I think that the breakup of Microsoft will be good for them. You would have a hard time convincing me that departments within Microsoft don't use the Windows api for personal gain. Exposing the complete api would probably keep this from happening internally, and the apps that people make for Windows would be better and more stable.
I wouldn't be suprised if Microsoft doesen't realize this. However, I was about 5 years old when I realized that it was not a good idea to tell my parents that whatever punishment they had for me didn't bother me. So, Microsoft will play up what a horrible thing the breakup will be, and get free publicity and public sympathy in the process, while laughing all the way to the bank! Not only that, it means they can split there stock again without approval from the SEC.
Although I agree that GPL should be vigorously enforced, if you look at the messageboards at www.bp6.com you will see that Gentus == crap, and nobody uses it. I really can't imagine what Abit was thinking when they released this linpoop distro. Personally I enjoy running SUSE 6.3 on my bp6, which ran perfectly right out of the box.
I have done quite a bit of messing around with asp, and found that iis has a hard time rendering the code in the correct order (a good example is setting a connection object to nothing and getting an error because iis has already discarded it).
One of the most important observations I have made is that if you isolate discrete chuncks of code in functions, the out of order execution stops.
Simply isolating the connection object in a function like
set myconn = getConnection()
increases the system responsiveness by a factor of 4, and keeps your server from getting those annoying dropouts where the asp pages don't respond. This is where the cpu is somewhere around %50, and you can't get it higher, even with more hits. Try it yourself, I recommend the 'Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool' which you can download for free from their site. Always remember to release your objects! Good luck!
I have worked on a small e-commerce site that gets 3 million hits per month. The front page is loaded dynamically and actually hits the database 3 times! There server is always quite responsive. If the site grows and the resources are getting used up, I will change the front page database to a text file, which will load much faster. If that is n't enough, I will optimize the product query page. And if that isn't enough......
My point is that it is really most important to make your code flexible and readable. As you monitor the site in the real world, you will get a better idea of the optimizations that you need, and can optimize your code as needed.
We have actually started prototyping the middle tier componenets as WSC (windows scripting host) activex components, and porting them to a compiled language. This way you don't have to change the method of instanciation in the asp code, and you don't have to mess around with unloading the components from IIS when you make changes.
Ok, how about for the price of a cd, (15.99 or whatever) you can logon to the site for a year, and download any song from their library, as well as artwork, ticket sales, tour dates bios......
What do these people really have to loose? Is money that important?It would be incredible if some big act (like metallica) would just tell the record companies to go fsck themselves, and go independant.
I remember in the late 80's how a Metallica fan bragged about their platnum album sales, and the fact that they did it without the help of MTV. Well, now they are on MTV, and suing to stop kids from exchanging their music for free. Money poisons everyone, it seems.
Another anecdote I remember is that Al Dimeola was approached by MTV to pay them to play his videos. He of coure told them to fsck off, and this is one example of many of why MTV is now a river of artless drivel.
Benchmarks are always uninteresting to me- I am more interested in things like- timedemo_1 Photoshop rendering speeds(macros and plugins) The amount of time it takes to compile quake1 from scratch Pretty hard to fake these.
This comment was not meant to be inflammatory. Imagine for a second that in 2003 your mp3 has one of the highest download rates, as confirmed by Napster stats, or your website, or wherever. Millions of people have downloaded your songs. Don't you think a promoter would be interested in putting together a tour for you? And what about all the merchandise you are selling on your website, as well as advertising space. You put up new songs, and people make comments on your message board, which also adds to the buzz. No media troll 'middle man' ass has been kissed to get you where you are.
I think that you miss the point- that without the advertising and video juggernaut behind them there would be little market for BSB. It's evolution. Sorry it is so cruel.
Tell that to the Dead, who made their living off of touring. The only 'artists' that will be affected are groups like the "Back Street Boys", which is really some sort of corporate clown act. I wish muscicians had to work for their money, there would be more concerts and choice.
Didn't someone buy "The Little Rascals" so it could not be broadcasted any more? (the show had racist content) Sounds somewhat similar, but with different intent.
The Greatful Dead made squat off of album sales, and many millions off of touring. Bands are going to have to learn to play their instruments, instead of being a clown act that a producer sets the music to.
"The Intel STS is America's oldest, and most prestigious, pre-college science scholarship competition, often considered the "Junior Nobel Prize."" Just for the sake of argument, isn't the Westinghouse competition older?
Moore's Law is a business model, not an engineering model. Intel has been dribbling technology into the marketplace at a rate that maximizes profits. Unfortunatly this gets in the way of progress- don't forget who Moore is!!! Hopefully Moore's law can be broken.
A quick check of my fav hardware sites show 800 Athalons are available, and not so expensive. The fastest coppermine is 733mhz, and $200 more than an Athalon of of the same speed. Intel is really starting to look pathetic.
The consumer cost of electricity and natural gas are 2/3 distribution costs. It will be many many years before hydrogen (even if it could be made for free) will ever make it to our homes or autos. The USA has enourmous amounts of natural gas, and we haven't even started looking into the methane hydrate reserves found offshore. Environmentally, we could make some immediate gains by getting rid of the suv's and buying one of those new hybrid hondas! The usa uses an amazingly disproportionate amount of fuel vs. popluation.
I think some of you may have missed the grass roots aspect of linux, and abit motherboards. The target of the bp6 is hardware tweekers/hackers (used very loosely). Is it so bad that abit give a free linux distro with a motherboard(I am only assuming that this is their plan). As long as the distro doesen't suck, it may bring some new people to the linux camp, and is that so bad? Besides, they get some free press, and define their ongoing support for linux.
The only use of this would be for licencing. It would not stop someone from picking up emf from the monitor. Soon they will try to encrypt my eyeballs!
It seems as though this guy has never heard of the concept of the S-Curve. Processor technology cannot become infinitly advanced, eventually its advancement will slow to nothing. In my opinion biotech-type enhancement of the human body is in its infancy, and will impact our idea of the being in ways we could never imagine.
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I think that the breakup of Microsoft will be good for them. You would have a hard time convincing me that departments within Microsoft don't use the Windows api for personal gain. Exposing the complete api would probably keep this from happening internally, and the apps that people make for Windows would be better and more stable.
I wouldn't be suprised if Microsoft doesen't realize this. However, I was about 5 years old when I realized that it was not a good idea to tell my parents that whatever punishment they had for me didn't bother me. So, Microsoft will play up what a horrible thing the breakup will be, and get free publicity and public sympathy in the process, while laughing all the way to the bank! Not only that, it means they can split there stock again without approval from the SEC.
Although I agree that GPL should be vigorously enforced, if you look at the messageboards at www.bp6.com you will see that Gentus == crap, and nobody uses it. I really can't imagine what Abit was thinking when they released this linpoop distro. Personally I enjoy running SUSE 6.3 on my bp6, which ran perfectly right out of the box.
I have done quite a bit of messing around with asp, and found that iis has a hard time rendering the code in the correct order (a good example is setting a connection object to nothing and getting an error because iis has already discarded it).
One of the most important observations I have made is that if you isolate discrete chuncks of code in functions, the out of order execution stops.
Simply isolating the connection object in a function like
set myconn = getConnection()
increases the system responsiveness by a factor of 4, and keeps your server from getting those annoying dropouts where the asp pages don't respond. This is where the cpu is somewhere around %50, and you can't get it higher, even with more hits.
Try it yourself, I recommend the 'Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool' which you can download for free from their site.
Always remember to release your objects! Good luck!
I have worked on a small e-commerce site that gets 3 million hits per month. The front page is loaded dynamically and actually hits the database 3 times! There server is always quite responsive. If the site grows and the resources are getting used up, I will change the front page database to a text file, which will load much faster. If that is n't enough, I will optimize the product query page. And if that isn't enough......
My point is that it is really most important to make your code flexible and readable. As you monitor the site in the real world, you will get a better idea of the optimizations that you need, and can optimize your code as needed.
We have actually started prototyping the middle tier componenets as WSC (windows scripting host) activex components, and porting them to a compiled language. This way you don't have to change the method of instanciation in the asp code, and you don't have to mess around with unloading the components from IIS when you make changes.
Ok, how about for the price of a cd, (15.99 or whatever) you can logon to the site for a year, and download any song from their library, as well as artwork, ticket sales, tour dates bios......
What do these people really have to loose? Is money that important?It would be incredible if some big act (like metallica) would just tell the record companies to go fsck themselves, and go independant.
I remember in the late 80's how a Metallica fan bragged about their platnum album sales, and the fact that they did it without the help of MTV. Well, now they are on MTV, and suing to stop kids from exchanging their music for free. Money poisons everyone, it seems.
Another anecdote I remember is that Al Dimeola was approached by MTV to pay them to play his videos. He of coure told them to fsck off, and this is one example of many of why MTV is now a river of artless drivel.
Benchmarks are always uninteresting to me- I am more interested in things like-
timedemo_1
Photoshop rendering speeds(macros and plugins)
The amount of time it takes to compile quake1 from scratch
Pretty hard to fake these.
This comment was not meant to be inflammatory. Imagine for a second that in 2003 your mp3 has one of the highest download rates, as confirmed by Napster stats, or your website, or wherever. Millions of people have downloaded your songs. Don't you think a promoter would be interested in putting together a tour for you? And what about all the merchandise you are selling on your website, as well as advertising space. You put up new songs, and people make comments on your message board, which also adds to the buzz. No media troll 'middle man' ass has been kissed to get you where you are.
The only sure thing is change.
I think that you miss the point- that without the advertising and video juggernaut behind them there would be little market for BSB. It's evolution. Sorry it is so cruel.
Tell that to the Dead, who made their living off of touring. The only 'artists' that will be affected are groups like the "Back Street Boys", which is really some sort of corporate clown act. I wish muscicians had to work for their money, there would be more concerts and choice.
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Didn't someone buy "The Little Rascals" so it could not be broadcasted any more? (the show had racist content) Sounds somewhat similar, but with different intent.
Don't forget that the mainframe would be down for 41,000 * 5 'site minutes'.
I guess you have never tried to get it running...
The Greatful Dead made squat off of album sales, and many millions off of touring. Bands are going to have to learn to play their instruments, instead of being a clown act that a producer sets the music to.
When you go on a date with the Devil, remember that you will be expected to put out!
"The Intel STS is America's oldest, and most prestigious, pre-college science scholarship competition, often considered the "Junior Nobel Prize."" Just for the sake of argument, isn't the Westinghouse competition older?
If you read the sharky article, they turned it up to 1100 Mhz with no problems.
Moore's Law is a business model, not an engineering model. Intel has been dribbling technology into the marketplace at a rate that maximizes profits. Unfortunatly this gets in the way of progress- don't forget who Moore is!!! Hopefully Moore's law can be broken.
A quick check of my fav hardware sites show 800 Athalons are available, and not so expensive. The fastest coppermine is 733mhz, and $200 more than an Athalon of of the same speed. Intel is really starting to look pathetic.
The consumer cost of electricity and natural gas are 2/3 distribution costs. It will be many many years before hydrogen (even if it could be made for free) will ever make it to our homes or autos. The USA has enourmous amounts of natural gas, and we haven't even started looking into the methane hydrate reserves found offshore.
Environmentally, we could make some immediate gains by getting rid of the suv's and buying one of those new hybrid hondas! The usa uses an amazingly disproportionate amount of fuel vs. popluation.
I think some of you may have missed the grass roots aspect of linux, and abit motherboards. The target of the bp6 is hardware tweekers/hackers (used very loosely). Is it so bad that abit give a free linux distro with a motherboard(I am only assuming that this is their plan). As long as the distro doesen't suck, it may bring some new people to the linux camp, and is that so bad? Besides, they get some free press, and define their ongoing support for linux.
The only use of this would be for licencing. It would not stop someone from picking up emf from the monitor. Soon they will try to encrypt my eyeballs!
It seems as though this guy has never heard of the concept of the S-Curve. Processor technology cannot become infinitly advanced, eventually its advancement will slow to nothing. In my opinion biotech-type enhancement of the human body is in its infancy, and will impact our idea of the being in ways we could never imagine.