I guess my point was if you design a system that scales effectively over many small systems, it is not so important that it be particularly efficient.
Especially if data integrity is not too important (Facebook for example can probably get away with losing.1% of status updates without upsetting anyone, and delaying the visibility of pictures to friends for a minute or so).
Efficiency is highly over-rated I'm sure Facebook is more concerned about being able to throw twice as much hardware at the problem in a year to handle twice the users. If they could get away with 1/4 or even 1/10th the hardware, but not scale it easily it would in the end grind the entire business to a halt.
There is a time for efficiency, but more important is scalability when your systems number in the thousands.
Whatever the language overhead is, is irrelevant, as long as it scales linearly.
If the site was a parody then it would IMO piss me off because it is simply rude and inappropriate, but I would love for it be legal (she is a public figure to her own dismay).
If it were a parody that was set-up to specifically show the absurdity of rhetoric she frequently used I would not even be offended by the site itself. Especially if she traded in loudness and happy publicity on top of flimsy rhetoric.
So your example is similar, but not the same.
Much more accurate would be www.didmrmooreeatyourchildrenafterglennbeckrapedthemwithhimwatching.com (God I hate him, and I'm quite liberal)
And then painted a picture of him as a Glenn Beck rape watcher, and baby eater using the same techniques he uses in his documentaries. This I think even the rabid liberals could see the point of (though the flat out crazy ones would deny it was a fair parody).
I guess my point is that the site went beyond parody into satire even. This makes it even more important that it is legal, and probably goes into the consideration too (along with how public a figure the target is, and how strong the attack).
I think he believes this country should go back to more a wild west might makes right type of system. I think he truly feels this though, not that he is in anyone's pocket.
But that is my point really, big ass hardware is still quite cheap.
An inefficient, but easy to create and manipulate design, that is scalable affordabley, has benefits.
when the workload scales to 10,000 (April 2008) servers, the inefficiency is not problematic.
If the super efficient embedded style program was easy to maintain and scaled so well, it may only be 5,000 servers, or even 1,000,, but how well would it scale to 15,000 or 3,000 with new features being added (October 2009 Facebook has 30,000 servers).
Lightweight is not near as important as being able to throw big ass hardware at a problem.
And if that big ass hardware is lots of little pieces, because the system scales easily that way, it could be less expensive than less hardware overall, but having to be stuffed into larger pieces (not saying that would be an inevitability of efficient embedded style programming, simply a likely outcome).
For something on the scale of Facebook, 5 GB of wasted overhead for the chat system would not scare me.
When embedded systems get updated regularly to changing requirements, while comfortably scaling at the rate Facebook has it may be a reasonable comparison, but until then I don't think it is.
And Facebook has problems too, and it definitely feels wonky at times (10pm eastern usually), and updates don't go perfect (ever since the live feed was added, the news view is out of order for me sometimes). It still feels like an amazing accomplishment, and if they waste a few GB here, and a few GB there of overhead to keep it going easier, I would think it is a good thing (from their perspective).
In the end it amounts to hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars, which really is not much in the scheme of things.
I think it is worth noting, that though Mandrake started as essentially tweaked Red Hat with Mandrake logos and names (the installer of the first Mandrake was where it showed the most, but even in the using), it diverged from Red Hat, where Ubuntu really goes back to Debian for every release.
At least as an end user, Ubuntu feels more in sync with Debian than Mandrake did to Red Hat, even a couple quick releases in,
They lost be when I spent $180 (3 years bronze membership to Club Mandrake or whatever it was) with them, and they decided that x86-64 was only for people paying more.
After 3 months of waiting for the possible release to bronze members I canceled, and started using a different distro (Debian).
As someone paying significant money for what amounted to being better download access (private torrent), and forum access, it was annoying.
I think those types of things really hurt them in the end, Ubuntu (a distro with the same goals) is a platform for developing custom distros to a point (e.g. ubuntu studio), while Mandrake essentially disappeared in the US. It is really hard to try and walk the line between open and private while competing with really open, a list of defunct commercial distros shows that.
I'm not going to put much stock in the predictive abilities of a society that didn't see its own fall from those damn Aztecs, or Inca, or however wiped them out.
Current fish regulation appears to work quite well where it is being used (A recent study was done, and found that fisherman in areas that have had only a few years are now doing as well or better than before the regulation, and overall there are far more fish).
I don't play tons of FPSs, and the Free ones are generally enough, but I know I would not buy one without mods or custom maps. At least I certainly wouldn't buy it before it hit the sub $20 price. The mods and maps that will come are a whole lot of what one gets IMO.
Imagine the lost sales if Valve had blocked mods on half-life and we never received counter-strike, I know that is an extreme example of mods driving sales, but they do to a point anywhere.
When a computer can't suspend and resume with Linux, but it can from Windows, do to the hardware not doing as it claims to do, I suppose that is a Linux problem too?
I'm not saying Pulse is without problems, simply your premise that if Pulse does it only, it must be Pulse, not a driver or hardware.
I had to enter my user name, and then then the password screen came up, I would type in my password, and then click on one of about 40 images on the screen.
I had to click the one that was my image (this was rather than a sign in button).
Also, I think a security token can count as a second factor of authentication, and I agree on security questions, never help at all, and often I can't find options with an obvious answer (for myself).
Except the 4% HEL cost is going to dramatically cut into the savings from the solar power (perhaps this means the tech isn't ready).
If the state has the premise that they benefit (perhaps less capitol investing in infrastructure for example), it makes sense to subsidize to increase overall efficiency in the state (after-all the bank profit is likely far less local than saved money in state. I am not saying it is right, simply that there are situations where the HEL is too expensive to allow for community good to be done. If the solar is not a community good, then the subsidy is un-ethical.
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Sorry, but a single instance of google applications for my domain is not significantly degraded by IE 7.
Though if the occasional accidental Bing search makes it into my postings maybe I am traumatized enough that it is worth the effort.
I guess my point was if you design a system that scales effectively over many small systems, it is not so important that it be particularly efficient.
Especially if data integrity is not too important (Facebook for example can probably get away with losing .1% of status updates without upsetting anyone, and delaying the visibility of pictures to friends for a minute or so).
Efficiency is highly over-rated I'm sure Facebook is more concerned about being able to throw twice as much hardware at the problem in a year to handle twice the users. If they could get away with 1/4 or even 1/10th the hardware, but not scale it easily it would in the end grind the entire business to a halt.
There is a time for efficiency, but more important is scalability when your systems number in the thousands.
Whatever the language overhead is, is irrelevant, as long as it scales linearly.
If the site was a parody then it would IMO piss me off because it is simply rude and inappropriate, but I would love for it be legal (she is a public figure to her own dismay).
If it were a parody that was set-up to specifically show the absurdity of rhetoric she frequently used I would not even be offended by the site itself. Especially if she traded in loudness and happy publicity on top of flimsy rhetoric.
So your example is similar, but not the same.
Much more accurate would be www.didmrmooreeatyourchildrenafterglennbeckrapedthemwithhimwatching.com (God I hate him, and I'm quite liberal)
And then painted a picture of him as a Glenn Beck rape watcher, and baby eater using the same techniques he uses in his documentaries. This I think even the rabid liberals could see the point of (though the flat out crazy ones would deny it was a fair parody).
I guess my point is that the site went beyond parody into satire even. This makes it even more important that it is legal, and probably goes into the consideration too (along with how public a figure the target is, and how strong the attack).
I don't think this is true of Thomas.
I think he believes this country should go back to more a wild west might makes right type of system. I think he truly feels this though, not that he is in anyone's pocket.
But that is my point really, big ass hardware is still quite cheap.
An inefficient, but easy to create and manipulate design, that is scalable affordabley, has benefits.
when the workload scales to 10,000 (April 2008) servers, the inefficiency is not problematic.
If the super efficient embedded style program was easy to maintain and scaled so well, it may only be 5,000 servers, or even 1,000,, but how well would it scale to 15,000 or 3,000 with new features being added (October 2009 Facebook has 30,000 servers).
Lightweight is not near as important as being able to throw big ass hardware at a problem.
And if that big ass hardware is lots of little pieces, because the system scales easily that way, it could be less expensive than less hardware overall, but having to be stuffed into larger pieces (not saying that would be an inevitability of efficient embedded style programming, simply a likely outcome).
Well, in his defense he did publish what he did before receiving the money.
And the 100k transaction was probably the quickest way to actually get noticed, and therefore let them know about the problem.
Simultaneously, they keep the taxes down for those of us that pay the meter.
I keep an IE window open at work for the sake of an additional gmail account.
Sometimes I accidentally use its search box over Fire Fox's, and yuck, nobody will like it.
The results are so haphazard, it feels like their parody of google is what actually drives Bing.
I don't know how this late in the game a search engine can be so bad.
For something on the scale of Facebook, 5 GB of wasted overhead for the chat system would not scare me.
When embedded systems get updated regularly to changing requirements, while comfortably scaling at the rate Facebook has it may be a reasonable comparison, but until then I don't think it is.
And Facebook has problems too, and it definitely feels wonky at times (10pm eastern usually), and updates don't go perfect (ever since the live feed was added, the news view is out of order for me sometimes). It still feels like an amazing accomplishment, and if they waste a few GB here, and a few GB there of overhead to keep it going easier, I would think it is a good thing (from their perspective).
In the end it amounts to hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars, which really is not much in the scheme of things.
Well, it was mentioned on this site.
So it really isn't the the same as your example at all.
How could you possible refer to something with a drop-down terminal be called mouse only?
I think it is worth noting, that though Mandrake started as essentially tweaked Red Hat with Mandrake logos and names (the installer of the first Mandrake was where it showed the most, but even in the using), it diverged from Red Hat, where Ubuntu really goes back to Debian for every release.
At least as an end user, Ubuntu feels more in sync with Debian than Mandrake did to Red Hat, even a couple quick releases in,
They lost be when I spent $180 (3 years bronze membership to Club Mandrake or whatever it was) with them, and they decided that x86-64 was only for people paying more.
After 3 months of waiting for the possible release to bronze members I canceled, and started using a different distro (Debian).
As someone paying significant money for what amounted to being better download access (private torrent), and forum access, it was annoying.
I think those types of things really hurt them in the end, Ubuntu (a distro with the same goals) is a platform for developing custom distros to a point (e.g. ubuntu studio), while Mandrake essentially disappeared in the US. It is really hard to try and walk the line between open and private while competing with really open, a list of defunct commercial distros shows that.
Doesn't Lenovo let you restore with a wizard to chose the crapware you want though?
they let me do it on my R61i, it was a huge point in favor for Lenovo for me.
I'm not going to put much stock in the predictive abilities of a society that didn't see its own fall from those damn Aztecs, or Inca, or however wiped them out.
Love your sig.
They won't be any worse off than they will be a few years in the future anyway, and in the end everyone wins.
Fisherman can start doing better with more long term prospects, and we can still eat fish.
Current fish regulation appears to work quite well where it is being used (A recent study was done, and found that fisherman in areas that have had only a few years are now doing as well or better than before the regulation, and overall there are far more fish).
This is likely somewhat real though.
I don't play tons of FPSs, and the Free ones are generally enough, but I know I would not buy one without mods or custom maps. At least I certainly wouldn't buy it before it hit the sub $20 price. The mods and maps that will come are a whole lot of what one gets IMO.
Imagine the lost sales if Valve had blocked mods on half-life and we never received counter-strike, I know that is an extreme example of mods driving sales, but they do to a point anywhere.
Have you used JACK?
I really think it offers something not available otherwise.
When a computer can't suspend and resume with Linux, but it can from Windows, do to the hardware not doing as it claims to do, I suppose that is a Linux problem too?
I'm not saying Pulse is without problems, simply your premise that if Pulse does it only, it must be Pulse, not a driver or hardware.
not too shocking.
The DS is about 1/6 the volume of Wii (if not more in first generation).
4 years provides approximately time to get chips to 1/4 their original size, and not needing any of the larger ports on the Wii could help.
I actually think if I have a grid of 40 images, and need to click on the proper one it is part of credentials.
though the other poster mentioned it is only adding one character to your password.
I still think it is more secure than a security question, and easier to remember too.
I think the point is Boot CD, not Linux.
This would preclude any with an intelligent GUI (actually I am quite fond of Gnome at this point, but that wasn't what you meant).
If I am correct, using a Linux boot CD would make sense for Linux users too.
Countrywide had a nice system.
I had to enter my user name, and then then the password screen came up, I would type in my password, and then click on one of about 40 images on the screen.
I had to click the one that was my image (this was rather than a sign in button).
Also, I think a security token can count as a second factor of authentication, and I agree on security questions, never help at all, and often I can't find options with an obvious answer (for myself).
Except the 4% HEL cost is going to dramatically cut into the savings from the solar power (perhaps this means the tech isn't ready).
If the state has the premise that they benefit (perhaps less capitol investing in infrastructure for example), it makes sense to subsidize to increase overall efficiency in the state (after-all the bank profit is likely far less local than saved money in state. I am not saying it is right, simply that there are situations where the HEL is too expensive to allow for community good to be done. If the solar is not a community good, then the subsidy is un-ethical.