Alter table improvements. Changing schemas now with triggers etc is a nightmare. How are others doing this?
I can't figure out how to avoid "" around "every" "single" "identifier" which is annoying.
Continued increased speed and performance. We can do database backed sessions in a mysql damn fast, and it has been tricky to get postgresql to perform as well.
Reclaim space without forcing table locks. The fact is I'm always amazed folks can even lock their tables for an hour. How do you run 24x7 systems with that. The new VAC is a great step.
Improve the website. It is ugly and hard to navigate. Just copy php.net/mysql.com or some other reasonable devloper portal.
Except one is a standard and one is not, despite endless promises by sun. That counts beleive it or not with folks who see actual business advantages in using standards.
Perhaps you'd like to respond with some content and actual points? Perhaps without hiding behind the annonymous coward label? There is a reason AC's show up as score 0. Become the moderation system *works*.
Please remember I was responding to an early poster...
"so that users can just use IE, Mozilla or Netscape to play the game"
Remember, folks browse the web with a variety of browsers, and those browsers (despite what Sun claims about write once, run anywhere) are often incompatible or exhibit diverging behaviors vis a vis Java.
"what they are accstomed to" I was pointing out that the Java interface is not a win in terms of what folks are accustomed too. Windows look and feel is, or as you point out a custom look and feel. This is NOT a java selling point it seems.
On CPU speed. Depending on the game, but many MMOPG actually are not so graphically intensive as they are CPU intensive, they have a lot of items on the screen. Check out some current game benchmarks and CPU speed still makes a difference.
On the C# standardization front, fair enough, Microsoft has clearly shown they have no interest in interoperability. But there is some usefull technology in C# that should be useful even in an embrace and extend.
Try supporting a large java app, with folks who may have to install JRE's, open up security settings in their browser sometimes talking to an admin before being permitted to do so, who will find ENDLESS incompatabilities between various versions, and will discover that that java does NOT look "like what they are accustomed too" and you have yourself a gargantuan support, installation and education headache the like of which you probably have only had nightmares about.
Mix that with the fact that you WILL be taking a performance hit by going to java, and the difference in performance between Java and C# is only likely to INCREASE and the technical arguement becomes even simpler. Remember that Microsoft will be droping Java support as fast as they can, do you think future IE/Windows is going to have a JVM? No chance.
Mix with the face that C# at least so far appears to be an HONEST open standard, unlike Java's endless standardize promises, which have been repeatedly broken so that the only ones who continue to defend their promises of open standards are the insane java zealots, and you have a solid business (open standards are better, safer, and do not put you on the hook to a commercial company) and even moral decision that is clear cut.
The article clearly says that it does not pop or chirp, and that over 170 stations are already using it. I mean, if it was poping and chirping first of all everyone would know, and second of all the stations wouldn't use it.
I'd like to see an nforce based integrated system that scaled better in this form factor (ie AMD 1.2Ghz). Then you'd have 5.1 sound and decent graphics (or add a high end graphics card) and could pretty much have a state of the art machine in a nice tiny formfactor, perfect for the college student going to school and back.
Hopefully they wouldn't forget DVI out for those with LCD panels.
And the cross platform service/multipupose language market is growing, Windows GUI apps are no longer the be all and end all of programming.
Java also has grown to have a real lock on the enterprise level of this market, despite being a closed standard. So I think Microsoft by letting go-mono.com and its ilk port their stuff really looks to have a competitive advantage. My money is that in a few quarters if/when it looks like Microsoft's strategy is succeeding Sun will finally pop Java into the truly open souce catagory.
This is probably the question Microsoft would like answered as well, and I think it is a relatively tough call, but very interesting.
On one hand, learning a truly open language seems like a no brainer, I'd learn ANSI C/C++ because it is useful in a bunch of situations, as is Perl/PHP, both open source. On the other hand, Sun has an advantage by being first to market in this space with Java and the we've yet to see if Microsoft will pull some of the same total jerk moves Sun has over the course of time.
I actually think if they play fairly and honestly standerdize the full package, and the run improvments through the standardization process folks will be able to keep up surprisingly well.
Don't forget big companies like IBM and others will get behind true standards if they aren't held hostage to another company and if it makes sense from a business standpoint. I honestly think IBM with Java and failed standardization.
C# and the CLI are things whose time as come, they not revolutionary technology, just a company with enough muscle is going to force a change long overdue. Nowadays coding that close (C/C++) to the metal is not needed 90% of the time. I'd love to write some scalable client/servers apps in C#, and my understanding is you can actually compile down to native code in many cases.
Sun made an enourmous amount of noise about how it was Java was going to be an open standard. But after trying to prevert the standards process by becoming a "Publically Available Submitter", then withdrawing its application and attempting to get the ECMA to rubber stamp, then withdrawing from the ECMA as well, the simple fact is Java has lived up to none of its standardization promises. It claims a "covanent" with its users that means they all want Sun to milk them dry with licensing fees, but thats hard to beleive. Other standards like Ethernet seem to have done relatively well compatability wise, while using Java across multiple platforms is an exercise in frustration.
At what point do users and developers need to pull the rug out from under vendors who consistently lie, such as Sun? What surprisies me here is that people seem to require no moral or ethical dimension to a company, despite the actual business harm dealing with such a company poses. There have been a number of other cases where soon-to-be open sourced software went closed source, so the danger in these situations is real.
Microsoft, after a long history of BS, actually seems to be doing the right thing with C# standards wise, and I suppose the proof will be in the pudding if go-mono.com and the GNU Portable.NET are actually allowed to implement the spec freely. I for one am certainly hoping that the folks who play fairly in this space win out, and in that case Microsoft deserves the prize. Is it possible C# will be a standard everyone can use freely before Java becomes one?
The real breakthrough is the new discovery that the number of TMs and words capitalized in TheMiddle == the amount of money these folks will dupe from some silly investors.
This is actually a solid idea. A lot of the current possible replacements suffer a bit from being too sophisticated. In a small office enviroment having a distributed file system may not be needed. And the complexity makes it harder to write various clients that are rock solid stable. Expose mount points as shares, with some decent security and you've got 90% of the small office enviroment covered.
I'd like to just get a few objections in on the LSB while everyone runs around cackling with perverted glee.
I for one am sick of finding files from install packages all over the place. Everyone and their mother is sick of this. Apps should install into ONE directory only. They can symlink everything they want everywhere else (/etc and/log come to mind) but at least that lets us get an idea of where the mess all came from, and when we delete the directory we can also delete all dangling symlinks and truly get rid of stuff.
Linux is literally worse then windows on this count. PLEASE PLEASE contain the spawl. Someone needs to do an ls -l on/usr/bin and the lib directories.
"At which point you either use the drivers built into Windows and give up 2/3 of the printer's feature set"
- Frankly, I LOVE it when I can avoid installing Brothers tray icon (impossible to remove) for example or the HP Deskjet Dialogs that are non-standard, hand holding resource hogs. So I consider it 2/3 of the junk, most of the real features are exposed through the driver properties somewhere properly.
The simple fact is almost every printer out there works with these OS's, out of the box. That is important.
Plug-n-play means you get a dialog box, and half the time the driver is already loaded with windows, otherwise you can use the supplied diskette.
Users are comfortable and familiar with this system, and it work 90% of the time nowadays. I havn't had a problem recently on a whole range of systems and printers.
Now, getting printing going under Linux is NO WHERE near that easy. Vendor supplied disks don't have drivers, and linux simply has a smaller driver base than windows overall.
That your rather silly post got modded up indicates that most people reading slashdot don't actually have to support computer installations or havn't actually used linux to print. The fact is for things like printers which require large driver bases, Windows with its monopoly power has linux beat.
Yes... while I run my stuff on fewer machines that use a finer mfg processs (.13) and consume less power, you keep on running your 500 power hungry machines that consume enough power to light a small city, and require enough cooling to freeze a volcano.
I seen your "old time" racks and cabinates, and the amount of energy alone these things waste makes me shudder. I highly recommend folks walk through a datacenter and actually look at the 500 machines this guy is in love with, and realize what a fantastic waste it is.
The real cost is not the cost of the hardware, which is cheap as I have been saying. Look at your rack fees for *500* machines. Multiply that by 12 months/year * 5 year lifespan of the machines. What fits in a 4U 2 years ago fits in a 1U today.
Before talking about the careers others should be taking, I'd take a long hard long at the one you are following.
Those old computers can go to places that don't have to worry about the fact that something takes 4U instead of 1U, or 900W vs 100W. Things like your office, schools etc.
Listen, this is a pretty stupid conversation. EVERY single CIO you talk to at any level will tell you the cost of hardware relative to even the TCO is tiny. That has only gotten smaller recently. On a % basis to IT budgets it is smaller yet. I mean some of this is ancient news.
The original poster asked a question about throwing out his entire program and starting from scratch. I said hardware is cheap in context... So flame away, but you're looking the idiot.
If you have any reasonable kind of rotation for hardware (ie 25% per year) you would realize what everyone else has. Hardware has gotten enourmously cheaper, and the development time and money and investment you spend developing for that hardware now makes up a greater proportion of cost on a % basis then it has in the past.
So while you drip cola out your nose and try and clean your keyboard, remember: If you have 500 machines and can't support the cost of an upgrade as small as this guy is talking about, you are just another.com that overexpanded ==.bomb
Yes, I agree with this. I actually dislike some of the easy but (what I consider heavy) choices like Java for this reason. You can get by with so much less so easily for many projects, and support literally 5x as many users per server. For a small business this is the difference between profit and no profit. For a large business this can be the difference between.com and.bomb.
All too many times I see sites begging for money for hosting/bandwidth. Take a look at their HTML/CSS and see it is HUGLY bloated (no linked css, prevent all caching including image with default cache buster installs) and not gzipped, and I wonder, if what I can see is so bad, behind the scenes it is probably even worse. (ie dynamic page gens where none are needed). Which I had included this in my list and left of the hardware point, which I agree is the wrong message.
But damn, if you do code right, hardware is so cheap I can't beleive it. I'm convinced some 10 machine projects with bad coding can be supported on a single machine now.
A ton of people will tell you a ton of things, never having retrofited anything.
- Do not undervalue the investment you have learning your existing coding language. New challenges await you if you jump on a new language like java. Make the jump if you are excited about learning about the new language.
- If you use your existing coding language you will literally fly through the retrofit. Do it piece by piece. Make all those changes first, then test app, then make next set of changes then test. The simple fact is, most wasted time is spent on bugs not working on performance, and you've already knocked down a lot of bugs, don't let them pop back up by blowing everything up. There are books on this.
- Sometimes blowing everything up is worth it. Do it right this time. Realize it won't be as perfect as you might think it will be.
- Remember there are countless open source and shareware products that tried to create TNG with a total rewrite, got nowhere, and ended up improving their existing product. Remember the lesson, bite off what you can chew.
- Spend a week poking around researching possibilities. I do this all the time, bookmark things I think are important. Then for the next project you've got all the little things you might forget at your fingertips. Optimzations/Tools/Paradigms. Think you know it all? You'd be suprised at what is out there and what you missed. And what you spent a month in house re-inventing. This one's important.
- Use open source software. Nothing beats free. Nothing is more fun. Java's ugly standardization history makes me puke... the BS Sun has pulled with Java is staggering. That the Java Lobby swallows it and loves it even more so. This is irrelevant to your question, and not fair to the Lobby, but I like to give them a hard time.
- Colorary to Java. You need less abstract design then you think. Endless object hierarchies will weigh you and your app down... Their are books on this too.
- You need more documentation then you think. Ever found code someone ELSE wrote too EASY to follow. I don't think so. Especially if you are using perl and someone is enjoying the line noise capabalities perl allows. Perl has 20 ways to do EVERYTHING, you may not know the latest or twistiest. Document as you WRITE the code. Do not leave at the end of the day without catching up the docs. A week of documenting is the worst form of hell, avoided with a minutes worth of clarification each time you write a function/class.
- Hardware is cheap.
Anyways, have fun... and good luck. Be interested to read what others have to say.
Slashdoted already? Let's hope their quickbird can't take a touch more abuse.
Always a bad sign when the website flakes out. Usually means no one loadtested it, and some programmer took a bunch of shortcuts and has some incredibly inefficiant design (it looks like everything goes through one script with all the question marks).
Can you say yuch? Can you say no scalability? Can you say silly?
Slashdot Mirror
Seems the site is down. Netcraft reports it running.
The site www.javalobby.org is running Orion/1.5.2 on Windows 2000
Things on my wishlist/irklist are:
Alter table improvements. Changing schemas now with triggers etc is a nightmare. How are others doing this?
I can't figure out how to avoid "" around "every" "single" "identifier" which is annoying.
Continued increased speed and performance. We can do database backed sessions in a mysql damn fast, and it has been tricky to get postgresql to perform as well.
Reclaim space without forcing table locks. The fact is I'm always amazed folks can even lock their tables for an hour. How do you run 24x7 systems with that. The new VAC is a great step.
Improve the website. It is ugly and hard to navigate. Just copy php.net/mysql.com or some other reasonable devloper portal.
Except one is a standard and one is not, despite endless promises by sun. That counts beleive it or not with folks who see actual business advantages in using standards.
Perhaps you'd like to respond with some content and actual points? Perhaps without hiding behind the annonymous coward label? There is a reason AC's show up as score 0. Become the moderation system *works*.
Dan,
Please remember I was responding to an early poster...
"so that users can just use IE, Mozilla or Netscape to play the game"
Remember, folks browse the web with a variety of browsers, and those browsers (despite what Sun claims about write once, run anywhere) are often incompatible or exhibit diverging behaviors vis a vis Java.
"what they are accstomed to" I was pointing out that the Java interface is not a win in terms of what folks are accustomed too. Windows look and feel is, or as you point out a custom look and feel. This is NOT a java selling point it seems.
On CPU speed. Depending on the game, but many MMOPG actually are not so graphically intensive as they are CPU intensive, they have a lot of items on the screen. Check out some current game benchmarks and CPU speed still makes a difference.
On the C# standardization front, fair enough, Microsoft has clearly shown they have no interest in interoperability. But there is some usefull technology in C# that should be useful even in an embrace and extend.
Please DO NOT LISTEN to this guy.
Try supporting a large java app, with folks who may have to install JRE's, open up security settings in their browser sometimes talking to an admin before being permitted to do so, who will find ENDLESS incompatabilities between various versions, and will discover that that java does NOT look "like what they are accustomed too" and you have yourself a gargantuan support, installation and education headache the like of which you probably have only had nightmares about.
Mix that with the fact that you WILL be taking a performance hit by going to java, and the difference in performance between Java and C# is only likely to INCREASE and the technical arguement becomes even simpler. Remember that Microsoft will be droping Java support as fast as they can, do you think future IE/Windows is going to have a JVM? No chance.
Mix with the face that C# at least so far appears to be an HONEST open standard, unlike Java's endless standardize promises, which have been repeatedly broken so that the only ones who continue to defend their promises of open standards are the insane java zealots, and you have a solid business (open standards are better, safer, and do not put you on the hook to a commercial company) and even moral decision that is clear cut.
Did you read the article?
The article clearly says that it does not pop or chirp, and that over 170 stations are already using it. I mean, if it was poping and chirping first of all everyone would know, and second of all the stations wouldn't use it.
Reuters science folks are idiots, out and out.
For those who've forgotten they ran the scam story on the guys who got 100 to 1 compression on random data.
Consistently flawed, and never post a correction.
It crazy, these guys do news and you'd think they'd have a clue. Not a chance.
I'd like to see an nforce based integrated system that scaled better in this form factor (ie AMD 1.2Ghz). Then you'd have 5.1 sound and decent graphics (or add a high end graphics card) and could pretty much have a state of the art machine in a nice tiny formfactor, perfect for the college student going to school and back.
Hopefully they wouldn't forget DVI out for those with LCD panels.
No joke...
And the cross platform service/multipupose language market is growing, Windows GUI apps are no longer the be all and end all of programming.
Java also has grown to have a real lock on the enterprise level of this market, despite being a closed standard. So I think Microsoft by letting go-mono.com and its ilk port their stuff really looks to have a competitive advantage. My money is that in a few quarters if/when it looks like Microsoft's strategy is succeeding Sun will finally pop Java into the truly open souce catagory.
This is probably the question Microsoft would like answered as well, and I think it is a relatively tough call, but very interesting.
On one hand, learning a truly open language seems like a no brainer, I'd learn ANSI C/C++ because it is useful in a bunch of situations, as is Perl/PHP, both open source. On the other hand, Sun has an advantage by being first to market in this space with Java and the we've yet to see if Microsoft will pull some of the same total jerk moves Sun has over the course of time.
I actually think if they play fairly and honestly standerdize the full package, and the run improvments through the standardization process folks will be able to keep up surprisingly well.
Don't forget big companies like IBM and others will get behind true standards if they aren't held hostage to another company and if it makes sense from a business standpoint. I honestly think IBM with Java and failed standardization.
C# and the CLI are things whose time as come, they not revolutionary technology, just a company with enough muscle is going to force a change long overdue. Nowadays coding that close (C/C++) to the metal is not needed 90% of the time. I'd love to write some scalable client/servers apps in C#, and my understanding is you can actually compile down to native code in many cases.
Sun made an enourmous amount of noise about how it was Java was going to be an open standard. But after trying to prevert the standards process by becoming a "Publically Available Submitter", then withdrawing its application and attempting to get the ECMA to rubber stamp, then withdrawing from the ECMA as well, the simple fact is Java has lived up to none of its standardization promises. It claims a "covanent" with its users that means they all want Sun to milk them dry with licensing fees, but thats hard to beleive. Other standards like Ethernet seem to have done relatively well compatability wise, while using Java across multiple platforms is an exercise in frustration.
.NET are actually allowed to implement the spec freely. I for one am certainly hoping that the folks who play fairly in this space win out, and in that case Microsoft deserves the prize. Is it possible C# will be a standard everyone can use freely before Java becomes one?
At what point do users and developers need to pull the rug out from under vendors who consistently lie, such as Sun? What surprisies me here is that people seem to require no moral or ethical dimension to a company, despite the actual business harm dealing with such a company poses. There have been a number of other cases where soon-to-be open sourced software went closed source, so the danger in these situations is real.
Microsoft, after a long history of BS, actually seems to be doing the right thing with C# standards wise, and I suppose the proof will be in the pudding if go-mono.com and the GNU Portable
The real breakthrough is the new discovery that the number of TMs and words capitalized in TheMiddle == the amount of money these folks will dupe from some silly investors.
This is actually a solid idea. A lot of the current possible replacements suffer a bit from being too sophisticated. In a small office enviroment having a distributed file system may not be needed. And the complexity makes it harder to write various clients that are rock solid stable. Expose mount points as shares, with some decent security and you've got 90% of the small office enviroment covered.
:)
KISS
I'd like to just get a few objections in on the LSB while everyone runs around cackling with perverted glee.
/log come to mind) but at least that lets us get an idea of where the mess all came from, and when we delete the directory we can also delete all dangling symlinks and truly get rid of stuff.
/usr/bin and the lib directories.
I for one am sick of finding files from install packages all over the place. Everyone and their mother is sick of this. Apps should install into ONE directory only. They can symlink everything they want everywhere else (/etc and
Linux is literally worse then windows on this count. PLEASE PLEASE contain the spawl. Someone needs to do an ls -l on
"At which point you either use the drivers built into Windows and give up 2/3 of the printer's feature set"
- Frankly, I LOVE it when I can avoid installing Brothers tray icon (impossible to remove) for example or the HP Deskjet Dialogs that are non-standard, hand holding resource hogs. So I consider it 2/3 of the junk, most of the real features are exposed through the driver properties somewhere properly.
You obviously have not tried Windows 2000/XP etc.
The simple fact is almost every printer out there works with these OS's, out of the box. That is important.
Plug-n-play means you get a dialog box, and half the time the driver is already loaded with windows, otherwise you can use the supplied diskette.
Users are comfortable and familiar with this system, and it work 90% of the time nowadays. I havn't had a problem recently on a whole range of systems and printers.
Now, getting printing going under Linux is NO WHERE near that easy. Vendor supplied disks don't have drivers, and linux simply has a smaller driver base than windows overall.
That your rather silly post got modded up indicates that most people reading slashdot don't actually have to support computer installations or havn't actually used linux to print. The fact is for things like printers which require large driver bases, Windows with its monopoly power has linux beat.
So please, get a clue before posting.
Yes... while I run my stuff on fewer machines that use a finer mfg processs (.13) and consume less power, you keep on running your 500 power hungry machines that consume enough power to light a small city, and require enough cooling to freeze a volcano.
I seen your "old time" racks and cabinates, and the amount of energy alone these things waste makes me shudder. I highly recommend folks walk through a datacenter and actually look at the 500 machines this guy is in love with, and realize what a fantastic waste it is.
The real cost is not the cost of the hardware, which is cheap as I have been saying. Look at your rack fees for *500* machines. Multiply that by 12 months/year * 5 year lifespan of the machines. What fits in a 4U 2 years ago fits in a 1U today.
Before talking about the careers others should be taking, I'd take a long hard long at the one you are following.
Those old computers can go to places that don't have to worry about the fact that something takes 4U instead of 1U, or 900W vs 100W. Things like your office, schools etc.
Listen, this is a pretty stupid conversation. EVERY single CIO you talk to at any level will tell you the cost of hardware relative to even the TCO is tiny. That has only gotten smaller recently. On a % basis to IT budgets it is smaller yet. I mean some of this is ancient news.
The original poster asked a question about throwing out his entire program and starting from scratch. I said hardware is cheap in context... So flame away, but you're looking the idiot.
Idiot.
.com that overexpanded == .bomb
If you have any reasonable kind of rotation for hardware (ie 25% per year) you would realize what everyone else has. Hardware has gotten enourmously cheaper, and the development time and money and investment you spend developing for that hardware now makes up a greater proportion of cost on a % basis then it has in the past.
So while you drip cola out your nose and try and clean your keyboard, remember: If you have 500 machines and can't support the cost of an upgrade as small as this guy is talking about, you are just another
Yes, I agree with this. I actually dislike some of the easy but (what I consider heavy) choices like Java for this reason. You can get by with so much less so easily for many projects, and support literally 5x as many users per server. For a small business this is the difference between profit and no profit. For a large business this can be the difference between .com and .bomb.
All too many times I see sites begging for money for hosting/bandwidth. Take a look at their HTML/CSS and see it is HUGLY bloated (no linked css, prevent all caching including image with default cache buster installs) and not gzipped, and I wonder, if what I can see is so bad, behind the scenes it is probably even worse. (ie dynamic page gens where none are needed). Which I had included this in my list and left of the hardware point, which I agree is the wrong message.
But damn, if you do code right, hardware is so cheap I can't beleive it. I'm convinced some 10 machine projects with bad coding can be supported on a single machine now.
A ton of people will tell you a ton of things, never having retrofited anything.
- Do not undervalue the investment you have learning your existing coding language. New challenges await you if you jump on a new language like java. Make the jump if you are excited about learning about the new language.
- If you use your existing coding language you will literally fly through the retrofit. Do it piece by piece. Make all those changes first, then test app, then make next set of changes then test. The simple fact is, most wasted time is spent on bugs not working on performance, and you've already knocked down a lot of bugs, don't let them pop back up by blowing everything up. There are books on this.
- Sometimes blowing everything up is worth it. Do it right this time. Realize it won't be as perfect as you might think it will be.
- Remember there are countless open source and shareware products that tried to create TNG with a total rewrite, got nowhere, and ended up improving their existing product. Remember the lesson, bite off what you can chew.
- Spend a week poking around researching possibilities. I do this all the time, bookmark things I think are important. Then for the next project you've got all the little things you might forget at your fingertips. Optimzations/Tools/Paradigms. Think you know it all? You'd be suprised at what is out there and what you missed. And what you spent a month in house re-inventing. This one's important.
- Use open source software. Nothing beats free. Nothing is more fun. Java's ugly standardization history makes me puke... the BS Sun has pulled with Java is staggering. That the Java Lobby swallows it and loves it even more so. This is irrelevant to your question, and not fair to the Lobby, but I like to give them a hard time.
- Colorary to Java. You need less abstract design then you think. Endless object hierarchies will weigh you and your app down... Their are books on this too.
- You need more documentation then you think. Ever found code someone ELSE wrote too EASY to follow. I don't think so. Especially if you are using perl and someone is enjoying the line noise capabalities perl allows. Perl has 20 ways to do EVERYTHING, you may not know the latest or twistiest. Document as you WRITE the code. Do not leave at the end of the day without catching up the docs. A week of documenting is the worst form of hell, avoided with a minutes worth of clarification each time you write a function/class.
- Hardware is cheap.
Anyways, have fun... and good luck. Be interested to read what others have to say.
Quick, get the videos before the site goes down. It's probably too late already.
Much as dislike quicktime for various reasons, apple.com/trailers is no small miracle.
However they do it I am impressed, both at the consistent high quality and the bandwidth they must pump out. It has got to be huge.
Bravo. Hope they charge the studios a bit for showing the trailers, if it's on apple.com and I like it I got to it.
Slashdoted already? Let's hope their quickbird can't take a touch more abuse.
Always a bad sign when the website flakes out. Usually means no one loadtested it, and some programmer took a bunch of shortcuts and has some incredibly inefficiant design (it looks like everything goes through one script with all the question marks).
Can you say yuch? Can you say no scalability? Can you say silly?
Probably trying to be cool...