What a cooohooool movie. How soon till CGI animation makes real life actors redundant, and voice over crew become celebs. It's interesting to watch the convergence between 3d gaming, CGI animation and computer modelling.
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I have ITV digital and it sucks. Badly! We have an external antennae, and a bunny antenae and the signal on both can't pick up all the channels we've subscribed to. Customer service insists it's corrosion or some such crap that is degrading our signal. The best signal is received when I hang the bunny antenae out of the window of our third floor apartment.
So I'm not feeling too sympathetic for their plight.
I benchmarked the MATCH/AGAINST functionality and on a query on a fulltext index which included 3 varchar(250) fields populated with an average of 100 chars each and a search string of three words (perl, apache and mysql) on a table with 100,000 records, I get a response of 0.97 seconds average. The first query comes in slow at around 5 seconds, but after it's cached (I assume) the index, it's blazingly fast. This on a P550 (intel) with 400 Megs of Ram and a vanilla single IDE disk. I'm curious about how this fulltext searching compares with SwishE. Anyone got any benchmarks.
Thought Blair's speech was excellent. Interesting that he mentioned that 90% of the UK's herion comes from Afghanistan. There's a theorey that when the cold war ended and the USA was buying back stinger missiles from the Mujahideen fighters for $200k a piece, they were inadvertently funding the world drug trade.
You might want to consider getting some QA in place (if you dont have one already). Also, there is a series of books published by Microsoft Press (Yes Mickey$oft!) called Software Development Classics that can probably help. The books are: 'Debugging the development process', 'Dynamics of software development' and 'Software Project survival guide'. The most useful being the second mentioned by Jim McCarthy who has plenty of sagelike advice, some of which will certainly be useful in your conversations with this project manager you mention.
"The Microsoft.NET Framework is a platform for building, deploying, and running XML Web services and applications. It provides a highly productive, standards-based, multiple-language environment for integrating existing investments with next-generation applications and services as well as the agility to solve the challenges of deployment and operation of Internet-scale applications. The.NET Framework consists of two main parts: the common language runtime and a hierarchical set of unified class libraries that includes a componentized version of Active Server Pages called ASP.NET, a loosely coupled data access subsystem (ADO.NET), and an environment for building rich Windows-based applications (Windows Forms)."
I think my favourite word is 'componentized'. Didn't know that was a word actually. So does all that crap mean that it's Visual Studio with XML?
oh boyohboyohboy! They make it so painfully obvious that they're exploiting the functionally illiterate upper management in large corporates.
Dictionary definition of language:
"Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols."
A programming language fits this definition. Sklyarov's First ammendment rights have been violated.
This is typical of the United States government. There seems to be a rapid shift to protecting their corporate and economic interests at any cost, rather than individual rights. The Gulf war and the recent dumping of the Kyoto accord are two great examples of this and it now seems to be internalising.
A group of us based in Cape Town South Africa used to fone phreak into Orange country CA and download the latest phrack and other misc hacking/phreaking texts. We used a BBS running Renegade called DnA systems run by a guy called Pazuzu. Initially we used the x.25 networks to connect to a dialout PAD in Orange country where you could send ATDT style hayes modem commands to dial any local (modem) number. Later on we started blue boxing (phreaking using CCITT5 signals on the international lines - like cap'n crunch on USA 1800's except the international version).
One of us became famous - got interviewed on national television when it was still cool to be a hacker. Another got arrested by Interpol and the local telco working together. Thankfully we were all under 18 at the time so no one took the charges seriously.
And then the Internet made phreaking obsolete. Ah yes, the good old days.
"Secondly, the area that gets the most attention in the press is the fact that Linux is "free" and you can get the source. Again, I don't see a major revolution here. The BSD operating system has been free for more than 20 years and you have always been able to get the source as well."
I think you miss the point Doug. Linux (and Apache) were both a watershed in open source development because they raised the profile of open source and attracted alot of developers to both their projects and others. They helped open source reach a critical mass where the rate of development and evolution of these projects is now far outstripping anything the commercial software houses can hope to deliver - because of the sheer number of coders coding, testing and debugging.
True. I'm originally from South Africa and ISDN is still a luxury there - even though you can never get 64K of international bandwidth (nevermind 128). I guess we're just spoilt tech brats.
I just got off the phone with my DSL provider. We signed up for DSL about 3 months ago in the knowledge that we're going to change addresses soon but wanted it bad so we didn't mind paying the £260 ($350) installation fee again. Well apparently DSL installations are non-transferable (to a different address) so if we want to move we'll have to get two DSL contracts (one of which we wont be using anymore), and at £100 ($160) per month that's gonna hurt a little. My ISP says that's not their policy, but British Telecom. And since all ADSL ISPs are BT resellers in this country, that kinda narrows our options a little.
Interesting that they dont mention this at all in my contract. I'm chatting to a lawyer later today, but since BT has a virtual monopoly in this country, they can pull stuff like this and get away with it. How comfortable for them to be guaranteed a subscriber for a year on each exchange that gets upgraded.
-Why did Microsoft choose to support Perl?
-What are the latest developments with the support for Perl in Visual Studio and the.Net framework?
-Can we expect alot of proprietary enhancements and extensions?
-Will we be able to develop code in a Windows IDE for use on a Unix (like) environment?
-How does your marketing team distinguish Perl from Visual Basic?
-Any thoughts on support for a mod_perl like embedded interpreter for IIS?
Verisign bought Thawte for around 600 million USD a while back. Thawte are based in Cape Town South Africa which is as outa the way as the phillipines, but the fact that they captured enough of the CA market to allow Verisign to use them to get critical mass implies that geography isn't really an issue.
Thawte were included by Netscape as a CA though which is how they got their foot in the door and that helped alot back in the days when people still used Navigator. *duck*
You'll probably find though that you're going to have to co-locate servers in Europe and the USA and invest in decent pipes on both ends just to get started. Based on your exchange rate, that's gonna hurt a little. (Although the South African Rand wasn't too healthy when thought were establishing themselves)
I have first hand experience of a large.com migrating their warehouse management system from MySQL to Oracle just 'because'. It cost them millions of dollars in software, staff education and Oracle consultants and they took a big performance hit after it was rolled out. The code also became more difficult to debug because what was just pure perl was now alot of PL/SQL too. One could argue that MySQL doesn't scale as well as Oracle, but hey - slashdot get's upwards of a million page views a day, and it seems to be coping just fine.
I heard it. I coulnd't believe the guy. He's obviously a complete moron and a sarcastic one at that. His parting shot killed me. Something like "and we realise that even if napster goes out of business, in six months time there will be other technologies that can do the same thing, but there will always be a way to track down the pirates and nail them". DUDE! I hope the gnutellaNG group has taken note. ( http://gnutellang.wego.com/ ). How about total anonymity for client and server and 1024 bit encrypted socket connections between servents tough guy!
Well Dell seems to have taken a liking to Linux - I had a support person on the phone on friday explaining to me that the reason my speaker amp isn't working (er - hardware?) is that Windoze isn't exactly the best operating system available. Any excuse!!
Frankly, I think mitnicks ban from computers etc. is probably the equivalent of capital punishment. Prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation, not revenge.
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What a cooohooool movie. How soon till CGI animation makes real life actors redundant, and voice over crew become celebs. It's interesting to watch the convergence between 3d gaming, CGI animation and computer modelling.
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I have ITV digital and it sucks. Badly! We have an external antennae, and a bunny antenae and the signal on both can't pick up all the channels we've subscribed to. Customer service insists it's corrosion or some such crap that is degrading our signal. The best signal is received when I hang the bunny antenae out of the window of our third floor apartment.
So I'm not feeling too sympathetic for their plight.
This has been advertised for sooooo long. I have 2 ps2's I finally have a use for, as soon as I can port Apache and mysql over.
I benchmarked the MATCH/AGAINST functionality and on a query on a fulltext index which included 3 varchar(250) fields populated with an average of 100 chars each and a search string of three words (perl, apache and mysql) on a table with 100,000 records, I get a response of 0.97 seconds average. The first query comes in slow at around 5 seconds, but after it's cached (I assume) the index, it's blazingly fast. This on a P550 (intel) with 400 Megs of Ram and a vanilla single IDE disk. I'm curious about how this fulltext searching compares with SwishE. Anyone got any benchmarks.
Thought Blair's speech was excellent. Interesting that he mentioned that 90% of the UK's herion comes from Afghanistan. There's a theorey that when the cold war ended and the USA was buying back stinger missiles from the Mujahideen fighters for $200k a piece, they were inadvertently funding the world drug trade.
You might want to consider getting some QA in place (if you dont have one already). Also, there is a series of books published by Microsoft Press (Yes Mickey$oft!) called Software Development Classics that can probably help. The books are: 'Debugging the development process', 'Dynamics of software development' and 'Software Project survival guide'. The most useful being the second mentioned by Jim McCarthy who has plenty of sagelike advice, some of which will certainly be useful in your conversations with this project manager you mention.
"The Microsoft .NET Framework is a platform for building, deploying, and running XML Web services and applications. It provides a highly productive, standards-based, multiple-language environment for integrating existing investments with next-generation applications and services as well as the agility to solve the challenges of deployment and operation of Internet-scale applications. The .NET Framework consists of two main parts: the common language runtime and a hierarchical set of unified class libraries that includes a componentized version of Active Server Pages called ASP.NET, a loosely coupled data access subsystem (ADO.NET), and an environment for building rich Windows-based applications (Windows Forms)."
I think my favourite word is 'componentized'. Didn't know that was a word actually. So does all that crap mean that it's Visual Studio with XML?
oh boyohboyohboy! They make it so painfully obvious that they're exploiting the functionally illiterate upper management in large corporates.
Sounds like proprietary open source to me!
Dictionary definition of language:
"Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols."
A programming language fits this definition. Sklyarov's First ammendment rights have been violated.
This is typical of the United States government. There seems to be a rapid shift to protecting their corporate and economic interests at any cost, rather than individual rights. The Gulf war and the recent dumping of the Kyoto accord are two great examples of this and it now seems to be internalising.
A group of us based in Cape Town South Africa used to fone phreak into Orange country CA and download the latest phrack and other misc hacking/phreaking texts. We used a BBS running Renegade called DnA systems run by a guy called Pazuzu. Initially we used the x.25 networks to connect to a dialout PAD in Orange country where you could send ATDT style hayes modem commands to dial any local (modem) number. Later on we started blue boxing (phreaking using CCITT5 signals on the international lines - like cap'n crunch on USA 1800's except the international version).
One of us became famous - got interviewed on national television when it was still cool to be a hacker. Another got arrested by Interpol and the local telco working together. Thankfully we were all under 18 at the time so no one took the charges seriously.
And then the Internet made phreaking obsolete. Ah yes, the good old days.
I think you miss the point Doug. Linux (and Apache) were both a watershed in open source development because they raised the profile of open source and attracted alot of developers to both their projects and others. They helped open source reach a critical mass where the rate of development and evolution of these projects is now far outstripping anything the commercial software houses can hope to deliver - because of the sheer number of coders coding, testing and debugging.
True. I'm originally from South Africa and ISDN is still a luxury there - even though you can never get 64K of international bandwidth (nevermind 128). I guess we're just spoilt tech brats.
I just got off the phone with my DSL provider. We signed up for DSL about 3 months ago in the knowledge that we're going to change addresses soon but wanted it bad so we didn't mind paying the £260 ($350) installation fee again. Well apparently DSL installations are non-transferable (to a different address) so if we want to move we'll have to get two DSL contracts (one of which we wont be using anymore), and at £100 ($160) per month that's gonna hurt a little. My ISP says that's not their policy, but British Telecom. And since all ADSL ISPs are BT resellers in this country, that kinda narrows our options a little.
Interesting that they dont mention this at all in my contract. I'm chatting to a lawyer later today, but since BT has a virtual monopoly in this country, they can pull stuff like this and get away with it. How comfortable for them to be guaranteed a subscriber for a year on each exchange that gets upgraded.
-Why did Microsoft choose to support Perl? .Net framework?
-What are the latest developments with the support for Perl in Visual Studio and the
-Can we expect alot of proprietary enhancements and extensions?
-Will we be able to develop code in a Windows IDE for use on a Unix (like) environment?
-How does your marketing team distinguish Perl from Visual Basic?
-Any thoughts on support for a mod_perl like embedded interpreter for IIS?
Verisign bought Thawte for around 600 million USD a while back. Thawte are based in Cape Town South Africa which is as outa the way as the phillipines, but the fact that they captured enough of the CA market to allow Verisign to use them to get critical mass implies that geography isn't really an issue.
Thawte were included by Netscape as a CA though which is how they got their foot in the door and that helped alot back in the days when people still used Navigator. *duck*
You'll probably find though that you're going to have to co-locate servers in Europe and the USA and invest in decent pipes on both ends just to get started. Based on your exchange rate, that's gonna hurt a little. (Although the South African Rand wasn't too healthy when thought were establishing themselves)
I have first hand experience of a large .com migrating their warehouse management system from MySQL to Oracle just 'because'. It cost them millions of dollars in software, staff education and Oracle consultants and they took a big performance hit after it was rolled out. The code also became more difficult to debug because what was just pure perl was now alot of PL/SQL too. One could argue that MySQL doesn't scale as well as Oracle, but hey - slashdot get's upwards of a million page views a day, and it seems to be coping just fine.
I heard it. I coulnd't believe the guy. He's obviously a complete moron and a sarcastic one at that. His parting shot killed me. Something like "and we realise that even if napster goes out of business, in six months time there will be other technologies that can do the same thing, but there will always be a way to track down the pirates and nail them". DUDE! I hope the gnutellaNG group has taken note. ( http://gnutellang.wego.com/ ). How about total anonymity for client and server and 1024 bit encrypted socket connections between servents tough guy!
Well Dell seems to have taken a liking to Linux - I had a support person on the phone on friday explaining to me that the reason my speaker amp isn't working (er - hardware?) is that Windoze isn't exactly the best operating system available. Any excuse!!
Frankly, I think mitnicks ban from computers etc. is probably the equivalent of capital punishment. Prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation, not revenge.