1 Cal (uppercase C) is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1g of water 1 degree celsius
which brings up a totally off topic question.... a can of coke is 350 ml. it contains 300 calories.
now, let's say i drink this coke. it is really cold - say 4 degrees. my body temperature is a nice, mamallish 37 degrees. by drinking this coke i am warming up 350 g of what is essentially water from the temperature of the can to that of my body - a difference of 33 degress.
33c * 350ml = 11550 calories.
since the coke is only 300ish calories in the first place...
in real fairness... the benchmarks are not what they should be!
i assume he used the tar that ships with solaris... and we all know that the solaris tar sucks badly. if he wants to benchmark the fs and not the app (tar) he should have installed gtar on the solaris box.
the http benchmarks seems specious... i would have preffered to have seen a specweb99 bench... something that i could compare to real, existing benchmarks.
of course, having said that, i'm still not going to install solaris on my x-whatever-6 box any time soon. no. not even for openwindows
Java on the otherhand requires a lot of setup and maintainance
java also requires a lot of development time! writing php is so damn fast that you can shave some serious time off your development and debugging cycles. for anecdotal evidence witness two dot coms. i work for one. my friend worked for another. we both started our more-or-less equally-sized apps at the same time. my dot com went to market. his went bankrupt at the 90% mark three weeks after we were done.
as a corollory, it is much easier in php to write code that itself does not scale well. contrary to popular belief, php is not a language for sloppy or new programmers - to write a robust, secure, scalable app in it you have to know what you are doing!
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Filesystems are just inefficient, shitty databases.
if by efficiency, you mean "speed of read and write" then i don't think this is going to be an improvement. the article makes it sound (although it's short on details) like winfs is just a front-end for ntfs and sqlserver - another layer your read-and-or-write has to go through before it gets to the disk.
this feels like apple circa july 1998. mcnealy should take a page from job's book on how to pull yr company back from the brink:
if ms offers you money, take it!
advertise! not to try and convert new customers, but to your existing core market. "think different" was all about consolidation.
fire some high-level people. just enough to get into time magazine.
come up with something new and interesting - even if it's just packaging. hint: thin clients aren't interesting.
foster a sense of elitism and cool amongst yr customer base. good lord, high school kid's have computers with the dell log on the front. this should be easy.
What Linux needs is innovation. They need something that only they have (at least for a little while) that everyone else wants
apache
sendmail
khtml
ssh
need i go on with the list of things that apple has boosted from the free-n-open *nix community? turn about is not only fair play, but good for software in general and everyone!
now, don't get me wrong. i love my quicksilver/10.2.8 rig and it is my primary machine - but don't sell the oss community short on innovation.
x11 will be part of the panther install process. it will be an optional install, but at least end users will be able to get an xwindow server from their 10.3 install cd instead of having to muck about with fink to get one.
additionally, apple is promising that x11 will be "fully" integrated with aqua, viz. you can copy and paste between the two window managers.
even if the u.s. wanted to enact anti-outsourcing legislation, it can't. the provisions of the world trade organization and the soon-to-be-ratified multilateral agreement on investment explicitly prohibit this sort of legislation.
you should feel a bit miffed that an unelected international body can restrict what laws your locally-elected (or "kinda elected" in bush's case) can enact.
of course the u.s. gov't is not in favour of the outsourcing brain drain but at the cancun summit india and several other developing nations put the boots to that idea. the rationale being that so many of the wto's policies lock g77 nations into not-so-profitable primary or crude secondary industries at the expense of development, so it's only fair to take the opportunity to grab onto a sweet tertiary industry. makes sense for them, really.
Yeah, until some PHB decides that, if 2 monitors = productivity gain, 4 monitors = 2x productivity gain,
well, you're actually pretty close. not four monitors though, but four vitual desktops.
where i work there are coders with dual monitors and there is me with one monitor and (as the only linux user in the company) 4 desktops. while they maximize all their windows and spend time poking around the taskbar and moving things from monitor to monitor, i race around virtual monitors with the alt-Fx keys.
i have a very simple layout for the four desktops:
code i am working on
remote sessions
email and second remote session if needed
browser
if you build for the web, the write/test cycle is as fast as alt-f4 ctrl-r. focus is transfered automaically when you switch desktiops so there's not fritzin' about with the mouse!
less monitors (to a minimum of one, obviously), more virtual desktops.
deficit, debt and interest. when you spend more than you tax you have to borrow at interest. if you accumulate enough debt, then just paying the interest on it becomes a major budget expense - which you have to meet by either a) raising taxes or b) borrowing more.
i submit that the gross overractions to what is, essentially, a minor irritation is going to have some serious backlashes. viz:
i send an email to a poster on this site critical of his or her stance on some issue. taking "offense" i am fined with sending unsolicitied email
the development of spoofing attacks to rack up fines against a target by forging spam in that targets name or exploiting that targets email server (apparently sendmail has some exploits for it...)
the use of this as a precedent by other states and governments to expand control to include email content, thereby limiting our freedmos more
i will never send another email to a resident of california again. proving that it was "solicited" is way too tough... and i've got to protect myself.
writers looking for a typewriter-with-memory would be better served by Notepad or the Mac equivalent.
if you think vim is a "typewriter-with-memory" you must have one hell of a typewriter! can notepad do:
word completion from the buffer? vim can with ctrl-p or ctrl-n
find next occurrence of word under cursor? vim can with *
uppercase current line? vim can with gUU
provide built-in encryption? vim can with:X
regex find/replace? vim can with %s///g
dump stdout from any command right into what you're working on? vim can with !! command
the list goes on and on. vim is a fully-featured, powerful, customizable, lightweight and ubiquitous editor that runs on just about any os available. notpad can't even do line numbers.
the only possible reason for intel to take this stance is money from M$
well, there is intel's profits to be concerned with. if china rolls out it's own chipset, national protectionism and government consumption will make it a non-trivial contender.
of course, this will almost assuredly never happen because this is exactly the sort of thing the wto has been working on abolishing. setting up national tariff and subsidy barriers to protect domestic industry is much "worse" for the economy than allowing fledgling local technology to be crushed by the existing, near-monopolistic, foreign multinational. duh!
the article states that they want to criminalize "shar[ing] information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers".
tools that could help virus writers? like, what? c++? visual basic? or, more realistically, nessus?
this is like that crime in britain: "going equipped to commit arson". ie, having a lighter in yr pocket. it's all about selective enforcement. ie, the law is interpreted by the police officer.
now, extrapolate this situation to something like, say, computing - something that joe average judge-or-cop knows virtually nothing about.
am i the only person who can see this being a bad bad thing?
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set up yr diebold mirror today.
which brings up a totally off topic question.... a can of coke is 350 ml. it contains 300 calories.
now, let's say i drink this coke. it is really cold - say 4 degrees. my body temperature is a nice, mamallish 37 degrees. by drinking this coke i am warming up 350 g of what is essentially water from the temperature of the can to that of my body - a difference of 33 degress.
33c * 350ml = 11550 calories.
since the coke is only 300ish calories in the first place...
why don't i lose weight drinking ice cold coke?
if you want funding now you have to be:
client server isn't dying - the server has become "enterprise" and the client has becom "personal"
itms offers indie labels... does a rather good job too - at least according to cd baby. source is here:
http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=2221
- i assume he used the tar that ships with solaris... and we all know that the solaris tar sucks badly. if he wants to benchmark the fs and not the app (tar) he should have installed gtar on the solaris box.
- the http benchmarks seems specious... i would have preffered to have seen a specweb99 bench... something that i could compare to real, existing benchmarks.
of course, having said that, i'm still not going to install solaris on my x-whatever-6 box any time soon. no. not even for openwindowsfind . -name "*.p" -o -name "*.htmp" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "*.php" | xargs wc -l
91564 total
current staff: two php developers. two flash developers.
close enough?
(nb: .p and .htmp are php pages... it's a legacy requirement.)
java also requires a lot of development time! writing php is so damn fast that you can shave some serious time off your development and debugging cycles. for anecdotal evidence witness two dot coms. i work for one. my friend worked for another. we both started our more-or-less equally-sized apps at the same time. my dot com went to market. his went bankrupt at the 90% mark three weeks after we were done.
as a corollory, it is much easier in php to write code that itself does not scale well. contrary to popular belief, php is not a language for sloppy or new programmers - to write a robust, secure, scalable app in it you have to know what you are doing!
if by efficiency, you mean "speed of read and write" then i don't think this is going to be an improvement. the article makes it sound (although it's short on details) like winfs is just a front-end for ntfs and sqlserver - another layer your read-and-or-write has to go through before it gets to the disk.
but, hey, it's got xml for buzzword compliance!
need i go on with the list of things that apple has boosted from the free-n-open *nix community? turn about is not only fair play, but good for software in general and everyone!
now, don't get me wrong. i love my quicksilver/10.2.8 rig and it is my primary machine - but don't sell the oss community short on innovation.
additionally, apple is promising that x11 will be "fully" integrated with aqua, viz. you can copy and paste between the two window managers.
now that makes openoffice viable for dad.
you should feel a bit miffed that an unelected international body can restrict what laws your locally-elected (or "kinda elected" in bush's case) can enact.
of course the u.s. gov't is not in favour of the outsourcing brain drain but at the cancun summit india and several other developing nations put the boots to that idea. the rationale being that so many of the wto's policies lock g77 nations into not-so-profitable primary or crude secondary industries at the expense of development, so it's only fair to take the opportunity to grab onto a sweet tertiary industry. makes sense for them, really.
my source for this is here.
well, you're actually pretty close. not four monitors though, but four vitual desktops.
where i work there are coders with dual monitors and there is me with one monitor and (as the only linux user in the company) 4 desktops. while they maximize all their windows and spend time poking around the taskbar and moving things from monitor to monitor, i race around virtual monitors with the alt-Fx keys.
i have a very simple layout for the four desktops:
code i am working on
remote sessions
email and second remote session if needed
browser if you build for the web, the write/test cycle is as fast as alt-f4 ctrl-r. focus is transfered automaically when you switch desktiops so there's not fritzin' about with the mouse!
less monitors (to a minimum of one, obviously), more virtual desktops.
deficit, debt and interest. when you spend more than you tax you have to borrow at interest. if you accumulate enough debt, then just paying the interest on it becomes a major budget expense - which you have to meet by either a) raising taxes or b) borrowing more.
simple math, really.
the punishment for annoyance is death? hm.
i submit that the gross overractions to what is, essentially, a minor irritation is going to have some serious backlashes. viz:
i will never send another email to a resident of california again. proving that it was "solicited" is way too tough... and i've got to protect myself.
your belt may fail
your suspenders may fail
if you're really serious about keeping your pants up, use both!
this is the theory of theo-n-the-openbsd-cats. you used priv sep plus all the other security goodies.
you don't say that doing nightly backups is a "weak" practice because the backups could fail at the same time as your main drive. do you?
if you think vim is a "typewriter-with-memory" you must have one hell of a typewriter! can notepad do:
the list goes on and on. vim is a fully-featured, powerful, customizable, lightweight and ubiquitous editor that runs on just about any os available. notpad can't even do line numbers.
take that, notepad!
them: what's your sign.
me:[insert random star sign here]
them: oh that is so you.
in twelve years i have only been caught once off the bat. and that was by my mom.
you seem to have a problem with meetings. care to discuss it?
no! cryptographic music!
well, there is intel's profits to be concerned with. if china rolls out it's own chipset, national protectionism and government consumption will make it a non-trivial contender.
of course, this will almost assuredly never happen because this is exactly the sort of thing the wto has been working on abolishing. setting up national tariff and subsidy barriers to protect domestic industry is much "worse" for the economy than allowing fledgling local technology to be crushed by the existing, near-monopolistic, foreign multinational. duh!
the solution to that of course is to get everybody using more bandwidth. hm. i see a generation of viruses coming...
the article states that they want to criminalize "shar[ing] information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers".
tools that could help virus writers? like, what? c++? visual basic? or, more realistically, nessus?
this is like that crime in britain: "going equipped to commit arson". ie, having a lighter in yr pocket. it's all about selective enforcement. ie, the law is interpreted by the police officer.
now, extrapolate this situation to something like, say, computing - something that joe average judge-or-cop knows virtually nothing about.
am i the only person who can see this being a bad bad thing?
that was the first actually funny thing i have read here all week! and it's saturday!