me put it in these words: How would you like it if someone took your open source project (GCC) and decided to release a new version without your permission. I believe this is otherwise known as hijacking. This is essentially what RedHat has done like it or not. This type of action is not acceptable. Stop making excuses and fix the problem. I suggest you either release a blessed gcc from the gcc community or call what you have done something else like rgcc.
-Jet
You just don't get it. You can not defend the actions your company has taken. You NEVER EVER release a snapshot of GCC. This is fundamentally the most important piece of the whole system. Also, it is quite apparent if you (RedHat) want to do the right thing you will release an update to replace the current GCC for RH7 with a version of GCC that is blessed by the GCC community as a valid version. I hope you (RedHat) realize that the longer you wait before fixing this issue the more your user base will lose respect for your product. Come on RedHat do the right thing. I feel an imbalance in the force...no that was redhat not thinking...
So when are we going to see the DC logo with a dunce cap as a slashdot topic image? I am really looking forward to the next story. Maybe DC will get a clue and sue the lawyers they hired that are sending these wonderful letters and spending all there money. Ah... only in America.