I think it is becoming apparent that Excel uses a file-loading scheme that does not scan the whole file, nor load many portions of the file into memory until they are used.
Or it may just be that it's that much more efficient. I didn't detect any performance differences when moving around through the ~14 tabs and ~16K rows in either Calc or Excel. I didn't check that in Gnumeric, though.
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I had a similar situation where SBC claimed that it wasn't their problem. After five months of nearly daily problems, we finally got them to have someone check the wire at 2am when the connection went down hard. The technician found that the cable was all messed up -- he had to replace some 800 feet of line running underground. I was rather amazed that they had it up by 7am, though. That bit was a little more impressive.
Gnumeric for Windows 1.6.0 RC1 Application opening time: ~3 seconds (no preloader used) Application opening RAM: 19MB File opening time: 53 seconds RAM usage with file open: 397MB
This is for the SXC file. It crashed trying to open the Excel XML, tying up almost 2GB in resources before doing so. Gnumeric was the fastest loading of all three of them, but used the most resources. It also had a minor error ("Invalid attribute 'vertical-align', unknown enum value 'automatic'") when opening but I don't immediately see anything wrong with the data. The DOS box from which it spawns (?!) also says that the version of Pango library I'm using is buggy, but since if it's installed, it was installed by Gnumeric, that's not my fault.
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Benchmarks for me, performed on:
Dell Latitude C840 1.4GHz CPU (plugged in, so full speed) 1GB RAM 5400 RPM 60GB hard drive Windows XP SP2
Results:
Microsoft Excel Application opening time: ~3 seconds (no preloader used) Application opening RAM: 11MB File opening time: 80 seconds RAM usage with file open: 45MB
Factors: Application opening time: Effectively a tie Application opening RAM: Calc uses about 3x more File opening time: Calc takes about 4.75x as long RAM usage with file open: Calc uses about 5.33x more RAM
Of course, this probably won't affect that many people. I'm a bit of a spreadsheet fiend, and even my largest work is rarely more than a few hundred KB. I did find it interesting that when trying to open the Excel XML file, Calc could not complete the opening, showing a General I/O failure.
I understand how tough it is to deal with the loss of an online identity. This is actually the third major identity I've had, and about the longest-lasting so far. Soon after I was able to get access to Gmail, I couldn't get this name, or any of my preferred variations, so I was rather dismayed. I've understood that since I take the name of a movie character, I'm going to get locked out of certain things, but it's still slightly painful when it happens. On occasion, I've stopped using a service for a while because of it, usually wandering back to it eventually when I get some time for it to settle in that it's really not that big a deal in this case. The next time it happens, though...
On the topic of the GM, a friend works at Blizzard, and was at one point one of the crew that oversees the GMs. This friend told me about the kinds of things that GMs would do that were within the letter of the rules, but violated the spirit, so could be hard to punish. There was also the issue of when to reverse judgement calls; overriding such things can cause problems down the line.
Of course, this doesn't cover the actual abuse issues. One GM lost a PvP match, and got so mad that he flipped to his GM account and teleported the winning player into some sure-death scenario (I want to say lava, but since I don't play the game and it was a while ago, I'm not quite sure). The GM was fired less than 30 minutes later, but the point is that there are plenty of petty people working things.
Americans are prohibited from satirizing the president? You might want to notify Rich Little (Reagan), Dana Carvey (senior Bush), and Colin Ferrell (junior Bush), as well as the estates of Johnny Carson (Reagan) and Phil Hartman (Clinton) so that they can remove the appropriate media from sales circulation.
For the entire 2004 campaign, the total raised for the Bush campaign was in excess of $260 million. Kerry wasn't terribly far behind at $233 million. Counting minor parties, that's half of a billion dollars raised for the 2004 presidential season alone.
That's a different story. California for the last year or two has been experimenting with a mandatory detox program for first offenses (and I think also first offense past the date of passage in case of repeat offenders). I'm not sure how well that's done at this point. I should go look.
It wouldn't even need to be a whole paycheck. Look at how many people pay $1 per chance twice a week for a few million dollars. We could raise billions that way each year, and it would be completely voluntary.
Kind of makes me wonder if this would be an effective way of funding certain programs. If you like it, you buy however many tickets at $1 each, and each one gets you a chance to do something special with it. A space program might get you the chance to go into orbit; an oceanographic research program might get you a chance to go a couple of miles underwater to watch research taking place.
That's one data source. NOAA's data, which I presume to be relatively accurate, says something different. Sometimes this happens in science -- two different data sets don't always agree. I suspect if we went looking, we might find datasets that support the ideas of it being warmer or cooler than the record. Simply writing off the data that NOAA has is being selective about your data, which can be used to invalidate a viewpoint.
It's seemed to work fairly well for the past dozen or so years as prison sentences, particularly for violent felonies, have gotten stiffer and fewer inmates have been released. This tracks reasonably well with the decrease in violent crime. Even as the economy soured at the end of 2000/beginning of 2001 and continued to remain soft for the next couple of years, crimes didn't increase all that much.
You have a good point, and it's one that I do bring up, but from a devil's advocate position, consider that there was enough transatlantic ship traffic by 1933 that it is unlikely, though not impossible or even improbable, that a large-scale storm would have slipped by unnoticed. Radios were in wide-spread use by then, and ships often had at least basic meteorological gear complete enough to warn of what we at least now know as tropical storms, and would have radioed other ships in the vicinity as a warning.
It's record-breaking in terms of numbers, but in terms of overall storm energy, it's actually both lower than the record and lower than forecast. I am interested (as are a lot of climatologists, I imagine) in how it is that Wilma scaled from a Cat-1 to a Cat-5 so fast.
Recent global temperatures correlate somewhat with increases in CO2, but what about the sudden upsurge from 1917 to 1944, where the global temperature increased by 0.59 degrees C in just 27 years before falling back off by 0.38 degrees in a mere 12 years? We're at a 0.66 degree increase in 28 years, inclusive of 2004 data, which isn't terribly much more than was experienced in the early part of the century. In fact, the peak seems to have been in 1998 so far, and 2005 looks on track to be a cooler year than 1998, though perhaps just a shade warmer than 2004.
I'm hoping that if Sprint and Cingular are pissed off enough about their business models being broken that they will weigh in on this, if only to throw legal energies at overturning the patent. If we're really lucky, maybe they'll also realize that this is a perfect example of how bad software and business process patents can get, and push for them to be overturned.
Oracle purchased Innobase, which makes InnoDB, which is a part of the structure on which rests MySQL (which is a product made by a completely separate company).
The concern is that MySQL could see a major part of that structure taken away from them.
However America is about to go with a new CEV design, which while an upgrade in technology basically puts them back to where they were in 1968.
Just because it's a capsule design doesn't mean that it's a step backwards in technology. Your argument seems to be based on the capsule to shuttle to aerospace plane development map that failed.
I would argue that the CEV is a step forward, because it adds flexibility to the design. The second phase of the CEV includes not only a lunar module, but also the capacity to start building a lunar base. Where the Apollo mission could support two people on the lunar surface for a maximum of three days, the CEV will be able to support four people on the surface for a week, and those four people will be able to do much more than just pick up a few rocks and wander a few hundred meters at a time.
I base where we are on what we can do once we get there. If the CEV merely duplicated Apollo, that would put us back at 1968, and would be a sad waste of tax dollars. If it's capable of living up to its promise, then that puts us much further along, and only 10-15 years behind where we should be.
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I think it is becoming apparent that Excel uses a file-loading scheme that does not scan the whole file, nor load many portions of the file into memory until they are used.
Or it may just be that it's that much more efficient. I didn't detect any performance differences when moving around through the ~14 tabs and ~16K rows in either Calc or Excel. I didn't check that in Gnumeric, though.
I had a similar situation where SBC claimed that it wasn't their problem. After five months of nearly daily problems, we finally got them to have someone check the wire at 2am when the connection went down hard. The technician found that the cable was all messed up -- he had to replace some 800 feet of line running underground. I was rather amazed that they had it up by 7am, though. That bit was a little more impressive.
Anyway, zero troubles after that.
Gnumeric for Windows 1.6.0 RC1
Application opening time: ~3 seconds (no preloader used)
Application opening RAM: 19MB
File opening time: 53 seconds
RAM usage with file open: 397MB
This is for the SXC file. It crashed trying to open the Excel XML, tying up almost 2GB in resources before doing so. Gnumeric was the fastest loading of all three of them, but used the most resources. It also had a minor error ("Invalid attribute 'vertical-align', unknown enum value 'automatic'") when opening but I don't immediately see anything wrong with the data. The DOS box from which it spawns (?!) also says that the version of Pango library I'm using is buggy, but since if it's installed, it was installed by Gnumeric, that's not my fault.
Benchmarks for me, performed on:
Dell Latitude C840
1.4GHz CPU (plugged in, so full speed)
1GB RAM
5400 RPM 60GB hard drive
Windows XP SP2
Results:
Microsoft Excel
Application opening time: ~3 seconds (no preloader used)
Application opening RAM: 11MB
File opening time: 80 seconds
RAM usage with file open: 45MB
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Calc
Application opening time: ~4 seconds (no preloader used)
Application opening RAM: 35MB
File opening time: 379 seconds
RAM usage with file open: 240MB
Factors:
Application opening time: Effectively a tie
Application opening RAM: Calc uses about 3x more
File opening time: Calc takes about 4.75x as long
RAM usage with file open: Calc uses about 5.33x more RAM
Of course, this probably won't affect that many people. I'm a bit of a spreadsheet fiend, and even my largest work is rarely more than a few hundred KB. I did find it interesting that when trying to open the Excel XML file, Calc could not complete the opening, showing a General I/O failure.
I understand how tough it is to deal with the loss of an online identity. This is actually the third major identity I've had, and about the longest-lasting so far. Soon after I was able to get access to Gmail, I couldn't get this name, or any of my preferred variations, so I was rather dismayed. I've understood that since I take the name of a movie character, I'm going to get locked out of certain things, but it's still slightly painful when it happens. On occasion, I've stopped using a service for a while because of it, usually wandering back to it eventually when I get some time for it to settle in that it's really not that big a deal in this case. The next time it happens, though...
On the topic of the GM, a friend works at Blizzard, and was at one point one of the crew that oversees the GMs. This friend told me about the kinds of things that GMs would do that were within the letter of the rules, but violated the spirit, so could be hard to punish. There was also the issue of when to reverse judgement calls; overriding such things can cause problems down the line.
Of course, this doesn't cover the actual abuse issues. One GM lost a PvP match, and got so mad that he flipped to his GM account and teleported the winning player into some sure-death scenario (I want to say lava, but since I don't play the game and it was a while ago, I'm not quite sure). The GM was fired less than 30 minutes later, but the point is that there are plenty of petty people working things.
Americans are prohibited from satirizing the president? You might want to notify Rich Little (Reagan), Dana Carvey (senior Bush), and Colin Ferrell (junior Bush), as well as the estates of Johnny Carson (Reagan) and Phil Hartman (Clinton) so that they can remove the appropriate media from sales circulation.
For the entire 2004 campaign, the total raised for the Bush campaign was in excess of $260 million. Kerry wasn't terribly far behind at $233 million. Counting minor parties, that's half of a billion dollars raised for the 2004 presidential season alone.
That's a different story. California for the last year or two has been experimenting with a mandatory detox program for first offenses (and I think also first offense past the date of passage in case of repeat offenders). I'm not sure how well that's done at this point. I should go look.
It wouldn't even need to be a whole paycheck. Look at how many people pay $1 per chance twice a week for a few million dollars. We could raise billions that way each year, and it would be completely voluntary.
Kind of makes me wonder if this would be an effective way of funding certain programs. If you like it, you buy however many tickets at $1 each, and each one gets you a chance to do something special with it. A space program might get you the chance to go into orbit; an oceanographic research program might get you a chance to go a couple of miles underwater to watch research taking place.
That's one data source. NOAA's data, which I presume to be relatively accurate, says something different. Sometimes this happens in science -- two different data sets don't always agree. I suspect if we went looking, we might find datasets that support the ideas of it being warmer or cooler than the record. Simply writing off the data that NOAA has is being selective about your data, which can be used to invalidate a viewpoint.
It's seemed to work fairly well for the past dozen or so years as prison sentences, particularly for violent felonies, have gotten stiffer and fewer inmates have been released. This tracks reasonably well with the decrease in violent crime. Even as the economy soured at the end of 2000/beginning of 2001 and continued to remain soft for the next couple of years, crimes didn't increase all that much.
You have a good point, and it's one that I do bring up, but from a devil's advocate position, consider that there was enough transatlantic ship traffic by 1933 that it is unlikely, though not impossible or even improbable, that a large-scale storm would have slipped by unnoticed. Radios were in wide-spread use by then, and ships often had at least basic meteorological gear complete enough to warn of what we at least now know as tropical storms, and would have radioed other ships in the vicinity as a warning.
It's record-breaking in terms of numbers, but in terms of overall storm energy, it's actually both lower than the record and lower than forecast. I am interested (as are a lot of climatologists, I imagine) in how it is that Wilma scaled from a Cat-1 to a Cat-5 so fast.
Recent global temperatures correlate somewhat with increases in CO2, but what about the sudden upsurge from 1917 to 1944, where the global temperature increased by 0.59 degrees C in just 27 years before falling back off by 0.38 degrees in a mere 12 years? We're at a 0.66 degree increase in 28 years, inclusive of 2004 data, which isn't terribly much more than was experienced in the early part of the century. In fact, the peak seems to have been in 1998 so far, and 2005 looks on track to be a cooler year than 1998, though perhaps just a shade warmer than 2004.
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No, no... This is Slashdot. You mod him down for stuff like that because it refutes logic.
It's easier to remember, and easier to communicate to the public in general.
Depends on how good the roof of the structure is. If it's not so good, there might just be an inadvertent astronaut or two.
On the other hand, if it is good, then the artist bounces off the roof to the ground, back to the roof, back to the ground, back to the roof, back...
they would have to bring ... troups
There's going to be a circus?
Sign me up!
Or maybe he did submit with a link to his site and someone edited (gasp! the horror!) them out?
Why would an editor do that?
It was two jokes in one. I'll make a note to make them less subtle next time.
Says you. My CPU runs so hot that it executes every virus it sees.
Now I just need to hope that no one lets loose one of those extremophiles...
I'm hoping that if Sprint and Cingular are pissed off enough about their business models being broken that they will weigh in on this, if only to throw legal energies at overturning the patent. If we're really lucky, maybe they'll also realize that this is a perfect example of how bad software and business process patents can get, and push for them to be overturned.
Oracle purchased Innobase, which makes InnoDB, which is a part of the structure on which rests MySQL (which is a product made by a completely separate company).
The concern is that MySQL could see a major part of that structure taken away from them.
However America is about to go with a new CEV design, which while an upgrade in technology basically puts them back to where they were in 1968.
Just because it's a capsule design doesn't mean that it's a step backwards in technology. Your argument seems to be based on the capsule to shuttle to aerospace plane development map that failed.
I would argue that the CEV is a step forward, because it adds flexibility to the design. The second phase of the CEV includes not only a lunar module, but also the capacity to start building a lunar base. Where the Apollo mission could support two people on the lunar surface for a maximum of three days, the CEV will be able to support four people on the surface for a week, and those four people will be able to do much more than just pick up a few rocks and wander a few hundred meters at a time.
I base where we are on what we can do once we get there. If the CEV merely duplicated Apollo, that would put us back at 1968, and would be a sad waste of tax dollars. If it's capable of living up to its promise, then that puts us much further along, and only 10-15 years behind where we should be.
5M/512K cable for $42, or $50 without it being attached to the TV subscription package deal.