OK, 9000 may be a stretch, but I don't doubt that it is faster. If they used an OO system to hold all of their objects, then any data which would require a join in a RDBMS would be a lot faster in the OO model because of pointers.
Let's take an example, we will have two "tables" in our RDBMS, and two "objects" in our OO model:
RDBMS:
Parent Table
id long
strName string
Child Table
id long
pid long
strName string
In our RDBMS model we would have a link betwenn pid on the child table and id on the parent table.
For a select statement where we wanted a particular childs parent we would do something like this:
"Select strName from Parent, Child where Parent.id = child.pid and child.strName = 'Bob'"
This would result in having to find the child in the child table, and then find the parent in the parent table. Your search time will grow whenever either table increases in size.
OO:
Parent Object
strName as string
Child Object
strName as string
ptrParent as Parent
So now if we wanted to find our child object we would have to search through the child data structure to find the child, but we have a direct pointer to the parent, so there is no searching in the parent data structure. Thus no matter how large the parent table is, your search time will only grow with the size of the child table.
Now their 9000 x faster is a little high, but I bet you would definately see some performance gains.
It seems we get one of these every couple of weeks and you get the same people posting the same arguments. Its been some time (weeks, maybe more) since the last article was posted, so at least we got a break this time. On with the rants that "M$ sux" or "xxx Linux is the best"
I have to agree. I loved being Detroit and just running all over the competition with Barry Sanders. Or being the Giants and sacking them every time with LT. I loved the stats that they kept in that game, it was a staple in my childhood of game playing.
You are correct to blame the sysadmins for this worm spreading, but you have to remember we are in a really bad economy right now and many corporations have cut back or eliminated their IT departments. Right now Bill from Accounting is not only the payroll clerk, but he is also the sysadmin. He was given the job because he fixed the bosses email one day and everyone assumes he knows what he is doing. So Bill does the best that he can, while maintaining his payroll duties, but he does not know how to setup a firewall or patch SQL server. His philosophy is if aint broke (his definition of broke is down) then dont fix it. Maybe he hasnt even looked at the server in six months.
I think the spread of this worm and worms like it are a direct effect of companies with a large infrastructure that do not have dedicated IT personnel. I think there are going to be many small/medium businesses that are going to have some big problems come monday morning.
than they should be charging $10 for a crap movie on DVD
The last time I went into Best Buy (pre-christmas... that was a mistake) I saw quite a few DVDs for $9.99. Mind you these were not the brand new releases that were crap, but they were late 80s movies that are past their prime (Police Acadamy I, With Honors,...). I actually look at those movies some times and think, well its only 10 bucks and it was kind of funny back in the day. The studios problem may be, if they start selling the "crap" DVDs for 10 bucks, noone will go see it in the theatre, because it will cost at least $12.00 (If you go to a matinee) to see the film first run.
The important thing is that they know I disaprove of the game, and that the actions it depicts are "bad".
I could not agree with you more. I remember back in 1992-1993 I bought a game for the Sega Genisis, Kid Chameleon. Well one day I was playing this game and the Orkin man was making a run through our house (I guess we had a pest problem). When he saw the game I was playing he told my mother that there was a guy in the game that said "Die. Die. Die." or something like that. Well my mom was pretty mad, and she asked me about it. I confirmed it and she immediately took the game away from me and got the store to give us a full refund.
Now the lyrics in that game were not that bad and my mom may have overreacted, but it did show me that she did not approve of such things in video games. It was one of those moments where I was really mad at the time, but now I understand why she did it, she was trying to maintain the belief system she had instilled in me.
I do enjoy the violent video games and I have a very clear distinction between what is real and what is fantasy. I think GTA VC is probably one of the best console games I have ever played, but I would not approve of anyone not fully mature (society puts this at 18, my opion is based on my knowledge of the person) playing this game.
It is not just a problem with Windows, it is a problem with all commercial software. The company needs you to buy a new version of the software every two years, or they go out of business. If everyone was still using Windows NT 4.0 or Oralce 7 or VirusScan 2.0 the companies would be spending all their money on support and would not be bringing in new business. Software is a hard business because there is no degradation in the product, in 20 years none of the bits are going to change and the product is going to do the exact same thing as it has always done. Industries whose products have a known lifespan have at least a rough idea how to estimate when a customer is going to purchase their product again. Now, I am not defending the software makers, I am just saying, their marketing/versioning people are just trying to keep the company profitable.
Personally, I agree with the old addage, if it aint broke..., but my bosses dont see it that way. We stay one version behind the most current software, just to be, what they call, "safe".
This article is just a reminder of how wasteful people were back in the DOT COM boom days. I'm sure that stories like these can be run in many major US cities. It just makes you think.... How much stuff is out there that is just undocumented? How much wasted technology is out there that will never be found.
then the next thing you know we will start seeing animated banners and huge blocky ads on slashdot!
Just playing a little devils advocate here....
In the slashdot situation you can easily ignore the ads, and clicking on those ads has no positive effect on your karma. In the Sims situation they are trying to embed the McDonalds service with the incentives of "Fun" and "Hunger".
I am paying to play these games online, I expect to do as I please.
Thats like saying.... "I joined your country club and I pay my dues, so I can pee in the pool and wear my cutoff jeans and a metallica t-shirt, because I PAY for this service."
Every service you pay for has rules that you agree to. If you don't like the rules... LEAVE!
Didn't you hear Microsoft just released a new version of Pocket (Microsoft Pocket 2.0). This new version of pocket prevents all misuse of pockets. Of course this version of Microsoft Pocket only works on Microsoft Pants 2000 and greater.
I totally agree. I loved the first few seasons where there was no huge goverment plot to hide the aliens or prevent Mulder from finding stuff. I liked it when every episode was its own independent show, where you dont get lost if you havent watched in a month or two. I really havent been into the show in three or four years.
Re:May not be (quite) as bad as it sounds
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--what about those "idiots" that aren't computer literate and that dont know what a firewall even is?--
You know whats going to happen. Most people are not going to find out about this until a major worm comes along. I know the only reason I know about this is from/. and a few other sources. I know a lot of people who just bought computers and have no clue they are about to be screwed. Once the worm shows up on their local news at 5,6 and 11 they will realize, "Hey maybe I should look into this." They will walk over to their computer to find it deleting all of their filez and then they will call Dell and Gateway Technical support to get their filez back.
Slashdot Mirror
Just remember to take em out before you get to springfield because according to Wiggum:
"It's _also_ illegal to put squirrels down
your pants for the purposes of gambling."
Regional Blocking???
:)?
How do the satellites know where they are? Do they use GPS
Mars is constantly leaking gases
Sounds like my dad after a couple of burritos
"But I never trust '9000 times faster!'"
OK, 9000 may be a stretch, but I don't doubt that it is faster. If they used an OO system to hold all of their objects, then any data which would require a join in a RDBMS would be a lot faster in the OO model because of pointers.
Let's take an example, we will have two "tables" in our RDBMS, and two "objects" in our OO model:
RDBMS:
Parent Table
id long
strName string
Child Table
id long
pid long
strName string
In our RDBMS model we would have a link betwenn pid on the child table and id on the parent table.
For a select statement where we wanted a particular childs parent we would do something like this:
"Select strName from Parent, Child where Parent.id = child.pid and child.strName = 'Bob'"
This would result in having to find the child in the child table, and then find the parent in the parent table. Your search time will grow whenever either table increases in size.
OO:
Parent Object
strName as string
Child Object
strName as string
ptrParent as Parent
So now if we wanted to find our child object we would have to search through the child data structure to find the child, but we have a direct pointer to the parent, so there is no searching in the parent data structure. Thus no matter how large the parent table is, your search time will only grow with the size of the child table.
Now their 9000 x faster is a little high, but I bet you would definately see some performance gains.
It seems we get one of these every couple of weeks and you get the same people posting the same arguments. Its been some time (weeks, maybe more) since the last article was posted, so at least we got a break this time. On with the rants that "M$ sux" or "xxx Linux is the best"
Statistics are meaningless.... 78% of all people know that.
I have to agree. I loved being Detroit and just running all over the competition with Barry Sanders. Or being the Giants and sacking them every time with LT. I loved the stats that they kept in that game, it was a staple in my childhood of game playing.
You are correct to blame the sysadmins for this worm spreading, but you have to remember we are in a really bad economy right now and many corporations have cut back or eliminated their IT departments. Right now Bill from Accounting is not only the payroll clerk, but he is also the sysadmin. He was given the job because he fixed the bosses email one day and everyone assumes he knows what he is doing. So Bill does the best that he can, while maintaining his payroll duties, but he does not know how to setup a firewall or patch SQL server. His philosophy is if aint broke (his definition of broke is down) then dont fix it. Maybe he hasnt even looked at the server in six months.
I think the spread of this worm and worms like it are a direct effect of companies with a large infrastructure that do not have dedicated IT personnel. I think there are going to be many small/medium businesses that are going to have some big problems come monday morning.
than they should be charging $10 for a crap movie on DVD
The last time I went into Best Buy (pre-christmas... that was a mistake) I saw quite a few DVDs for $9.99. Mind you these were not the brand new releases that were crap, but they were late 80s movies that are past their prime (Police Acadamy I, With Honors,...). I actually look at those movies some times and think, well its only 10 bucks and it was kind of funny back in the day. The studios problem may be, if they start selling the "crap" DVDs for 10 bucks, noone will go see it in the theatre, because it will cost at least $12.00 (If you go to a matinee) to see the film first run.
Just my 0.02
I heard that picking flowers will help too. I did it once and was able to throw fireballs at people!
The important thing is that they know I disaprove of the game, and that the actions it depicts are "bad".
I could not agree with you more. I remember back in 1992-1993 I bought a game for the Sega Genisis, Kid Chameleon. Well one day I was playing this game and the Orkin man was making a run through our house (I guess we had a pest problem). When he saw the game I was playing he told my mother that there was a guy in the game that said "Die. Die. Die." or something like that. Well my mom was pretty mad, and she asked me about it. I confirmed it and she immediately took the game away from me and got the store to give us a full refund.
Now the lyrics in that game were not that bad and my mom may have overreacted, but it did show me that she did not approve of such things in video games. It was one of those moments where I was really mad at the time, but now I understand why she did it, she was trying to maintain the belief system she had instilled in me.
I do enjoy the violent video games and I have a very clear distinction between what is real and what is fantasy. I think GTA VC is probably one of the best console games I have ever played, but I would not approve of anyone not fully mature (society puts this at 18, my opion is based on my knowledge of the person) playing this game.
Just my 0.02
And that is the problem with Windows
It is not just a problem with Windows, it is a problem with all commercial software. The company needs you to buy a new version of the software every two years, or they go out of business. If everyone was still using Windows NT 4.0 or Oralce 7 or VirusScan 2.0 the companies would be spending all their money on support and would not be bringing in new business. Software is a hard business because there is no degradation in the product, in 20 years none of the bits are going to change and the product is going to do the exact same thing as it has always done. Industries whose products have a known lifespan have at least a rough idea how to estimate when a customer is going to purchase their product again. Now, I am not defending the software makers, I am just saying, their marketing/versioning people are just trying to keep the company profitable.
Personally, I agree with the old addage, if it aint broke..., but my bosses dont see it that way. We stay one version behind the most current software, just to be, what they call, "safe".
Just my 0.02
This article is just a reminder of how wasteful people were back in the DOT COM boom days. I'm sure that stories like these can be run in many major US cities. It just makes you think.... How much stuff is out there that is just undocumented? How much wasted technology is out there that will never be found.
then the next thing you know we will start seeing animated banners and huge blocky ads on slashdot!
Just playing a little devils advocate here....
In the slashdot situation you can easily ignore the ads, and clicking on those ads has no positive effect on your karma. In the Sims situation they are trying to embed the McDonalds service with the incentives of "Fun" and "Hunger".
I am paying to play these games online, I expect to do as I please.
Thats like saying.... "I joined your country club and I pay my dues, so I can pee in the pool and wear my cutoff jeans and a metallica t-shirt, because I PAY for this service."
Every service you pay for has rules that you agree to. If you don't like the rules... LEAVE!
Didn't you hear Microsoft just released a new version of Pocket (Microsoft Pocket 2.0). This new version of pocket prevents all misuse of pockets. Of course this version of Microsoft Pocket only works on Microsoft Pants 2000 and greater.
So what would happen if I put this CD in my Sony Playstation?
...
or God forbid my XBOX.
I totally agree. I loved the first few seasons where there was no huge goverment plot to hide the aliens or prevent Mulder from finding stuff. I liked it when every episode was its own independent show, where you dont get lost if you havent watched in a month or two. I really havent been into the show in three or four years.
--what about those "idiots" that aren't computer literate and that dont know what a firewall even is?--
/. and a few other sources. I know a lot of people who just bought computers and have no clue they are about to be screwed. Once the worm shows up on their local news at 5,6 and 11 they will realize, "Hey maybe I should look into this." They will walk over to their computer to find it deleting all of their filez and then they will call Dell and Gateway Technical support to get their filez back.
You know whats going to happen. Most people are not going to find out about this until a major worm comes along. I know the only reason I know about this is from