There should be on articles in the "Mysterious Future" the option for subscribers to mark it as a duplicate, avoiding this type of thing. Just a button / link somewhere in the blurb on the front page.
It could be interesting to cache the GZipped version of large text pages such as the slashdot comment page. That would save cache space and server overhead of caching.
Take your average page size, about 14KB, that's 14,000 Bytes... take 28,000,000 / 14,000 bytes, that's about 2000 ops a byte if you just consider pushing the file from the disk out of the network pipe. Not put in context switchign overhead, network overhead, os overhead, that's not too bad at all. I mean it's not like there's a direct 1 instruction call to move 1 byte from my disk/database to your network card.
You could read in your comment file everytime and then push out a new comment html file each time a comment is made. That woudl be static, but that would be a pain in the ass to write when databases alread exists, and it won't scale as well as a database either.
They're showing how to make DYNAMIC content scale. Who cares if you can read from disk faster than you can push it down a pipe, that's just a different version of NFS. What they're talking about is how to make somthign worthwile scale, such as say how ebay makes their dynamic auction information scale by caching the listings and keeping the actual auction pages updated realtime. Dynamic is much more powerful and interesing and thus is a good topic for examniation and discussion, i.e. "Stuff that matters."
College Admission officers will notice this and adjust accordingly; however, most college Admissions Officers also will give deference to a student with extracariccular(sp) activites over one with none. I speak from experience. I went to a top 15 university and played DIII sports. I have seen several students who would have stood no chance of going to that school without their athleticism get in because of it. These students also gave back quite a bit to the university, more than those they displaced would have. These students also did just fine in the classes they took (better than many worthless "Smart" kids I knew). One, a quarterback, entered with a 900 SAT and exited with a 3.7 GPA.
The point is that there are many factors besides grades that Admissions Officers look at, they don't usually get fooled by padding of grades. Besides that is what tests and prior knowledge are for. People do learn.
The Problem with one time pads is that you have to distribute them via a secure channel... that's great if you can get a stack of DVD's to someone and keep them secure... but if you have a secure enought method to send the DVD's, why not just send your data that way too...
the problem with otp's isn't that they're breakable, it's the key distribution problem, a subset of the chicken and the egg problem.
Man, that is THE Business model. Example 1: give crack away on the playground. kid comes back to you for some more. give him a cheap rate cause you "Like them". Next time sell it for full price cause they're so hard up.
Example 2: Open a bar, have great specials all the time. People start showing up in droves. Jack your prices up, but keep a token special so people still like the bar.
No one wants to advertise with a place that doesn't have traffic. Ads don't work when no one sees them. That's why superbowl ads are all big companies shelling out millions and late night tv is all personal injury lawyers.
sorry to reply to an AC, but antimatter isn't really !matter. it takes the form of anti-protons and the like, ie protons with a negative charge (really big protons) that when they combine with a proton they cancel out, kind of like you and your computer, you cancel out, leaving the rest of us free to actually breed and better humankind.
cause anyone is thinking of carpet bombing with weapons of mass distruction.
with somthing like that you don't really need to carpet bomb. I mean waht's the point. make sure you hit that city. well we better use 2 antimatter bombs on it.
Phillips seems to come up with a lot of great ideas. However, they are not great on the follow through. They never turn those ideas into cash cows, they only seem to squeak in a profit.
I can't really tell the damn difference between a well ripped MP3 (192) and a CD. Do I need to buy a damned DVD for AUDIO ONLY... you're a rediculous audiophile if you think you do.
Seriously, I would much rather buy all of the band's albumns on one dvd at cd quality than I would to buy one dvd per album. Not that thats going to happen.
Most people don't have the hardware to support the type of audio resolution that you are talking about. I have really good ears and very good studio quality equipment (I run a campus TV station and I spoil everyone) and like I said it's hard or near impossible for me to tell the difference, Especialy when I'm drunk and groovin out or working, I really don't care about those degrees of quality as long as it doesn't skip and it sounds as good as or better than the radio, and I miss the DJ.
I meant in the development time. I'm well aware that as you get further and further away from machine code, you loose the speed of telling the processor exactly how to move electrons around.
It's not that you can solve problems in OOP that you can't solve in Procedural (Fortran/C like), it's just that for many problems, OOP is much faster, allowing you to re-use much code to deal with things in a similar way when they can be and use the specifics only when needed.
Yes, but the efficiency is laughable. We just need to coat a few useless continents in solar cells and it will output as much as a few nukeular plantz. I suggest Australia.
how bout someone mod it down... didn't you read the ars interview that was linked?
Duh... they had like 1000+ computers...
and they had 2.5 years to do it (loose numbers rembered from the article)
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There should be on articles in the "Mysterious Future" the option for subscribers to mark it as a duplicate, avoiding this type of thing. Just a button / link somewhere in the blurb on the front page.
Just my 2 cents
If you think that this little engine will stink, wait till you smell the HPB
It could be interesting to cache the GZipped version of large text pages such as the slashdot comment page. That would save cache space and server overhead of caching.
Take your average page size, about 14KB, that's 14,000 Bytes... take 28,000,000 / 14,000 bytes, that's about 2000 ops a byte if you just consider pushing the file from the disk out of the network pipe. Not put in context switchign overhead, network overhead, os overhead, that's not too bad at all. I mean it's not like there's a direct 1 instruction call to move 1 byte from my disk/database to your network card.
You could read in your comment file everytime and then push out a new comment html file each time a comment is made. That woudl be static, but that would be a pain in the ass to write when databases alread exists, and it won't scale as well as a database either.
They're showing how to make DYNAMIC content scale. Who cares if you can read from disk faster than you can push it down a pipe, that's just a different version of NFS. What they're talking about is how to make somthign worthwile scale, such as say how ebay makes their dynamic auction information scale by caching the listings and keeping the actual auction pages updated realtime. Dynamic is much more powerful and interesing and thus is a good topic for examniation and discussion, i.e. "Stuff that matters."
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I may not have, but you can sure bet that google does:h tml
http://zeppelin.tzo.cc/coco/features/poke.
and the ones who are dumb, they're just stupid foreigners
College Admission officers will notice this and adjust accordingly; however, most college Admissions Officers also will give deference to a student with extracariccular(sp) activites over one with none. I speak from experience. I went to a top 15 university and played DIII sports. I have seen several students who would have stood no chance of going to that school without their athleticism get in because of it. These students also gave back quite a bit to the university, more than those they displaced would have. These students also did just fine in the classes they took (better than many worthless "Smart" kids I knew). One, a quarterback, entered with a 900 SAT and exited with a 3.7 GPA.
The point is that there are many factors besides grades that Admissions Officers look at, they don't usually get fooled by padding of grades. Besides that is what tests and prior knowledge are for. People do learn.
The Problem with one time pads is that you have to distribute them via a secure channel... that's great if you can get a stack of DVD's to someone and keep them secure... but if you have a secure enought method to send the DVD's, why not just send your data that way too...
the problem with otp's isn't that they're breakable, it's the key distribution problem, a subset of the chicken and the egg problem.
Man, that is THE Business model.
Example 1: give crack away on the playground. kid comes back to you for some more. give him a cheap rate cause you "Like them". Next time sell it for full price cause they're so hard up.
Example 2: Open a bar, have great specials all the time. People start showing up in droves. Jack your prices up, but keep a token special so people still like the bar.
No one wants to advertise with a place that doesn't have traffic. Ads don't work when no one sees them. That's why superbowl ads are all big companies shelling out millions and late night tv is all personal injury lawyers.
sorry to reply to an AC, but antimatter isn't really !matter. it takes the form of anti-protons and the like, ie protons with a negative charge (really big protons) that when they combine with a proton they cancel out, kind of like you and your computer, you cancel out, leaving the rest of us free to actually breed and better humankind.
drop it out the back, all those little particles explode and hit the ship, pushes the ship forward. newton's nth law and whatnot.
cause anyone is thinking of carpet bombing with weapons of mass distruction.
with somthing like that you don't really need to carpet bomb. I mean waht's the point. make sure you hit that city. well we better use 2 antimatter bombs on it.
Phillips seems to come up with a lot of great ideas. However, they are not great on the follow through. They never turn those ideas into cash cows, they only seem to squeak in a profit.
I can't really tell the damn difference between a well ripped MP3 (192) and a CD. Do I need to buy a damned DVD for AUDIO ONLY... you're a rediculous audiophile if you think you do.
Seriously, I would much rather buy all of the band's albumns on one dvd at cd quality than I would to buy one dvd per album. Not that thats going to happen.
Most people don't have the hardware to support the type of audio resolution that you are talking about. I have really good ears and very good studio quality equipment (I run a campus TV station and I spoil everyone) and like I said it's hard or near impossible for me to tell the difference, Especialy when I'm drunk and groovin out or working, I really don't care about those degrees of quality as long as it doesn't skip and it sounds as good as or better than the radio, and I miss the DJ.
I meant in the development time. I'm well aware that as you get further and further away from machine code, you loose the speed of telling the processor exactly how to move electrons around.
Yes, do functional if you are only coding basic Algorithms.
It's not that you can solve problems in OOP that you can't solve in Procedural (Fortran/C like), it's just that for many problems, OOP is much faster, allowing you to re-use much code to deal with things in a similar way when they can be and use the specifics only when needed.
Yes, but the efficiency is laughable. We just need to coat a few useless continents in solar cells and it will output as much as a few nukeular plantz. I suggest Australia.
The article is basically the meaty paragraph of the press release repeated about 8 times.
They're small, like a fingernail, they put out 1.5 volts at 10Microamps.
They work on heat, continuously.
That's it.
how bout someone mod it down... didn't you read the ars interview that was linked?
Duh... they had like 1000+ computers...
and they had 2.5 years to do it (loose numbers rembered from the article)
don't be an idijot
I agree. Who cares what the title is, if the movie sux make fun of it for that.
Of course that does leave people without somthing to bitch about until *after* they've seen the movie.
Sci-fi folks: ie someone who will pander to you as opposed to someone who will pander to the other 90% of the people out there.
Do you troll newsgroups and spout "Worst Episode Ever" alot?
http://www.uberu.com/rumors/starwars_episode_2_nam e.html