PostgreSQL is also one of the oldest and most stable database servers around. Having been started in 1986 (1977 if you count Ingres development), it has had many years more of testing and development than probably any other open source project.
Developing for pgsql is also a lot of fun. The documentation makes it very easy to use, as well as develop for. I'd take PostgreSQL over Oracle, DB2, and especially MySQL.
If you can't bring yourself to read the article, at least try to comprehend the article summary before making blanket accusations. That last sentence you tacked on the end of your post references 'functional thinking'. I suggest you try it sometime.
There is an even better way to do it. It's called Chemical Vapor Deposition. Basically, you pump gaseous material(precursor) into a furnace. The molecules break down, depositing the desired material onto a base surface(substrate) and the leftover gases are pumped out. There are a variety of uses for CVD in semiconductor manufacturing(metal,amorphous silicon,silicon dioxide deposition) as well as astronautical uses(complex shape production where casting and forging isn't possible).
CVD is incredibly useful for creating free-standing thin films. You take your substrate, CVD your desired chemicals onto it, and then chemically remove the substrate.
Personally, if it were me, I would investigate the posibility of using a CVD thin-film of polished amorphous silicon on a organic polymer substrate. It has a lot of advantages in strength and rigidity as well as the silicon CVD process being a thoroughly tested process. It would also present an anvantageous surface area/weight metric.
There was a time when computer programming was so specialized that those who were skilled in the art were very highly paid. As with all things, technology brings commoditization. When you view software as a means to an end, FOSS makes the most sense. Instead of working with highly integrated but ultimately unsuitable software, companies can have FOSS customized for their purposes.
Companies are learning, albeit very slowly, that they do not need their balls in a clamp held by the software companies. The future is in customized solutions and support contracts, not vendor lock-in and back-to-the-wall EULA's. I do not agree with you on one point though. Regardless of what you charge, there will always be someone who can do it cheaper. That's just simple economics.
The internet tilts the playing field towards those who live in third world countries. They can provide equivalent services for half the price that you can and still make more than all of their neighbors.
There's this saying: You can have it cheaper, better, or faster. Pick any two.
If you can't compete on price alone, you'll have to make up for it somewhere. That's the nature of competition in FOSSland.
Vancouver, WA(8 miles north of portland) is nearly always regarded as a distant suburb of Portland. So, with Portland and Vancouver combined, you have: Intel Xerox Tektronix Sharp WaferTech(s ubsidiary of TSMC) Shin-Etsu Hondotai-America(subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical, largest silicon wafer manufacturer in the world) Kyocera Fujitsu LSI Logic Linear I'm sure I'm missing many others.
There is a reason we have the name 'Silicon Forest'.
I'm sorry, but you do not truly understand how modern x86 chips work. You don't like them because they are 'CISC-mired'? The funny thing is, underneath they really aren't CISC. They are RISC to the bone. Each and every x86 instruction you feed a modern processor is deconstructed into many smaller RISC-like ops and they are processed independantly. Small register set you say? You don't get to address them directly, but both the Athlon and the P4 have had many more registers than the x86 ISA would lead one to believe for a really long time. The x86-64 is nice because now you get many more registers of larger size, directly addressable.
In a purely dollar/performance comparison, nothing beats x86.
That's like saying that everyone who uses contraception will die out, because their existence is self-perpetuating.
No, that's not the same. Contraception is a different thing entirely. It prevents the spread of diseases and makes unwanted pregnancy almost zero for those who actually use contraceptive devices. It allows those who cannot maintain manogomy to engage in recreational sexual activity with few drawbacks. There are VD's you can get even while using a condom but to say that all those who use condoms will die out is absurd. It just means that those who don't 'screw up' can have children when they want them.
There will always be schoolyard bullies with inadequacy issues who will always be robbing small children of lunch money. There don't always need to be gangs. I've known quite a few gang members and I really know what they get out of it. A lot of the needs they have that gangs provide can be removed. It is a social problem. It is difficult to get people to care about things they don't normally see. Where I live, gang activity is frequently reported in the news. Yet still, you have to live in a 'bad neighborhood' to actually see any of it in person. That's why no one cares. Unemployment, poverty, homelessness, child abuse, split families, child neglect, bad parenting skills, fear, money, there are too many factors to list. Be sure, however, they are not insurmountable problems. The violence can be stopped, but law enforcement isn't the solution, it's the band-aid to the symptoms.
One of these days, all the gangs will just shoot each other. Their existence is self-perpetuating. I don't blame members because I fully understand what they get out of it. I only wish they could fill their psychological needs with more constructive activities.
Where do people get this shit? It won't make your heart stop. Maybe under a long enough duration, but a brief exposure won't kill you. Look here to see what DB's are all about. The most frequent side effect of high-amplitude sound exposure is a perf'd drum or permanent hearing loss.
At least todays crappy printers don't weigh 44 freakin pounds.. Speak for yourself. The thermal printer next to me weighs roughly 60 pounds and has a MTBF of 2 years at 50% duty cycle. It's probably 10 years old and has had one broken part since my employer bought it.
Since you bring it up, I know a few people with 100 year stream flow studies occupying up to 20 GB spread across a handfull of spreadsheets. When they want to run the data past the functions they modelled, this would make a huge difference.
There was just recently a nice article in Forbes about this very subject. Apparently, the local phone companies are scared shitless because the internet is capable of destroying their stranglehold on the telecommunications market.
The biggest problem with taxing VoIP is that you only need to pay for VoIP when calling someone who still has POTS. VoIP-to-VoIP calls are free. I strongly believe the feds should ban ALL taxes on internet based telecommunications.
The only good benefit we get from the phone taxes is the emergency services connection. That WILL have to be figured out though.
Number one would obviously have to be 'The Hustler', with 'Poolhall Junkies' coming in at a close second. Then again, if I liked Tom Cruise more, 'The Color of Money' would probably have done better on my list of pool movies. Out of the three of them, the only one people who don't play pool find interesting is probably 'Poolhall Junkies'. That's mostly because of the cast and the comedy.
If you don't like or don't agree with him, then just discredit him or the facts he puts in his movies. Calling him a mental case because you don't like what he has to say is just closed minded.
It's like the media suddenly calling judges 'activist' because they don't agree with what the judges have to say. Judges are there to interpret the law, but when a conservative doesn't like something a judge says, they just label the judge 'liberal' or 'activist' instead of attacking the legal or logical basis for the judge's decision.
When you want to disagree with someone, you don't call them names. You engage them in a debate of critical reasoning.
This story is merely a small example of the freedoms we are losing. During the last 55 years, americans have experienced the biggest disillusionment of all time. An extremely young country founded on the ideals of rebels who ran from the imperialist british to create a union of more-free people in less than 200 years has become more socialist and repressive than the british ever were.
The entire political structure of our government encourages only the megalomania-induced power-hungry to become president. There are no incentives to effect true progress. The president has four short years to make a difference. During the last two, the president will spend all of his time marketing himself to the populace for reelection while engaging in back office corporate pandering to keep the ever turning economy gears spinning. If reelection isn't going to happen, then there is no point in doing anything for the future. Look at our budget deficit, SSI shortfall and trade deficit. Each successive presidency has used their childrens money as a high interest credit card in the form of bonds and foreign debts.
Adam Smith, Jefferson, all the greatest financial and political minds of the time knew that the natural tendency of any government is to grow. Growth in many ways. The founding fathers of our country were just men. Everyone now looks at their intentions with respect to the constitution and what they would do(in regards to issues like equal protection for sexual preference and marriage).
Well, wake up people. If our founding fathers were alive today, they would rebel against us. This country hasn't been what they envisioned for a long fucking time. The legal framework was left for us to change our government at will, in accordance with the wishes of the population. The population is so disenchanted with the entire process that they have quit voting entirely.
The problem is self-sustaining though. Simply abstaining from the political process merely lets those in power continue to further their abuses of position. The only way to get people to care anymore is to piss them off.
Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, whatever. What the population doesn't realize is that the two parties down deep aren't that different. They are two parties, who on the surface have their own agendas, but in reality are very similar.
Put me in a room with the president. Tell me I can come out with impunity and I would walk out alone. That wouldn't really change anything. He would just be replaced by another look-alike self-interest only president. The entire system is broken. Does america need a revolution? Again? Yes. Who would do it? No one. They are all too apathetic. Most people I talk to don't seriously think that their vote counts, or that by voting anything will really change. In fact, most people I know that vote choose the lesser of all evils on the ballot.
Before you judge me, at least learn a few things about me.
I am an American. I hate our government. I love our country and what it stands for. I'm patriotic.
The hardware support is constantly changing between 2.6.x releases, but if you have the ability to test it, I highly recommend it. The IO scheduling is vastly improved. If you find a 2.6 kernel that supports your hardware and tests without mishap, stick with it and don't upgrade unless you have to.
If you would prefer to stick with a 2.4.x kernel, you still have other options. Besides checking for updated SCSI drivers, you should check out the man page for 'blockdev'. Tuning your drive read-ahead can improve read throughput in a huge way. Try bumping your read-ahead up about 25%. If throughput goes up and latency is still acceptable, try going further. You will find a sweet spot.
For networking performance, if one application(iperf) can push 940Mb but during production it only moves 1/10th as fast, I'd look at packet size distribution. A bandwidth testing tool will often check bandwidth by pushing the largest packets possible. If your application is generating a flurry of small packets, then you may be packet-rate bound. One option around this might be to recompile your kernel and look for options relating to performance. What kind of network card are they?
If it is an option for your situation, you should at least investigate a migration to kernel 2.6.x. The IO system is MUCH faster, as is thread allocation. You should see a fairly significant increase in RAID performance, and least for striping. You should also make sure DMA/32 bit mode is enabled on the drives, not all drivers will set this automatically. I'm sure you've checked these, just a mention though.
As far as the network, it sounds like the driver is setting it to 100Mb mode instead of 1000Mb mode. You might try to find updated drivers for the cards. You might also check the documentation to see if the eth drivers support debug-info dumping. That might be a lot to read through, but you should find your answer in there somewhere.
If you post more hardware info, I'll post more specific answers.
But probably not for the reasons you would think. Apple is probably under contract to release the music under DRM only. The sad thing is they would probably make more money if they just sold MP3's. People would probably steal less too. I know the RIAA has an antiquated business model and they probably deserve to go into the toilet, but I do feel sorry for them.
If they would just stop trying to oppress the music listeners and just satisfy them, maybe they would do a little better.
Corporations should no by now, just telling someone not to do something makes them want to do it more. If they sold MP3's, more people would take their complaints more seriously.
Time and time again, the US federal government has proved wasteful and inefficient. Do you really want the government implementing something that private industry can implement for half the cost? Besides, I'd rather see my ISP bill go up a little than watch the seemingly endless budget fattening of the government. In the end, regardless of who implements it, you will pay for it.
That's actually a good, logical solution to the problem. In Canada, a lot of Marijuana distribution convictions are solved with big fines. That is a logical solution. Many people sell drugs to make a quick buck. Big fines provide a good disincentive. Much more so than jail. Obviously, time in prison isn't a very good deterrent to committing crime. Just look at the US!
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PostgreSQL is also one of the oldest and most stable database servers around. Having been started in 1986 (1977 if you count Ingres development), it has had many years more of testing and development than probably any other open source project.
Developing for pgsql is also a lot of fun. The documentation makes it very easy to use, as well as develop for. I'd take PostgreSQL over Oracle, DB2, and especially MySQL.
Low UID?
mwahahahaha. Did I win?
This is an obvious troll. If it isn't a troll...
If you can't bring yourself to read the article, at least try to comprehend the article summary before making blanket accusations. That last sentence you tacked on the end of your post references 'functional thinking'. I suggest you try it sometime.
Nope. Just carbon. Carbon is the enemy!
There is an even better way to do it. It's called Chemical Vapor Deposition. Basically, you pump gaseous material(precursor) into a furnace. The molecules break down, depositing the desired material onto a base surface(substrate) and the leftover gases are pumped out. There are a variety of uses for CVD in semiconductor manufacturing(metal,amorphous silicon,silicon dioxide deposition) as well as astronautical uses(complex shape production where casting and forging isn't possible).
CVD is incredibly useful for creating free-standing thin films. You take your substrate, CVD your desired chemicals onto it, and then chemically remove the substrate.
A little about CVD
A PDF about rocket combustion chambers and nozzles of Iridium/Rhenium by NASA/assorted US military
Personally, if it were me, I would investigate the posibility of using a CVD thin-film of polished amorphous silicon on a organic polymer substrate. It has a lot of advantages in strength and rigidity as well as the silicon CVD process being a thoroughly tested process. It would also present an anvantageous surface area/weight metric.
There was a time when computer programming was so specialized that those who were skilled in the art were very highly paid. As with all things, technology brings commoditization. When you view software as a means to an end, FOSS makes the most sense. Instead of working with highly integrated but ultimately unsuitable software, companies can have FOSS customized for their purposes.
Companies are learning, albeit very slowly, that they do not need their balls in a clamp held by the software companies. The future is in customized solutions and support contracts, not vendor lock-in and back-to-the-wall EULA's. I do not agree with you on one point though. Regardless of what you charge, there will always be someone who can do it cheaper. That's just simple economics.
The internet tilts the playing field towards those who live in third world countries. They can provide equivalent services for half the price that you can and still make more than all of their neighbors.
There's this saying: You can have it cheaper, better, or faster. Pick any two.
If you can't compete on price alone, you'll have to make up for it somewhere. That's the nature of competition in FOSSland.
I usually use support@microsoft.com
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s ubsidiary of TSMC)
Vancouver, WA(8 miles north of portland) is nearly always regarded as a distant suburb of Portland. So, with Portland and Vancouver combined, you have:
Intel
Xerox
Tektronix
Sharp
WaferTech(
Shin-Etsu Hondotai-America(subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical, largest silicon wafer manufacturer in the world)
Kyocera
Fujitsu
LSI Logic
Linear
I'm sure I'm missing many others.
There is a reason we have the name 'Silicon Forest'.
I'm sorry, but you do not truly understand how modern x86 chips work. You don't like them because they are 'CISC-mired'? The funny thing is, underneath they really aren't CISC. They are RISC to the bone. Each and every x86 instruction you feed a modern processor is deconstructed into many smaller RISC-like ops and they are processed independantly. Small register set you say? You don't get to address them directly, but both the Athlon and the P4 have had many more registers than the x86 ISA would lead one to believe for a really long time. The x86-64 is nice because now you get many more registers of larger size, directly addressable.
In a purely dollar/performance comparison, nothing beats x86.
That's like saying that everyone who uses contraception will die out, because their existence is self-perpetuating.
No, that's not the same. Contraception is a different thing entirely. It prevents the spread of diseases and makes unwanted pregnancy almost zero for those who actually use contraceptive devices. It allows those who cannot maintain manogomy to engage in recreational sexual activity with few drawbacks. There are VD's you can get even while using a condom but to say that all those who use condoms will die out is absurd. It just means that those who don't 'screw up' can have children when they want them.
There will always be schoolyard bullies with inadequacy issues who will always be robbing small children of lunch money. There don't always need to be gangs. I've known quite a few gang members and I really know what they get out of it. A lot of the needs they have that gangs provide can be removed. It is a social problem. It is difficult to get people to care about things they don't normally see. Where I live, gang activity is frequently reported in the news. Yet still, you have to live in a 'bad neighborhood' to actually see any of it in person. That's why no one cares. Unemployment, poverty, homelessness, child abuse, split families, child neglect, bad parenting skills, fear, money, there are too many factors to list. Be sure, however, they are not insurmountable problems. The violence can be stopped, but law enforcement isn't the solution, it's the band-aid to the symptoms.
One of these days, all the gangs will just shoot each other. Their existence is self-perpetuating. I don't blame members because I fully understand what they get out of it. I only wish they could fill their psychological needs with more constructive activities.
Where do people get this shit? It won't make your heart stop. Maybe under a long enough duration, but a brief exposure won't kill you. Look here to see what DB's are all about. The most frequent side effect of high-amplitude sound exposure is a perf'd drum or permanent hearing loss.
At least todays crappy printers don't weigh 44 freakin pounds..
Speak for yourself. The thermal printer next to me weighs roughly 60 pounds and has a MTBF of 2 years at 50% duty cycle. It's probably 10 years old and has had one broken part since my employer bought it.
Since you bring it up, I know a few people with 100 year stream flow studies occupying up to 20 GB spread across a handfull of spreadsheets. When they want to run the data past the functions they modelled, this would make a huge difference.
Don't knock the spreadsheets.
There was just recently a nice article in Forbes about this very subject. Apparently, the local phone companies are scared shitless because the internet is capable of destroying their stranglehold on the telecommunications market.
The biggest problem with taxing VoIP is that you only need to pay for VoIP when calling someone who still has POTS. VoIP-to-VoIP calls are free.
I strongly believe the feds should ban ALL taxes on internet based telecommunications.
The only good benefit we get from the phone taxes is the emergency services connection. That WILL have to be figured out though.
The second best pool movie ever!
Number one would obviously have to be 'The Hustler', with 'Poolhall Junkies' coming in at a close second. Then again, if I liked Tom Cruise more, 'The Color of Money' would probably have done better on my list of pool movies. Out of the three of them, the only one people who don't play pool find interesting is probably 'Poolhall Junkies'. That's mostly because of the cast and the comedy.
Why do you call him a mental case?
If you don't like or don't agree with him, then just discredit him or the facts he puts in his movies. Calling him a mental case because you don't like what he has to say is just closed minded.
It's like the media suddenly calling judges 'activist' because they don't agree with what the judges have to say. Judges are there to interpret the law, but when a conservative doesn't like something a judge says, they just label the judge 'liberal' or 'activist' instead of attacking the legal or logical basis for the judge's decision.
When you want to disagree with someone, you don't call them names. You engage them in a debate of critical reasoning.
Calling them names just makes you look childish.
Fuck you moderators. This is not off topic.
This story is merely a small example of the freedoms we are losing. During the last 55 years, americans have experienced the biggest disillusionment of all time. An extremely young country founded on the ideals of rebels who ran from the imperialist british to create a union of more-free people in less than 200 years has become more socialist and repressive than the british ever were.
The entire political structure of our government encourages only the megalomania-induced power-hungry to become president. There are no incentives to effect true progress. The president has four short years to make a difference. During the last two, the president will spend all of his time marketing himself to the populace for reelection while engaging in back office corporate pandering to keep the ever turning economy gears spinning. If reelection isn't going to happen, then there is no point in doing anything for the future. Look at our budget deficit, SSI shortfall and trade deficit. Each successive presidency has used their childrens money as a high interest credit card in the form of bonds and foreign debts.
Adam Smith, Jefferson, all the greatest financial and political minds of the time knew that the natural tendency of any government is to grow. Growth in many ways. The founding fathers of our country were just men. Everyone now looks at their intentions with respect to the constitution and what they would do(in regards to issues like equal protection for sexual preference and marriage).
Well, wake up people. If our founding fathers were alive today, they would rebel against us. This country hasn't been what they envisioned for a long fucking time. The legal framework was left for us to change our government at will, in accordance with the wishes of the population. The population is so disenchanted with the entire process that they have quit voting entirely.
The problem is self-sustaining though. Simply abstaining from the political process merely lets those in power continue to further their abuses of position. The only way to get people to care anymore is to piss them off.
Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, whatever. What the population doesn't realize is that the two parties down deep aren't that different. They are two parties, who on the surface have their own agendas, but in reality are very similar.
Put me in a room with the president. Tell me I can come out with impunity and I would walk out alone. That wouldn't really change anything. He would just be replaced by another look-alike self-interest only president. The entire system is broken. Does america need a revolution? Again? Yes. Who would do it? No one. They are all too apathetic. Most people I talk to don't seriously think that their vote counts, or that by voting anything will really change. In fact, most people I know that vote choose the lesser of all evils on the ballot.
Before you judge me, at least learn a few things about me.
I am an American.
I hate our government.
I love our country and what it stands for.
I'm patriotic.
And no, these aren't contradictory.
The hardware support is constantly changing between 2.6.x releases, but if you have the ability to test it, I highly recommend it. The IO scheduling is vastly improved. If you find a 2.6 kernel that supports your hardware and tests without mishap, stick with it and don't upgrade unless you have to.
If you would prefer to stick with a 2.4.x kernel, you still have other options. Besides checking for updated SCSI drivers, you should check out the man page for 'blockdev'. Tuning your drive read-ahead can improve read throughput in a huge way. Try bumping your read-ahead up about 25%. If throughput goes up and latency is still acceptable, try going further. You will find a sweet spot.
For networking performance, if one application(iperf) can push 940Mb but during production it only moves 1/10th as fast, I'd look at packet size distribution. A bandwidth testing tool will often check bandwidth by pushing the largest packets possible. If your application is generating a flurry of small packets, then you may be packet-rate bound. One option around this might be to recompile your kernel and look for options relating to performance. What kind of network card are they?
If it is an option for your situation, you should at least investigate a migration to kernel 2.6.x. The IO system is MUCH faster, as is thread allocation. You should see a fairly significant increase in RAID performance, and least for striping. You should also make sure DMA/32 bit mode is enabled on the drives, not all drivers will set this automatically. I'm sure you've checked these, just a mention though.
As far as the network, it sounds like the driver is setting it to 100Mb mode instead of 1000Mb mode. You might try to find updated drivers for the cards. You might also check the documentation to see if the eth drivers support debug-info dumping. That might be a lot to read through, but you should find your answer in there somewhere.
If you post more hardware info, I'll post more specific answers.
I know, I know. I've been taking these supplements I bought from an e-mail company but they just aren't working. Wait...
what were we talking about?
But probably not for the reasons you would think. Apple is probably under contract to release the music under DRM only. The sad thing is they would probably make more money if they just sold MP3's. People would probably steal less too. I know the RIAA has an antiquated business model and they probably deserve to go into the toilet, but I do feel sorry for them.
If they would just stop trying to oppress the music listeners and just satisfy them, maybe they would do a little better.
Corporations should no by now, just telling someone not to do something makes them want to do it more. If they sold MP3's, more people would take their complaints more seriously.
Time and time again, the US federal government has proved wasteful and inefficient. Do you really want the government implementing something that private industry can implement for half the cost? Besides, I'd rather see my ISP bill go up a little than watch the seemingly endless budget fattening of the government. In the end, regardless of who implements it, you will pay for it.
I'd rather pay the ISP.
That's actually a good, logical solution to the problem. In Canada, a lot of Marijuana distribution convictions are solved with big fines. That is a logical solution. Many people sell drugs to make a quick buck. Big fines provide a good disincentive. Much more so than jail. Obviously, time in prison isn't a very good deterrent to committing crime. Just look at the US!
Have you ever seen those big maps showing the Internet's backbone providers? Look at Porland, OR.
We have more bandwidth than god.