Actually Rusia is free, but it looks the people in America find themselfs suddenly on the wrong site of the iron curtain.
Russia may be "free" (highly debatable) but it's a) dying (check out the birth rates, somewhere around 1.2 right now?) and b) incredibly corrupt if you're trying to do any actual business. And don't get me started on Putin's dismissal of the regional governors.
America (and a few other parts of "the West") has a shot at staying around "as we know it".... I can't say the same for Russia and most of Western Europe though.
Check out a few of the demographic essays by Mark Steyn for more background...
Just a transmitter in the gun and then another in a watch or ring, so that only the person with the both could actually fire the gun. (The gun won't fire unless the signal from the other device is less than 3 ft away).
mod_perl is mod_perl... it will always suck to some extent. I think if you're looking for better ease of use while still retaining the performance and caching enhancements, you'd be better off looking at SpeedyCGI (CPAN) either in its shebang form (for the cost of a fork) or via mod_speedycgi.
Virtually all of the benefits of a persistent perl implementation, with little of the pain of migrating to mod_perl's runtime and dealing with Apache:: modules up the yingyang (as long as your script is already use strict compliant).
Extremely dangerous... Pirate radio is one thing -- but anyone who's studied enough to know what they're doing is usually respectful enough to be a "good broadcaster", even if they don't have a permit (meaning doing what they can to avoid interference, clean signals, etc...)
Imagine script kiddies getting a hold of these devices and sticking them near an airport. Furthermore, all the bitching about privacy you see here at Slashdot might take on a new meaning once anyone out there is listening in on your cellphone conversations (again).
I'm not sure which was first (too lazy to look it up), but I remember reading both of them in 1st or 3rd grade. CYOA books always seemed somewhat -- I don't know -- slim to me. Not much there beyond the gimick, and often times it was only a few pages between "choices". Twistaplot books seemed to have more narrative substance there, longer periods that allowed for the choices you made to develop in the plot before being forced into another one page branch.
But perhaps that's just time making things all fuzzy... Amazon used books to the rescue?
Are they admitting to collecting details on domestic phone calls _before_ 9/11?
Dumbass. AT&T has been storing billing records for calls for DECADES. They have to, because that's how the phone companies bill you. As part of the datamining effort, don't you think the NSA would take a look at the phone call patterns of the *known* terrorists as they were planning a *known* act for an idea of the type of pattern that might show up?
Hell, they don't even need to do the datamining to see that case. I'm sure those records were turned over by the phone companies to the FBI within an HOUR of them being identified as the probable culprits.
I'm not one for quackery or anything else, nor do I know anyone who's had this "disease", nor do I believe there is some Giant Government Conspiracy to infect the population with chemtrails designed by Karl Rove or other nonsense...
But rather than freakin' dismissing everything as paranoia, wouldn't it be a good idea to actually *investigate* this? The article, along with a writeup in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology bring a very important point. When diagnosing something as psychosomatic, make sure that the pyschological symptoms are the primary cause of what's going on, not secondary in nature or being caused by something else.
Is it a bioengineered weapon from evil crazed oil companies? No. But whatever the underlying medical cause(s) of some of this is, it deserves a legitimate medical investigation. Isn't that what science is about?
If nothing else, I was reminded of other (fictional) mutli-disciplinary teams brainstorming about far-off civilizations temporally or spatially. Eg, from Sphere or some other novel...
A properly configured, customized, qmail/vpopmail cluster is a beauty to behold. Unfortuantely, it takes the better part of a month to get up to speed on how the system works, and it will be many months overall before you really feel "comfortable" with how it works (longer if you're coming solely from a sendmail background).
That being said, it's also rock-solid, extremely fast when properly configured, and more flexible than you can imagine.
We currently use a single RAID-10 NFS and MySQL DB system handling the backend, with 5 cluster servers in front of it, each of them able to perform any number of roles. (We had a load balancer in front of them at one point, but it actually more just got in the way than anything else.) A sixth box handles all DNS requests for the servers, and we'll be bringing a 7th up soon to offload some of the spam processing from the three that currently run our asnychronous processing code. The cluster boxes are cheap MicroATX Athlon XP 3000+ machines with 2 GB of RAM. I've seen each box take well over a 100 simultanous SMTP connections without CPU being noticably affected. Current 1 does webmail, 1 does incoming MX, 1 does POP3/IMAP, 1 is for development and servers IMAP to the webmail box, and 1 is running SMTP, 587, and SMTP-SSL.
When properly administered, I think it beats anything out there. However, if you can't afford the time and 3am-bang-your-head-against-your-monitor agony, I'd suggest one of the other solutions people have mentioned here.
Ironically enough, the original 2001: A Space Odyssey story (it remains this way in the novel) has them visiting Saturn, NOT Jupiter. Supposedly it was changed in the movie because the effects people ended up not being able to make a convincing Saturn. IIRC the Monolith is on the moon Iapetus -- a black dot visited smack in the middle of the extraordinarily high contrast between its faces.
Clarke's 2010(+) novels follow the cinematic version and keep them visiting Jupiter.
After 6-7 years in the making, UbiSoft cut the funding to Cyan while it was in its beta stage, still in the proloque before its main launch, after 10,000's of copies of the single-player/client portion of the game had been sold. Like many others, this was more a case of it being cut down before it even had a chance to reach its prime, though...
It had a ton of potential, and now that the platform requirements and broadband issues are more inline with what more and more people have on their desktops, perhaps there's a chance that that potential will still be reached.
Somehow the headline "Bullying Affects Social Status?" on site that is sub-headed as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." strikes me as a little -- well, self-soothing.
I thought the "Voices from the Hellmouth" days were over...
The only things I've found myself doing on my mobile device (a small, underpowered, but nifty, Samsung i500-ph through Sprint) consist of:
* Reference lookups (ie, directions) * News updates (Drudge is surprisingly accessible, and many blogs work too); I tend to do this after receiving a "Breaking News" SMS message from one of my local TV stations (nbc739.com) * Sites that use interactivity
To expound on the later, I run a couple of different "portal" type sites that allow me to log in, view profiles, and get information on other people. With that sort of customization available, we're creating mobile-friendly calendars, phone lists, photo galleries, and news updates, all to allow people to access things wirelessly and get "what they need."
If your website is basically a brochure, then no, you probably don't need a mobile-friendly site per-se (although you do need to make it WAI-accessible for the disabled). If your site has something to do on it that someone might want to do when they are away from a terminal, then by all means start developing. As someone else said, it's almost a chicken-and-egg problem. But once people see that they can access your features more conveniently, I'd wager you'll see usage improve.
Perl is compiled every time you run a Perl program. It causes an annoying slowdown in my programs.
It doesn't have to be... you should look into SpeedyCGI/PersistentPerl or even PPerl. I use the former for various web cgi's that are hit constantly (including one framework where all hits are rewritten to execute a single index.pl script) as well as for various scripts that need to execute very quickly as part of a qmail/vpopmail shell chain.
As long as it's already use strict compliant, neither of these options require any changes to your code (unlike mod_perl), but should give you a significant increase in speed... for exactly the reason you specified.
In fact, when you remove compilation from the equation, I've seen well-written perl code that executes faster than almost any other language... (your opcodes are basically boiling down to C anyway).
Of course for CGI-only usage you can use mod_perl, but that does bring in some added complexity. The solutions above work from the command line as well, and require nothing more than a shebang line change.
How about this then? You go to the bank and deposit your money. Some customers are getting extra money free from the bank, you don't. You both used the same service but others got better treatment.
Don't you see why people are annoyed that some are getting free upgrades and some aren't?
What the hell kind of pinko-commie communist nonsense is this? This is America, not Soviet Russia or Che-land. People and machines are *not* all created equal! So somebody got something more than they contracted for... So somebody got lucky(ier) in life than you did... thems the breaks! Life isn't always fair. Property isn't distributed communally, nor is wealth distributed equally.
Think of it this way.... if you are born with a disability (or get a broken Mini), that sucks... and you can curse the Fates if you would like. However, if you're born with everything in the right place and working (the Mini you paid for), then congratulations. DO NOT feel pissed because someone else was born *taller*, *smarter*, or *more beautiful* than you (got better parts than they paid for). Just do the best with what you were given and stop being jealous.
I would think the significant volunteer work done towards creating a freely-usable (with attribution) ontology of the web would be useful for a project such as this, even if the actual *content* wasn't.
I thought URU was terrible, the 3D gets in the way, I never played past the gourge because it was just such a pain walking around.
If you never played past the crest, then you really didn't play URU. Especially once you added in the expansion packs (or played URU Live, when it was around), there was FAR, FAR more to it than you would have gotten a taste of.
Give it another chance, especially now that you can find the Complete Chronicles (URU + the 2 exp packs) for so cheap.
I guess this just re-emphasizes that even in space there are scarce resources which people are going to end up fighting over, and which will necessitate extending national power into outer space, in order to enforce any claims on territoriality.
You mean, just like pretty much every space-set science fiction story ever written has said?
Really, you don't need anything more than a passing familiarity with DS9 to figure this one out... =)
Slashdot Mirror
Actually Rusia is free, but it looks the people in America find themselfs suddenly on the wrong site of the iron curtain.
Russia may be "free" (highly debatable) but it's a) dying (check out the birth rates, somewhere around 1.2 right now?) and b) incredibly corrupt if you're trying to do any actual business. And don't get me started on Putin's dismissal of the regional governors.
America (and a few other parts of "the West") has a shot at staying around "as we know it".... I can't say the same for Russia and most of Western Europe though.
Check out a few of the demographic essays by Mark Steyn for more background...
But whose eyes?
Easy, Dr. T.J. Eckleburg's! Next question...?
Just a transmitter in the gun and then another in a watch or ring, so that only the person with the both could actually fire the gun. (The gun won't fire unless the signal from the other device is less than 3 ft away).
Sounds like a job for Bluetooth!
mod_perl is mod_perl... it will always suck to some extent. I think if you're looking for better ease of use while still retaining the performance and caching enhancements, you'd be better off looking at SpeedyCGI (CPAN) either in its shebang form (for the cost of a fork) or via mod_speedycgi.
Virtually all of the benefits of a persistent perl implementation, with little of the pain of migrating to mod_perl's runtime and dealing with Apache:: modules up the yingyang (as long as your script is already use strict compliant).
Extremely dangerous... Pirate radio is one thing -- but anyone who's studied enough to know what they're doing is usually respectful enough to be a "good broadcaster", even if they don't have a permit (meaning doing what they can to avoid interference, clean signals, etc...)
Imagine script kiddies getting a hold of these devices and sticking them near an airport. Furthermore, all the bitching about privacy you see here at Slashdot might take on a new meaning once anyone out there is listening in on your cellphone conversations (again).
I'm not sure which was first (too lazy to look it up), but I remember reading both of them in 1st or 3rd grade. CYOA books always seemed somewhat -- I don't know -- slim to me. Not much there beyond the gimick, and often times it was only a few pages between "choices". Twistaplot books seemed to have more narrative substance there, longer periods that allowed for the choices you made to develop in the plot before being forced into another one page branch.
But perhaps that's just time making things all fuzzy... Amazon used books to the rescue?
Are they admitting to collecting details on domestic phone calls _before_ 9/11?
Dumbass. AT&T has been storing billing records for calls for DECADES. They have to, because that's how the phone companies bill you. As part of the datamining effort, don't you think the NSA would take a look at the phone call patterns of the *known* terrorists as they were planning a *known* act for an idea of the type of pattern that might show up?
Hell, they don't even need to do the datamining to see that case. I'm sure those records were turned over by the phone companies to the FBI within an HOUR of them being identified as the probable culprits.
I'm not one for quackery or anything else, nor do I know anyone who's had this "disease", nor do I believe there is some Giant Government Conspiracy to infect the population with chemtrails designed by Karl Rove or other nonsense...
But rather than freakin' dismissing everything as paranoia, wouldn't it be a good idea to actually *investigate* this? The article, along with a writeup in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology bring a very important point. When diagnosing something as psychosomatic, make sure that the pyschological symptoms are the primary cause of what's going on, not secondary in nature or being caused by something else.
See also an interesting study from the Oklahoma Dept. of Health I found with 2 minutes of Googling.
Is it a bioengineered weapon from evil crazed oil companies? No. But whatever the underlying medical cause(s) of some of this is, it deserves a legitimate medical investigation. Isn't that what science is about?
In Three, Two, One...
They absolutely do. In fact, I've burned a full set of ISOs exactly *once* since Fedora Core 1, for a friend on a slow connection.
For everything else, I use a USB drive with the bootnet.img image on it, or a CD/mini-CD with their 7M boot.iso.
Actually, there's a lot more interesting information in the abstract of the report that actually generated that data sheet.
Take a look at excepts from the Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan for more comprehensive details on how they came up with these concepts, and the team(s) of multi-disciplinary researchers/scientists who worked on them.
If nothing else, I was reminded of other (fictional) mutli-disciplinary teams brainstorming about far-off civilizations temporally or spatially. Eg, from Sphere or some other novel...
A properly configured, customized, qmail/vpopmail cluster is a beauty to behold. Unfortuantely, it takes the better part of a month to get up to speed on how the system works, and it will be many months overall before you really feel "comfortable" with how it works (longer if you're coming solely from a sendmail background).
That being said, it's also rock-solid, extremely fast when properly configured, and more flexible than you can imagine.
We currently use a single RAID-10 NFS and MySQL DB system handling the backend, with 5 cluster servers in front of it, each of them able to perform any number of roles. (We had a load balancer in front of them at one point, but it actually more just got in the way than anything else.) A sixth box handles all DNS requests for the servers, and we'll be bringing a 7th up soon to offload some of the spam processing from the three that currently run our asnychronous processing code. The cluster boxes are cheap MicroATX Athlon XP 3000+ machines with 2 GB of RAM. I've seen each box take well over a 100 simultanous SMTP connections without CPU being noticably affected. Current 1 does webmail, 1 does incoming MX, 1 does POP3/IMAP, 1 is for development and servers IMAP to the webmail box, and 1 is running SMTP, 587, and SMTP-SSL.
When properly administered, I think it beats anything out there. However, if you can't afford the time and 3am-bang-your-head-against-your-monitor agony, I'd suggest one of the other solutions people have mentioned here.
My $.02
Ironically enough, the original 2001: A Space Odyssey story (it remains this way in the novel) has them visiting Saturn, NOT Jupiter. Supposedly it was changed in the movie because the effects people ended up not being able to make a convincing Saturn. IIRC the Monolith is on the moon Iapetus -- a black dot visited smack in the middle of the extraordinarily high contrast between its faces.
Clarke's 2010(+) novels follow the cinematic version and keep them visiting Jupiter.
After 6-7 years in the making, UbiSoft cut the funding to Cyan while it was in its beta stage, still in the proloque before its main launch, after 10,000's of copies of the single-player/client portion of the game had been sold. Like many others, this was more a case of it being cut down before it even had a chance to reach its prime, though...
It had a ton of potential, and now that the platform requirements and broadband issues are more inline with what more and more people have on their desktops, perhaps there's a chance that that potential will still be reached.
Somehow the headline "Bullying Affects Social Status?" on site that is sub-headed as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." strikes me as a little -- well, self-soothing.
I thought the "Voices from the Hellmouth" days were over...
The only things I've found myself doing on my mobile device (a small, underpowered, but nifty, Samsung i500-ph through Sprint) consist of:
* Reference lookups (ie, directions)
* News updates (Drudge is surprisingly accessible, and many blogs work too); I tend to do this after receiving a "Breaking News" SMS message from one of my local TV stations (nbc739.com)
* Sites that use interactivity
To expound on the later, I run a couple of different "portal" type sites that allow me to log in, view profiles, and get information on other people. With that sort of customization available, we're creating mobile-friendly calendars, phone lists, photo galleries, and news updates, all to allow people to access things wirelessly and get "what they need."
If your website is basically a brochure, then no, you probably don't need a mobile-friendly site per-se (although you do need to make it WAI-accessible for the disabled). If your site has something to do on it that someone might want to do when they are away from a terminal, then by all means start developing. As someone else said, it's almost a chicken-and-egg problem. But once people see that they can access your features more conveniently, I'd wager you'll see usage improve.
I'm not even sure what to think about this.... it's going to take some time.
The beginning of the end? Or do I trust Google enough that this isn't a sign of the Apocalypse...
Perl is compiled every time you run a Perl program. It causes an annoying slowdown in my programs.
It doesn't have to be... you should look into SpeedyCGI/PersistentPerl or even PPerl. I use the former for various web cgi's that are hit constantly (including one framework where all hits are rewritten to execute a single index.pl script) as well as for various scripts that need to execute very quickly as part of a qmail/vpopmail shell chain.
As long as it's already use strict compliant, neither of these options require any changes to your code (unlike mod_perl), but should give you a significant increase in speed... for exactly the reason you specified.
In fact, when you remove compilation from the equation, I've seen well-written perl code that executes faster than almost any other language... (your opcodes are basically boiling down to C anyway).
Of course for CGI-only usage you can use mod_perl, but that does bring in some added complexity. The solutions above work from the command line as well, and require nothing more than a shebang line change.
How about this then? You go to the bank and deposit your money. Some customers are getting extra money free from the bank, you don't. You both used the same service but others got better treatment.
Don't you see why people are annoyed that some are getting free upgrades and some aren't?
What the hell kind of pinko-commie communist nonsense is this? This is America, not Soviet Russia or Che-land. People and machines are *not* all created equal! So somebody got something more than they contracted for... So somebody got lucky(ier) in life than you did... thems the breaks! Life isn't always fair. Property isn't distributed communally, nor is wealth distributed equally.
Think of it this way.... if you are born with a disability (or get a broken Mini), that sucks... and you can curse the Fates if you would like. However, if you're born with everything in the right place and working (the Mini you paid for), then congratulations. DO NOT feel pissed because someone else was born *taller*, *smarter*, or *more beautiful* than you (got better parts than they paid for). Just do the best with what you were given and stop being jealous.
So shut up and go watch The Incredibles...
The Open Directory Project
I would think the significant volunteer work done towards creating a freely-usable (with attribution) ontology of the web would be useful for a project such as this, even if the actual *content* wasn't.
The same for use in WikiPedia, actually... hmm.
You're thinking of the Orontius Finaeus Map of Antarctica from the 1500's.
I thought URU was terrible, the 3D gets in the way, I never played past the gourge because it was just such a pain walking around.
If you never played past the crest, then you really didn't play URU. Especially once you added in the expansion packs (or played URU Live, when it was around), there was FAR, FAR more to it than you would have gotten a taste of.
Give it another chance, especially now that you can find the Complete Chronicles (URU + the 2 exp packs) for so cheap.
Serial Experiments Lain
I guess this just re-emphasizes that even in space there are scarce resources which people are going to end up fighting over, and which will necessitate extending national power into outer space, in order to enforce any claims on territoriality.
You mean, just like pretty much every space-set science fiction story ever written has said?
Really, you don't need anything more than a passing familiarity with DS9 to figure this one out... =)
It's the STATE government, dumbass... and that would be amendment #10.