Cheap ass $5k per box? Where you do piss you boss's money away? It's not 1998 anymore when HP could catch $50k for four times more power than a $2k PII with Linux.
With Linux, that $5k box can easily saturate your 10Gbit LAN backbone. Actually, per individual box $2k tops is probably 80% of the market. Even tungsten (see below) is built with boxes that go for around $2k, but they probably spent more than that per box on the interconnect.
On the big and powerful side, Linux's claim to fame is its significant and growing presence list of biggest irons in the world, note number four and five running Linux and Thunder's speed and estimated ranking as an indication of what the next list will look like. Now that is worth some fame.
The terms "Low End" or "High End" for lawyers and accountants like the Gartner people are has nothing to do with technical specs and everything with price point. If that 1 Ghz PIII loaded with software costs a bundle, it's high-end. If you bought 10 GHZ of CPU power for $2k loaded with software, it's low-end.
They are something special, if the elephant is growing because it is between farts and the ant is growing because it's working out like crazy. Sure, right now it looks like an ant sitting down there, but a rocket launch starts from the ground as well, but ends way up going 17500 mph or more in space.
I think I used to have a similar problem. It's gone know, but I think it was either automatically fixed once at a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', or it was fixed after I cleaned up my home directory once.
Try making a fresh new user account and see if it works if you log in as that user. If it works fine for the new user, then it's something in the local settings: That is: ~/.phoenix ~/.mozilla-firebird ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-firefox
The problem may also be in a bad symlink in/usr/lib/mozilla-*/plugins/* (except libnullplugin.so).
Right. He mainly forgets that governments aren't in the software selling business... His arguments only make a little bit of sense for software selling companies looking to build overpriced software by modifying GPL software...
"1000 anytime minutes + unlimited nights and weekends: $40/month."
Hmm, in my area the "$39.99 plan" (which actually after taxes&fees is closer to $50) only includes either 600 + nights + weekends, or 1000 but no free nights and week-ends. The 1000 + nights + weekends if $60/month.
Actually, AFAICS, in the U.S.A., it is customary that items have a different 'price' than the amount of money necessary to purchase it.
It's not just telephone, wireless and cable bills.
I think that people just have become adjusted to the reality that when they need to make decisions, the dollar amounts mentioned are just rough approximations (xx plus taxes, fees, handling, adjustments). Which I think is indirectly contributing to the large number of people in trouble because of too much (credit-card) debt.
1) the price of items in the retail shops/supermarkets are not the price that you pay for them at the register, if the item has sales tax on it.
2) Tips, in the many places where tipping is customary. Given the level of math mastering by most people, how many people do you think will know off the top of their heads, immediately, the price including tips for that $11.95 sirloin? Sure, 15% is approximately a dollar for every 6 (16.6%), but $14 is only an approximation of the price if you tip exactly 15% (unless you adjust your tip to whatever is convencient for your calculating, which if you do that, you should also not complain about a $86 cent tax/fee/something on your wireless bill).
3) Mail-in rebates... (an advertising scam of its own)
4) The price on the window of an automobile, or even the price you negotiate in the 'office' is not the amount of money that you pay to purchase a vehicle (taxes and fees again). Actually, many people seem to buy/lease cars based solely on the 'dollars per month' that they need to pay for the loan/lease, and the vast majority of them don't know the total cash they actually lay down to own the vehicle.
5) The price on Internet shops is not the amount of money that you pay to purchase the item ('handling'...(and shipping))
6) When you purchase an item 'on credit' with your credit card and don't pay the credit card bill in will, then for that item you will actually be paying the 'price at the register' plus credit card interest.
7) The exact actual government tax rates (for income & property) for a calender year aren't published until the end of the year (around November).
I don't care what symbols you're typing, but if in an expanding universe, wisdom is guaranteed to be finite, then when I find infinite wisdom, I know that the universe can't be expanding.
So they are saying that, using fundamental physics and mathematics, they have proof that if somebody has infinite wisdon, the universe can not be expanding?
It's not the same as 5-10 years ago, the haydays when if you were serious you needed Sun, HPUX, SGI, or AIX boxes for hardware speed and quality and (very important) for availability of serious software. It very much so looks like the niche Sun is in is shrinking. Sun better have an answer to cluster computing with commodity hardware. A lot of heavy applications do very well on a cluster. IBM saw it coming and seems to be right on it, reshaping itself, HP has become very active with clusters, and SGI is building huge NUMA boxes, but Sun, what is their angle?
A Supermicro-based 1U Dual Xeon PCI-X 2x1Gb lan box with 2GB ECC RAM is less than $2k (and it can go to 8GB RAM if you need more than 2GB). For $34K, you can load up 15 of those on a half-rack, add a couple of UPS-es and a quality switch. That $34K box better have some serious performance to beat a 'commodity' cluster.
No, not an idea, but an invention. The patent is granted to the 'inventor', the names of which are at the top of the patent grant under 'inventors'. It says 'inventor', not 'guys who had this idea and filed for it first'.
Too often these days, patents filings are not for an invention, but for a mere idea. And the patent office just approves too much junk sent to it. And that is what this case is going to prove for this patent, that it does not stand up against the nonobviousness test.
I have good ideas all the time, but I'm not filing for patents five times per day, and so should all the weasels out there filing patents for nothing more than a dismal landgrab.
"I have an idea, but I'm not telling anybody". Nobody will probably care about that, but when I say "I have an invention, but I'm not telling anybody", people get curious. And that is the whole reason the patent system exists, in exchange for a limited-term monopoly protection on the invention, society, science, and the economy gets to benefit from publication of the invention, and free use of it after the patent expires. But if the patent is just an idea and not an invention, it is not a patent true to the intent of patents, because its publication and later release will not further society, science, or the economy at all. In fact, it will have the opposite effect of what was intented for patents.
"Imagine an environment simulator... each atomic time-unit in the simulation cannot be started until the previous unit has been completely computed. Such a serialized task doesn't chop up into 100 threads very easily..."
Yes it does, into several orders of magnitude more than 100. In simulators like that the space is divided up, similar to how povray can scale very well on a cluster. The environmental simulation model is a big stack of cubes, each of which has a state. State recalculations/adjustments are event-driven. Each time when a state of a cube is recalculated, a future event is scheduled (at a precise simulated-time point) to recalculate the adjacent cubes that may be influenced by that state change. The simulator mainly is an engine processing and generating events. The fact that each cube does not _directly_ influence each other cube, but only a restricted neighborhood allows distribution of the simulation across parallel subsystems for both the state calculations and the event queues of the simulator.
The main problem about parallelization is not tasks that cannot be divided up, but programmers that don't want to spend the effort, or fail to see how.
Emails with paragraphs of random words are not very easy to distinguish from emails with paragraphs of actual language in nonspam emails. But emails with dozens of random links are better distinguishable from nonspam emails, so if the spammers start doing this, then you can filter out their spam even without having to check the SURBL by simply adding some points to the score of emails with a lot of links
And if you use the auto-whitelist feature, then it won't increase the false-positive count, except for people who receive a lot of emails with lots of random links from lots of different people.
Plus, the spam detection software may very well be capable of distinguishing between the decoys and the real spam-links by analyzing the context of the URI. At least that will be a lot easier than analyzing the grammar in an email and detecting the nonsensical paragraphs and the nonsensical/typo-ed words in spam.
Sure, it's not the final battle, but it looks like a very promising improvement in the fight against spam.
I'd like to start saying that my reservations were not specific to your product, but generic (and possibly unwarranted), for any product that has libre (or (but worse) freeware/shareware) and commercial versions. But given the number of libre CMS-type systems available, I find that I can afford to be sceptical and choosy for the 'quick fix' sort of thing that I am looking for.
"the two versions are functionally and visually identical."
That is very nice indeed. It could be me (as in: me not spending enough time reading the website), but for people like me, it may be good if the website was a bit more clear about that.
"In fact, the commercial version is offered simply because a GPL version has some restrictions that are incompatible with some commercial users' intentions (making their changes closed-source). This presents an opportunity for us to offer the same thing to open source folks and to closed source folks alike, while making at least some money offering the same software to the latter group."
In that view, then why release the libre version as GPL and not as MPL (mozilla public license), because in that way if the community improves the libre version, the original copyright owner gets to sell those improvements in the proprietary version too. From the 'libre camp' standpoint, AFAICS, MPL is as equivalent to GPL as 'necessary'.
Best of luck with your project, it's very courageous to take the open source route and make a libre version available, while still making a living off of it.
I generally have my reservations about dual-licensed projects, because I don't want to get sucked into a program that turns out to be low in features and hard to work with unles I buy the 'commercial version' of it for hundreds of dollars, which may disappoint too. I'd rather go with something that has all the goods and momentum in the libre version and that has good commercial support available that I will need only when I know what I have built up work very well and is a big success, and I'm ready to move to the next level (and/or next project).
Thanks for those links. I knew about tikiwiki, and looked at zope before. I thought zope was nice in theory but would take too much time to get started with and comes with too little or too complicated features, and this plone thing didn't seem to help much either. Tikiwiki however seems like a very easily deployed thing with all the right features.
So the plone page begins with whining about patents, and the feature list boasts about a 'click and run installer' (so what), that it is 'standard', 'open source', and 'supported' (yawn I'm falling asleep now) 'technologically neutral' (don't care), and here it comes 'extensible'. Hmm, an empty perl script is all that too (ok, 'drag and run installer'). My conclusion: plone is like an empty perl script. An empty, and therefore useless framework.
Maybe (hopefully?) I'm totally wrong about that, but their website is not enticing me to give it a spin at all. Does plone have things like a wiki, forum, issue tracker, blog, subscriptions, file areas (upload&download), etc, and how do you set that up and can you use multiple of those, enabling authentication/security/resource limits etc? Are plone templates easy to deal with? It's just far from clear from the website. Now neither of the others answer all those questions, but plone answers fewest.
My first impression is that typo3 is as much useless as plone/zope, and that drupal looks much more promising just like tikiwiki.
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Cheap ass $5k per box? Where you do piss you boss's money away? It's not 1998 anymore when HP could catch $50k for four times more power than a $2k PII with Linux.
With Linux, that $5k box can easily saturate your 10Gbit LAN backbone. Actually, per individual box $2k tops is probably 80% of the market. Even tungsten (see below) is built with boxes that go for around $2k, but they probably spent more than that per box on the interconnect.
On the big and powerful side, Linux's claim to fame is its significant and growing presence list of biggest irons in the world, note number four and five running Linux and Thunder's speed and estimated ranking as an indication of what the next list will look like. Now that is worth some fame.
The terms "Low End" or "High End" for lawyers and accountants like the Gartner people are has nothing to do with technical specs and everything with price point. If that 1 Ghz PIII loaded with software costs a bundle, it's high-end. If you bought 10 GHZ of CPU power for $2k loaded with software, it's low-end.
They are something special, if the elephant is growing because it is between farts and the ant is growing because it's working out like crazy. Sure, right now it looks like an ant sitting down there, but a rocket launch starts from the ground as well, but ends way up going 17500 mph or more in space.
I think I used to have a similar problem. It's gone know, but I think it was either automatically fixed once at a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', or it was fixed after I cleaned up my home directory once.
/usr/lib/mozilla-*/plugins/* (except libnullplugin.so).
Try making a fresh new user account and see if it works if you log in as that user. If it works fine for the new user, then it's something in the local settings: That is: ~/.phoenix ~/.mozilla-firebird ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-firefox
The problem may also be in a bad symlink in
Right. He mainly forgets that governments aren't in the software selling business... His arguments only make a little bit of sense for software selling companies looking to build overpriced software by modifying GPL software...
So the real name of this guy is Chris Hash? Smoking something?
Mee too...
"Over 45,600 readers have enjoyed this article in the past 48 hours"
/.-ing, it even brags about it!
Now that's a website that doesn't just take the
"1000 anytime minutes + unlimited nights and weekends: $40/month."
Hmm, in my area the "$39.99 plan" (which actually after taxes&fees is closer to $50) only includes either 600 + nights + weekends, or 1000 but no free nights and week-ends. The 1000 + nights + weekends if $60/month.
Where do you get a deal like yours?
Actually, AFAICS, in the U.S.A., it is customary that items have a different 'price' than the amount of money necessary to purchase it.
It's not just telephone, wireless and cable bills.
I think that people just have become adjusted to the reality that when they need to make decisions, the dollar amounts mentioned are just rough approximations (xx plus taxes, fees, handling, adjustments). Which I think is indirectly contributing to the large number of people in trouble because of too much (credit-card) debt.
1) the price of items in the retail shops/supermarkets are not the price that you pay for them at the register, if the item has sales tax on it.
2) Tips, in the many places where tipping is customary. Given the level of math mastering by most people, how many people do you think will know off the top of their heads, immediately, the price including tips for that $11.95 sirloin? Sure, 15% is approximately a dollar for every 6 (16.6%), but $14 is only an approximation of the price if you tip exactly 15% (unless you adjust your tip to whatever is convencient for your calculating, which if you do that, you should also not complain about a $86 cent tax/fee/something on your wireless bill).
3) Mail-in rebates... (an advertising scam of its own)
4) The price on the window of an automobile, or even the price you negotiate in the 'office' is not the amount of money that you pay to purchase a vehicle (taxes and fees again). Actually, many people seem to buy/lease cars based solely on the 'dollars per month' that they need to pay for the loan/lease, and the vast majority of them don't know the total cash they actually lay down to own the vehicle.
5) The price on Internet shops is not the amount of money that you pay to purchase the item ('handling'...(and shipping))
6) When you purchase an item 'on credit' with your credit card and don't pay the credit card bill in will, then for that item you will actually be paying the 'price at the register' plus credit card interest.
7) The exact actual government tax rates (for income & property) for a calender year aren't published until the end of the year (around November).
# ~4/100k fuel efficiency. not sure what that is mpg, but it's excellent.
Just ask google. Yes google can do conversions too, even Silly ones
That was patched a long time ago. You need to upgrade your trees.
But...
That is never going to work: Nobody wants to be the third wheel.
I found the missing matter.
It was in the black hole. Ask beavis and butt-head for details.
There is one problem though: It doesn't matter.
Maybe it's broken?
"Hey, I have 25 open tabs right now. Why is that insane? Granted, Mozilla can't take it,"
Huh? OK, I'll bite. I up the ante, posting this with 30 tabs open in Mozilla Firefox, with no problems whatsoever.
I don't care what symbols you're typing, but if in an expanding universe, wisdom is guaranteed to be finite, then when I find infinite wisdom, I know that the universe can't be expanding.
"and that consciousness must be finite."
So they are saying that, using fundamental physics and mathematics, they have proof that if somebody has infinite wisdon, the universe can not be expanding?
- Is everybody stealing FM radio and over-the-air TV broadcasts?
- What if somebody gives you something?
- Are we stealing slashdot bandwidth and diskspace by posting here?
- Did anybody steal the sunshine on their faces, or the air they breathe?
- And, are the kids paying for this MPAA-sponsored class?
It's not the same as 5-10 years ago, the haydays when if you were serious you needed Sun, HPUX, SGI, or AIX boxes for hardware speed and quality and (very important) for availability of serious software. It very much so looks like the niche Sun is in is shrinking. Sun better have an answer to cluster computing with commodity hardware. A lot of heavy applications do very well on a cluster. IBM saw it coming and seems to be right on it, reshaping itself, HP has become very active with clusters, and SGI is building huge NUMA boxes, but Sun, what is their angle?
A Supermicro-based 1U Dual Xeon PCI-X 2x1Gb lan box with 2GB ECC RAM is less than $2k (and it can go to 8GB RAM if you need more than 2GB). For $34K, you can load up 15 of those on a half-rack, add a couple of UPS-es and a quality switch. That $34K box better have some serious performance to beat a 'commodity' cluster.
No, not an idea, but an invention. The patent is granted to the 'inventor', the names of which are at the top of the patent grant under 'inventors'. It says 'inventor', not 'guys who had this idea and filed for it first'.
Too often these days, patents filings are not for an invention, but for a mere idea. And the patent office just approves too much junk sent to it. And that is what this case is going to prove for this patent, that it does not stand up against the nonobviousness test.
I have good ideas all the time, but I'm not filing for patents five times per day, and so should all the weasels out there filing patents for nothing more than a dismal landgrab.
"I have an idea, but I'm not telling anybody". Nobody will probably care about that, but when I say "I have an invention, but I'm not telling anybody", people get curious. And that is the whole reason the patent system exists, in exchange for a limited-term monopoly protection on the invention, society, science, and the economy gets to benefit from publication of the invention, and free use of it after the patent expires. But if the patent is just an idea and not an invention, it is not a patent true to the intent of patents, because its publication and later release will not further society, science, or the economy at all. In fact, it will have the opposite effect of what was intented for patents.
"Imagine an environment simulator... each atomic time-unit in the simulation cannot be started until the previous unit has been completely computed. Such a serialized task doesn't chop up into 100 threads very easily..."
Yes it does, into several orders of magnitude more than 100. In simulators like that the space is divided up, similar to how povray can scale very well on a cluster. The environmental simulation model is a big stack of cubes, each of which has a state. State recalculations/adjustments are event-driven. Each time when a state of a cube is recalculated, a future event is scheduled (at a precise simulated-time point) to recalculate the adjacent cubes that may be influenced by that state change. The simulator mainly is an engine processing and generating events. The fact that each cube does not _directly_ influence each other cube, but only a restricted neighborhood allows distribution of the simulation across parallel subsystems for both the state calculations and the event queues of the simulator.
The main problem about parallelization is not tasks that cannot be divided up, but programmers that don't want to spend the effort, or fail to see how.
Emails with paragraphs of random words are not very easy to distinguish from emails with paragraphs of actual language in nonspam emails. But emails with dozens of random links are better distinguishable from nonspam emails, so if the spammers start doing this, then you can filter out their spam even without having to check the SURBL by simply adding some points to the score of emails with a lot of links
And if you use the auto-whitelist feature, then it won't increase the false-positive count, except for people who receive a lot of emails with lots of random links from lots of different people.
Plus, the spam detection software may very well be capable of distinguishing between the decoys and the real spam-links by analyzing the context of the URI. At least that will be a lot easier than analyzing the grammar in an email and detecting the nonsensical paragraphs and the nonsensical/typo-ed words in spam.
Sure, it's not the final battle, but it looks like a very promising improvement in the fight against spam.
I'd like to start saying that my reservations were not specific to your product, but generic (and possibly unwarranted), for any product that has libre (or (but worse) freeware/shareware) and commercial versions. But given the number of libre CMS-type systems available, I find that I can afford to be sceptical and choosy for the 'quick fix' sort of thing that I am looking for.
"the two versions are functionally and visually identical."
That is very nice indeed. It could be me (as in: me not spending enough time reading the website), but for people like me, it may be good if the website was a bit more clear about that.
"In fact, the commercial version is offered simply because a GPL version has some restrictions that are incompatible with some commercial users' intentions (making their changes closed-source). This presents an opportunity for us to offer the same thing to open source folks and to closed source folks alike, while making at least some money offering the same software to the latter group."
In that view, then why release the libre version as GPL and not as MPL (mozilla public license), because in that way if the community improves the libre version, the original copyright owner gets to sell those improvements in the proprietary version too. From the 'libre camp' standpoint, AFAICS, MPL is as equivalent to GPL as 'necessary'.
Best of luck with your project, it's very courageous to take the open source route and make a libre version available, while still making a living off of it.
I generally have my reservations about dual-licensed projects, because I don't want to get sucked into a program that turns out to be low in features and hard to work with unles I buy the 'commercial version' of it for hundreds of dollars, which may disappoint too. I'd rather go with something that has all the goods and momentum in the libre version and that has good commercial support available that I will need only when I know what I have built up work very well and is a big success, and I'm ready to move to the next level (and/or next project).
Thanks for those links. I knew about tikiwiki, and looked at zope before. I thought zope was nice in theory but would take too much time to get started with and comes with too little or too complicated features, and this plone thing didn't seem to help much either. Tikiwiki however seems like a very easily deployed thing with all the right features.
So the plone page begins with whining about patents, and the feature list boasts about a 'click and run installer' (so what), that it is 'standard', 'open source', and 'supported' (yawn I'm falling asleep now) 'technologically neutral' (don't care), and here it comes 'extensible'. Hmm, an empty perl script is all that too (ok, 'drag and run installer'). My conclusion: plone is like an empty perl script. An empty, and therefore useless framework.
Maybe (hopefully?) I'm totally wrong about that, but their website is not enticing me to give it a spin at all. Does plone have things like a wiki, forum, issue tracker, blog, subscriptions, file areas (upload&download), etc, and how do you set that up and can you use multiple of those, enabling authentication/security/resource limits etc? Are plone templates easy to deal with? It's just far from clear from the website. Now neither of the others answer all those questions, but plone answers fewest.
My first impression is that typo3 is as much useless as plone/zope, and that drupal looks much more promising just like tikiwiki.